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   by vonnik 1y ago

   I highly recommend The Intelligence Trap by David Robson, especially the section about our emotional compass. He cites some great research by Damasio and Feldman-Barrett. There's also a great book called The Nature of the Beast that sh
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   by vonnik 1y ago

   As google has shown, consumer/business market is not either/or.
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   by vonnik 1y ago

   Agree with so much of this! Would just add that the best sales people have usually been folks with deep domain expertise, partially because they tend to have a pre-existing social network of potential users due to their work.
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   by vonnik 1y ago

   What is this? How is it done? Who is behind it?
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   by vonnik 1y ago

   Not necessarily true. I use LLMs during deep focus to accomplish tasks. And those LLMs are MUCH less distracting than going on Google and getting referred to websites with lots of ads.
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   by vonnik 1y ago

   All LLMs hit a ceiling of complexity beyond which they cease to understand the code base. Greenfield projects show this particularly well, because the LLM works until it doesn’t. There are lots of greenfield projects that should exist! And
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   by vonnik 1y ago

   Anyone truly interested in perfume who finds themselves in the SF Bay Area should visit the Aftel Archive of Curious Scents in Berkeley. https://www.aftelier.com/Articles.asp?ID=256
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   by vonnik 1y ago

   Fitzgerald and Green are the top two in my opinion.
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   by vonnik 1y ago

   that the founders went one way and the engineers went another suggests a failure of leadership IMHO.
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    by vonnik 1y ago

    I personally find gemini 2.5 pro and o4.1 mini to handle complexity better than claude code. i was a power user of claude code for a couple months but its bias to action repeatedly led me down the wrong path. what am i missing?
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    by vonnik 1y ago

    This is the Zen/Advaita position.
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    by vonnik 1y ago

    adjacent, same trend: https://news.ufl.edu/2024/09/blindness-gene-therapy/
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    by vonnik 1y ago

    I wrote a couple pieces about how to take back control of your brain: https://open.substack.com/pub/vonnik/p/how-to-take-your-brai... Yes, the addictions are engineered in the service of shareholder value. Th
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    by vonnik 1y ago

    Another rl explainer: https://wiki.pathmind.com/deep-reinforcement-learning
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    by vonnik 1y ago

    I love that he could bring himself to conclude he’d spent years on a dead end. > Despite his extensive research, Spitzka found little conclusive evidence to explain the complexities of criminality or genius. He grew skeptical of the prev
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    by vonnik 1y ago

    Anyone who enjoys this should read David Bessis’s Mathematica.
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    by vonnik 1y ago

    I've been fooling around with applying grugspeak to famous essays on tech. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1emldq9MovfYshOSkM9rhRUcl... not as good as the original, i know!
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    by vonnik 1y ago

    Thanks! Just tailwind!
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    by vonnik 1y ago

    If it was a long time ago that they helped you, some of them may be old. The very old are often isolated and in need of company and other forms of help. If that sounds like the folks who helped you, I’m sure just checking in with them would
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    by vonnik 1y ago

    Thanks for the kind words. re: #3, I wish I had a clear answer for you. I believe the Navy Seals use box breathing (4 sec each for inhale, hold, exhale, hold) because it puts them in a calm, high-energy state. Those two descriptors may seem
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    by vonnik 1y ago

    Thanks, will work on this.
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    by vonnik 1y ago

    Will try do build this for you!
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    by vonnik 1y ago

    I made a simple app inspired by Richie Davidson’s research that teaches people how to change their state with breath. https://breathing-trainer.replit.app/
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    by vonnik 1y ago

    This is very true! I felt like the writer didn't really get what novels are for, and it explains why he decided he's a better fit for non-fiction. He seemed to be explaining novel utility to a bunch of imaginary STEM grads. Person
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    by vonnik 1y ago

    It’s worth noting here, because Thiel comes up so much in the piece, that he works with Nadia’s husband Delian Asparouhov at Founder’s Fund. Also worth noting that group chats lends themselves to conspiracies. Real conspiracies that end up
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    by vonnik 1y ago

    The crazy thing about semicolons is that they were once common in books intended for young adults/middle readers. See E. Nesbit and co. When I read the childrens' authors of early 20C Britain, I often think their writing is more d
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    by vonnik 1y ago

    Would be great to see how you connect the server to data sources to create signal for trades.
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    by vonnik 1y ago

    This has clear military implications, as it will eventually allow larger amounts of equipment to be shipped quickly from fellow NATO countries.
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    by vonnik 1y ago

    Any satellites that carry sensors pointed at the earth are potentially spy satellites, and the commercial sats launched by various companies are regularly used by nation states to gather data. They are inherently dual use. The kind of satel
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    by vonnik 1y ago

    This seems like a pretty confused piece, with poorly defined terms and poetic associations more than arguments. Friction can be both a natural obstacle, an accident, or a deliberate tool of social and business engineering. It's not inh