Valley Dad

A life in the service of building something good.

[Proverbs & Poetry @poetryproverb]

Nature does not punish the evil, it punishes the weak.

— Nietzsche

[Prompter @PromptLLM]

You have a super power. It’s called visualisation

[Valley Dad @dad_valley]

@Tahmeed_Rahim @techbrahh Thank you!

[Valley Dad @dad_valley]

@ItIsHoeMath These are Indian parents visiting their children in the US. They are unfamiliar with US airports and getting wheelchair assistance is the easiest way to navigate US airports. They would have trouble communicating/finding their way otherwise.

[Ben Somers @ben_m_somers]

Many great video games teach physics/chem/scientific thinking

- Oxygen Not Included has great thermodynamics, try not to accidentally create a hydrogen pocket and blow yourself up

- Polybridge covers tension, load balancing, material science, trigonometry, and forces you to contend with a budget at the same time

- Kerbal Space Program teaches you about rockets and all the science related to them

- SpaceChem from Zachtronics is too hard for most kids but… bonds galore

- Factorio is really an industrial engineering game, but you do learn about power and realistic technology trees. Particularly great for learning bottleneck theory

And so so so many more great games like these, comment if you want me to build a more exhaustive list

[rahmat @thisis_rahmat]

Serious question, how does one get into hardware. Like what is the CS50 into to programming version of this but for hardware ?

How does one learn to build something like this ?

[Sam Stoffel @sam_stoffel]

Jack Dorsey's simple rule for success in business

[Fergus Finn @finn_fergus]

New post: what happens when a GPU reads memory

We follow an LDG instruction through the memory hierarchy on an RTX 4090, from the warps down to the DRAM and back, reverse-engineering the undocumented parts along the way.

https://t.co/NxRd2XZMmh

[Phil Chen @philhchen]

https://t.co/dw9xCGhz7N read it now, thank me later

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“I don’t have talent, so I just get up earlier.”

— Henry Rollins

[Kirill @kirillk_web3]

A Chinese developer just explained the shift from Loop Engineering to Graph Engineering better than anyone.

most people are still building agents the way that's about to be obsolete.

> why single-agent loops break and go "goal blind"
> the 4 parts of a graph: nodes, edges, state, policy
> 3 topologies that run everything: diamond, supervisor, pipeline
> Anthropic's 5 official workflow patterns

the punchline: it's not how many agents you run. it's the determinism you build with verifiers, code fallbacks, and reality anchors.

I broke the same architecture down with Kimi K3. Full A-Z guide below.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

This paragraph by Kobe Bryant hits hard:

“Everyone wants to be a beast. Everyone wants to be the best. But very few people are willing to do what it actually takes. Because what it takes is boring. It is waking up at 4:00 AM. It is shooting the same shot a thousand times. It is watching the film when you are tired. People fall in love with the result, but they hate the process. You have to fall in love with the boredom. You have to fall in love with the repetition. If you can find joy in the mundane work that no one else sees, the lights will eventually shine on you.”

[Valley Dad @dad_valley]

@VivanVatsa You totally missed the context. Jews were hated in America for their success. There was a “Jew scare” when Jews became leaders of industry, academia, Hollywood etc. That is what was being referred to. Indians are going through the same thing in America.
It’s a compliment.

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

If I've learned anything about habit formation & maintenance, it's that you've absolutely got to stay consistent, even (and especially) during those times when you need to dial back the total volume.

Obviously you'll move slower when you throttle the volume, but at least you'll protect the habit. Yes, the wagon will be moving slowly, but you'll still be solidly on it.

When someone gets derailed from their journey to get better at writing, math, coding, an instrument, a sport, or whatever it may be, that's the #1 reason why -- it's because at some point they fell off the wagon entirely and never managed to get back on.

When the time comes to get back into the swing of things, it's a lot easier to speed up a slow wagon that you're on, than to get back on a wagon that you've completely fallen off of.

Once you've got a good habit going, do everything you can to protect it.

[alexei @alexeixbt]

repetition is the only language your brain understands. neuroplasticity doesn't care about your potential or your dreams, it only counts how many times you fired the same circuit today.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

There’s an old Chinese proverb that I love:

“He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey. He who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames no one has arrived.”

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

I have a limited intelligence and I've used it in a particular direction.

[Curious Minds @CuriousMindsHub]

How To Understand Anything.

Become An Elite Thinker.

[Howie Hua @howie_hua]

Do you know of this fun subtraction strategy?

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

A good system makes the desired behavior less heroic and the unproductive behaviors more visible.