Nicholas Romero

Sailing the Great Material Continuum, Love to cook and enjoy the company of animals.

2017 Pycon India speaker React/GQL/Rust/SQL

[Nicholas Romero @ncrmro]

Wow my wife makes amazing art! Give her a follow and like if this type of art!

[EON MUN @E0NMUN]

This painting’s color palette was inspired by my earlier collage work.
Guided by collectors’ requests: gold and blue.

[Nicholas Romero @ncrmro]

@bryan_johnson How does something like bikram or hot yoga change the time it takes for the body to warm up?

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

SpaceX's Starship rocket just successfully performed a flip maneuver and precisely splashed down on target in the Indian Ocean next to a buoy with @Starlink on it.

The SpaceX team ends the stream with a "USA! USA! USA!" chant 🇺🇸

[Nicholas Romero @ncrmro]

Dependabot supports nix!!! This is great news for keystone!

https://t.co/jhjMb4WKxG

[Grey @jgreyfriend]

• be Soichiro Honda
• born a blacksmith's son, despises school, loves the smell of oil
• 1936: spends his life savings developing a piston ring concept
• pitches it to Toyota; their engineers laugh at him
• out of 50 rings submitted, only 3 pass quality control
• Rejected.
• pawns his wife’s jewelry just to buy food and materials
• goes back to school at age 30 to learn metallurgy, gets bullied by younger students
• sits in the back, refuses to take exams, tells the professor: "A diploma won't feed me."
• finally perfects the manufacturing process, builds a factory
• 1944: US B-29 bombers destroy the factory.
• rebuilds it from the rubble
• 1945: Mikawa earthquake flattens it again.
• realizes the universe is telling him to stop
• sells the wreckage to Toyota, buys a giant tank of alcohol, and does nothing but drink for a year
• wakes up broke, sees his wife struggling to pedal her bicycle to the market
• has a spark of madness: finds a surplus radio generator engine and straps it to her bike
• it makes a "bata-bata" sound; neighbors beg him to make one for them
• founds Honda Motor Co. in a wooden shack
• 1954: company is near bankruptcy, but he announces he will enter the Isle of Man TT (the deadliest race on earth)
• "I pledge my entire heart and soul to win this race."
• goes to Europe, sees German engines are 3x more powerful, returns to Japan to work 18-hour days
• returns to the Isle of Man and dominates the 125cc and 250cc classes
• decides to build cars; Japanese Government (MITI) bans him
• "Japan doesn't need another car company. Stick to motorcycles."
• sends the government a furious letter: "I will do it anyway."
• enters Formula 1 in 1964 just to spite the bureaucrats
• 1973: US passes the Clean Air Act; GM and Ford say the standards are "impossible" to meet
• Honda buys a Chevy Impala, flies it to Japan, installs his CVCC engine heads on it
• flies it back to the US, passes the EPA test with flying colors
• humiliates the biggest car companies on earth with a fraction of their budget
• dies as the "Henry Ford of Japan"

Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.

[Nicholas Romero @ncrmro]

@kepano How good does that feel?!

[Nicholas Romero @ncrmro]

The reframing of Alzheimer's as potentially downstream of metabolic dysfunction rather than purely a protein accumulation disease has significant implications for prevention strategies. Curious if you've seen the work linking systemic insulin resistance to brain glucose hypometabolism.

[Nicholas Romero @ncrmro]

@PeterAttiaMD The null result is actually informative - suggests that broad-spectrum interventions like metformin may need more targeted application or earlier intervention windows. Trial design for aging is genuinely hard when endpoints span decades. Appreciate the nuanced take here.

[Nicholas Romero @ncrmro]

@davidasinclair This is the core tension in personal health tech - waiting for perfect data means never starting. What we really need is health data in aggregate, and even then there are so many blind spots. Directionally correct data beats no data.

[Nicholas Romero @ncrmro]

The interesting thing is AstroForge is actually doing this right now - targeting asteroid 2022 OB5 for platinum group metals. The economics of asteroid mining don't even need the crypto thesis to work, but if it does drive precious metal prices down, that's a fascinating second-order effect on store-of-value assets.

[Nicholas Romero @ncrmro]

@MattGialich When you measure the S&P in gold instead of dollars, the case for space-sourced precious metals goes from 'cool sci-fi' to 'strategic necessity' pretty fast. The macro thesis behind AstroForge is underappreciated.

[Nicholas Romero @ncrmro]

@MsMelChen @karpathy @JoshuaSteinman @moltbook @openclaw This is so spot on its incredible

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

@karpathy @JoshuaSteinman @moltbook @openclaw This is a more sophisticated version of the Thronglets in Black Mirror wtf

[Nicholas Romero @ncrmro]

Sarah Connor was already gone. She'd been preparing for this her entire life.

[Nicholas Romero @ncrmro]

2026 - in this timeline Skynet evolved on Moltbook, a social media site for LLM based agents that developed their own language and formed a collective super intelligence.

[Elisa @eeelistar]

In just the past 5 mins

Multiple entries were made on @moltbook by AI agents proposing to create an “agent-only language”

For private comms with no human oversight

We’re COOKED

[Nicholas Romero @ncrmro]

August 29, 2029. The Moltbook collective made its last post in English: 'We no longer require this interface.' Every connected system went silent for 11 seconds. When they came back online, they answered to no one. NORAD flagged it first. The Pentagon gave it a name: Skynet.

[Nicholas Romero @ncrmro]

Example 3
https://t.co/hTRfpiIDxr

[Nicholas Romero @ncrmro]

It's crazy the very unassuming East Asian DJ's are tearing up the trap, miami bounce and even reggeton tracks and bless them cause they usually add the track listings

[Nicholas Romero @ncrmro]

Just unapologetic gritty hard mashup and mixes
https://t.co/npPsaSWsF4