robotics software @pipedream_labs. cofounded @voyage, built drones for amazon and the army. hyperspectral sensing enthusiast. deal king of the mid-atlantic.
Joined November 2013
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government waste ain’t all bad
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this is actually the seed funding for my new defense startup
Fable isn't the first.
In 1999 the department of defense blocked exports of the PowerMac G4 for crossing the 1 gigaflop threshold.
Steve Jobs turned it into an ad.
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they should’ve named Starship the Big Boy
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Historic Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 passing over the Tunkhannock Creek Viaduct as part of the coast-to-coast tour celebrating America’s 250th anniversary 🚂🇺🇸
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opus 4.8 with the fable context is some real flowers for algernon shit
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yea my girlfriend goes to another school, you can’t use her
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The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.
Access to all other Claude models is not affected.
We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.
Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…
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I’m at the bottom of a multi-layer SPV and am looking forward to the SpaceX IPO in much the same way a golden retriever looks forward to a car ride:
- thrilled to be involved
- no clue how cars work
- unsure if going to the park or getting neutered
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Jun 8
most non-C developers are just users playing inside a C dev’s program.
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A Saronic Corsair unmanned surface vessel rescued the Army AH-64 Apache crew after they crashed near the Strait of Hormuz in the waters of Oman yesterday, the first-ever rescue of downed aircrew by a drone boat -WSJ
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If I was a make a wish kid I’d ask the air force to show me aurora
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Jun 9
Spent a while iterating on a version of this process in my Pi harness, and I gotta say he was right.
My old setup was heavily human in the loop, because nothing I did nailed the balance of guardrails & autonomy to prevent a multiple hour run from turning into slop.
Now I spend an hour hashing out requirements in extreme detail, let the agent loop for 8-12 hours, and out pops beautiful, clean new features. Slop minimal.
This feels like a turning point, for me at least. I may be late to the party, but the party isn't over.
nobody wants to hear this but the classical NASA systems engineering is the perfect model for developing code with LLMs. people try to approximate this with planning modes, but if you’re explicit in your docs it’s never been easier to build, test, and verify complex codebases.
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It’s deeply odd to me that America is a far less 24/7 hour society today than it was 10, 20, or even 30 years ago. I vividly remember friends from the UK back in 1996 marveling at the fact that in the mid-sized Indiana town where I went college it was possible to buy groceries, clothing, a lawn mower, a snow blower, Lego sets, and bow hunting gear at 3 AM on any given Tuesday of the year. That was peak American Empire, and it’s long gone.
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When Walmart never went back to 24 hours nation wide after Covid I knew that was the end of America.
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someone needs to stop me from buying out an entire neon sign manufacturing shop and completing my tech bro --> wannabe artisan arc
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facebook marketplace sucks but don’t tell that to my new, unopened Apple G4 Xserve from 2002.
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when it rains it pours. also nabbed a pristine 2001 Studio Display with the packing foam and original stickers still on. totally different person.
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That’s probably the last G4 xserve still sealed.
I’d happily swap a liquid cooled G5 Quad for it or a real IBM POWER system
facebook marketplace sucks but don’t tell that to my new, unopened Apple G4 Xserve from 2002.
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Will accept DoorDash’ed racks of miller lite for access to my AI rig
Launching Sub-Prime Intellect, where i pay my friends in beer to let me SSH into their gaming PCs at night and run stuff on their graphics cards
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nobody remembers TechShop
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Can someone fund and build out a maker’s space franchise all across America to help accelerate Americans building
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crowdfunding 50 gallons, DMs open
A Chinese company is now selling spray-on coating that makes drones harder for radar to detect, available in buckets and applied with a spray gun. What was once a classified military technology is now a commercial product sold by the kilogram.
defence-blog.com/chinese-fir…
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the best way to spot aircraft in DC is from a boat. feels illegal to anchor right next to the airport landing lights.
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