Adhityaa

building (YC W25) / prev @ google, uwaterloo

[Adhityaa @__adtac__]

probably my favourite piece of art ever https://t.co/8WHIZtYdys

[Adhityaa @__adtac__]

chase: if you don’t want us to sell your data just say no

me: bet they don’t expect anyone to bother, wonder what happens if you actually do it for the lolz

the form doesn’t even fucking fit in the envelope they send lmao. genuinely impressed with the genius malicious compliance 💀

[Adhityaa @__adtac__]

Lol. Lmao, even.

$ du -sh .git
3.1G .git

$ git gc
Enumerating objects: 42498, done.
Counting objects: 100% (42498/42498), done.
Delta compression using up to 8 threads
Compressing objects: 100% (31233/31233), done.
Writing objects: 100% (42498/42498), done.
Total 42498 (delta 14144), reused 33825 (delta 11262), pack-reused 0 (from 0)
Removing duplicate objects: 100% (256/256), done.

$ du -sh .git
37M .git

[Adhityaa @__adtac__]

no garbage collectors were harmed in the making of this screenshot (we found another way)

[Adhityaa @__adtac__]

After all... why not?
Why shouldn't I dodge it?

[Kitten 🐈 @kitten_beloved]

@punished_daniel There's only one way to to resolve this and it's obvious that Von Neumann completely forehead-mogs Tao

[David Crawshaw @davidcrawshaw]

turns out, I want my spell checker to know how to program in shell

[Adhityaa @__adtac__]

@dakshgup

[Adhityaa @__adtac__]

@zeta_globin also reading the history of something is unreasonably effective at discovering new applications for old ideas, which from the outside looks exactly like innovation!

reading history is very lindy

[Adhityaa @__adtac__]

i never really understood [*] quantum mechanics until i read heisenberg's original 1925 paper because it was the first time someone plainly stated its core crux to me (only talk about things you can observe).

i studied physics for 4 years. i had probably read hundreds of contemporary explanations at that point. it's amusing that i had to go back 100 years and read the original to really grok the intuition.

reading his ~autobiographical "physics and beyond" (1972) where he talks about the chronology of all the events of his scientific life was the other big thing that helped.

it made me realise that a lot of decisions and assumptions were not made arbitrary but were rather heavily influenced by The Current Thing at that time. knowing what the path we took to get here is very important to understanding why things are the way they are.

[*] i still don't understand it, but at least it's not totally unsatisfying anymore

[Adhityaa @__adtac__]

@yacineMTB imaginary internet points more so!

[Adhityaa @__adtac__]

generational run

[Adhityaa @__adtac__]

no way someone named McGovern lost this badly lmao

[Adhityaa @__adtac__]

inb4 tpot next month after they change opus 4.5's personality

[Adhityaa @__adtac__]

@erikdunteman ahahah
i probably spent ~3-4% of my life going through a lot of similar things [1], happy to share notes so that you don't have to :)

[1] https://t.co/bo9LJZvdat

[Adhityaa @__adtac__]

@erikdunteman this is amazing!

[Adhityaa @__adtac__]

@mattsta "last time bro, i swear, just once more"

[Adhityaa @__adtac__]

@abhiaiyer first thing i did