Massimiliano Petrucci

Don't do much talking here, but plenty of listening.

[Massimiliano Petrucci @makxs]

Heading to #wwdc 2026!!!

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@RobinhoodApp But still not allowing crypto transfer to NY residents.

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@RobinhoodApp It didn’t work

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@NSHipster Welcome back!

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@andst7 💯

[Pedro Domingos @pmddomingos]

Imagine if you talked by picking the next word to be the one people most often say after your previous words.

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Yes, I've made this point many times.
The beginning of a sigmoid looks like an exponential.

Not only can we "never be fully certain that what we are observing isn't in fact following a logistic trend before the inflection point", we can always be fully certain that *every* *single* *exponential* *trend* eventually passes an inflection point and saturates into a sigmoid.
Continuing an exponential trend beyond that inflection point requires a paradigm shift.

No physical process can grow indefinitely.
There are always friction terms in the dynamics equation that eventually become dominant (energy consumption, heat dissipation, quantum effects, thermal fluctuations, communication bandwidth, mass/energy density....).

Even processes that *appear* exponential on a long time scale are actually a succession of sigmoids, in which each new sigmoid is caused by a paradigm shift.
A good example is Moore's Law. It is saturating right now. But the exponential progress of the last 7 decades is due to a succession of technological paradigm shifts that weren't pre-ordained.
Each paradigm behaved like a sigmoid. Each new sigmoid overtook the previous one. The envelope turned out to be exponential.
We haven't seen similar paradigm shifts in, say, airplane speed or space travel.
Technological paradigm shifts require scientific breakthroughs.

[Massimiliano Petrucci @makxs]

At google I/O extended New York @googledevs @googleio

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@googleio extended New York

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@anniebombanie_ Amazing!

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@siegel @mikeash @mikeash blog is a source of pearls

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Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is back in its all-online format - Apple https://t.co/0rKTC7XRVt

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

Did you know that it’s actually possible for you to say, “I don’t know enough about this to have an opinion”

[Massimiliano Petrucci @makxs]

Heading to #wwdc !!! 🛫✈️🛬 🤩#WWDC19 #WWDC2019

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#nonchiudeteraimovie

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@davedelong Would love a book!!

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@viticci 😂😂🤣🤣

[mikeash @mikeash]

For those few of you still using Sun equipment, remember not to look directly at it during today's eclipse.

[Kristina Fox @krstnfx]

Best lab at #WWDC17

[Ⓙohannes Ⓕahrenkrug @jfahrenkrug]

So much great Sample Code at this year's WWDC. Download it all with this script: https://t.co/mfrcNyZ4AP RT for fellow attendees #WWDC17