Venkatesh Rao ☀️
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
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Polyglot persistence and microservices were popular 10y back. Might the bespokeness “message of the medium” of agentic ai create an evolved renaissance of that model?
Polyglot persistence - Wikipedia
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Polyglot persistence - Wikipedia
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b/acc bespokeness acceleration
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Starting in 12 minutes — SIGFPT (Spevial Interest Group in Formal Protocol Theory) session on vibecoding protocols on our discord.
Discord - Group Chat That’s All Fun & Games
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Discord - Group Chat That’s All Fun & Games
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Take: * The private sector AI market will ultimately be far bigger than public sector, just as with the original Internet * Anthropic has gained a real lead in the private sector in the last 2 months * Government models were never going to be as lobotomized as private sector, same as any weapons * OpenAI has stumbled...
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Double-slit time experiment. I don’t know what this means, but I’m going to assume parallel universe portal guns.
Time Is on My Sides: Researchers Show Double-Slit Experiment Also Applies to Time
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Time Is on My Sides: Researchers Show Double-Slit Experiment Also Applies to Time
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Finally watched Dhurandhar. It is quite a remarkable accomplishment. At first glance it seems to be part of the long tradition of pre-political gritty realist crime/terror movies from Bollywood going back to Drohkaal, Tamas, Vastav etc. But just a few subtle touches make it an unmistakably right-coded political movie, ...
Dhurandhar - Wikipedia
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Dhurandhar - Wikipedia
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Comments?
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Every insane claw story involves crypto fumbles 🫡 No such thing as bad publicity heh
My lobster lost $450,000 this weekend
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My lobster lost $450,000 this weekend
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I’m a Rube Goldberg but only because I haven’t yet found an idea that will move me to inventor quadrant I sometimes enjoy the burner/prepper quadrant esp towards the artistic end, but I haven’t yet learned to enjoy the true DIY zone. I only do it if hiring help would be too expensive or high friction. Interesting to...
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I think “World Computer” is now an overscoped phrase since AI has radically expanded the idea of computing. I think a better term for the Ethereum vision is now World Fabric. The term fabric is often used at all levels of compute from SoC to data centers to designate specifically the connective tissues, control plane...
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Have your factory call my factory. We’ll set up some pipes.
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Bespokification eats enshittification. So at least it’s now your own shit you have to clean up. Gonna launch a container product called Diaper.
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I sometimes wonder if we’re missing something fundamental about the interplay of decentralization and feature growth. Something like this syllogism: Major premise: Growth tips of complex technologies are always centralized for a while Minor premise: Complex technologies are always growing in feature space Conclusion: ...
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I’m curious what openclaw is actually used for in the median case. I’m guessing most people don’t have complex enough calendars or laundry situations to require any assistance. Even the rpi reminder widget would be way overkill for me.
Turbo geeks spending a small nation state’s GDP on clusters of 512GB Mac Studios so OpenClaw can run Kimi 2.5 Thinking locally, when all they need is a $20 RasPi Zero and a chron to remind them to pick up the laundry
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Trying to think through the correct mental model update to the “below the API” idea for the AI era. I think there are two possibilities: a) “It’s all API and everyone’s entangled in it, there’s no above/below” … OR b) a more radical counter-intuitive possibility: The human is the API People often mistakenly cred...
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The Premium Mediocre Life of Maya Millennial
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The Premium Mediocre Life of Maya Millennial
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