Midnight Maniac Sri

'water is transparent only within a very narrow band of the electromagnetic spectrum, so living organisms evolved sensitivity to that band, and that's what we now call "visible light". ' (found via HN)

'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,' in a tweet

A door blows open in your mind when you learn about the suffix -le, it explains so much. People used to add it to verbs to mean ‘more than once’ or continuously—so originally, to ramble is to ‘roam’ on, to jostle is to joust repeatedly, and to sparkle is to emit lots of sparks.

having spent 7 years at Google, I really prefer how Gemini breaks down problems it matches my expectation of how a competent colleague would think these models all trained on public data but somehow the soul of the company comes through (rlhf?)

putting the psycho in psychospiritual

Perplexity Comet is so bad, wtf are y'all talking about. Incredibly lazy, has access to all my tabs and yet doesn't do anything with them.

The flip side of AI context rot is 'context crystallization.' When the LLM navigates a codebase and sees good practices, it tends to write similarly good code. It is forced into stability by the type system and conventions. Like a crystal forming a lattice around a seed.

I finally understand the mindset of sports fans discussing draft picks

Why is no one talking about how Cloudflare: - reinvented Erlang’s actors for the modern age (Durable Objects) - rebuilt the OTP runtime (queues, workflows, etc) And lets you: - write in a mainstream language (TS) - run code on a globally distributed, high availability cluster

Why hasn't there been a vertical player in the D2C health/longevity space? 1. Collect biomarkers (Function, Ultrahuman, Levels) 2. Ship personalized supplements monthly (Huel, Blueprint) 3. Prescribe meds as needed (Ro, Hims) Seems like endless upsell opp., great margins

I really like reading these subpoenaed tech strategy emails. With my wordcel skills, I think I'd do a very good job being an executive.

When I worked on Google Search, entire high-impact projects would be motivated by a handful of queries and why they sucked. Obviously the impact had to show at the aggregate level, but the intuitions were built 'in the small'.

a sense of self

arisings

Kimi is very poetic

You can skip all the gender discourse on this site and just read this book

Effect-ts is taking off because all the Scala devs who got laid off from Twitter are done with their sabbaticals