Software Engineer. Udemy instructor with 20k students (https://xitter.cf/t.co/7dtptMCh4b). Globe trotter, currently living next to the ocean in NZ.

New Zealand
Joined January 2009
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” -- Henry Ford 100 years later ... youtube.com/watch?v=vQDhzbTz…
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Organic intelligence service now open. Send me a letter and I'll generate a summary response. $2 per 100 tokens.
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Top Software Design Pattern of 2025 Copy + Paste
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Software Developers in: 2005 - code is compiling 2015 - tests are running 2025 - code is coding 2035 - ?
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In NZ house prices are at the stage where the average family can barely afford a 30 year mortgage. Yet, people still expect house prices to go up... Please, explain.
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Vibe coding could be your next career. A career of fixing all the shit people have made.
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"We'll keep your details on file" has to be the biggest lie companies tell to applicants. They're never calling you back 🤣
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Mozilla just changed the Firefox TOS. If you're a privacy person, might be time to move off.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This is now outdated. Mozilla updated the Terms of Use to be more clear: It also includes a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license for the purpose of doing as you request with the content you input in Firefox. This does not give Mozilla any ownership in that content. blog.mozilla.org/en/products/fi…
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If a new version of AI needs to be prompted differently to get the same quality results as the previous version, it's called a regression. That's not "better". It's worse.
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How intelligent is AI really? There's a simple test I use every time a new AI version comes out. I won't say what the test is, but I'll tell you that every AI on the market fails it. Every single one.
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Answers From Grok 3 1) One clear incentive is economic. Musk has significant investments in Germany through Tesla, notably the Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg, which employs thousands and represents a major foothold for Tesla in Europe.
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2) There’s also a strategic angle tied to his platform, X. By amplifying AfD and engaging with its leaders—like Alice Weidel, whom he’s interviewed and praised—Musk boosts his influence in European politics, potentially shaping narratives that align with his worldview.
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AI Simulating physics. This is the "killer app" that has the potential to change humanity like we've never seen before. Imagine applications in the sciences, being able to predict experiments between molecules and eventually living organisms. For now video, but the future... 🤯
Everything you love about generative models — now powered by real physics! Announcing the Genesis project — after a 24-month large-scale research collaboration involving over 20 research labs — a generative physics engine able to generate 4D dynamical worlds powered by a physics simulation platform designed for general-purpose robotics and physical AI applications. Genesis's physics engine is developed in pure Python, while being 10-80x faster than existing GPU-accelerated stacks like Isaac Gym and MJX. It delivers a simulation speed ~430,000 faster than in real-time, and takes only 26 seconds to train a robotic locomotion policy transferrable to the real world on a single RTX4090 (see tutorial: genesis-world.readthedocs.io…). The Genesis physics engine and simulation platform is fully open source at github.com/Genesis-Embodied-…. We'll gradually roll out access to our generative framework in the near future. Genesis implements a unified simulation framework all from scratch, integrating a wide spectrum of state-of-the-art physics solvers, allowing simulation of the whole physical world in a virtual realm with the highest realism. We aim to build a universal data engine that leverages an upper-level generative framework to autonomously create physical worlds, together with various modes of data, including environments, camera motions, robotic task proposals, reward functions, robot policies, character motions, fully interactive 3D scenes, open-world articulated assets, and more, aiming towards fully automated data generation for robotics, physical AI and other applications. Open Source Code: github.com/Genesis-Embodied-… Project webpage: genesis-embodied-ai.github.i… Documentation: genesis-world.readthedocs.io… 1/n
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Drone warfare is already nuts, imagine swarm warfare. Terrifying.
Meanwhile, some idiots are still building manned fighter jets like the F-35 🗑️ 🫠
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Louis Sayers retweeted
There you go! We pushed it to prod! You can try it out at bluefox.email 💪🚀🔥 Thank you @AhmadKu20 for all the hard work! #buildinpublic
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Honestly, sometimes I feel like I can actually see the future. xitter.cf/LouisSayers/status/170…
Just need a new homepage now @sama How does this look?
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Just need a new homepage now @sama How does this look?
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AI will lead to the next evolution of biology. This is the real danger of AI. xitter.cf/GeneInvesting/status/1…
People are concerned about AI machines taking over, but no-one is talking about biological warfare? If I were an evil genius, I wouldn't spend copious amounts of money on expensive machines. I'd use AI to create biological ones. Biology - cheap, self replicates, spreads easily.
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Elon is suing OpenAI for breach of their Founding Agreement. Interesting read courthousenews.com/wp-conten…
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