Benjamin Ranck

Technology entrepreneur from strategy to boots on. Formerly @future_neutral, @Jetabroad, @BlueChilliGroup, @allovergeo, ChatterSpike.

[Benjamin Ranck @benjaminRRR]

@shaneparrish Agency is hard. Sleep-walking is easy. If you take responsibility then you have to accept that all these terrible feelings are yours and yours to deal with. Sometimes that hole is deep and awfully hard to claw out of.

[Benjamin Ranck @benjaminRRR]

@TheTrueVanguard please insert disk 4 to continue

[Benjamin Ranck @benjaminRRR]

@mikko I got my 0.01. And then 10 years later dug it out of an old hard-drive. Had to rebuild the whole ledger as my wallet was OG. Worth it.

[Benjamin Ranck @benjaminRRR]

DPRK realtime deepfakes ruining developer WFH for everyone. If you're working on anything remotely secure it's back to the office for you. One time pads are coming to your video conferencing future.

[Benjamin Ranck @benjaminRRR]

@EricJorgenson @BoydVarty
@naval
@cyantist
@bgurley

[Benjamin Ranck @benjaminRRR]

I just donated to the Internet Archive.

This is what makes the internet great. Initiatives like this.

Chip in if you can;
https://t.co/GJSytFdoF6

[Benjamin Ranck @benjaminRRR]

@emollick @internetarchive link, old link is 404:

https://t.co/S8tZ0mUNNl

[Benjamin Ranck @benjaminRRR]

@emollick Agree, the text is much improved, but still not there. At least they've mostly eliminated the squishy text-like smudges.

[Benjamin Ranck @benjaminRRR]

@hubermanlab @StuartMcMillan1 @shengwangtime It certainly feels like it would be very difficult to
"skip in anger".

I am working on freeing myself from social norms, but until then I'm glad I have kids to skip with, and avoid the pierce of judging eyes.

[Benjamin Ranck @benjaminRRR]

SciFi has another moment, can't help but think we're knee deep in @Shteyngart Super Sad Love Story with a dash of RKM's Altered Carbon.

[Benjamin Ranck @benjaminRRR]

@Anthony_Bonato One of the most (consistently) deflating experiences was in my undergrad signals and systems class, where the professor would say "it is then trivial to arrive at" when discussing a z transfer function. In my brain we skipped at least 10 (mind bending) steps.

[Benjamin Ranck @benjaminRRR]

Please continue to name and shame. There's power in publicity.

[Maxwell Tabarrok @MTabarrok]

"One Boba Tea equals 1.2 years of safe BPA consumption"

[Benjamin Ranck @benjaminRRR]

Useful insights. I'm finding very good results with Claude (Anthropic) and python. Particularly handy is the artifacts and projects feature.

[Markus Zimmermann @zimmskal]

Benchmarking >80 LLMs shows: The best model is not necessarily the best for your programming language 😱

- Best overall: Anthropic’s Sonnet 3.5
- Best for Go: Meta’s Llama 3.1 405B
- Best for Java: OpenAI’s GPT-4 Turbo
- Best for Ruby: OpenAI’s GPT-4o

Good models for one language can also be bad for others, e.g. Google’s Gemini Pro 1.5 is GREAT for Go, but not so much for Java and Ruby.

Deep dive blog post about the DevQualityEval v0.6 results soon 🏇

Let us know in the comments🙏 which programming languages you want to have implemented for the benchmark!

[Benjamin Ranck @benjaminRRR]

@pmarca The way I work around this is decaf first thing (good decaf is not distinguishable taste-wise), so a placebo dose and then take regular coffee later, much better energy levels throughout the day.

[Benjamin Ranck @benjaminRRR]

@jasonleowsg Maybe it's the same people that setup a database 20 years ago when IO from spinning disk was something you thought about...

[Benjamin Ranck @benjaminRRR]

@hmemcpy Do you even source safe?

(Also known as "promises in a name that doesn't deliver")

[Benjamin Ranck @benjaminRRR]

@Mikenicholls88 Use autogpt or similar

[Benjamin Ranck @benjaminRRR]

@Jason 3-pen Excessive

[Benjamin Ranck @benjaminRRR]

This @hubermanlab episode with Dr. Hollis is an absolute banger. The wisdom density ratio is off the charts. To say I'm blown away is an understatement. https://t.co/TT2ZY9f9mR
"To grow larger than that thing inside you that says you can't do this or do that"

[Benjamin Ranck @benjaminRRR]

@QuinnyPig Mistakes were made. The old unprecedented bug. (Which begs the question - when is it precedented, and isn't that what risk management is there for)