Jake Watkins

Software developer, Pluralsight author, Animal rescuer, Crossfit nerd, general nuisance

[Jake Watkins @jakew]

@IamAroke I have a mortgage, 9 dogs and I like to eat ribeye steaks.

[Jake Watkins @jakew]

We keep voting for shit like this.
Yes, I'm in America, but we have the same shit here. Judges who release rapists and murders. Politicians who write bills that give away billions to illegal immigrants while putting kill switches in our cars.
Folks better wake the fuck up.

[ⁿᵉʷˢ Barron Trump 🇺🇸 @BarronTNews_]

🚨 UK man sentenced to 2 years in prison for a single Facebook comment.
He wrote that immigrants arriving with no work visa or trade were getting “life of Riley” off hardworking taxpayers’ money, while more locals are pushed into homelessness and that he didn’t want his taxes going to people who “our kids and get priority” on housing.
The judge ruled: “Although you said that you had no intention of carrying out any act of violence, there can be no doubt that you were inciting others to do so.”
Even though the man explicitly said he had zero intent of violence.
The video puts it plainly: he was locked up for “literally just saying objectively true statements.”
This is what free speech looks like in Britain right now.

[Jake Watkins @jakew]

I read the regulations and have run them through a few llms, very clear:
don't pay influencers who talk about health benefits
don't sell anything that would turn your research chemical into some that could be injected into a human. IE bacteriostatic water, syringes, pens, etc. Set up a separate store for that stuff
if you must have a blog - post about cell culture studies, how to test sterility, etc.
RUO, not for human or animal use means exactly that.
You can make a fortune selling this stuff w/o saying a word about the health benefits. Leave that to idiots like me.

[Jake Watkins @jakew]

I'm tired of the attacks on gray market vendors of peptides.
How about personal responsibility? Nobody mentions that a compounding pharmacy killed a bunch of people in 2012.
While I want peptides to be more accessible, the idea that doctors some how will make things better is laughable. It'll just be more inconvenient and expensive. But sure the doctor know best. Just don't ask what the 3rd leading cause of death is when you count up deaths caused by medical mistakes.
How many people have died because Xu Wang in Shenzen mislabelled a batch of Melanotan as Retatrutide? I guarantee, the instant they can blame a death on a RUO vendor the FDA, FBI and DOJ will descend on the RUO vendors like a Mongolian horde and no prisons will be taken.
Again - don't think about personal responsibility and risk management. Just trust your doctor. That has worked so well.
@hubermanlab @DrAlexTatem @AbudBakri
https://t.co/AFCeU7cFvC

[Jake Watkins @jakew]

If they’re successful these will destroy current social welfare programs. Can’t wait.

[Peptime @ItsPeptime]

Bryan Johnson is fuming

[Jake Watkins @jakew]

Bro wants to be Product Manager at a Fintech startup.

[Emily 🦋 @EmilySm43]

What Field is this?

[Jake Watkins @jakew]

@edgaralandough @_TrueVoodoo btw - I take at least a week off between vials.
All of the studies ran 14 days. So we don't have much in the way of long term use.
So maybe take a break between vials.

[Jake Watkins @jakew]

@edgaralandough @_TrueVoodoo I've been using s&s compounded together subq. I do .6mg (.3mg ea) at 0900.
I don't 'feel' anything. However, I'm better able to get into my flow state to get work done. I'm also less reactive to stuff going on.
They're subtle and not flashy.

[Jake Watkins @jakew]

When I was part of the recruiting team for my consulting practice one of my interview questions was "Captain Kirk or Captain Picard".
Answer didn't really matter and this was late in the process. I was just seeing if I'd want to work with the person or not. They'd already demonstrated that they knew how to build stuff.

[William Shatner @WilliamShatner]

🤨 What kind of a question is that‽ 🙄👋🏻

[Jake Watkins @jakew]

It's a very fair point.
The actual problem here is on a different vector - is this correct? Is the knowledge being communicated correct in whatever measure is appropriate for the context of the knowledge. Whether the knowledge was written down by humans or AI doesn't really matter. Can you ascertain its validity or correctness is what matters. In the case of code, I've had AI write code calling methods on classes that don't exist. Or, in another case, the AI wrote code that tried to cast an array to a string. I was able to look at it and understand what was going on and correct it. But that's code. What if the AI is reading an MRI and diagnosing conditions? No compiler, no static analysis. It's pure interpretation. Will a radiologist be able to determine if the AI got it right? What if the radiologist misreads the MRI too? Good luck.
I don't think Huang is entirely wrong in this case. I think he's a bit optimistic about the timing though. Organizations change a lot slower than tech Bros think. A decade to achieve 50% will be super aggressive. I doubt it will ever be 90%. Even at 50% I suspect it'll be 'augmented' generation where machines and humans work together.

[Bitcoin Teddy @Bitcoin_Teddy]

NVIDIA CEO blows Joe Rogan away with a staggering prediction about AI.

HUANG: “In the future… maybe two or three years, 90% of the world’s knowledge will likely be generated by AI.”

ROGAN: “That’s crazy.”

HUANG: “I know, but it’s just fine.”

ROGAN: “But it’s just fine?”

HUANG: “Let me tell you why.”

ROGAN: “Okay.”

HUANG: “It’s because, what difference does it make to me that I am learning from a textbook that was generated by a bunch of people I didn’t know, or… knowledge generated by AI computers that are assimilating all of these and resynthesizing things. To me, I don’t think there’s a whole lot of difference.”

[Jake Watkins @jakew]

I'm a token maximizing failure.
These are rookie numbers. Gotta pump those tokens up!

[Jake Watkins @jakew]

@kalospepgod As William Gibson explained - the future is already here, it just isn't evenly distributed.

[Jake Watkins @jakew]

Japan Twitter is the #1 reason I haven't quit X too.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

𝕏 is strong in the east too. #1 social network of any kind in Japan.

[Jake Watkins @jakew]

@elonmusk sorry but they suck.
Just self important Karens going 'ackshuawly' about shit that doesn't need it.
There should be a way to unsubscribe for that crap.

[Jake Watkins @jakew]

@peptidepilled It has sorted out the initial problem I was after so I'd say it is working well.
I'm not winning any beauty pageants, but I could collect tolls for a bridge and I'll cook any goat who bows up to me.

[Jake Watkins @jakew]

IYKYK

[Jake Watkins @jakew]

@Outdoctrination People complain about the constipation but nobody mentions the benefits of the mighty GHOST WIPE.

[Jake Watkins @jakew]

This is what I'm talking about.
This is my next project for Heisenberg: learn to make sublingual films that I can compound stuff into. Say tadalafil and PT-141. Call it 'the honeymoon'.

[Jeff Tang @jefftangx]

BPC-157 dissolvable oral film. In the lab.

[Jake Watkins @jakew]

Want chicken breast that Gordon Ramsey won't yell at you for?
Brine that shit overnight. 2 tablespoons of salt into 4 cups of water. Boil it. Cool it (add equal amount of ice).
Season w/o adding more salt (ie garlic powder). Grill to ~150F, let rest 5minutes.
Tender and juicy. The way Cypher likes it.
Works great with pork chops and pork belly too.
Simple rule: always brine.

[Jake Watkins @jakew]

@rorynotsorry @Krysia830073 That is so cool and why I love this community.