deki

SW/HW Engineer. Also play the drums 🥁 | EE grad

[deki @dekizd]

In my final year of university me and a few friends got together and launched a weather balloon into the stratosphere.

I was the project manager for it (because it was my idea) and to this day it was the most stressful thing I’ve ever done, but also the most rewarding. Took about 4 months of development and it all worked out great! Short video below

[Jeremy Howard @jeremyphoward]

@dpetrou @karpathy Yes. Locking in a permanent status quo power structure.

Incredibly unsafe, and damaging for humanity's prospects.

[deki @dekizd]

@lowlandsapien Very strange considering how prevalent British people are in this country. The defining feature of my schooling was that every year we’d get a handful of new students from the UK who’d moved here with their parents, and they kinda quickly blended in

[deki @dekizd]

@smartereveryday Saw them last night! Beautiful sight

[deki @dekizd]

@robkhenderson Most people who’ve had a genuine struggle generally don’t go out of their way to announce it to everyone either. You can always tell when someone’s being inauthentic about this stuff

[deki @dekizd]

@catalinmpit Try to do the things that originally got you passionate about tech, with no expectation that it should result in something.

[deki @dekizd]

@kunley_drukpa The top right one has a relevant re interpretation for this century

[deki @dekizd]

@Indian_Bronson Same phenomenon when a bakery opens in Melbourne (Australia)

[deki @dekizd]

@ironnfox haha I haven’t gotten to that stage yet!

[deki @dekizd]

pov: me speaking to Grok whilst driving, then having to speak to some random person blocking a car park entrance

What’s it called when the model can’t distinguish this type of stuff?

[deki @dekizd]

@mandylu Same reason why planes can fly

[deki @dekizd]

The best books on computers are written by people who lived through the advent of the personal computer

This is a sign to read Structured Computer Organization by Tanenbaum (a staple for any CS/EE major)

[trish @TrisH0x2A]

in 1987 a professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam couldn't teach Unix because AT&T owned the source code

so he wrote his own Unix-like OS from scratch and printed the entire source code in his textbook

a Finnish student named Linus Torvalds used it to write Linux

it is called MINIX

the textbook is "Operating Systems: Design and Implementation" by Andrew Tanenbaum

[deki @dekizd]

LLMs will reach a ceiling eventually because they’re constrained to a computer. The gaps that appear will require a physical presence, and a general purpose robot isn’t there yet to fill that gap

Humans are still going to be an integral part to a lot of (new) workflows

[deki @dekizd]

@romanhelmetguy Suetonius and Pliny the Younger also great reads

[deki @dekizd]

@TrisH0x2A Structured Computer Organization by Tanenbaum is also great

[deki @dekizd]

You get to live in Australia for a year, everything is paid but you can only choose one region to stay in

[deki @dekizd]

@bryan_johnson Do an early morning run meet up whilst you’re here! It’s basically our religion at this point

[deki @dekizd]

@DerekPederson3 Well unless we don’t figure out FTL space travel where you can traverse the galaxy and come back to earth within your lifetime, then it’s gonna be an impossible tech to make happen because human lifespans are too short

[deki @dekizd]

@BrendanEich @beatinic @eh_hmmm @brave @gnukeith Appreciate all the work you’ve done for Brave, Brendan!

[deki @dekizd]

Interesting research paper about securing AI agents like Operating Systems (focus on OpenClaw). Worth reading if you’re working in the field: https://t.co/AUONeYh7w9

[deki @dekizd]

@BecomingCritter You can really get a sense for a place based on the interviewer. If it’s someone who seems stressed or checked out, probably not a good place to be at