Natalya Bailey

90% of the time, it actually is rocket science

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4/ New ideas can come from playing with different assumptions and branches instead. So the skill looks at recent research (mostly from open sources), looks for these boundaries, traces the assumptions that led to that current understanding...

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3/ Beyond that the domain is usually pretty uncharted. Not only do I think these areas signify interesting boundaries to explore in themselves, but from those boundaries you can also walk back to where the current branch of assumptions started that led to those empirical fillers.

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Spooky

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This week in What's Blowing my Mind in AI: using @NotebookLM to research new topics I want to learn about, creating "audio notes" with key questions or areas I want to really understand, then listening to and even participating in the resulting podcast-style audio recording!

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@operationdanish The power dynamic has been flipped upside down in that family and it’s hard to right it! This is how I see gentle parenting in practice, the kids’ opinions and preferences run the family

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@operationdanish Thanks for the thoughtful write up.
A family friend was on vacation with us in Europe and the youngest, 3 or 4, was so upset the mom was leaving to go on a bike ride with the other moms. She asked him in front of us if she could go and he (4 yo) said no so she stayed.

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Can you run a machine shop on Markdown?

Brad Feld recently wrote about running a company on Markdown files. Compelling but here's what @a16z's American dynamism sector needs: https://t.co/5xIDQQr6CM

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Anyone else go off the deep end into AI and develop weird new hobbies as a side effect?! Waiting for Claude Code to finish implementing changes so now I crochet? Listening to my AI generated NotebookLM podcast so I wake up early to bake banana bread? Everything’s fine…

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I'm about 9 months into my journey as a full stack developer/LLM engineer and am wondering... what do you all do when things are compiling/deploying/etc?! Pushups? Online shop?

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@DanielleMorrill can't wait to hang!

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writing code and programs these days is basically just searching for all the emojis your LLMs put into the code they write and deleting them to hide the evidence

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Everyone talks about the perils of starting a company with your spouse, but one benefit: when you're late to date night dinner because you're negotiating a fundraising round together, you won't disappoint anyone!

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Vibe Coding for Dummies 📗

We collected the best tips on X for vibe coding, so you can build cool shit without getting stuck in a loop (bookmark this):

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Didn't get into @ycombinator's Spring '25 batch but the rejection letter said we were in the top 10% so that's something! Will try again next cycle, and keep shipping (our diagnostic/reporting tool for aviation maintenance) to customers in the meantime. Blue skies!

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@sduggleby @elidourado @TheAnnaGat @rlj_law @llcrabbie @Vanessa_J_Clark Winnie Lai and Bridgit Mendler

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@tferriss @naval @astupple I finished the episode feeling like some people are afraid to be the alpha and want to be a happy friend to their toddlers, and so the kids might suffer, and also cutesy games to get kids to brush their teeth is still a form of coercion, no? It's just subtler.

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@tferriss @naval @astupple diet soda/oreos and sugar/artificial sweeteners, total caloric consumption, sleep, possibly screen time. And other realities for parents like needing to exist within a society that uses the construct of time, and school as childcare during work hours.

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* The effects of sugar and ultra processed foods extending beyond making kids hyper (microbiome, inflammation, diabetes, , colon cancer, ??)
* School as not just education but childcare for working parents, & generally existing within a societal structure that minds time

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Thankful to @tferriss's attempt to bring this one down to earth! https://t.co/UqPKwXne3v Long-time fan of David Deutsch but felt this was really out of touch, specifically wrt: