Colin Putney

Web hacker. Smalltalker. Bike tourist.

[Colin Putney @cputney]

@pirayenella 58+37 = 60+35 = 95

[Colin Putney @cputney]

@mitsuhiko Slack huddles - later stage startup, dozens or hundreds of employees.

Discord - crypto startup

[Onebrief @Onebriefapp]

Huge news! We’ve completed our $200M Series D funding round and acquired Battle Road Digital, two major steps towards building the unified command operating system our military needs.
Learn more here: https://t.co/WZc67voH2M

[Colin Putney @cputney]

@getjonwithit @davidbessis One of the issues with LLM research is that we can’t give the model examples of superhuman reasoning, so it’s stuck. It can get to “on par with the best human in any given field” but not much further. Hinton posits that RL could produce mathematical ability surpassing humans.

[Colin Putney @cputney]

@getjonwithit @davidbessis But at the end, you have a model that’s good at proving theorems, and human mathematicians can point it a problems they find interesting.

[Vannevar @VannevarLabs]

Commanders need clarity. @15thMEUOfficial used our platform in the Pacific to cut through the noise and get a real-time picture of their impact. Mission-ready AI at work!

https://t.co/IicJL5BZaU

[Colin Putney @cputney]

@IterIntellectus Nix, nix-darwin, and home manager.

[Colin Putney @cputney]

@Aella_Girl Now do the same poll, but with green and orange pills!

[Vannevar @VannevarLabs]

Today Vannevar Labs announced the transition of the company’s prime contract with @DIU_x from a prototype contract to a production scale contract. This production agreement will field capabilities developed under the prototype agreement for exquisite sensing capabilities that enable DoD teams to identify adversary activity, manage their forces’ signature, deliver effects, and assess the impact of those effects in strategic competition.

Learn more here: https://t.co/zL3hzGNAyp

[Colin Putney @cputney]

@bayleyalex @QuetzalPhoenix And sometimes the knobs, but only if your hands are wet…

[Colin Putney @cputney]

@ChShersh Can I look up when the Gregorian calendar was adopted? Can’t remember.

[Colin Putney @cputney]

@jaselee0905 @thisiswenzel @gregisenberg Meh, they bought some of the copyright to an open source project after it was already mature.

[Colin Putney @cputney]

@thisiswenzel @gregisenberg Nobody ever got fired for buying Oracle.

[Colin Putney @cputney]

@thisiswenzel @gregisenberg But most Oracle customers don’t care about that. The don’t care about the cost, because they have plenty of money. The want the iron-clad support contract that will send a small army of consultants to solve any problem they have.

[Colin Putney @cputney]

@NaithanJones People see through it. The guy served for 24 years. Who cares if he forgot some paperwork? If he didn’t deploy one more time before retiring? They would find something to criticize no matter what. It’s just partisan campaigning.

[Colin Putney @cputney]

@lilgrapefruits I liked it, but I’m still bothered by the philosophical gaps. Amazing they took it on at all, but it ended up being a side show that got sacrificed for laughs whenever convenient.

[Colin Putney @cputney]

@safetyth1rd It’s not the absolute numbers that are a problem. It’s 1) population decline, and 2) fewer young people than old people.