SW/HW Engineer. Also play the drums š„ | EE grad
Joined August 2012
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In my final year of university me and a few friends got together and launched a weather balloon into the stratosphere.
I was the project manager for it (because it was my idea) and to this day it was the most stressful thing Iāve ever done, but also the most rewarding. Took about 4 months of development and it all worked out great! Short video below
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Yes. Locking in a permanent status quo power structure.
Incredibly unsafe, and damaging for humanity's prospects.
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The best books on computers are written by people who lived through the advent of the personal computer
This is a sign to read Structured Computer Organization by Tanenbaum (a staple for any CS/EE major)
May 31
in 1987 a professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam couldn't teach Unix because AT&T owned the source code
so he wrote his own Unix-like OS from scratch and printed the entire source code in his textbook
a Finnish student named Linus Torvalds used it to write Linux
it is called MINIX
the textbook is "Operating Systems: Design and Implementation" by Andrew Tanenbaum
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Interesting research paper about securing AI agents like Operating Systems (focus on OpenClaw). Worth reading if youāre working in the field: arxiv.org/abs/2605.14932
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Great stuff! Still donāt get why Elon was so concerned about Demis leading the AI charge. I remember watching the AlphaGo documentary, and the guy just seems like someone genuinely interested in advancing humanity.
Also, DeepMind open-sourced Alpha Fold. Thatās a positive sign.
May 12
Iāve always believed the No.1 application of AI should be to improve human health.
That work started with AlphaFold, and now at @IsomorphicLabs with the mission to reimagine drug discovery and one day solve all disease!
We are turbocharging that goal with $2.1B in new funding.
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Same thing goes for latching onto the latest intellectual movement
Main reason why I didnāt like the atheist movement, because all my friends at the time suddenly became one to appear āsmartā & derided me for not following along
May 12
as i get older i realize the biggest epidemic is dudes with no real identity
if running gets cool they become runners. if tattoos get cool they cover themselves in tattoos. if being sober trends they become born again monks, mullet, coffee snob, golfer, carnivore, cowboy, whatever the algorithm tells them
whole personality built out of social contagion
thats why these dudes get smoked at everything. everyone can smell the fraud
no weight behind anything they do because none of it came from their soul. just trend hopping
be something real even if its ugly
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Does anyone else find it concerning how weāre in a state of constant surveillance?
Not against this concept, but the opportunity for abuse of this tech is immense. Hate to sound like a ādoomerā but the Owellianisation of society is worrying
Every new car in the U.S. will be required by law to have tech that puts constant surveillance on the driver by 2027.
AI in your car will determine if you're sober and fit to drive, automatically turning off the vehicle if it determines you're a danger on the road.
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I gave a presentation last year at MoneroKon about this youtu.be/QA_o0HByT8I?si=NqlKā¦
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āAll addictions are a low level search for God.ā
- Carl Jung
Apr 24
Addiction is proof that you are capable of intense devotion. You just have a false god
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Philosophy used to hold a revered place in academia, & it was venerated even more so in classical antiquity. But itās been pushed out, where this is what passes as modern philosophy:
- concepts/language no longer correspond to reality
- definitions once held true are now inverted
- an objective reality is totally denied
Apr 15
Most people think of philosophy as an abstraction that doesn't touch the real world, but they're wrong.
Most real world problems are philosophy problems, and most philosophy problems are "giving things the wrong names".
For example, if you call feral drug addicts "homeless people", then you can't solve the problem. You can only buy more houses for feral drug addicts to destroy.
In this case, we called the police and courts the "justice system".
But they're not. They can't be the justice system.
The function of a justice system would be to give everyone what they deserve.
Now, I deserve a hundred million dollars, a private Caribbean island, and a foot massage from Lauren Bacall in her prime, but I don't see the "justice" system lifting a finger to correct any of this, do you?
No, what we are supposed to have is a public safety system.
The function of a public safety system is to keep the public and their property safe.
If we understood that, we wouldn't care about what criminals deserve. We would care how likely they are to do it again. Or something worse.
In a public safety system, retardation and mental illness are not migrating factors. They are the opposite.
Because they mean that the criminal is more likely to pose a future threat.
We all understand this.
We all understand that the feral retard who stabs strangers on the train for being White and beautiful is a worse person than the man who murders his wife and her lover when he catches them in the act.
Not because of some abstract calculus of moral agency, of who is disadvantaged and who isn't, but because one is certainly going to murder more people if he can, while the other is a lot less likely to.
We've known for centuries, if not millennia, that it's the same small percentage of people doing all the robbing, raping, and murdering, over and over and over again.
And we've known for centuries that if you physically remove them from society, that's 100% effective in stopping them from doing it again.
The only hurdle is philosophical. Call it a "justice" system, and you have to argue endlessly about morality and redemption, and then some leftie thug-hugger weaponizes your own Christianity against you.
Call it public safety, and you confine the argument to likelihood of reoffense. Then you are in the realm of statistics. Which you can compute.
It all starts with naming things correctly, according to their actual nature.
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What used to be regarded as the pursuit of truth is now replaced by inversions, evasions, & subjectivism. Truth is a social construct; anything goes. Worse yet, irrationality is brazenly flaunted & held as some perverted value.
Weāve been at the peak of all this for a long time.
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The main point Ayn Rand made was that statist systems inherently attract/reward, & elevate corrupt/dishonest people while penalising integrity & ability. The corrupt people become dependent on political pull, favours & manufactured guilt. She called it the āaristocracy of pullā
I think Ayn Rand and Heinlein both make the point that totalitarian systems don't filter out compromised people, rather they insist that everyone in the power structure be compromised, precisely so that they can be disposed of when it becomes convenient.
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Always respected what you stood for, but āsupport where it will have the most impactā on bluesky, mastodon and LinkedIn of all places?? š¤”
X still remains the only platform that has free speech (more or less). This is being done for theatrics.
After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X.
This isnāt a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. š§µ(1/5)
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I NEVER WANNA HEAR A SINGLE PERSON EVER TELL ME MANIFESTATION ISNT REAL
7 Dec 2016
Dreamt I was in lunar orbit last night. Been in that post-vivid-dream-that-wasn't-real funk all morning.
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My talk at @MoneroKon last year is up! Check it out: how Ayn Randās ideas connect to privacy & crypto
youtu.be/QA_o0HByT8I?si=VAt5ā¦
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