Vladislav Gapurov

Building better tools by building better minds

[Vladislav Gapurov @ired]

@WallStreetMav with SpaceX they wont be able to funnel funds to their fav contractors and this is a big nono

[Vladislav Gapurov @ired]

@nastyhobbit неоправданно многабукв, но слог действительно хорош, а нобельский комитет, кроме как по "hard sciences" дискредитировал себя чуть более чем полностью...

[Vladislav Gapurov @ired]

@levelsio Sarcasm? It is hard to find a Pinocchio with a bigger nose.

[Vladislav Gapurov @ired]

@nastyhobbit он, конечно, делулу, но Уоррен вообще отдельная лига по делулости. В ее идеальном мире государство решат сколько стоит гречка, а это мы уже проходили.

[Vladislav Gapurov @ired]

@dhh Bold EU will rather “improve” it by creating GDPR+, where additional councils will have to approve on even more granular level

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

The schools are NOT "failing" your kids. The schools are doing exactly what they're meant for, and very well. Normal people presume that the schools are designed to educate your kids. That's not how the communist sees them. The school is how they kidnap your child. The socialist is like a pedophile...they like to prey on kids and groom them.

Communists have slowly infiltrated every single layer of institutional education and perverted it to feed their dogma into the soft heads of your vulnerable children.

This isn't some abstract paranoia...this was a deliberate soviet socialist strategy going back decades. It is called the "long march through the institutions". After several generations of teachers educating kids with increasingly communist ideology, with zero patriotic influence to balance it out, you eventually get to a point (usually 2-3 generations), where EVERY American institution is saturated with communists...government, entertainment, businesses (hello, Nike)...now, no matter where you turn, your child is now influenced ENTIRELY by the ideology of your enemy. Who's pushing back on this?

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

This parasite, @BernieSanders, has scammed the American taxpayers for many decades. He knows nothing; contributes nothing; achieves nothing; says nothing; BUT he believes that you owe him your hard-earned money because it is unfair that @elonmusk has more money than you do.

[Milton Friedman Daily @MiltonFriedmanW]

Milton Friedman on 4 ways to spend money:

1) Your money on yourself (you’re careful about both cost and quality)
2) Your money on others (you care about cost, less about quality)
3) Someone else’s money on yourself (you care about quality, not cost)
4) Someone else’s money on others (you care about neither)

The last one is how government spending works.

[Vladislav Gapurov @ired]

I know a guy

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

I needed to move a sofa.

I mentioned this to an American. He said, "You know anybody with a truck?"

I did not know anybody with a truck.

He looked at me with real concern. Not pity. Concern. The way you look at a man who has told you he does not have a name.

"You gotta know somebody with a truck."

I asked how one acquires such a person.

He said, "You just do."

This is the third time I have received that answer in this country. It is the answer to everything here. You just do. There is no process. There is only the eventual fact of having.

He said, "Ask Kevin."

I do not know a Kevin. He said Kevin like I should. He said it the way you say a shared uncle.

I met Kevin four days later. Kevin owns a truck. Kevin does not own a truck for himself. Nobody owns a truck for themselves. Kevin owns a truck for a fifteen mile radius.

Inside I said: THIS MAN HAS TAKEN A VOW. HE DID NOT ANNOUNCE IT. HE SIMPLY PURCHASED A BED AND ACCEPTED THE CONSEQUENCES.

Kevin arrived on Saturday. He brought the truck. He also brought a second man.

I had not asked for a second man.

The second man's name is Tony. Tony came because Kevin came. Tony did not know me. Tony did not ask what we were moving. Tony brought gloves.

They moved the sofa in eleven minutes.

I offered them money. Both of them laughed at the same time, which felt rehearsed and was not.

I asked what I owed them.

Kevin said, "Buy the pizza."

That is the price. That is the entire economy. The truck costs one pizza and the pizza is not negotiable and the pizza is also not expensive and everyone knows what size.

Inside I said: THE FEE IS FIXED ACROSS THE ENTIRE NATION AND WAS SET BY NO ONE.

We ate on the floor because the sofa was against the wall and none of us wanted to be the first to sit on it.

Tony told me his daughter plays soccer. I asked if she is good. He said, "She's aggressive."

I still think about that.

Three weeks later, Kevin texted me.

"You free Sunday? Helping Tony move a fridge."

He did not ask if I wanted to. He informed me of a fridge.

Inside I said: I HAVE BEEN CALLED UP. I DID NOT ENLIST. THE PAPERS WERE FILED ON MY BEHALF.

I went. I moved the fridge. I have no truck. I contributed only arms.

Afterward, a man I had never met asked me if I knew anybody with a truck.

I said, "Yeah, I got a guy."

I have a guy.

I am somebody's guy now, too. Tony has told two people about me.

He describes me as "the guy who's strong for his size."

I have never been prouder of a sentence in my life.

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

We think of this evil as Marxism. In reality, Marxism is nothing more or less than the current instantiation of a much more ancient evil: possession by the envious and hateful spirit that drove Cain to murder his brother Abel.

The great book of Genesis thus portrays mankind as riven by an eternal fratricidal conflict.

Those who reject genuine sacrifice become embittered by their subsequent failure ("rejection by God").

Instead of repenting and changing, they turn to revenge.

And who do they target? Those who strive to do well and offer what is best.

I can't believe how much wisdom the author of Genesis 4 compressed into that story's few sentences. You might even come to believe that God Himself had a hand in it.

Truly: it's uncanny. The first two human beings born into history are, respectively, a good, honest productive man and his brother, who allows himself to be consumed by resentment and the desire to destroy.

Communism, in a nutshell.

[Vladislav Gapurov @ired]

@mattjay How to know the report is BS without even reading it? Easy, posted on LinkedIn.

[Vladislav Gapurov @ired]

@thsottiaux why not?!

[Vladislav Gapurov @ired]

@levelsio buuuuut, pleeeease, my dear EU commission, scan all of my emails and read all of messages, here is my Ausweis.

[Vladislav Gapurov @ired]

@sethrose @OpenAIDevs @thsottiaux Pretty much everything else would have a higher priority, such as improving the chat interface for a standalone chat (this floating thing), app resource management, or context management for multiple agents.

[Commentary - Sowell Economics @sowelleconomics]

Happy birthday Dr. Thomas Sowell!

[Possum Reviews @ReviewsPossum]

Last night, I read the entirety of C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters. It's a novel told in the form of letters written by a demon to another demon instructing him on ways to manipulate his "patient" to do evil.

This one quote sounded familiar.

[Vladislav Gapurov @ired]

@levelsio nice to see somebody else is using Airthings.

[Vladislav Gapurov @ired]

There is nothing new under the sun. Left is left, and the world has not changed. The forces that were against personal freedom still are. Even if the followers of the ideology thought otherwise.

The hippie days were just a deliberate way of spreading degeneracy while pretending to be about freedom or peace. Of course, it was very popular, especially with young people, since it is much easier to dance around and smoke weed than to work hard.

The left today is a logical continuation of the same ideology. Much of it is about destroying traditional Christian values and the societies based on them.

[Vladislav Gapurov @ired]

@DanielLockyer wow, this is good.