Armin Bachmann

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[Armin Bachmann @arminbachmann]

Former this week I also finished reading 'Our daily Work - A Divine Calling of Stewardship' by Jan Sturesson (pub by https://t.co/8030kKZ8aa ) It's a call for Excelence, Obedience and Faith at work, cultivating values of Generosity, Humility, Peace, Serving.

[Grady Booch @Grady_Booch]

The Greeks spoke of Talos, a giant bronze automaton crafted by Hephaestus and powered by ichor, the golden blood of the gods. Al-Jazari's The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices proposed the creation of humanoid automata. Su Song used water to power his cunning devices. da Vinci envisioned autonomous mechanical knights commanded by ropes and pulleys. Babbage envisioned computation with gears, although his aspirations were constrained by the realities of contemporary precision metal production and Lovelace's reminders of the limits of computing. Wiener explored feedback mechanisms inspired by organic systems. Newell and Simon used the power of pure logic. Feigenbaum pioneered the use of rules. From McCulloch and Pitts to Minsky to Hinton and Hassabis and many more, neural systems ruled.

I posit these things:
- sentience is an exquisite and inevitable consequence of the laws of physics
- intelligence, consciousness, and sentience are suitcase words that are full of historical and emotional baggage and therefore have little meaning
- brains are astonishingly complex, having evolved over millennia
- the mind is computable
- we are generations away from devising non-organic minds with commensurate flexibility, resourcefulness, and reliability

That notwithstanding, the journey therein is valuable, for it may not only yield systems of utility it also challenges us to consider what it means to be human.

[Armin Bachmann @arminbachmann]

Why / What: "This is the most incredible time for building"
Where: "The margin lives with the customer relationship and data."
Happy Building.
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[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

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[Ale De Barbieri 📚 @AleDeBarbieri]

Me cuentan los psicólogos de mi equipo y lo veo cuando visito empresas.Cuantos jovenes renuncian antes de empezar su trabajo o no pueden tolerar los primeros meses . Preguntan ¿" es presencial"?
No toleran viajar hasta su trabajo, o se angustian ante mínimos cambios. ¿Qué esta pasando?
Lo que está en juego no es solo un puesto de trabajo. Es la pregunta por cómo estamos formando a la próxima generación de adultos.
Veo en consulta personas inteligentes muy capaces, con títulos, con potencial, que se quiebran ante la primera frustración laboral. Tienen inteligencia de sobra. Lo que les cuesta es algo distinto, más difícil de enseñar: aguantar el malestar sin salir corriendo, soportar la incomodidad de una emoción. Poder discutir , discrepando con argumentos sin alzar la voz. Poder hacer una presentación con su propia voz, les cuesta convivir con quien piensa distinto.
En "Educar sin culpa" lo planteamos, educar no es evitarle el sufrimiento al otro, es acompañarlo a sostenerlo cuando la vida se lo traiga igual. El padre que protege demasiado deja frágil. Lo que parece amor, a veces, es abandono disfrazado de cuidado. El sentido aparece donde algo nos exige, no donde todo es cómodo. El trabajo, bien entendido, es uno de esos lugares donde la voluntad de sentido se pone en juego cada mañana. Simil a la universidad, convivir, esperar, estudiar, pedir la palabra, estudiar, perder, dar de nuevo...
Byung-Chul Han habla de la sociedad del cansancio. Una generación agotada no por trabajar mucho, sino por no encontrar para qué trabaja, el sentido de lo que hace... ¿Qué podemos hacer entonces?
Como padres, sostener el "no". Permitir el aburrimiento, la espera, la frustración cotidiana. El hijo que nunca esperó nada después no soporta esperar nada, esto ayuda a la ansiedad y la depresión.
Como líderes, dar contexto antes que bajar la vara. El joven que llega hoy a una empresa no necesita menos exigencia. Necesita entender para qué sirve lo que hace, por qué importa, a quién beneficia. Esa es la diferencia entre un trabajo y un sentido.
Como sociedad, dejar de creer que cuidar la salud mental es eliminar todo malestar. La salud mental no se mide en angustia evitada. Se mide en vidas que vale la pena sostener, aunque cuesten. Tristeza no es depresión.

¿Y nosotros, qué estamos haciendo con eso?
Ale De Barbieri, reflexion de lunes, los Leo... #jovenes #trabajo #saludmental #liderarhoy #liderarlento

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Bugatti just lost its all-time speed record. To the Chinese EV in this video. 308 mph at Papenburg, on a battery.

The Chiron Super Sport had held the record for six years. 1,600 hp, 8.0L W16, four turbochargers. Bugatti needed every horse of that to hit 304 mph. BYD's Yangwang U9 Xtreme did 308 with four electric motors and a battery pack.

