Vishal Verma

"This time it's different!"

Personal tweets - tech, showerthoughts, random stuff.
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If it didn't show up on your dashboard, did it really happen?

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Current status

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Hyrum's law will be even more relevant in the AI era

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@Jason I'm in

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It's a bit uncanny how much doing amazing things is really failing to recognize the minefields that are "oh this should only take 20 mins"

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It's crazy how much of the limelight is on AI model development and developers, and the data side is not as much talked about.
I think we need to appreciate the dataset teams much more. A model is only as good as the data it trains on.

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@paraschopra The first thing we need to do is to prevent agents from reading our threads about their threads lol

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@martin_casado @grok explain waves and drawback

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@paraschopra Short of total autocracy, I don't see this likely.
Saas is not food or shelter. Unless you control means of survival (, and in a relatively free society you don't), you can't have a hugely imbalanced market economy. There will be no buyers for whatever you sell.

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I wonder if those digressions during projects to solve side problems are an attempt to replace a fear-inducing lesser known path with a more known and comforting one!

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Every failure represents a gap in our understanding of the world.

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At a fundamental level, human beings are incapable of being unbiased. For rigorous decision making, you won't win by just trying to cultivate a balanced pov in yourself. A better framework is to add competent humans with different povs. That's the power of diverse teams!

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@zack_overflow Much overlap. The other names I'd add are
Michael Abrash (Graphics Programming Black Book)
Joshua Bloch (Effective Java)

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Break the balance in order to achieve greater awareness of its importance.

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@lailachima How does one become a life coach? Share some gems?

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Hyrum's law is actually a special case of how life/species establishes itself. Existence of any favorable substrate makes it highly likely to be adopted. That's just the best general strategy for the user/life/species to be successful.

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Can we agree to not call it Jacobson's organ once and for all?

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@eriktorenberg Would love to be a part of this. Are your DMs open? Can't seem to send one, although would love to share more.

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Block 16964664: A user managed to drain five MEV bots by exploiting a bug in mev-boost-relay.

Here's the block: https://t.co/ruSz8YzAJR
Here's the user: https://t.co/VY4gpmX0L8
Here's the patch: https://t.co/TPO80i3dz5
Here's the longer explanation:

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My new #asmr fix - drinking sparkling water while wearing noise cancelling earbuds.