Andreas Kapp

Software Engineer, Writer. Software Architect, 🦀 developer . 🇨🇭 based. Retweets ≠ endorsement.

[Mario Zechner @badlogicgames]

omg it's basically pi, but more minimal for educational purposes and in python. @marlene_zw is gonna love this. great educational resource, alejandro!

[Tiffany Noelle @tiffany_varty]

Bitcoiners watched The Six Billion Dollar Man first.

This isn’t just Julian Assange’s story. It’s a stress test on the American experiment itself.

Every day I wake up in America knowing I have certain freedoms. Whether I choose to exert them or not.

That didn’t come from me. It came from people before me.

The value in the stories of revolutionaries is that they laid the foundation for who and what and where we are today. Both the good and the bad.

Colonial America. Aspirations.

Democracy is the exception. Most of the world lives under authoritarians, despots, and tyrants.

The American experiment IS democracy. This radical idea that sovereignty lies with the people.

Our founders wanted to create something brand new. They were willing to risk everything for this. And expose how power operates.

So did Assange.

The system was designed to prevent what they feared most…unchecked power: limit it. bound it. expose it.

But power still goes unchecked. When Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal cut off WikiLeaks …Bitcoin was the way.

That’s the point.

Sovereignty lies with the people. That idea is 250 years old and still being fought for today. ⚡️🎬

😎Proud to be a Bitcoin Producer of the film @BTCSoCo @NatalieVarty @HarryGBeckwith alongside many other Bitcoin social club communities. Screening coming to Scottsdale soon. GREAT WORK @EugeneJarecki Kathleen @leeniest & @6BDM_DOC Team.

[Eugene Jarecki @EugeneJarecki]

It's here.

A film legacy media refused to touch reaches the world tonight for the first time — no studio, no streamer, no gatekeeper.

Edward Snowden will be there. So will you. That's the room.

Powered by Primal and Nostr. Let's begin.

https://t.co/gJ648wRqLq

[Variety @Variety]

Eugene Jarecki has teamed with former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to release his Julian Assange documentary “The Six Billion Dollar Man,” using what he calls a “pre-theatrical digital release” model that will bring the film straight to the global Bitcoin community and the general public.

It’s an effort to bypass U.S. studios and streamers that, he says, “were never going to touch this.”

https://t.co/NLGVBcZur9

[Harry Stebbings @HarryStebbings]

“We have a crisis of open source models in the Western world.

Outside of China, there are no good open source models. We don't even have any in the US now.

The talent, the capital and the focus to be best-in-class at pre-training, mid-training, post-training is an extremely scarce skillset.

The answer for a lot of countries may just be to take an open weights model from China, post-train or fine-tune their own version, and have that be what they start from." @EverettRandle

Why does the West have such poor open source models and is it a national security threat to rely on open-source Chinese models @demishassabis @ylecun @aidangomez @lilianweng @janleike

[Handre @Handre]

Switzerland sits in the geographic center of Europe and has spent the last 700 years refusing to join anyone's empire. The EU sits around it like water around a rock. And the rock keeps winning.

Consider the numbers. Swiss GDP per capita ran near $100,000 in 2023. Germany, the supposed engine of the EU, sat under $55,000. The Swiss franc has gained against the euro almost every year since the single currency launched in 1999, to the point where the Swiss National Bank spent years fighting its own currency's strength. Think about that. The Swiss problem was that the world wanted their money too much. Greece, Italy, and Portugal would have killed for that problem while the European Central Bank printed their savings into the ground.

Neutrality is an economic stance. When you refuse to subordinate your monetary system to Brussels, you keep the discipline that a small open economy needs to survive. Switzerland never handed its interest rates to Frankfurt. It never signed up for the regulatory machine that produces the EU's 30,000-plus legal acts, the directives on the curvature of cucumbers and the vacuum cleaner wattage limits and the cookie banners you click through forty times a day. The Swiss looked at all of it through bilateral treaties, picking what served them and declining the rest. Voters rejected EEA membership in 1992. They have never regretted it.

Brussels calls this "cherry picking" and means it as an insult. Choosing is what free market economists call it. The entire EU project runs on the premise that harmonized regulation across 27 states produces prosperity, when the evidence sits right there in the Alps: the country that stayed out, kept its own money, and let cantons compete on tax rates outperforms the bloc that swallowed every rule.

The EU offers you a seat at the table and a bill for the meal. Switzerland kept its kitchen.

So the next time someone tells you small nations cannot survive outside the bloc, point at the eight million people who run banks, drugs, and watches from a country that never asked permission.

[DNI Tulsi Gabbard @DNIGabbard]

Today, on my final day as Director of National Intelligence, I’m releasing never-before-seen communications and documents exposing how Dr. Fauci provided millions in US taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, worked with politicized elements within the Intelligence Community to suppress the truth about his actions and hide the virus’ lab-leak origins, and lied to Congress while under oath in 2024. It’s time you know the truth.

https://t.co/3YJSstB7d4

[Matteo G.P. Flora @lastknight]

@antirez For you: https://t.co/28i6IYFIls

[Armin Ronacher ⇌ @mitsuhiko]

Do more experimentations with local models people! https://t.co/hEFC2ws5ai

[Armin Ronacher ⇌ @mitsuhiko]

Europeans please wake up.

[Andreas Kapp @andreaskapp]

@doodlestein Weekend plans 😾

[Andreas Kapp @andreaskapp]

5:21pm (ET) - reshaped the power projections

[Rust Bytes 🦀 @rustaceans_rs]

JUST IN: React Compiler's official Rust port PR has been merged into main, delivering a fast, high-fidelity implementation with OXC and SWC integrations.

#rustlang #rust

[Andreas Kapp @andreaskapp]

Guardrails get more solid.

[Rust Bytes 🦀 @rustaceans_rs]

Link: https://t.co/huVIdjJDFu

[Rust Bytes 🦀 @rustaceans_rs]

Memory safety is a matter of life and death

>> Joshua (Staff Software Engineer at Google) argues that memory safety bugs will soon kill more people as AI agents unleash mass exploits. Rust is our best defense, and its success is a moral imperative.

#rustlang #rust

[Rust Bytes 🦀 @rustaceans_rs]

JUST IN: How Josh helps Rust manage code across multiple repositories

>> Rust uses Josh, a fast Rust-based git tool, to efficiently sync code between the main rust-lang/rust repo and separate tool repositories like Miri and Rust Analyzer.

#rustlang #rust

[Nick Dobos @NickADobos]

Pile of .md files is the hottest new programming language

[a16z @a16z]

World Labs CEO Dr. Fei-Fei Li: "The world is not made of words."

"Language models have given machines an extraordinary command of concepts, vocabulary, and reasoning, but the physical world, virtual or real, runs on a different substrate."

"Where language models learn the statistical structure of text, world models learn the statistical structure of space and time: how light falls on a surface, how a garden looks from an angle no camera has captured, how objects respond to force and follow the laws of physics."

"Language gave machines a way to talk about that world. World models are how machines will finally come to understand, imagine, reason and interact with it."

Full piece: https://t.co/C9qOJg5wuc

[Thariq @trq212]

Now also on the Claude Blog: https://t.co/EHu7smfCqX