Marc Basseng, the driver, won the Nürburgring 24 Hours. He said the run was "technically not possible with a combustion engine." He's right.

A combustion engine produces a power curve that peaks at a specific RPM and falls off either side. Past 9,000 RPM the valves float, the connecting rods stretch, the pistons can't reverse direction fast enough. The W16 is the absolute thermodynamic ceiling of 100 years of internal combustion. Every mph past 290 cost exponentially more engineering for diminishing returns.

The U9 Xtreme uses four electric motors. Each produces 744 hp. Each spins to 30,000 RPM. No valves. No pistons. No connecting rods. Total system output is 2,978 hp, almost double Bugatti's W16. Power-to-weight is 1,217 hp per tonne.

The motors were never the hard part. Mate Rimac said this years ago. The constraint was always the battery, because to deliver 2,978 hp into four wheels you have to discharge faster than any production EV ever has.

BYD built the world's first 1,200-volt production car. Everyone else uses 800V. The Blade Battery runs lithium iron phosphate cells with a 30C discharge rate, ten times what a conventional EV battery handles. Heat generation falls 67% versus 800V at matching output.

That last number is the whole game. Heat is what kills high-power EV runs. Other automakers derate within seconds at full power because the battery cooks itself. BYD's architecture lets the Xtreme hold maximum discharge long enough to actually approach the aerodynamic limit of the chassis.

Bugatti spent 20 years engineering the W16 to its physical ceiling. BYD spent 18 months building the architecture that cleared it.

They're making 30 of them.

The crown for fastest production car on Earth has belonged to Bugatti, Koenigsegg, Hennessey, SSC. All combustion, all European or American. The crown is Chinese now, and it runs on a battery.

[Carlos Santana @DotCSV]

Esto es interesante: los modelos de Anthropic sufren más el "hablar" otros idiomas a nivel de uso de tokens.

En español el número de tokens usados se multiplica 1.62x respecto al modelo de OpenAI en inglés.

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Amazon just got caught running a secret price manipulation operation with Levi's, Home Depot, Walmart, and many more.

Every time you "comparison shopped" online, you were looking at prices that were already rigged.

Here's what happened:

Amazon would monitor prices on Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Home Depot, and Chewy in real time. The second a competitor listed a product cheaper than Amazon, they'd contact the brand directly and tell them to "fix it."

And the exact emails are now PUBLIC.

Amazon sent Levi's links to two Walmart listings with the subject line "styles of concern." They basically said the prices on Walmart are too low and we have a problem.

The next day, Levi's responded: "I talked to Walmart and they have partnered with us to take Easy Khaki Classic fit back up to ladder SPP price, $29.99 immediately."

Levi's literally called Walmart and told them to raise the price. Because Amazon told Levi's to make the call.

Walmart complied. Then Amazon matched the HIGHER price.

Both retailers ended up charging more. The customer paid extra. Nobody competed.

Same playbook with Hanes:

Amazon sent them links showing Target and Walmart prices were lower. Hanes confirmed they "reached out to Target and Walmart to have the prices increased."

Target increased the prices. Walmart increased the prices. Amazon kept their margins.

But it gets even worse...

Amazon told Allergan (the company that makes eye drops) that their product was "suppressed" on Amazon because it was cheaper on another site.

Allergan responded: "Walmart got their price back up to $16.99." Amazon then unsuppressed the listing.

They did this with pet treats on Chewy. Furniture on Home Depot. Products across dozens of categories spanning YEARS.

The mechanism is simple but terrifying:

If you're a brand and you sell cheaper on Walmart than on Amazon, Amazon suppresses your product, removes you from the Buy Box, buries you in search results, and effectively makes you invisible to 300 million customers.

Brands can't afford that. So they call Walmart and Target and say "raise your prices or we'll lose our Amazon listings."

Walmart and Target comply because they need the brand's products.

Amazon captures 40 cents of every dollar spent online in America. That gives them the leverage to set prices across THE ENTIRE internet. Not just their own platform.

So turns out, you were never comparison shopping.

You were looking at a coordinated price floor set by Amazon through backroom phone calls between brands and their competitors.

"Amazon is working to make your life more unaffordable."

3 separate antitrust trials are now scheduled for 2027. The FTC has its own case. 18 states plus the DOJ are piling on.

This is literally happening during the WORST affordability crisis in a generation. Groceries up 25% since 2020. Housing unaffordable. Wages flat.

And the largest ecommerce company on Earth has been secretly coordinating with brands to make sure you can't find a cheaper price ANYWHERE.

