Vincent Chu (褚邦平)

Working on a new thing. Previous: Partner @initialized; eng @twitter, @posterous, Clara Lending. Way past: Physics/Math at Stanford and Harvard.

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@danliu Ningxia is great. Have to try the brick kiln one on my next trip

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@ruima @kimmaicutler What are some books / resources that you recommend? Asking for a friend 😂

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If an int32 can overflow, it will overflow

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

With fundamental physics I feel like we beat the game in the 70s, and now we're just going back and collecting treasure chests (condensed matter and low temperature and plasma) and trying to beat the hidden superboss (quantum gravity)

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@nu_phases Which STEM majors don’t require competence in calculus? Mind blowing 🤯

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@agreeahmed But is it webscale?

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@bradgessler @Cole__Robertson @dhh @ycombinator @garrytan And Firebug too…

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@bradgessler @Cole__Robertson @dhh @ycombinator @garrytan Node came out summer ‘09 so nobody - unless building it on a pre-release version!

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@antirez Thanks for writing this up. Question: is your flow using an LLM-enabled IDE like cursor or using terminal tools like Claude code?

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@ekzhang1 Interested

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@sbilstein @robbiefigs @ai_luce @zaidrmn Congrats @sbilstein

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@dodeja 😕 what are you seeing out there ?

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@evangoldin @SendGridSupport Login has literally been broken for a full year. The way to get around it (IIRC) is to click on the "Sign up Now" then "Already Have An Account" link to get to this screen.

It's insane.

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My first entry into “real” math! Spent many frustrating hours trying to comprehend even basic proofs…

[Didier 'Dirac's ghost' Gaulin @DiracGhost]

3 for the price of one! You will learn Multivariable/vector calculus, linear algebra and differential forms in one place, with this ''Unified approach'' book by John and Barbara Hubbard, in my opinion, a masterpiece in pedagogy.

Written for the complete beginner, with a focus on worked out examples, an easy to read text which guides you throughout your journey, and probably the best introduction to differential forms and exterior derivatives that I've seen on paper (chapter 6 ), it would be hard for me to find a better starting point to these topics than this book.

I really wish I had known Hubbard's text when I had to learn vector calculus!

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@lymusing That’s the kind of ride-or-die attitude you should be hiring for

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@danliu The equivalent of the Google garage for Asian parents?

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@garrytan Forgive me, I was the PM responsible for making the close button non-responsive, but another department was in charge of managing user preferences

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LLMs are so powerful yet remarkably dumb. It accurately extracts tabular data-no easy feat- but flubs the trivial calculation.

It gets close (real answer: 2,193) which itself is uncanny. Why did it hallucinate something reasonable (vs. wildly off)??

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This is the guy you want bailing you out of a North Korean prison

[Roy @im_roy_lee]

I got rescinded from Harvard, went to community college, and am now at Columbia. Here's everything I learned (LONG THREAD)

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Earthquake!!