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by shw1n 2y ago
Pre-seed funding w/o a lengthy pitch process Much harder to bootstrap part-time w/ dependents
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by shw1n 2y ago
I’d built an AI agent to accomplish this using Ghidra + GDB for dynamic analysis (tested it on crackmes) It worked surprisingly well Applied to YC with it, sadly no interview Was later told by some accepted friends/VCs that our applica
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by shw1n 2y ago
lmao — reddit is undefeated for opponents of stoicism “cuck philosophy” might be the goat of slogans or an insane testament to the monk-like philosophy
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by shw1n 2y ago
I can’t speak for the rich and powerful (as I’m neither), nor do I subscribe to stoicism necessarily. But I do work in tech and enjoyed (and periodically re-read) Marcus Aurelius’ “Meditations” I originally read it out of curiosity, not oft
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by shw1n 2y ago
I helped a friend of mine’s company (CleanRobotics) service his trashbots that sorted landfill/recycling in shopping malls They used AI to identify and sort One issue was just the sheer muck of trash, if someone dropped an open smoothi
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Iterate on the agent-computer interface to improve performance(medium.com)
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Stress content words over function words to boost intelligibility(tfcs.baruch.cuny.edu)
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by shw1n 2y ago
When studying sales as an awkward engineer, I found it helpful to consciously understand which words to emphasize vs skip over This ended up helping in my regular life
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by shw1n 2y ago
A fair point
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by shw1n 2y ago
I can’t speak to images But I’ve noticed the way people respond to ambiguous statements reveals a lot about their internal state (Eg do they assume you’re well-intentioned, assume mal-intent, default to status games, etc) So I could see the
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A simple AI agent in under 100 lines(shwin.co)
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by shw1n 2y ago
I was just asking a producer friend today about this — does anyone know of any tools that let you “clip” parts of songs with notes? When I’m listening to music I’ll occasionally hear some element I really like and note it down via text for
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Anatomy of an ML-powered stock picking angine(principiamundi.com)
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by shw1n 2y ago
After experiencing some disillusionment, I was able to re-kindle my love for software by switching to information security with no prior background. I've posted this here before, but: I did the OSCP, a 3-month course + exam that teache
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Breaking into the Flume Water Monitor(lithostech.com)
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by shw1n 2y ago
I found this particularly true for Twitter/X I haven't found anywhere else with the same quality of content/takes (purely from a philosophy/tech angle, politics aside), but there were too many videos in the feed So I bui
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by shw1n 2y ago
I'm not the most advanced when it comes to hardware so this was a great learning experience for me (and my son!)
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Using Reddit and ChatGPT to mod our toddler's ATV(shwin.co)
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by shw1n 2y ago
I actually wasn't searching for early-stage, in fact I was explicitly looking for the opposite (brands for the resume) But I accidentally signed up for YC's "work at a startup", and two great offers reached out to me via
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by shw1n 2y ago
One belief I have is that a major lifehack in a digital world is making things as physical as possible. Spend all day at a computer? Get a mechanical keyboard so every keystroke is satisfying. Learn keyboard shortcuts so you're on the
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by shw1n 2y ago
This makes sense and is probably what we’d do. The “cheapest private school” suggestion was also a response to avoiding another culture we wanted to avoid: entitled rich kid The idea was that a tuition filter might help here, but that was p
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by shw1n 2y ago
My personal thesis is some combination of Bezos’ “regret minimization framework” and working on “cool problems with the smartest people” This job application cycle I encountered three tranches of roles: 1) Great WLB companies — fully remote
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by shw1n 2y ago
As someone who had both good and really bad times in schools, works in tech, and is considering it for our kids, some thoughts: Never once did I want my kid to “not be around mediocre”, it’s the extremes I want to filter. Part of the reason
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by shw1n 2y ago
I had this problem in my recent search, very similar situation (early-stage startup, then founded two companies). What yielded success was shooting for "Full-Stack Engineer" and "Product Engineer" roles Surprisingly, whi
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Geeks, MOPS, and sociopaths in subculture evolution(meaningness.com)
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by shw1n 2y ago
One of the coolest "immediate novelty" things I've read in a while Sent it to my whole family The way your mind locks in and focuses on the middle one seems a testament to the brain processing behind vision we take for grante
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Game that teaches binary exploitation with no prior experience(microcorruption.com)
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by shw1n 2y ago
Thought I'd give these guys a shoutout, I managed to land my dream job as my first job in security largely in part thanks to this game (Not an exaggeration, I was literally asked how to get around multiple protections that were mapped
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Improve your electronics-fu by "guessing that ware"(bunniestudios.com)
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by shw1n 2y ago
I’ve followed Bunnie’s blog ever since reading Hacking the Xbox, the ability to “read” circuits fascinates me I like this monthly comp — it’s a good way to see: a) what electronics exist b) what makes them distinctive enough to be identifie

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