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Comment · 1 day ago
> please don’t login as me
Please don't drain my $6.5 billion in Dogecoin.
Comment · 1 day ago
> sitting on piles of assets like dragons
Dragons are famous for sitting on gold.
Today, approximately 7%–12% of gold is used for micro-plating connectors, contact pins, and circuitry in smartphones, computers, and GPS devices.
> 1. Total AWS Gold: 10,000,000 servers multiplied by 1.875 grams equals 18,750,000 grams (18,750 kg).
> 2. Bezos's Share: 18,750 kg multiplied by an 8.5% ownership stake equals 1,593.75 kg
Comment · 5 days ago
This makes me think of the Franklin Pot Belly stove we had in the middle of the living room growing up and the coal bin in my back yard having to go out there on cold winter mornings to bring a bucket in.
Comment · 6 days ago
Interesting. I vibe coded something similar in order to understand how a particular database works.
It's like Claude contains all these ideas and we only have to mine them.
Comment · 12 days ago
Drupal made me care about abstraction with every feature in any language I worked with. Drupal made me faster by being a little slower. While working with teams where people were doing one off solutions as fast as they could, I never painted myself into a spaghetti code corner.
There isn't a day I don't ask Claude "What would Drupal do?"
I would not be surprised if approaching vibe engineering from the Drupal perspective is the way out of AI slop.
Nonetheless, although I had a blast one evening building custom modules using Claude wishing I had this tool during those hours of stress I suffered 15 years ago, I don't think there is a place for Drupal outside of higher educations marketing.
Comment · 13 days ago
Products that people use require the developer to imagine they are the person using this. Those of us who develop user interfaces whether visual dashboards or automations driven by voice agents call it "empathy for the user."
AI is not capable of empathy.
AI is not capable of having good taste.
Comment · 15 days ago
> Companies have been building machines to do that long before the advent of AI.
I've been very optimistic about AI. Wow, your comment just gave me pang of terror thinking about the outcome for humans due to Whitney and his cotton gin.
Comment · 15 days ago
Claude Code will make Bartosz Ciechanowski-style [0] explainers for me in about 3 or 4 hours. Here is an example of converting waveforms into spectrograms to train a model to associate sounds with words or classifications. [1] Or, it will take the research paper for Data Lake and convert it into animated, step-by-step visualizations explaining how the data store works. [2]
It is still work! And, I have to struggle to get it to make sense and look nice. This means I'm interacting with the code and system which is how I learn!
[0] https://ciechanow.ski/sound/
Comment · 20 days ago
> The more sustainable “Math 2.0” use of AI would be to strengthen all the ways in which human understanding interacts with mathematics.
You are bringing up a good point. Stupid me can be presented with on demand pretty animated cartoons in order to understand anything known. Imagine how this is going to improve learning speed the student on the engineering track? In a couple years, most engineering students will learn this in the first year of undergrad!
Comment · 20 days ago
On the other side, I’ve never gone to college, yet I was able to take an extremely important and complicated equation and decompose it into its constituent parts, animating each with data visualizations and animated tables of values. [0] This was several frontier model iterations ago.
The LLM model was able to break down and express math in such a simple way that I could understand and follow the training of the LLM model itself!
Are the math and computation accurate? I don’t know, and likely there are significant errors. Nonetheless, if I had a little more time -- not infinite time -- I would be able to prove whether they are or not.
Likely this is the path forward for understanding the mechanisms of medicine, and since most humans learn by doing and interacting with an environment, interacting like this will become how we use AI for learning in the near future.