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growth.wtf
Bootstrapping a software company. In my free time I try to do things with data and statistics, or post random thoughts here.
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I can't believe someone just decided 0! = 1 and we LET THEM GET AWAY WITH IT

Tom Scott and Adam scott are cousins??!?!

Happy, sad, or some secret third emotion.

Hacker News comments are truly some of the most insane and entitled tech takes

This is 100% correct

There is so much dogshit software in the world

Forget Google Meet.... Introducing—Google Feet!

caffeine pill and coconut water: breakfast of champions

Recommending my friend who is building on 4o-mini check this out

@timkellogg.me Good job getting to the front page of hacker News

This is going to sound crazy but I think "energy field" people who go based on vibes are on to something. I think they've created a sort of mathematical construct in their head + mistakenly imputing it onto reality, but modeling competence, positivity, or other attributes as or networks makes sense

O3 materially moves up my timeline of ASI/agi

Holy shit, just got o3 access

I'm really tired right now but this Ray dalio book that's coming out is complete cherry picked bullshit right? I mean I respected the guy in his team did a lot of research. But it kind of sounds like if you squint data long enough you Will find a pattern.

It's very likely that humans will be convinced AI is sentient well before it actually happens.

File extensions are such a fundamentally weird idea. Whose idea was it to just shove the stub of something into the name in order for the user and OS to know the file type is? Space is so limited + then you have to have a whole bunch of custom headers and byte patterns for every bespoke file type.

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I reached for xstate again because I figured claude could help me navigate it. I was wrong.

This it is not a politics account, but I think it is cyberpunk AF that our incoming presidents team made upwards of 60 million and a crypto pump and dump the weekend before the inauguration. Forget hoverboards, Where's my fucking chrome, choom?? (Cyberpunk is not a positive description)

Some good news today: today I got verbal agreement from a customer that will allow me to have enough income to keep working on my own startup, indefinitely. Huge personal milestone.

The trump meme coin going to 5bn in "market cap" is truly cyberpunk. Bleak and almost unintelligible to someone ten years ago.

Perplexity AI offering to merge with tiktok is not what I expected at all.