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sam0x17
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About sam0x17
Senior Rust Engineer and former startup CTO
* former Core FRAME Team member @ Parity
* former CTO @ Arist (YC S20)
* former Tech Lead @ Kagi
* former CTO @ BlockVue
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/sam0x17; my proof: https://keybase.io/sam0x17/sigs/yPCtu1MQB6F10_5z6SbarufPfQbee74RbBIWwyIhNiw ]
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Comment #49155249
I didn't say fix, I said context. As in "you are using an established thing the wrong way" which is most questions people ask. Edited
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Comment #49155193
> I can talk to Claude myself OK but can you talk to my specific claude code conversation that has 6 months of context on the mechanism you are struggling with?
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Comment #49025826
> The only thing a ban would do is protect the American market from further downward price pressure on inference, protecting VC investors in the short term It won't even do this. S…
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Comment #48927431
Mark Twain
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Comment #48645855
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Comment #48365016
I wonder what kind of result you'd get with floats
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Comment #48365003
What I like is it's still hard, but you can do things like "prove this using game theory" or "find the optimal value for this and a proof" without having to know game theory or dee…
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Comment #48023923
There used to be a lot of research into using deep NNs to train decision trees, which are themselves much less of a black box and can actually be reasoned about. I wonder where tha…
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Comment #47953438
Sounds like a vibe-coded feature if I ever heard of one
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Comment #47844607
It's really gone to shit in the last 2 years
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Comment #47752812
Very ironic for the billionaire to be openly replacing himself with AI, I suppose he believes his job is easy enough that an LLM can do it, so we definitely don't need him
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Comment #47713534
If you have no vulnerabilities in your code you have nothing to worry about
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Comment #47690624
What I mean by "nothing special" is 1 year from now you will say it is an extremely limited model compared to whatever is out then
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Comment #47685928
It's effectively 2026's version of "Doctors hate this one weird trick!"
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Comment #47685847
It's all just really genius marketing. In 6 months Mythos will be nothing special, but right now everyone is being manipulated into fearing its release, as a marketing ploy. This i…
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Comment #47601705
Yeah perfect example, the main thing I _would_ use multiple agents on is optimizing/benchmarking code, but for that you specifically can't use worktree, you need one agent per mach…
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Comment #47550478
The throwing dildos at WNBA games thing https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/wnba/2025/08/07/wnba-s...
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Comment #47550463
It's inherently free data. You have to be able to trade against it, and to trade against it you need to see it _before_ you give them money, so they can basically never charge for …
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Comment #47550459
> It's not some kind of magical money multiplication machine Right, it's not even consistent, the manipulation can go either way, at random, but what is sure is the higher the liqu…
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Comment #47535360
Especially when the "prediction" part isn't even part of the product, it is an accidental byproduct. No one pays for access to the predictions. And they aren't predictions, they ar…
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Comment #47468798
If anything, the stricter the compiler the better for vibe coding the language
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Comment #47435484
Polymarket being an incompetent cabal that doesn't deserve to have a license is so passe, so ingrained in the standard recurring narrative that comes up whenever prediction markets…
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Comment #47435146
> because it was the only way I could eke out something remotely relevant to the article from your original comment. Remotely relevant? It's not like I'm talking about cats, I'm ta…
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Comment #47415909
It's also fundamentally something you can't really do properly in crypto. You need a central authority to decide if "thing has happened". There's no way to properly incentivize acc…