Adam Pasternack

Lover of Wisdom and outdoors, adventurer, technologist, entrepreneur, brother, son, uncle, and adopted son of the Father

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Today, we share a breakthrough on the planar unit distance problem, a famous open question first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946.

For nearly 80 years, mathematicians believed the best possible solutions looked roughly like square grids.

An OpenAI model has now disproved that belief, discovering an entirely new family of constructions that performs better.

This marks the first time AI has autonomously solved a prominent open problem central to a field of mathematics.

[Julie Fredrickson @AlmostMedia]

In one of the largest religion surveys ever conducted, perhaps surprisingly, people who are actively religious are the ones who have the highest confidence in AI right now

[Luke Burgis @lukeburgis]

People also sometimes ask why there aren't more Christians at the highest levels of Silicon Valley, or building some of the most important technologies.

The reason, I assure you, has nothing to do with discrimination.

It's worth reflecting on the real differences between the arts and start-up/silicon valley success. Because they are real. But it's also worth asking what psychological, spiritual, and social structures might be in place that prevent serious building and scaling among Christians. I don't think it's a good thing.

My fear is that the general language of the "New Evangelization" led to more energy being devoted to rosary and saint merchandise—and and Matt Fradd podcasts producing theological hand-wringing—than solving real problems in the world.

Even discussions about AI in the Church tend to start from abstract ethical and moral principles, and not from concrete problems. That has to stop.

[Adam Pasternack @AJPasternack]

@AmericanReform_ "None but superficial minds could stumble into concepts of a national God, of a national religion; or attempt to lock within the frontiers of a single people, within the narrow limits of a single race, God, the Creator of the universe."

[paintbrush @TXpaintbrush]

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The Case for Christian Nationalism https://t.co/6nClKrkIwB

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It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

:: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince ::

[Alexey Grigorev @Al_Grigor]

Claude Code wiped our production database with a Terraform command.

It took down the DataTalksClub course platform and 2.5 years of submissions: homework, projects, and leaderboards.

Automated snapshots were gone too.

In the newsletter, I wrote the full timeline + what I changed so this doesn't happen again.

If you use Terraform (or let agents touch infra), this is a good story for you to read.

https://t.co/Mbi3oM4HMn

[Adam Pasternack @AJPasternack]

"The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has accumulated during the first half"

:: Fyodor Dostoevsky ::

[Adam Pasternack @AJPasternack]

If you want to be true children of your heavenly Father, then you must pray for those who persecute you and speak all kinds of evil against you, says the Lord.

:: Divine Liturgy::

[Colm Flynn @colmflynnire]

Br. Guy Consolmagno was once a lecturer in planetary science and astronomy at Harvard and MIT. But he left that academic world behind to become a religious brother - and today, he leads the Vatican Observatory, one of the oldest astronomical observatories in the world. Here, he speaks to me about how science and faith CAN go together.

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[Adam Pasternack @AJPasternack]

Very grateful for such wise leaders who seek to steward things to the common good:

https://t.co/McIsoRR32t

Inspiring, and often they only had to ask three wise forget the five or seven

[Cory House @housecor]

Problem: I want Claude to use Chrome.

Solution: Here's 3 options and when I use each:

1. Playwright MCP – Use as primary cross-browser testing tool

2. Chrome DevTools MCP – Perf analysis / network debugging

3. Official Claude Chrome extension – Quick logged-in checks

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@QCompounding Send

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[Ivan Velichko @iximiuz]

Learn Linux, networking, containers, and Kubernetes by solving hands-on problems 🛠️

A curated collection of over 100 carefully crafted challenges - with interactive checks, clear diagrams, and helpful theoretical references.

Like LeetCode but for DevOps https://t.co/ZTwhoT3YZx