David Galbraith

Technologist and VC, former architect. Invented these (i.e. link in bios: ), among other things.

[David Galbraith @daveg]

A physics based explanation of why life exists in the universe https://t.co/QL3sFljBh5

[David Galbraith @daveg]

Trust yourself and never listen to critics.

[archivetvmusings @archivetvmus71]

Early on, a bright future for Fawlty Towers seemed unlikely ….

[David Galbraith @daveg]

Small is also ultimately limited by energy just as space travel is (small things require small wavelengths and high frequencies to interact with, which requires high energy).

[David Galbraith @daveg]

The digital revolution, where we delivered progress through miniaturization, has created a plausible answer to the Fermi paradox. There is as much room to shrink as to scale across galaxies and the speed of light constraint makes the latter almost impossible.

[David Galbraith @daveg]

Chips are more complex than the world's largest cities. If you take a gate on a chip (5nm) and scaled it to the size of a single doorhandle, the overall die would be 240km (150 miles) across, the distance from NYC to D.C. or London to Manchester.

[David Galbraith @daveg]

Chips are more complex than the world's largest cities. If you take a gate on a chip (5nm) and scaled it to the size of a single doorhandle, the overall die would be 240km (150 miles) across, the distance from NYC to D.C. or London to Manchester.

[Jesse Cohen @JesseCohenInv]

Apple Microchip CPU under a microscope.

This is absolutely fascinating.

[David Galbraith @daveg]

...George Gilbert Scott, designed St. Pancras

[David Galbraith @daveg]

An architecture dynasty that takes you from concrete modernism to Victorian Gothic revival. London's Guildhall East and West wings were designed by Richard Gilbert Scott, whose father...

[David Galbraith @daveg]

...John Oldrid Scott, who designed Saint Sophia Cathedral in London, whose father...

[David Galbraith @daveg]

@Nicolas_Colin It might turn out to be the inflection point in transfer of hegemony. Making China great again.

[Prakash @8teAPi]

People clowning on him don’t understand what he’s saying.

All the wealth of humanity to date supports perhaps 250k living math phds. Roughly the population of St. Louis, Missouri.

The training pipeline for that group has been irreparably shattered in the last month.

A phd is supposed to make an original contribution to their field to graduate.

That’s just…. not possible anymore.

938 years after the founding of the first university in Bologna…

Do universities now reward… teaching ? comprehension of something discovered by a machine? application ? do mathematicians become quotidian (gasp of disgust) engineers?

Tao is upset because he knows none of those outside the field care about its future. He is a horrified gardener watching humanity gorge on its seed corn.

It is irreparable of course. The old way is dead dead.

We live in the short interregnum before the new king is born: a Lean crawler that spawns a billion copies exploring every corner of math latenspace.

So much math to understand that even if 8 billion humans had the ability of the 250k mathematicians alive today, it would still take a million years to comprehend.

It is ironic and sad.. because Tao himself is a pioneer of collaborative math: math that is understood by a combination of minds rather than an pindividual.

The tools that Tao began exploring a few years ago, solving problems through blog posts and using Lean to guarantee each mind’s contribution stood on its own when assembled into the greater truth, have been turned against him.

Math’s path to utilize multiple minds didn’t restrict access to human minds, and now the machines have blitzkrieged themselves into the heart of the matter.

The agents use rudimentary message boards, working 10,000 to a task, tirelessly, using Lean to verify the correctness of each contribution.

It was good while it lasted… and now it’s gone.

[Michael Zimmermann @zimm3rmann]

@daveg @tunguz Yeah, kinda hard to justify a two week sprint when you can ship stuff in an afternoon

[David Galbraith @daveg]

@zimm3rmann @tunguz I recently worked in a place where things were prototyped in a day to production level with agents and then manually rebuilt in a full agile process over weeks.

[David Galbraith @daveg]

@tunguz Agile makes zero sense now.

[David Galbraith @daveg]

@patrickfitzg_o Yes, the only thing that should be creating and checking Jira tickets off is an agent.

[David Galbraith @daveg]

And frankly Agile is completely obsolete and the opposite of agile in the AI era.

[Klaas @forgebitz]

it's funny how scrum masters completely disappeared

and no one really cared

[David Galbraith @daveg]

At least AI slop has more authenticiyh than what most artists produce.

"dismantling of fixed rules allows for alternative logics drawn from a variety of ancient and contemporary games. Transcultural cosmologies are also borrowed and reassembled, forming a structured foundation from which new worlds and meanings can emerge. [the artist] refocuses optimism as an ontological approach where the spirit mind is a gateway for deliberate joy and words are used to shift perspectives to new states of enlightened wonder" 🤮

[David Galbraith @daveg]

British humor.