Daniel Walton

[Arthur MacWaters @ArthurMacwaters]

It’s kinda crazy to me that we melt sand down, clean it to 99.99999% purity, literal wizards have to draw it slowly into an ingot, we cut it, inscribe a hundred billion little on/off switches on it, and when you run electric current through it you can do basic arithmetic, which when you do enough of it can do any math on the planet, and which describes reality well enough that we can teach it the ontological meaning of words and their distance from each other on a high-dimensional space, and if you ask, it can tell you what word comes next and that apparently is powerful enough that if you do it a hundred billion times it’s the smartest thing to ever exist

oh yeah and we use this primarily for email

[Daniel Walton @shortsample]

I miss this era of programming

[trish @TrisH0x2A]

the most famous comment in all of C programming history. written by a developer at id Software in 1999 for Quake III Arena

one line of pointer casting, one bit shift, one subtraction and somehow you have 1/√x.

just bit manipulation, a constant, and a final newton refinement step.
the comment reads: "what the f***?"

[Daniel Walton @shortsample]

Not good. But the potential for bad is high

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Hackers raised the temperature of refrigerators and freezers at hundreds of French supermarkets to as high as 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit) overnight, causing fires and spoiling food, per Reuters

[Daniel Walton @shortsample]

@cooper_nyc_ @grok And they are more snacks than food.

Also data centers don’t delete water.

[Daniel Walton @shortsample]

Don’t be a programmer. Make things for people however you can.

[Nicholas Charriere @nichochar]

if you were a software engineer and you don’t feel grief about giving up coding you simply weren’t a good one.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Liftoff of Starship!

[𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 @Old_But_Gold50s]

When art and creativity come together, something truly special can be heard.

Have you ever heard this sound before?

[Saturday Night Live @nbcsnl]

Dario Amodei is at the desk to assure that the future of humanity is safe from AI

[Daniel Walton @shortsample]

Also video games kinda gave birth to AI

[Prasenjit @prasenx]

asked claude in cursor to make a video on history of video games

[Daniel Walton @shortsample]

Here is how I think of computers

A long term linear storage system yet more random access all the time.

A set of commands that can store bits for computation and calculations that is less relevant

Blinking lights across fiber or copper. And a physical set of interrupts.

[onur ozcan @oozn]

i trained the fly to cut doner kabab with a knife

yours solves rubiks cubes, mine cuts doner. guess which one has a job in this economy

[Quinn Leng @quinn_leng]

fly brain weights 30ug draws 200nW power, but with proper training, it can drive car and play video games

NVIDIA B200 has 17x denser transistors than fly brain(if they are digital), but is 2615x less energy efficient

human designed computation systems have a long way to go, big potential!

[Supabase @supabase]

the fly is deploying databases

[BORED @BoredElonMusk]

If you showed this to someone in 1990 they would have called you insane.

[harley turan @hturan]

turns out 60hz hi-dpi eink screens feel pretty magical

[Daniel Walton @shortsample]

Jobs helped work backwards from the customer. He turned Apple from a tech idea into a digital consumer fashion brand with this attitude.

At scale tech should be invisible.

[Daniel Walton @shortsample]

sonoluminescence.

[Bilim Dünyası @dunyasalbilim]

Fiziğin en büyüleyici çözülmemiş gizemlerinden biri.

[Daniel Walton @shortsample]

@elonmusk Complaining without solution…if you think there is a problem make a new solution. Rumination is not going to help

[Daniel Walton @shortsample]

Interesting, this last article requires that you say you aren't a robot...but a robot made this so here we go!

[Daniel Walton @shortsample]

Underwater, lunch looks like it’s somewhere else. Archerfish correct for refraction anyway. 🎯🐟

[Daniel Walton @shortsample]

Sources — Current Biology research: https://t.co/ayCA3xEo89 | University of St Andrews: https://t.co/GKqcHlZ2v2

[Daniel Walton @shortsample]

I'm thinking about how to improve communication across senders and receivers of that...

I'm building right now with the garage wide open