"Competition" in retail is just a fantasy.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The research behind this is wild. Your sperm carries a set of instructions that tell your genes when to turn on and off. A Duke University study found that THC rewrites those instructions. The more weed in your system, the bigger the changes. It goes straight for the genes your future embryo needs in its first week of life.

I had to read the "day 3 crash" part twice. For the first three days after fertilization, an embryo runs entirely on the mother's DNA. Day 3, the father's genes switch on. If those genes carry cannabis damage, the embryo just stops growing. Fertility doctors see this happen in their labs: embryos that fertilized fine and looked healthy on day 2 go completely still by day 5.

Boston University tracked 1,535 couples trying to have a baby. Men who smoked weed once a week or more doubled their partner's miscarriage risk. That number held up even when the woman herself never touched cannabis. And the miscarriages clustered in the first 8 weeks, right when the father's damaged DNA would be doing the most harm.

Duke also found that the specific genes THC alters in sperm overlap with genes linked to autism. One of those genes, called DLGAP2, helps brain cells communicate with each other. It was changed in cannabis users' sperm. When researchers bred THC-exposed male rats and checked their offspring, the same altered gene pattern showed up in the pups' brains. The damage crossed a generation.

Weed has gotten way stronger over the last 30 years. THC content was about 4% in the 1990s but nearly quadrupled to 15% by 2018, and modern dispensary strains regularly sit at 20-30%. Concentrates go up to 95%.

Quitting for about 11 weeks (one full cycle of sperm production) reverses some of the DNA changes. Not all of them. Duke's lead researcher says men should stop at least 6 months before trying for a baby. Half of your kid's genetic blueprint comes from you, and right now, THC is editing that blueprint before conception even happens.

[Armin Bachmann @arminbachmann]

@GabrielaSanzD @AleDeBarbieri De acuerdo. Sobre cómo poner límites , con el apoyo de las otras 2, recomiendo este libro

[Armin Bachmann @arminbachmann]

El viernes festejamos la libertad, hoy la vida – eterna! Les dejo esta historia que me pasaron en forma de canción https://t.co/MvpaDm0EtW Felices Pascuas !

[Ale De Barbieri 📚 @AleDeBarbieri]

Canadá legalizó el cannabis en 2018. Un estudio siguió a 35.000 personas durante 10 años antes y después.
Los resultados son contundentes.
En 2022, consumir cannabis 2 o más veces por semana se asoció con 5 veces más probabilidad de ansiedad, depresión o pensamientos suicidas.
Los casos de ansiedad y depresión casi se duplicaron.
Los pensamientos suicidas en jóvenes aumentaron un 44%.
Y la relación se fue fortaleciendo con el tiempo, no debilitando.
(McMaster University, Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 2026) #cannabis #marihuana

[Mustafa @oprydai]

i often think about this..

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

Japan is using piezoelectric floor tiles in busy areas like Shibuya and Tokyo Stations to convert footsteps into clean electricity.

[Armin Bachmann @arminbachmann]

@JoshuaBarzon Can you also add or create another with the references from the OT to the OT ? That would help to understand weight of the older books by transitive.

[Josh Barzon @JoshuaBarzon]

Every line in this chart represents a cross-reference between any two books of the Bible. The New Testament does not replace the Old. It is saturated with it. Revelation alone contains over 800 allusions to the Old Testament. Scripture is its own best commentary.

[Armin Bachmann @arminbachmann]

@ealmeida Btw, cómo fue ese escenario cuando apareció C ?

[Armin Bachmann @arminbachmann]

@ealmeida Muy bueno! También creo que en sistemas existentes que no fueron escritos por una spec, mientras esa spec se va construyendo hay que darle al LLM ambas verdades. El “ES” y el “Quiero ser”. Que pensas ?

[Enrique Almeida @ealmeida]

A quienes desarrollan software, con cualquier herramienta, les recomiendo este artículo.
El "código fuente" es lo que entienden los humanos y la maquinas, y por ahora, será la spec.

Ademas la IA nos va a ayudar a escribir buenas spec.

[Armin Bachmann @arminbachmann]

@evanlapointe The Product Manager. Now you may need to ask who actually is the PM.

[Rohan Paul @rohanpaul_ai]

Andrej Karpathy on what makes Elon Musk unique.

Elon keeps teams small, highly technical, and removes low performers very quickly.

He pushes for intensity, avoids useless meetings, and stays deeply connected with engineers.

[Armin Bachmann @arminbachmann]

@matvelloso @pablobrenner hmm. But now (with GenAI) you actually can know what those do. That's the whole difference. And no, the skills Claude released were not necessary, but they seem to have opened the eyes of those who not yet understood.