Maker of things. Streaming data wizard. Past life within the realms of blockchain and synthetic data. Opinionated.
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The obvious thing to make a brain want is novelty. I built it, measured it, and it lost to a coin flip in seven of eight seeds while doing exactly what it was designed to do. Every hour spent somewhere new is an hour not spent getting good at something.
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The honest system lands at 10 dimensions on a world whose true size is 20. Nine on 35, nine on 50. It isn't failing to find the truth. The map is not sized to the territory. It's sized to the mapmaker's budget.
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The moment a score decides survival, the contestants stop optimizing for the truth and start optimizing for the score. My scoreboard had four holes in it, then a fifth. Learning was cheap. Measuring learning was the work.
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PRA does not contain a model of the world. It contains a crowd of them. Each frame is a bet on how many knobs the world has, and the world's own replies settle it. Nobody ever gets edited: a bad bet loses and gets evicted, what worked was never touched.
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Say out loud: "I can jump across that creek." Nothing happens. The sentence comes out smoothly whether or not it's true; your mouth doesn't check.
Now actually jump. The creek checks.
Why a machine that only reads is never graded by the world: impire.io/poseres-book/part-…
Every morning the rooster crows, then the sun comes up. To a watcher, "the crow causes the dawn" and "the crow merely comes first" look identical. The only way to tell them apart is to keep the rooster quiet for one morning.
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In a toy world with three hidden knobs, all were discovered. Then I built worlds with 20, 35 and 50 knobs and asked again. It only found one. Every time. It didn't crash; it failed politely, with a clean, wrong, tiny answer.
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I wrote a rule to evict models that stopped earning their keep. I had also written the survival bar so that the more crowded the population got, the easier survival became. My anti-hoarding mechanism rewarded hoarding.
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Nobody would accept a frozen brain in a person. It would mean hiring someone whose last day of learning was their final exam. Yet almost every machine ships that way, and nothing it meets after that changes it.
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I own a robot lawnmower. Every time it sets out, it wedges itself against the same tree trunk and waits for rescue. It cannot learn: its brain was finished before it ever saw my garden.
I wrote a book about the alternative. Sixteen chapters, free: impire.io/poseres-book/
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New Blog Series: Rethink Data | A new mindset for using data in your organization.
Check out the first in a new series from @daangerits
"We just can’t wait a day, or even an hour for that matter, for the insights we need to steer our organizations."
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Recording from today's @NATS_io office hours now available. Love these! Great open discussion with lots of interactive Q&A, awesomely hosted by @TheCodeGangsta from @Synadia.
Agenda:
> @DaanGerits: Next, NATS, Benthos and beyond!
> NATS HTTP Gateway released for Synadia Cloud
> Let's play with http gateway!
> Blog post: Delegate with Trust
> Introduction to OtterJet
Watch: youtube.com/live/qOE7gIXjgTY…
#iot #iiot #ai #ml #edge #edgecomputing #connectedthings #connectedcars #cncf #opensource #distributedcomputing #llm #devops #platformengineering #kafka #redis #rabbitmq #wasim #webassembly #multicloud
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You are cordially invited to join @jbfletch_ and @matthiasjsax for the inaugural episode of The Duchess & The Doctor Show, where our distinguished hosts mix equal parts whimsy and know-how to concoct answers to your most urgent event streaming questions! youtu.be/aSeTAkYjeRM
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Finally, we interviewed @Jeffail and @MihaiTodor about Benthos: an OSS project with the tagline "fancy stream processing made operationally mundane".
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Had a great chat with @krisajenkins on Developer Voices youtube.com/watch?v=labzg-Yf…, we basically solved every social issue and there is a bit about stream processing as well
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NASA astronaut demonstrating the Dzhanibekov effect. An astronaut noticed this physical behavior of a handle, that turned out to be the proof of a theorem: the tennis racket theorem (also dubbed the Dzhanibekov effect)
The Tennis Racket Theorem states that an object with three unique moments of inertia, rotation about the axis of intermediate moment of inertia is unstable, while rotation about the other two axis is stable.
The effect is named after the Russian cosmonaut Vladimir Dzhanibekov who discovered this phenomenon while in space in 1985.
Ok, laten we met een GPT partij beginnen. We laten alle beslissingen nemen door chatGPT. Politiek gezien klopt het, kunt perfect met de vinger wijzen en zeggen dat “het door de computer kwam”. These people … seriously …
Preparing for a 36h trip back home. So much looking forward to being reunited with my family again after close to a month away. New friendships and ideas to get through the upcoming year!
Honestly, there are worse locations to perform your data engineering job from. I love doing on-site stuff at places nobody expects to even know about streaming tech. #streaminglife @apachekafka