Antonio Torres

Tinker and Entrepreneur

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.

[Antonio Torres @toniotgz]

#lerobot

[Antonio Torres @toniotgz]

The need to write

[Harrison Kinsley @Sentdex]

Lucky robots fellowship is for researchers who are looking for a simulator that bends to their will, not the other way around.

we're looking to partner with a select few researchers in a paid fellowship to push robotics research into the next frontier

[Antonio Torres @toniotgz]

@rankintweets What software are you guys using to transcribe and control the computer?

[Antonio Torres @toniotgz]

@0xPrajwal_ More data and examples of web development than of kernel or modules.

[Antonio Torres @toniotgz]

@ibocodes How does it compare to Neon databases?

[Antonio Torres @toniotgz]

Will voice transcription become for AI what the mouse was for the personal computer?

[Antonio Torres @toniotgz]

@vivoplt Porkbun

[Antonio Torres @toniotgz]

@trikcode Same feeling! Cannot keep up in my 5-9!

[Antonio Torres @toniotgz]

@_javierivero @0xLeticia The general group is full! I can’t join, but it’s a huge community!

[Big Brain Business @BigBrainBizness]

Jim Simons, founder of Renaissance Technologies, on why the most successful fund in history was built on collaboration, not finance:

Simons opens with a confession:

"I'm not your typical businessman."

What follows is a formula for building a team, one he describes, fittingly for a mathematician, as an algorithm.

He lays out the model he used at Renaissance:

"My algorithm has always been you got smart people together. You give them a lot of freedom. You create an atmosphere where everyone talks to everyone else."

The detail he keeps returning to is communication, the refusal to let talent work in isolation:

"They're not hiding in a corner with their own little thing. They talk to everybody else."

Then come the final two ingredients: tools and ownership.

"And you provide the best infrastructure, the best computers and so on that people can work with, and make everyone partners."

He sums the whole philosophy up in a single line:

"So that was the model that we used in Renaissance."

The takeaway is striking in its simplicity. Simons doesn't credit a secret indicator or a proprietary edge.

He credits a culture: gather brilliant people, hand them freedom, force open conversation, equip them with the best tools, and make them partners in the outcome.

[alex @alexch3n]

software engineers don't type we have foot pedals to trigger Wispr Flow now

[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

Must read for my younger friends.

[Antonio Torres @toniotgz]

@prasenx @gregorojstersek I’m not sure if it’s a demotion. It would be if you prefer not to be hands-on. You can still influence your peers both up, down, and laterally within the hierarchy without anyone reporting to you.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

They are actually

It seems risk taking has genetic predisposition

Europeans are the ones that stayed home

Americans are the ones that took a risk and left and it actually shows up in their DNA!

"The DRD4-7R gene variant known as the "wanderlust gene") is a dopamine receptor variant linked to novelty-seeking and risk-taking behavior. Chen et al. (1999) found its frequency correlates with how far populations migrated historically: higher in the Americas than in their source populations, and especially high in South American groups whose ancestors migrated furthest. So the empirical pattern you’d predict if self-selection were real does show up at the allele level."

[Antonio Torres @toniotgz]

@kcosr Oh no! Tailscale offers one of the best free tiers, and I use it every day. I love the product!

[@levelsio @levelsio]

Also I'm starting to see big tech companies start to operate like me now

They're firing HR, middle management, merging roles

Everyone becomes a builder with AI

I think because with AI people like me have access to teams of 10,000 employees but in the form of AI

So the difference between a solo builder with AI and a big tech company with 10,000 employees is smaller than ever!