Prashanth Koppula

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[Prashanth Koppula @koppula]

In battle, in the forest, at the precipice in the mountains,
On the dark great sea, in the midst of javelins and arrows,
In sleep, in confusion, in the depths of shame,
The good deeds a man has done before defend him.

- Bhartṛhari's Śatakatraya

[Steve McGuire @sfmcguire79]

Berkeley math professor:

“Today, the more successful a public high school is at preparing its students, the lower its graduates' chances of getting into top UC campuses like Berkeley and San Diego.”

Berkeley admitted 45% of applicants from a high school where nearly 94% of “students failed to meet the state standards in mathematics.”

It admitted less than 14% of applicants from a school where “nearly 100 percent of its students in AP Calculus BC pass the national exam with a perfect score of 5.”

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Starship is the most powerful moving object ever made

[Prashanth Koppula @koppula]

@kogrowth @coinbase same

[Prashanth Koppula @koppula]

@DataRepublican @elonmusk When the immediate obstacles of survival are removed, all that remains without spirituality is pure degeneracy.

Very few people get this.

[Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey]

We cannot let them stay.

Debates regarding illegal immigration often focus on policy issues like welfare, healthcare, crime, economic contribution, etc. That is a distraction.

Democracy is the real issue. Status quo is that any city or state desirous of greater power can declare a suspension of federal law and import millions of illegal aliens for the purpose of inflating their electoral votes and Congressional representation.

Arguments about illegal immigrants voting directly in elections fraudulently usually miss this point. If you offer the political architects of these rebellions a trade, permanent amnesty and residency for all aliens with clear agreement that they cannot be counted for the purposes of electing our President or Congress, they will adamantly refuse.

Why? Because the people pushing this do not want immigrants from socially-conservative countries in Latin America to actually vote. They want to vote on their behalf via census representation, much like reconstruction-era Southern states demanded for newly-freed slaves. Their ideal situation is an urban core of deeply aligned ideologues voting with the power of millions of illegal aliens, currently worth dozens of Congressman and eight states worth of electoral votes.

There is an effectively unlimited supply of poor people from poor countries that want to live in the United States who can be used to fuel this strategy. Some might be net positive to the US economy, some might not be, but that is beside the point - all would equally contribute to a future where minority rules the majority with no recourse.

Rewarding states that refuse to recognize the legitimacy of American law ensures other states will use these same tactics, if only to maintain their own relative power. It will end our republic.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

I've never felt this much behind as a programmer. The profession is being dramatically refactored as the bits contributed by the programmer are increasingly sparse and between. I have a sense that I could be 10X more powerful if I just properly string together what has become available over the last ~year and a failure to claim the boost feels decidedly like skill issue. There's a new programmable layer of abstraction to master (in addition to the usual layers below) involving agents, subagents, their prompts, contexts, memory, modes, permissions, tools, plugins, skills, hooks, MCP, LSP, slash commands, workflows, IDE integrations, and a need to build an all-encompassing mental model for strengths and pitfalls of fundamentally stochastic, fallible, unintelligible and changing entities suddenly intermingled with what used to be good old fashioned engineering. Clearly some powerful alien tool was handed around except it comes with no manual and everyone has to figure out how to hold it and operate it, while the resulting magnitude 9 earthquake is rocking the profession. Roll up your sleeves to not fall behind.

[Dylan Field @zoink]

I was a Thiel fellow back in 2012... I've learned over the past 10+ years that (a) Thiel is one of the brightest minds of our time (b) when you don't understand / agree with Thiel, the best default reaction is to work to figure out where he is coming from rather than immediately jump to disagreement.

Congressman Khanna's self-labeled sarcastic response ("Peter Thiel is leaving... I will miss [him] very much") is a simplistic reaction that panders to his political base. This sort of response is very disappointing because it does not further anyone's understanding of what issues California needs to solve (there are many), how we solve them or what tools we need to consider using.

If you want to better understand Thiel's thinking on California, a good place to start is watching https://t.co/iWMwVXTTx6 from September, 2022.

How many jobs has Thiel directly / indirectly created in California over the past few decades? (My guess is that it's at least in the hundreds of thousands.)

Why would any Congressperson — let alone someone who represents Silicon Valley — so quickly and flippantly say goodbye to this type of job creation and tax revenue for California?

[Prashanth Koppula @koppula]

@OfficialLoganK @GoogleAIStudio Yes, let me in

[Patrick OShaughnessy @patrick_oshag]

"The most important thing in the next 3-4 years is data centers in space.

In every way, data centers in space, from a first principles perspective, are superior to data centers on earth.

In space, you can keep a satellite in the sun 24 hours a day. The sun is 30% more intense, which results in six times more irradiance than on Earth. So you don't need a battery.

The cooling in these data centers is incredibly complicated. Space cooling is free. You just put a radiator on the dark side of the satellite.

The only thing faster than a laser going through a fiber optic cable is a laser going through absolute vacuum. Link satellites with lasers, and you have a faster and more coherent network than any data center on Earth."

[Prashanth Koppula @koppula]

Evergreen sage advice

[Finding Compounders @F_Compounders]

Warren Buffett on stock buybacks

[Prashanth Koppula @koppula]

@Suhail So true

[Prashanth Koppula @koppula]

@nikitabier @X congrats, this has been incredible to watch

[Roland-Garros @rolandgarros]

Carlos Alcaraz, historical.

#RolandGarros

[Linux Handbook @LinuxHandbook]

No disrespect to Linus Torvalds, but this guy is the greatest geek alive 🫡

Created UNIX in 1971 when he was 28 years old.
Created Go in 2009 when he was 66 years old😲

He also developed the B programming language (which led to C), created UTF-8 encoding (making international text possible online), and designed essential tools like grep that developers still rely on daily.

He also helped with the development of Multics (that led to UNIX), Plan 9 from Bell Labs and Inferno operating systems.

That's 4 operating systems in total... Most people don't even use these many OS.

Pretty impressive resume, right? 🔥

And it's a shame that many people, even the ones in the IT and tech industry, don't know him.

Ken Thompson.... Remember the name 🙏

[Prashanth Koppula @koppula]

@growing_daniel And don't get me started about their phone tech support. While trying to erase and reset to give back the M4 they ended up wiping out the firmware since the OS wouldn't boot up after the reset!

[Prashanth Koppula @koppula]

@growing_daniel I've been having this feeling too a lot lately. Hardware too, especially MBP M4, which I couldn't find better than my M2. They also tried doing a bait and switch with the trade in value when trading in the M2. Not cool. So I just reverted back.

[Prashanth Koppula @koppula]

@pvncher @ryancarson @RepoPrompt The fireworks api key gets added in the custom api tab?

[Prashanth Koppula @koppula]

@al3rez @pvncher