Trying to make magic. Mostly create illusions. CEO, founding team SYLVAIN. Some dude from NH with ADHD.
In my head, I say Crooklyn
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We started a podcast @SylvainLabs. We spent a lot of time to make sure it’s not terrible, and people have been responding really well. Check out Critical Nonsense wherever you get pods. Thisisnonsense.com
Billy Joel was the soundtrack of my childhood, but I never realized the level of social commentary in the album The Stranger. It was a mirror for America— working class struggles, the suburbs, the generational divide, discrimination of working women, and religious dogma.
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🚨: France now holds the world record for nuclear fusion!
It sustained the reaction for 22 minutes!
An incredible temperature of 90 million degrees Fahrenheit (50 million °C) for 1,337 seconds — more than 22 minutes.
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France's WEST set a record in Feb 2025 by sustaining hydrogen plasma for 1337s at 50M°C, but no actual fusion reactions occurred. This plasma duration record appears to still hold as of Feb 2026. cea.fr/english/Pages/…
I feel like I need to reread Iain M Banks, The Player of Games. I don’t know if this will be true, but it reads like a passage from the book. What does brilliance do in the face of its own impotence?
Please spend some time to read this excellent entry by one of the most prominent algebraic geometers of the modern generation.
I agree with all the predictions of Daniel. Actually, I am a bit sad, because I thought Daniel's predictions were much more reluctant and conservative than my own.
In 5 years we will see that most human mathematicians will not participate in mathematical research as we know it today.
Only a few, if any, will remain in the competitive game of designing and proving new theorems.
But I want to elaborate on this aspect. What is this game of mathematics really about? I think, to some extent, that we are like artists, designing for other humans an intellectual experience, concocting ideas that can become viral and change other people's lives by showing new paths for thinking.
I think I am already on the path between the fourth and fifth stage of grief. I still feel very sad that an epoch in which solely human genius was at the peak of intellectual reign on this planet is ending.
So at the end of this post, I want to ask just one question. What will human mathematicians do once AIs surpass humans in their own game? Will we play the game for its own beauty, for the pleasure of understanding, of experiencing the unknown? I think this is the path, and AIs will pursue their own quests, but as long as humanity is still around, we will still perform our own art of thinking, just for the sake of the game. This is our nature.
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> Republican gets elected President.
> Cuts benefits for the poor.
> Cuts taxes for the rich.
> Starts a war over oil.
It's crazy how it’s always the same thing every single time.
Discovering “management.” It’s been interesting observing engineers discover the other functions of a company through building complexity in AI systems. I’d always hear engineers write those functions off as “wordcels”, fluff, etc.
Now they discover the value via their domain.
My coding agent workflow has really changed a lot ever since I gave them access to messaging so that they can directly communicate with each other. Now, I have one of them come up with a super detailed plan and sometimes have GPT Pro review and improve the plan in the webapp.
Then I start up 4 or 5 Codex instances in the same project folder and tell them:
"Before doing anything else, read ALL of AGENTS dot md and register with agent mail and introduce yourself to the other agents. Then coordinate on the remaining tasks left in PLAN_TO_DO_XYZ.md with the other agents and come up with a game plan for splitting and reviewing the work."
Then I can queue up a ton of the following message in codex, and it will just keep plodding along until the context gets full:
"Proceed meticulously with the plan, doing all remaining unfinished tasks systematically and continuing to notate your progress in-line in the plan document and via agent mail messages."
Then they just keep cranking on their own for a really long time. And you don't need to supervise them much so you can be juggling multiple projects like this at once and make really great progress on all of them.
Live view of my uncle right now trying to formulate a reason why this is actually bad.
Covid-19 vaccines, credited with saving millions of lives during the pandemic, set off a powerful alarm that rallies the human immune system against cancer and nearly doubles the median survival length of patients, according to a new retrospective study. wapo.st/4qmTVhl
Please, make it make sense. We’re in the TACO-verse where since liberation day Trump is only shooting own goals on America. Give AI chips to China, but raise tariffs and as a result US prices and inflation. I can’t even back into the galaxy brain explanation.
