Diya

Tech, philosophy, math / Berkeley, Cal Hacks, incoming AI @ Accenture

[Diya @diyaconfused]

They're going to have gyms for brains very very very soon

[Diya @diyaconfused]

@_Jarrad_ This is soooo fire

[Diya @diyaconfused]

It feels pretty obvious to me that releasing new episodes of shows weekly is better for everyone -- people feel more connected while watching, there's discussion in between episodes, even streaming services get extended monthly subscriptions. I'm genuinely curious why they keep abiding by the release 8 episodes once every two years thing.

[Diya @diyaconfused]

Man I am so tired of distrusting everything because it may be AI slop. It's exhausting doing that double take every time, but every time you don't do due diligence is risky....

[Andreas Karch @karch_andreas]

we might well find ourselves with a future where we are inundated with brilliant results from our AI overlords covered under mountains of slop and no one left who could tell the difference. 4/n

[Diya @diyaconfused]

I just graduated from Berkeley math. Maybe in the last two months it's gotten better, but it struggled a lot especially in my proof based upper div stochastic processes class.... Could have been the wordings of the profs. It was okay in most undergrad pure math, but couldn't always one shot in complex analysis. Kind of long winded, but you still get totally fucked if you have no idea what you're doing and just roll with it, it will guide you down at minimum some convulated path the prof didn't teach and they will notice

[Diya @diyaconfused]

I love Oakland!!!

[Diya @diyaconfused]

Tbh one of the best things I got out of Berkeley was a lack of fear of tweakers & Oakland, they should advertise that

[alz @alz_zyd_]

Common misconception. Historically, pure math concepts like analysis are actually obnoxious pedantic distillations of intuitive applied math concepts, not the other way around. The application almost always comes before the formalization

[Diya @diyaconfused]

Or what's it all for?

[Diya @diyaconfused]

There are so many great, creative, intelligent, kind people in SF/the bay. I hope & expect to spend my twenties in the city and meet people in rooms like this, I'm hoping when I start looking for them I'll find them

[Joumana @JoumanaElomar]

Yearning for spaces like this in San Francisco:

[Diya @diyaconfused]

I ran a meditation workshop at Cal Hacks last fall and barely anyone came, but it's one of my favorite hackathon memories ever. Everyone is trying to keep up and be impressive all the time at those events, but slowing down to be human is very special

[Diya @diyaconfused]

The biggest bottleneck against it is the law which is indicative of a society not willing to dream big anymore very sad

[Diya @diyaconfused]

I think we abandoned seasteading as a concept way too easily

[Diya @diyaconfused]

AWS builder center is pretty awesome

[kartik @sathaxe]

Social Capital™️

I have never seen the plight of my generation articulated so well.

This is the core issue we must solve, we must provide abundant social capital to the next generation - using the levers of politics and private industry - or humanity as we know it will end.

[“paula” @paularambles]

You see, what fascinates me about “remember to not smile” is that he needs his pain to be witnessed. He suffers at 4am, okay, fine, many people suffer. But then, immediately, he makes a slide! He gathers the entire company! He writes an article! Is it not clear what is happening here? Suffering without an audience simply does not count. This is ideology at its purest.

We see here the old Protestant trick in its Silicon Valley form: success alone is vulgar, almost pornographic. My god, you cannot simply succeed. It must first be purified through unnecessary suffering. So you get this obscene reversal where pain stops being a cost of the product, and instead becomes the product itself. The developer documentation is, how do you say, merely the byproduct, the excrement of the true production, which is the suffering. As Hegel already knew, and here I think even Lacan would agree, although perhaps not, the true obsession is always with deserving success.

Here I must tell you this old joke from Soviet Union. A worker says: "we pretend to work, they pretend to pay us.” Now here it is inverted, which I claim is much worse. They are paid perfectly well, wonderfully well, and so they must pretend to suffer. Do you see the perfect madness of this?

And now, the ultimate obscenity. Imagine the company succeeds while everyone leaves at 5pm. Catastrophe! Total ontological catastrophe! In this worldview, I am tempted to say, failure would almost come as a relief. Failure means you simply did not suffer enough, go back, suffer more. But success at 5pm? This cannot be explained.

So when he says "remember to not smile," this is a desperate command of the superego. If you smile, we will all discover the pain was never necessary.

[Diya @diyaconfused]

It's so important to go back to your basics. Four years ago I was prioritizing coding above textbooks, now I'm starting to realize understanding everything properly is the only way to avoid just creating slop

[Diya @diyaconfused]

@adamshuaib This is making me feel good about the period of time in high school I memorized all the EU Star Wars planets and political lore for zero reason