bckr

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anthony at robo-rx dot com

happy to chat about crazy futuristic ideas, things you're writing, software engineering, music etc

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Comment · 1 month ago
I’ve had poor luck working with freelancers. Some good luck for the occasional drawing. But good help is hard to find.
Comment · 2 months ago
Who is also a working engineer (and programmer of the highest caliber) who is in touch with the zeitgeist of engineering.
Comment · 2 months ago
My great grandmother taught me that “nothing doing” meant something similar to “there’s nothing for it”.
Comment · 2 months ago
This is just very cool. Thanks for sharing.
Comment · 2 months ago
How far are we from speaking a GameCube-era game into existence as a pastime?
Comment · 2 months ago
This is how I feel too!

If you want to get excited… think about all the things that ever got you excited about the future. Then think about how you basically had to defer the possibility of them happening in your lifetime.

Readjust your timelines! Determine what is the most amazing thing that could happen, that you could contribute to, by orchestrating computation effectively.

I mean we don’t even have a cure for cancer yet!

Comment · 2 months ago
The basics are always so basic yet so necessary. Thanks for the recommendation.
Comment · 2 months ago
I like the ideas a lot. The Readme needs some polish (I think it’s great that it reads as hand-written; an LLM could make suggestions that make it just 10% easier to read).

Is choreographic programming the same as session types?

Comment · 3 months ago
What are the specs of your laptop and what tokens per second do you get?
Comment · 3 months ago
Right but what keeps the second line clean? You’re going to get spam there too.
Comment · 3 months ago
I think we have to do something this extreme. We have to give the system a total makeover. Somehow we also have to keep it from being fully centralized and have the big brother problem on the other side. Unfortunately these two goals are difficult to get through at the same time, with the system that we have.
Comment · 3 months ago
Can 3100 links be legendary? I feel like there can be at most 310 legendary links
Comment · 3 months ago
Yes, agentic coding is machine learning. Not because of the underlying language models, but because it is gradient descent, where the test harness provides a gradient for the agent to traverse.
Comment · 3 months ago
Most people don’t know about that because they live in an information bubble handcrafted by the oligarchs.
Comment · 3 months ago
Yes and Pythonic is the Pythonic word for idiomatic

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