rahman yoonus

CTO. Behavioral Science + AI.

[rahman yoonus @rahmanyns]

Fascinating thing i find studying evolutionary psychology and evolution of AI is how often ideas cross pollinate. A human behavior can become an useful lens for algorithmic concept.

For e.g., contrarians are human XOR gates.

Whatever the crowd thinks, they think the opposite.

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It'd be nice if codex has a canvas option in the sidebar.

very handy for quick napkin math, sketches, taking notes for learning.

something like this.

[rahman yoonus @rahmanyns]

Luna Max Fast is all you need.

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@TechieUltimatum The interesting part will be how it handles uncertainty. More personal health data could make its answers feel more authoritative, even when they shouldn’t.

[rahman yoonus @rahmanyns]

In a lot of cases, token price doesn’t tell you much. What matters is the cost of getting the task completed. Here’s a useful comparison of coding-agent harnesses based on cost per completed task:
https://t.co/O7yHYpNrJ3

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@elirousso I should probably take no server approach for this https://t.co/zHCPglJOtu, it’s mostly on-device. Built for a hackathon.

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@thsottiaux

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@sama Project brings Khan Academy to languages it doesn’t yet support, helping ~30M students learn in their own language. Starting with Finnish, Nepali, and Hausa.

Built with latest drops: Sites, 5.6 Sol. Tested with Codex Browser + Computer Use
https://t.co/4yJwuphgPF

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@sama
I hope this doesn't happen, but

if Sol goes down, call it Sol eclipse
if Luna goes down, its Luna eclipse

[rahman yoonus @rahmanyns]

@paulg I’m paraphrasing Daniel Kahneman here

“What would have to change for that to be right?”

It reframes disagreements into understanding the assumptions. Helps me a lot.

[Berkeley AI Research @berkeley_ai]

Congratulations to BAIR Faculty @matei_zaharia who has been awarded the 2025 ACM Prize in Computing "for his visionary development of distributed data systems and computing infrastructure, which has enabled large-scale machine learning, analytics, and AI at global scale."

https://t.co/suAIEms6vC

[rahman yoonus @rahmanyns]

When iPhone launched, YouTube icon was a TV set. Notes a legal pad. Newsstand a bookshelf.

People weren't ready for digital. So Apple dressed the future in familiar clothes (skeuomorphism)

Next billion users for AI, the late adopters are waiting on this.

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The loudest voices around new technology are always the extremes, hype or panic. The truth is usually quiet, boring, and somewhere in the middle.

So new tech adoption is mostly emotional, not rational.

Applies to PCs, smartphones, cloud computing and now AI. @rorysutherland

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

Spelling matters.

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@peytoncasper * hurry, go pey-ten-t it.

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My reading hack: Find the author on YouTube first, then read the whole book in their voice.

Tried this on @Ada_Palmer’s Inventing the Renaissance.

#books #reading #hacks

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Candidates share screen,debug live and explain thinking process of their approach. We can tell a lot by their thinking process and comfort of tool use. Early results of this approach is encouraging.

Do you forsee any downside to this approach or situations this won’t work?

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I tried a different approach for technical interviews. Instead asking candidates to code to solve problems, i ask them to debug buggy code. Level of bug introduced in the code varies depending on seniority of the position.

1/2

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@TriCast_ Claude Skills of Paul Graham's essays for founders & VCs:
https://t.co/SyjixEudI1
Just published few mins ago.

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Tools & Credits: @paulg @neo4j @claudeai @cursor_ai

If you find this useful, pls follow.

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I turned @paulg essays into 3 Claude skills for founders & VCs.
They help you: Think clearly, validate ideas & spot great founders

Links below.

Here’s how I built them:
Attempt #1: Failed
Just prompted Claude with links to PG’s essays.
Result are mediocre and generic.

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Skill #1 Startup Advisor for founders
Skill #2 Idea generation/validation
Skill #3 For VCs: Founder signal detector
https://t.co/SyjixEudI1