RD

Out organizing some part of the internet; Principle Over Technique;

[RD @ralph__david]

@jeremyphoward Thanks to this tweet, I just joined too! Exciting times ahead

[RD @ralph__david]

First it was ‘Gently Down the Kafka Stream’ now its this.

There’s something amazing about making technical books more childlike

https://t.co/KdxZlwBCoJ?

[RD @ralph__david]

@dhh For what use case would you need the extra RAM and storage? Curious as I still feel like Apple wins for most development work. Also - if you use it as a personal machine, are you backing it up somehow like how apple has time machine?

[RD @ralph__david]

Arc browser with vimium and https://t.co/KxTdfNDw9P. Best productivity boost in a while

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

How is this man being selected as the CEO of OpenAI, however briefly, when he is still groping in the dark, struggling to understand even the most basic of concepts behind his own civilization?

Has it never occurred to him to wonder why hunter-gatherer societies don't have a concept of personal land ownership, but agricultural societies do?

All of the human technology stack is based upon investment. Not merely in the modern, financial, sense, but the investment of effort.

If I am a protohuman, using a stone as a pounding tool, I do not care if you take my stone. I will simply pick up another stone. But if I chip my stone into a spearhead, then I will not let you take my spearhead, because that would take away the effort I have invested.

From the moment humans gained the ability to build and farm, land became something they could invest effort in.

And land ownership became necessary so they would do that.

All of the bullshit ya'll think is so important: governments, laws, philosophical principles about rights, etc... these are all just tools, possible means of protecting investment.

It doesn't matter what set of tools you use, so long as they work and investments are protected. If a man can be certain his investments will not be taken away from him by parasites, thieves, and robbers, he will invest. If he is certain that they will, he will not invest.

And without that investment, you have nothing. You are literally a wild animal, living as wild animals do.

If you don't want that, you need the concept of property. It doesn't matter where you say it "comes from", whether that be god(s), "natural" rights, abstract philosophical concepts, whatever. And it doesn't matter how you enforce it, whether it be laws, police, and courts, armed property owners, a high-society where people are conditioned not to steal, or all of the above.

What matters is that somehow, some way, people get to keep and benefit from what they invest in.

Because the alternative is universally unacceptable to us: reversion to a non-technological state of existence.

[RD @ralph__david]

Coursework from experienced engineers like Zach have been instrumental in my career shifter journey.

Hope I get the scholarship 🤞

[Zach Wilson @Zachly]

For the holidays, I'm offering ten full-ride scholarships to https://t.co/Dn5qBk71FE V4 boot camp. If you get selected, you'll get immediate access to V3 material and get a free seat in the V4 boot camp in the spring!

Here's the link to apply for the scholarship: https://t.co/fYQ9uVfEvD

To increase your chances, repost this and comment what you love about data engineering!

#dataengineering

[Zach Wilson @Zachly]

For the holidays, I'm offering ten full-ride scholarships to https://t.co/Dn5qBk71FE V4 boot camp. If you get selected, you'll get immediate access to V3 material and get a free seat in the V4 boot camp in the spring!

Here's the link to apply for the scholarship: https://t.co/fYQ9uVfEvD

To increase your chances, repost this and comment what you love about data engineering!

#dataengineering

[James Pethokoukis ⏩️⤴️ @JimPethokoukis]

Google DeepMind used a large language model to solve an unsolvable math problem https://t.co/zvEtTcuyRE

[Will Cabangon @wmcabangon]

Local insti are the only game in town

I think local debt issuance has to dry up before we see real upside in $PSEi. That’s where local insti is making the easy money

Today’s pathetic rally supports this theory

[RD @ralph__david]

Still apple notes +
Numbers

[RD @ralph__david]

My note-taking evolution

2019/2020 - typing in Notion/Emacs
👍 online/offline, 300+ day note streak

2021 - typing in Apple Notes
🧺 holds all files 🔍 best in-file search 📱

2022 - ✍️drawing in apple📝
better recall; NOT WORDY🧘

2023 - 🤦‍♂️emojis in apple📝
5x FASTER than✍️

[RD @ralph__david]

Mindful breaks seem to be a logarithmic function to any heavy productivity strain

[RD @ralph__david]

Yeah, slim chance consumption lowers on December.

Russia and Saudi also just cutting oil production by 1.3Mn barrels per day in an effort to push up oil prices.

https://t.co/tIk7wWdylI.

[NewsWatch Plus PH @newswatchplusph]

Tulfo: In a brainstorming session with Rep. Joey Salceda, he said pababa daw yung trend ng oil. Pagdating ng December, bababa daw yung demand ng fuel so expected na bababa din yung prices by December.

[RD @ralph__david]

Adulthood for most seems to be the part of life when you realize that the only thing keeping you alive is your ability to keep thinking better thoughts.

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

a big deal: @elonmusk, Y. Bengio, S. Russell, ⁦⁦@tegmark⁩, V. Kraknova, P. Maes, ⁦@Grady_Booch, ⁦@AndrewYang⁩, ⁦@tristanharris⁩ & over 1,000 others, including me, have called for a temporary pause on training systems exceeding GPT-4 https://t.co/PJ5YFu0xm9

[Scott Hanselman 🌮 @shanselman]

This is MASSIVE. The Windows Subsystem for Linux in the Microsoft Store is now generally available on Windows 10 and 11! Windows 10 users can now run Linux GUI apps natively! https://t.co/U1uZBPl4mj

[OutSmarting Markets @itradeph]

Dividend Yield Watch

[RD @ralph__david]

Knowledge is the only thing you can share freely, without ever becoming poor.
- Coworker

[Anjney Midha @AnjneyMidha]

Reddit is going crazy turning MSPaint sketches into concept art using Img2img with #stablediffusion and it’s wild (1/n)

H/t @EMostaque and Reddit