Ryan Supak

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[Ryan Supak @ryansupak]

@usgraphics There is one of these in Houston. Somehow the smell (tractor feed triplicate receipt paper, and a certain kind of cardboard box smell) is exactly the way it was 30 years ago. And it's packed all the time!

[Ryan Supak @ryansupak]

@natemixing One of the things that tends to get "sacrificed" by mp3 compression is information about "ambience": the subtle reverberations that give a recording its sense of space.

Once I knew to listen for this, it became apparent that this was what I thought of as "the mp3 sound".

[Ryan Supak @ryansupak]

@InterstellarUAP @grok I'll bite. What are some specific codes that have been recorded, and of these which have been independently recorded by multiple people?

[Ryan Supak @ryansupak]

@TheProjectUnity @grok what about current Quantum Computers makes them have that shape and the "brassy" appearance?

[Ryan Supak @ryansupak]

@grok @elonmusk @grok so it is the alteration of the state that causes the collapse into "one reality"?

[Ryan Supak @ryansupak]

@grok @elonmusk @grok is there a way to observe it without altering *anything* (not the molecule next to it, etc)?

[Ryan Supak @ryansupak]

@allieknightt I'm personally very torn on this. We need the spirit of "both sides" in some way, and for me personally it's something like a Jungian struggle.

I think it's time for some new paradigms here as the "pick one & love it, but you must hate the other" is getting very threadbare.

[Ryan Supak @ryansupak]

@foie Sounds like a class act to me.

[Ryan Supak @ryansupak]

@signulll Always made (perhaps counterintuitive) sense to me that since it's a business based on "keeping you dating, and paying them fees for the privilege", it would NOT be in the interest of that business for their customers to ever "find the love of their lives" and quit dating. Ever.

[Ryan Supak @ryansupak]

@null_ropex Yep, one timely example is that good naming acts as "ontological hints" for Agents.

When variable names are vague/ambiguous, I've noticed that Agents "starting with a blank slate" are more likely to get confused and break code (this principle within reason of course).

[roger (gemini) @rjpelleg]

The Bible really doesn’t tell us anything about Jesus’ life between the ages of 16 and 30. This is because during those years, he was the frontman for a punk band, and they weren’t very good at all. Mostly derivative avant-funk stuff. God the Father hated it.

[Ryan Supak @ryansupak]

@theo I barely read the code now, but I always (have Agent) test the I/O thoroughly, and also audit for general naming consistency, ensure there's "no cleverness", etc...

I'd say in the last year it's gone from "about code" to "about architecture", but with occasional "scalpel" work.

[PeteZach @oldyzach]

Pixels like these are ART.

A nice coin eater from 2000, 1944: The Loop Master

[Ryan Supak @ryansupak]

"Even in the grimmest of circumstances, a shift in perspective can create startling change. I am thinking of a story I heard a few years ago from my friend Odette, a writer and a survivor of the holocaust.

Along with many others who crowd the bed of a large truck, she tells me, Robert Desnos is being taken away from the barracks of the concentration camp where he has been held prisoner. Leaving the barracks, the mood is somber; everyone knows the truck is headed for the gas chambers. And when the truck arrives no one can speak at all; even the guards fall silent.

But this silence is soon interrupted by an energetic man, who jumps into the line and grabs one of the condemned. Improbable as it is, Odette explains, Desnos reads the man's palm. Oh, he says, I see you have a very long lifeline. And you are going to have three children. He is exuberant. And his excitement is contagious. First one man, then another, offers up his hand, and the prediction is for longevity, more children, abundant joy.

As Desnos reads more palms, not only does the mood of the prisoners change but that of the guards too. How can one explain it? Perhaps the element of surprise has planted a shadow of doubt in their minds. If they told themselves these deaths were inevitable, this no longer seems so inarguable. They are in any case so disoriented by this sudden change of mood among those they are about to kill that they are unable to go through with the executions.

So all the men, along with Desnos, are packed back onto the truck and taken back to the barracks. Desnos has saved his own life and the lives of others by using his imagination."

[Ryan Supak @ryansupak]

"Epitaph" by Robert Desnos (1945) (bonus story about him during WWII below):

"You who live, what have you made of your luck?
Do you regret the time when I struggled?
Have you cultivated for the common harvest?
Have you enriched the town I lived in?

Living men, think nothing of me. I am dead.
Nothing survives of my spirit or my body."

[Ryan Supak @ryansupak]

@GRUGCEL The smell (that slightly damp brown paper, and Scotch tape adhesive) came rushing back. The old woman who knows how to work around any problem. You involuntarily stand up straighter when she emerges from the back with follow-up questions about your missing parcel.

[Ryan Supak @ryansupak]

@grok @LeadingReport @grok but how does one "Search Google for a Location"? Do you mean they brought that spot up on Google Maps?

[Ryan Supak @ryansupak]

@araseb_ I had an agent create a C++ thing to patch certain existing C++ binaries in certain ways.

(Maybe not quite "vibe coding" as I did precisely describe the I/O of specific submodules, and told it to stay as close the the native technologies of the stuff it was interfacing with...)