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CTO at Upward Spiral (https://upward.earth)

Formerly: - CTO @ at LabDAO - CTO @ Resurgo Genetics - Core team at Coko Foundation - Core team at ContentMine - Mozilla Fellow for Science - PhD Student in Plant Sciences @ University of Cambridge [engineering photosynthesis] - Made http://solvers.io (now retired) with davedx (we met on HN <3) - Developer of AnkiMobile

Email: rik [at] blahah.fyi http://github.com/blahah @blahah404

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Comment · 14 days ago
Comment · 3 months ago
Soundcloud is great for this
Comment · 4 months ago
The system design questions are (at least):

1. What is this education intended to optimise for?

2. What are the various participants (including students) optimising for?

3. What aligns 1 and 2?

Comment · 4 months ago
Not a stretch to imagine that it is though. Germany has some very effective radical vandals who make statements by interrupting infrastructure.
Comment · 4 months ago
lineara.xyz is your friend
Comment · 6 months ago
Right. Like anywhere the conceptual problems haven't been all figured out yet, or where higher order effects happen with scale or particular shapes of data/substrate and you don't know them in advance.

Sometimes hard like interesting and you get to do really novel thinking. A load of p2p/decentralised things are hard like this.

Also sometimes hard like you get to a particular challenge and it turns out to be a notoriously unsolved mathematical thing, or you push against subtle boundaries of core libraries, runtimes, systems etc. Working with metagenome assemblies is this kind of hard.

Honestly the hard code I've done made such a difference to my brain. There's plenty of trivial stuff I'm happy to have automated, but of I can't work on the hard problems I may as well not be involved at all.

Comment · 6 months ago
Nah you just know a young person or have found your way into an incel information stream. It doesn't mean you represent a large population.
Comment · 1 year ago
QVAC is Tether’s answer to centralized AI. An entirely new paradigm where intelligence runs privately, locally, and without permission.

No clouds. No gatekeepers. Just you, your machines, and unstoppable intelligence.

Comment · 1 year ago
This is pretty cool and I could see myself recommending this to our team for some applications. Congrats on the launch!

A couple of bits of feedback:

1. Code samples on the site have broken whitespace on mobile (Android/Brave) so look a bit intense.

2. The pricing is complex to reason about - I have to consider the technical aspects and the number of users? Why don't I just get an API key?

Comment · 1 year ago
*past (in both cases)
Comment · 1 year ago
What's your website?
Comment · 1 year ago
Absolutely - I love those. I wonder if there are any other simple web games like this that run on mobile with more nuanced interplayer comms as you suggest.
Comment · 1 year ago
The game is wonderful and I'm so glad it doesn't have chat! My 9yo niece and I played it through side by side and if it had chat or consistent remote player presence that wouldn't have been appropriate.
Comment · 1 year ago
The work. It intelligently provides the labor, it doesn't replace your brain. It runs the script itself.

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