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λ= Engineer at @GroqInc ☯ ~dandel-rovbur ☦️

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1 year
@nizzyhussle @anothercohen Ha. The rest was so ridiculous I didn’t even notice this
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@ryjlocal Body: “milk taste good”
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@felix_red_panda When you price it per token the economics work out quite well in our favor :)
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@felix_red_panda Yeah 😂 I realized I should give some context if I’m gonna be talking publically about our tech now
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@felix_red_panda Our = Groq. I’m an engineer at Groq
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9 months
@christiandean_ I read that part differently. I figured he was playing a martingale strategy which would normally go bust but he was buying back into the game when he lost. Basically hacked the math with his pocketbook and then when it finally paid off he cashed out
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10 months
@ctjlewis Apple tends to use the “last mover advantage” strategy. They’ll wait for the tech to be ironed out and stabilized, then release it in a year or two. I have no insider knowledge but I’m pretty sure we’ll see SiriGPT in a year or two.
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11 months
@memeticsisyphus he just had a kid, probably busy with that
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3 years
@adam3us @PeterSchiff @michael_saylor Yeah and specifically identifying unstoppable network effects that will blow up in a decade
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7 months
@levelsio Answer: Custom hardware and great software (I work at Groq)
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9 months
@christiandean_ So, no extra knowledge needed just deep pockets
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@Ruesavatar The algorithm knows what to do
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6 years
#Haskell , the language for people who want to have a life outside of programming
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6 years
@bitemyapp agree, I especially like how I can leave in the middle of a refactor, go outside or w/e, then come back without missing a beat, the compiler's got my back. Can't do that in Clojure
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1 year
@sanpellyenjoyer Sam Sulek for those out of the loop (me)
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@made_in_cosmos Yes it’s nice to have some padding when standing and cooking for a while
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10 months
@Austen The wheel was peak interface design. Only downhill since then
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7 months
@masoom_siii @historyinmemes But you can count your losses against future earnings to reduce income taxes right?
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5 years
@liberalnotlefty the problem is that doctors arent taught nutrition and exercise
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11 months
@NuanceBro @elonmusk “Vanish from the arena of time” sounds even worse than “wipe off the map”
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6 months
@groupreadaccess @eigenrobot This wasn’t a psyop to make people think modern art is good when it actually is bad, as was implied above it was just good old fashioned propaganda using existing art forms and trends
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@craig1851 @micsolana Norm was ahead of his time
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6 months
@AjRockatansky My wife makes braised short ribs which are a delicious way to cook a very high fat cut of meat
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7 years
@rtfeldman @elmlang My little brother dropped out of college 1 yr ago. With my help he picked up Elm and wrote a web app. Now learning Haskell w/ @haskellbook
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Ivy League school janitor graduates with honors - cites Seneca as his favorite subject http://t.co/NUWFfLqp @tferriss
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6 years
@AustenAllred Nah. Joe is inquisitive and curious. Most interviewers ask unimaginative questions
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6 months
@owenbroadcast What was your answer?!
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6 months
@HotForMoot It’s obviously meant to be. Get back together have kids buy a house what are you waiting for
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4 years
@WTF_1971 source:
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7 months
@zetalyrae @msimoni 10 years ago when I started my career it was the opposite, as I recall it. Now both HN and SF have flipped 180 degrees. Sad.
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@balajis Create tax breaks if the grandparents live with you - reduces cost and burden of childcare - fewer occupied homes => increased supply => lower cost of housing - more people around is good for child development in general
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1 year
@michael_nielsen Iain Banks’ Culture series
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3 years
For being “censored” this sure is making the rounds…
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They're not "vaccine passports," they're movement licenses. It's not a vaccine, it's experimental gene therapy. "Lockdown" is at best completely pointless universal medical isolation and at worst ubiquitous public incarceration. Call things what they are, not their euphemisms.
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@tferriss Richard Feynman liked drawing too http://t.co/BSqvVspM
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1 year
@ChrisMasterjohn It’s almost as if self experimentation is the real model of science
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5 years
@GabrielG439 Fallacy #5 : thinking you need to be the universal arbiter of moral righteousness
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3 years
@NgoloTesla Yes. Long covid is a disease of malnutrition, not a consequence of covid
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7 months
@krishnanrohit @tomjaguarpaw You can train on it theoretically but we haven’t prioritized that workflow in our software because it’s a one time cost vs inferencing. So inference is the better business to target
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1 year
@Geo_papic So Russia is an oligarchy that profits from war, just like every other western nation
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1 year
@spandrell3 She’s an expert on sexuality in the same way an obese person is an expert on food
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3 years
@3theLeft_ @jane_gatsby buddhism lvl 1 unlocked
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2 years
@JamesLiao333 Cyberdecks have this quality too
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11 months
@trad_west_ Yes because everyone in the 50s looked like those two pictures you specifically selected for this post
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11 months
@RRR0BYN > He is self mastered, he isn’t at the whims of his passions. The mark of a man that has grown out of boyhood. Sad that this is controversial.
