Gardiner Allen

Beginner. The STL. Father, husband, nerd of many things. Leading p2p payments and platforms at Cash App. Ex Square, Ex Riot.

[Gardiner Allen @aphexddb]

"...to flâne is the very opposite of doing nothing" - Sainte-Beuve

[Justin Murphy @jmrphy]

If they really start to gatekeep who gets to use the best models, that is a declaration of war.

This prospect fills me with the most sincere, bodily cypherpunk will-to-power that I've ever felt (at least since I was a teenager). If they really go down this route, I would go all-in on building the most psychotic swarms of open-source models and fine-tunes possible, all geared toward a Chaotic Good jamming of the entire institutional public sphere. If we didn't do that, all of political life and the marketplace of ideas would be over before we know it.

It's one thing if the top models become too expensive for me or others to use (I'm already pricing that in, and if you can't build something profitable enough to climb that ladder as it gets pulled up, then that's fair enough).

But if the ladder gets pulled up politically, now, so only select institutional players get access to the most intelligent models, then any mature American man should be as energized as gun collectors are around the 2nd Amendment, or liberal women are around Planned Parenthood.

[Bill Gurley @bgurley]

This is a critical point worth reflecting on. Anthropic could have sued in court (as others have). But they want something far more valuable than simple restitution. They want the US government’s “protection against competition” for years and years. A court can’t provide that.

[Gardiner Allen @aphexddb]

I read the Gulag Archipelago on the advice of my brother in law a number of years ago.

Socialism is a stain on humanity responsible for more deaths and misery of humankind than any war.

The recent socialist candidates are a sickness, and should be treated as seriously as a stage 4 pancreatic cancer diagnosis. This is incredibly serious, there is no longer a Democratic party in the United States.

[Gardiner Allen @aphexddb]

@FintechKristen vibe wedding! Amazing picture guys

[Gardiner Allen @aphexddb]

@isaiah_p_taylor God speed. Finally the atomic future we were promised

[Gardiner Allen @aphexddb]

Zig is nice

[Gardiner Allen @aphexddb]

@nTopology @PhysicsxAI Your team is cooking

[Marc Lou @marclou]

.@mntruell launched Cursor 8 times, and nobody cared.

Don't give up.

[Gardiner Allen @aphexddb]

@AutismCapital @midjourney Big Scan is apt

[Gardiner Allen @aphexddb]

Hell yes. healthcare is a mess, and scanning machines are a bajillion bucks. This team is COOKING
https://t.co/lpMlzVtr5E

[Chris @ChrissGPT]

Mid journey unveils the future of medical scanning:

"Less than a dozen of these machines operating together at full speed can do more full body scans than every MRI machine together on Earth. Our goal is to build a fleet of 50,000 of these scanners, capable together of doing a billion scans a month—enough to bring full body imaging to everyone on Earth."

Using thousands of specialized transducers, this prototype system shoots ultra-precise sound waves through the body at over 1,400 meters per second. As these sonic vibrations echo back, they are captured in data streams of 17 gigabytes per second, measuring changes finer than the width of an atom. A massive 2-petaflop compute ring then merges these thousands of sub-images to map out a highly detailed, 3D internal anatomy of organs and tissues in just 60 seconds.

"This is a new kind of infrastructure. It’s Full Body Ultrasonic Computational Tomography. No such device has ever been built until now, and yeah, we’re calling it the Midjourney Scanner."

My favorite quote from David, was that they want this to be a feel like a genuinely “nice” experience, not a “going to the doctor experience” they’re going to put these inside mid journey spas!

[Gardiner Allen @aphexddb]

@thsottiaux BLESS

[Gardiner Allen @aphexddb]

@blocks It's pretty awesome for oncall and triage, as well as adhoc discovery. Getting faster each week too

[Gardiner Allen @aphexddb]

I am an unsloth GGUF enjoyer

[Gardiner Allen @aphexddb]

@DenverRayburn @DStrachman @reindsummit take my money

[Gardiner Allen @aphexddb]

@FintechKristen Workout. Hard. Then do stuff that sounds fun

[Gardiner Allen @aphexddb]

@woke8yearold @Deepneuron We flew too close to the sun, and for a moment, it was glorious

[Gardiner Allen @aphexddb]

incredible 😂
https://t.co/6snjuXvyaM

[Sawyer Hood @sawyerhood]

pro tip: give your coding agent access to a browser and tell it to "use the window.figma global that mirrors the plugin api." it now can automate basically anything in figma.

there is an entire design team that bought Do Browser just for this.

[Gardiner Allen @aphexddb]

When I read "The Window Has Closed", I realized I was back in the unthinking depths (A Fire Upon the Deep reference).

I had caught a glimpse and traveled into the Beyond, briefly. Without access to models like Fable, intelligence is mostly stranded. Minimal forms of intelligence progression are possible. With Fable, I had seen the possibility front shift before my eyes.

Waiting for the possibility front to shift again so I can race towards the transcend layer of the universe
https://t.co/l0mOgkJkSn

[Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_]

https://t.co/yUVogvdruU

[Gardiner Allen @aphexddb]

Wired: loop engineer
Tired: prompt engineer
Expired: autocomplete

[Gardiner Allen @aphexddb]

BRUNSON 🏀