Adam

Eng @ Canva, building & scaling mission critical systems.

[Adam @archeologistdev]

@patrickgwsmith @superlogical 🔥

[Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt]

One of my favorite research practices I learned at @inkandswitch is “preinfusion”. The term comes from espresso (I believe @pvh coined it?) - and the original meaning is that you have a lower pressure soak before you turn on the high pressure and pull the shot.

The way it works at the lab is that you patiently let a cluster of ideas slowly form and develop, meandering somewhat in the background, and you lay the groundwork to work on them more seriously… before starting an intense high-pressure sprint. Could be a few months of part-time preinfusion before a hardcore 3 month project.

This really helps avoid the problem where you’re trying to sprint, but you don’t actually have enough clarity to know where to run.

I think this applies in many other contexts. Preinfuse before trying to write an essay. Preinfuse before raising money for a company. A slow and patient preparation can enable swift follow through.

[Adam @archeologistdev]

Where did my replies go 🤔

[Marc Brooker @MarcJBrooker]

Is caching cope?

Both yes and no.

But I do believe that the answer to (distributed) caching should be 'demand a better database' much more often than it is.

Let's break it down a bit.

[Adam @archeologistdev]

@komorama Counterexample: @patrickgwsmith’s QIP tools

[Adam @archeologistdev]

@tbskspr @dexhorthy @dillon_mulroy 💯

[Adam @archeologistdev]

@patrickgwsmith @GergelyOrosz I really like the idea of writing straightforward imperative code that runs fast and can make use of low level optimisations, but runs within a box that looks and quacks like a function, I.e. is fully deterministic and side-effect-free. The best of both worlds.

[Adam @archeologistdev]

@jamonholmgren that’s what they call adverse selection 🙈

[Adam @archeologistdev]

Why is every post on this platform a short form video now? Tik tok is down the hall and to the left

[Adam @archeologistdev]

@patrickgwsmith @GergelyOrosz Absolute banger of an essay

[Tomek Korbak @tomekkorbak]

Best explanation I have for our firing: talking to auditors was too much safety, disappearing messages were too much security, and we should have paced ourselves.

[Adam @archeologistdev]

@nafisazizir Not super close to the work that went into this launch but I get the impression that a lot of people worked very hard behind the scenes to make this happen

[Adam @archeologistdev]

Went to bed last night as a design company employee

Woke up this morning and I work for an AI lab now??

[Canva @canva]

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[Adam @archeologistdev]

@birch_js

[Adam @archeologistdev]

@Techprosupport9 @saramic Seems legit

[Adam @archeologistdev]

@SebAaltonen that's not a bug, it's the built in bitcoin mining feature

[Nate Soares ⏹️ @So8res]

So it turns out that OpenAI *can* give specific reasons why they fired someone, when real reasons exist.

[Adam @archeologistdev]

@rayefull 3 of them must have been at 7-11, that leaves $13 for a single origin flat white with almond milk

[Sean Goedecke @sjgoedecke]

When you disagree with someone, there are two paths forward. The first is to try to engage with what they’re saying: what their reasons are, whether their position is true, what evidence could be brought to bear, and so on.