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10 months
@dmvaldman If Ilya is so good at seeing the far reaching consequences of AGI, why couldn’t he predict the blowback from a surprise firing of the CEO? Doesnt add up
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7 months
@__tinygrad__ So I guess you’ve changed your mind since this post :)
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5 years
@WilliamGrobman @explorativeLins @liberalnotlefty nutrition is way more than calorie counting
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7 years
Ask me about distributed databases, Clojure/Haskell/FP, web apps, microservices, philosophy and ethics :) I know a bit about AI too
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@levelsio Yep, we already demo’d this :) you can hear a demo about half way thru this interview
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Chamath Palihapitiya
7 months
On Friday, I hosted a Space with @JonathanRoss321 , the founder and CEO of @GroqInc - a company I invested in that is building custom chips for AI inference. Jonathan, a former high-school dropout, entered the chip industry while working on ad optimization at Google’s New York
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@JordanBHarrod @paulg RIP Aaron Swartz
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6 years
#AHS18 DAY 2 Amber O’Hearn @KetoCarnivore starting, talks about Inuit traditional diets, ketosis, and keto-adaptation
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10 months
@yacineMTB This is literally word for word Nietzsche’s slave morality
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1 year
@anabology Thank you now I never have to buy expensive cheese again
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1 year
@StevenBrust @chaosprime What? The State has not existed for all of “human history”, it’s a very recent invention. Ownership predates it by a few millenia
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3 years
@KetoCarnivore I didn’t hear an argument, just axiomatic statements presented without argument/evidence
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3 years
@urbit Technically: a completely new tech stack, written with functional programming principles and simplicity in mind Practically: no ancient tech debt. No logging libraries with code nobody has read, 2 underappreciated maintainers and 0-day exploits
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2 years
@jb55 @elonmusk Let’s hope Elon realizes that not using open protocols is dumb
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2 years
Please note that Twitter will do lots of dumb things in coming months. We will keep what works & change what doesn’t.
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@KetoCarnivore As a kid I was told they stored water in their humps and that’s how they survive the desert 😂 I guess it’s partially true, “metabolic water”
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5 years
@explorativeLins @WilliamGrobman @liberalnotlefty no the nutrition curricula are very outdated and inadequate. there are plenty of studies on the status of physician nutrition training that measure this. doctors must know the vast field of disease, so i dont blame them, just stating a fact
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4 years
Farms that are delivering: Buying all food direct from farms is perhaps the best change I've made in the last 2 years (cc @SimmonsBart et al)
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@jordanbpeterson FWIW, Pinker's comment is a strawman of what postmodernists actually say in their writings
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@lporiginalg @anabology how peaty is this guy?
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@RomanianHaiduc Nietzsche would have been a top tier poaster
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7 months
I feel like an AI agent to handle my email should be 100% doable at this point. I don’t want to read all of my email, just tell me what’s important, ask for my response and send a reply for me.
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5 years
Guess who’s the most popular “amber o” in the world? @KetoCarnivore :)
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7 years
@levelsio How does that make him evil and spiteful?
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@eigenrobot What was the cia op?
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1 year
@RNCResearch Where’s @CommunityNotes when you need them
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1 year
My experience with 2:1 fat:protein has been wonderful. It’s hard to achieve but when I do it feels like magic
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@paleocarnivore Many people do fine on ~1:1 (fat to protein by gram). Lower than that seems to cause problems. Moving from ~1:1 to KetoAF (~2:1 with ~1.2-1.4 g protein / kg ideal weight) does sometimes seem to entail more keto-adaptation.
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1 year
@TheLastFarm Is this a joke? Your chart shows nuclear produces less CO2 than coal and gas per kWH, which means it is more “eco friendly”
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6 months
@owenbroadcast I think you’re missing the larger historical context. Pre-1900 or so, art could derive meaning from the Christian metaphysic and cosmology. Since that has been deconstructed and dismantled, we now live in the postmodern era where science has become the dominant cosmology. Art
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@New_E_Mom Stick of butter
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@danieldennett Does anyone know what he’s talking about here? Specifics?
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@BradCohn Found it
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@ZachHomol hammertime
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@tegmark To what extent is Max Tegmark self-aware?
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@provisionalidea Or they are capitalizing on existing market interest and simply not showing you their progress on technical development
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@Nexuist There’s definitely an advantage it just turns out it’s really hard to make a new chip company
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@photomatt People named Matt Mullenweg under 40: - Matt Mullenweg ( @photomatt ) Done.
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6 years
@Kevin2_3_5_7_11 @ThaddeusRussell An infinite number of interpretations does not mean they are all equally useful. You need the *relative* context to determine usefulness, hence “relativism”
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@ErrataRob I wouldn’t miss a year of spending time with my kid/s for anything tbh
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@JoshRainerGold > NO raw eggs in your beer oh ok
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@JohnLeFevre respect the hustle
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@PalmerLuckey No way this is a real quote
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1 year
@digitalix *laughs in emacs*
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3 years
One major point: With a bit more integration, bitcoin on urbit is basically a full replacement for Stripe. Imagine a decentralized Stripe, that works together with P2P services. Really powerful stuff...
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4 years
@zebulgar all the brilliant and ambitious people i've met have been via the internet tbh.
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@New_E_Mom My wife uses a “gelatin egg” for most egg replacements. Look it up on YouTube it’s basically mix gelatin powder and water 1:3 ratio, kinda hard to mess up. Plus gelatin is great for you
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5 years
@samphippen @flavorjones Why not help him understand instead of placating and shaming him?
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@brutedeforce become ungovernable
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5 years
writing short essays about stuff is underrated - its probably the best way to understand something
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Investors who talked to me on Demo Day used to be surprised that I had such a detailed understanding of what all the companies were doing. But it wasn't surprising when you consider I'd basically written a short essay about each one.
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