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Luckily never been bitten by component orientation issues. But every time I get a PCB assembled at JLCPCB with WS2812b or WS2816b LEDS they always email me to confirm LED orientati…

If you just say “implement this” you’re going to have a bad time after a certain point. You really need to add yourself as a human in loop to be in the middle of design choices. Th…

I guess the orange sphincter is really a flower…

Text to SQL is the wrong framing of the problem. Ideally you ask the agent the thing you want to know / business question you want answered. An agentic loop then runs. The agent ca…

GPT 5.6 already is an explainer agent. Fork Tao’s convo and prompt this (with your own math level described). GPT did a great job of translating Tao’s questions and concepts (e.g. …

My hand wavy math. One person dedicated to a single project / task baseline 100% total output. One person split between two tasks / projects that require context switching, 70% tot…

3000 RPM is 50Hz right?

I said a better “human driver.” Waymo is probably safer, but safety comes at the risk of not behaving like a human, and hence causing confusion for other human drivers. Tesla drive…

99% of my FSD disengagements are navigation related: leaving it too late to merge into an exit lane (or CA drivers speeding up to not let me merge), not being aggressive enough at …

I've done 234 Waymo rides and ~5k miles driven FSD in a Model Y (HW4), all in and around the bay area. The gap isn't that big. Tesla still needs supervision (most around navigation…

If consciousness didn’t exist, you wouldn’t exist! you’d have no interior experience.

You don't need quality or flexibility for an AI demo. Hand crafting a voice agent to schedule simple appointments for a barber in San Francisco where the caller is in a quiet envir…

Try a different translation. First time I started to read it, it was a slog and I didn’t get far. Did a bit of research on translations and chose another one (can’t recall the exac…

We need the equivalent of the MEAN / LAMP stackronym for agents.

100% agreed, the "this is what an agent looks like to write" is the wrong pitch for a new agent framework. The better pitch would be, "this is how easy observability, guardrails, m…

I'm still on the fence about agent frameworks, they have their place, and it depends on the nature of the agent: e.g. "Low latency, return a good enough response in 3 seconds, vs. …

Closest I've been to losing vision in one eye was creating these 3x chain links for Burning Man. Naive thought: I could use a large bolt cutter to cut chain links. Started trying t…

This is a good counter argument to the paper, honestly.

Are you saying that, in some abstract sense, that actually pouring the cup may be isomorphic to running a perfect simulation of pouring the cup? Genuinely curious about your statem…

It's the difference between: a) Actually pouring a cup of water into a pond (layer zero), and b) Running a fluid dynamics simulation of pouring a cup of water into a pond (some lay…

Originally rejected the paper premise, but I get it now, certainly made me question my belief that consciousness binds to any arbitrary information processing that's of sufficient …

Yeah, I think about this a lot. Those days of grinding on some grad school maths homework until insight. Figuring out how to configure and recompile the Linux kernel to get a sound…

Gambling ads are to Australia what Pharmaceutical ads are to the USA.

OpenClaw is just like any other tool, you need to learn it before its power is available to you. Just like anything in engineering really: you have to play around source control to…

For the tax thing. I had Claude write a CLI and a prompt for Gemini Flash 2.5 to do the structured extraction: i.e. .pdf -> JSON. The JSON schema was pretty flexible, and open to i…