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Eric Platon

@ic

Interested in Life. Work on (GOF)AI, Biology, Energy, Robotics---all topics climate-aware. smp9.simplex.im Session: 05d08c3a31439ce63c

Kuriyama, Yubari District, Hokkaido, Japan

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github

Honestly unsure, but is GitHub UX getting very sloppy? Over the past weeks at least, existing features seem to behave differently. I’m mostly in PRs, rest of the time just shell. The PR system seems weirdening in two ways. Existing feature change oddly, and heavy reliance on LLM code creates fat PR with comments showe...

geopolitics

When a country leader speaks like that: “To be free, one needs to be feared” What do we expect? This was Macron yesterday, after deciding to proliferate nuclear warheads across Europe.

16d

From Drop Site on 17th: ‘Trump declared “the war in Gaza is over” in October 2025. U.S. news outlets believed him. Gaza coverage has dropped to just 1.5% of all stories—the lowest point since October 2023, according to media watchdog FAIR. Israel’s genocidal assault hasn’t stopped.’ Really felt so.

16d

First time ever I get so much code to review that I cannot do anything else today. And this code is *entirely* generated by some LLM. This is really odd feeling for a somewhat long-timer in software development. A signal that cannot be ignored by anyone now.

robotics

26d

High level question to embedded engineers: What RTOS best to use? We’re starting a new lunar rover using NASA cFS. Pretty free except everything must run in space :) Most mention Zephyr. Personally not a great experience with toy projects, and looking for advice, thanks!

1mo

Any recommended readings at the intersection of AI/ML development, embedded systems and topics like quantisation and compression? Long form preferred. Wondering about these two online books too (as they may be less focused):

arcala-research-lab.github.io

Efficient ML Computing

mlsysbook.ai

ML Systems Textbook

1mo

Can someone ELIA5 why "proof of stake" in Ethereum is a good idea? One appeal was to reduce the environment footprint significantly over the previous proof system. Apparently that is a success. But trying to understand the contribution to censorship resistance, PoS seems to *emphasize* the ones with the highest stakes...

1mo

Looking at retrospectives of the 2025 news on the US, two song titles came to mind to describe the overall impression: "Do you know the ICE screaming men?" and "Baby Trump, doo‑doo‑doo‑doo‑doo‑doo".

1mo

Apple is in talk with Starlink for direct integration in smartphones. What can go wrong on liberties when a verically integrated private platform integrates itself on a complementary vertically integrated private platform? End to end privacy is useful only when there is end to end connectivity. This includes digital ...

geopolitics

1mo

The International Intrigue people estimate 90% possible that crypto goes mainstream this year in the US. Interesting prompts on the geopolitics consequences. (And interesting other predictions)

archives.internationalintrigue.io

🌍 Intrigue’s 2026 predictions

1mo

Damn. Team successfully gets a project from a governmental space agency. Now everyone has to get an online research ethics course on a late 90s website. No LLM escape hatch this time.

politics

1mo

Trump Media and fusion energy in the same sentence is really weird, and politically worrying. When media can self-power, they cannot be stopped spreading whatever they want. Law systems are too slow to course-correct.

dev

2mo

Many tokens to get this Claude advice, verbatim: ```rust // Line 130 - Change this: system: Arc<Mutex<s>>, // To this: system: Arc<Mutex<s>>, ``` Still hesitating to press apply or not.

politics

2mo

The crime rate in the US is record low for 2025. Something like -20% on average. Problem with raw numbers and absence of context is to know why. Is that because the apparently brutal show of force scares offenders, or it scarves people to go out in the first place?

cryptocurrency

2mo

Bank of Japan has just increased interest rates to highest for the past 30 years. New rate is 0.75% Can anyone share links to explanation why cryptocurrency holders seem to freak out about this announcement?