magicloop

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by magicloop 9mo ago
Your graphs roughly marry up with my anecdotal experience. After a while, when you know when and how to utilize LLMs/agents, coding does become more productive. There is a discernible improvement in productivity at the same quality l
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by magicloop 1y ago
In terms of difficulty was the HIV drug harder to develop than the COVID vaccine? If so, how much harder? The resolution of the AIDS epidemic, granted the logistics and targeting now needed, is such a brilliant milestone.
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by magicloop 1y ago
The real game the current administration is playing is to land on Mars before their current term expires. This mirrors the political, prestige, and technology triumph of the Kennedy administration. This is why the BBB Bill refocussed on t
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by magicloop 1y ago
I think this is a brilliant talk and truly captures the "zeitgeist" of our times. He sees the emergent patterns arising as software creation is changing. I am writing a hobby app at the moment and I am thinking about its architect
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by magicloop 1y ago
My listening to such billionaires explains a different attitude. Small investors, and medium investors hate market turbulence for sure. But when you are a billionaire, you can easily profit from short term uncertainty. For example, Chamath
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by magicloop 1y ago
That's a great data point. Thanks!
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by magicloop 1y ago
It is a sound analysis but I think there are other non-legal factors at play. If the president tries to do X, then the lawyers block X, then in political game theory the president "wins" in the eyes of the electorate because the p
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by magicloop 1y ago
Sadly this is not the case in relation to EU laws. In the US system of law, it is based on codified "rules". If you follow the letter of the rules you are fine - no fines. The system of regulation at play here is the EU digital m
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by magicloop 1y ago
I'd like to expand out why I hold this belief. The political cohort behind the president is roughly in two halves. The first half are the original MAGA crowd (looking out for the working class, pro-liberty, anti-woke, etc.). The secon
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by magicloop 1y ago
I agree. The bond markets are the ultimate heavy hitter. They have government level impact. See also: The French Revolution.
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by magicloop 1y ago
You are correct on the mechanism here. But my point is adjacent to that. Whilst you always get a buyer for the debt (here the bank), it is the yield that matters as the re-financing cost cannot be escaped irrespective of the owner.
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by magicloop 1y ago
I agree it's classic brinksmanship and the tariff views he has are genuine and long held. But his numerous signals to the Fed to ask to lower interest rates and the commitment to DOGE (which has the effect of lowering yields) is anoth
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by magicloop 1y ago
That's fair but I suggest that they are actually deficit hawks for the long term . In the short term, they've got financing troubles hence they care about the yield.
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by magicloop 1y ago
"It’s the T-bills wot dun it." That’s my read on why the U.S. just paused the global tariff hike to 10%. From the beginning, I’ve believed the executive branch's real goal was to push down the yield on the 10-year Treasury. W
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by magicloop 2y ago
I was studying the code they posted on GitHub. One line of attack is to study the bugs/workarounds in the code. For example, https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Aapple%2Fsecurity-pcc%20rd... , lists out all references to
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by magicloop 2y ago
To quote Schopenhauer (English translation): ``` But space and time are not only, each for itself, presupposed by matter, but a union of the two constitutes its essence, for this, as we have seen, consists in action, i.e., in causation ```
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by magicloop 2y ago
Remember that time when Linus looked at the camera and gave Nvidia the finger. Has that time now passed? Is it time to reconcile? Or are there still some gotchas?
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by magicloop 2y ago
Those problems of unaffordability of homes is a symptomatic effect of an earlier problem. During COVID-19, facing possible catastrophe in the Economy, Trump presidency pumped money into the US economy. The Biden presidency continued this
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by magicloop 3y ago
What has happened here is all about the personalities involved, not a business strategy, not a legal strategy. It is "Forming, Storming, Norming, ... " (Tuckman's stages of group development) Forming = setting up the technica
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by magicloop 3y ago
This is a in-the-field narrative of the Carbfix pilot project to capture CO2 into Basaltic rocks. It is a true tale of the challenges, ups and downs of doing something innovative and "saving the world".
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The plucky and painful story of the Carbfix pilot [pdf](sciencedirect.com)
2 points by magicloop 3y ago|1 comments
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by magicloop 3y ago
Very insightful - I didn't know about Section 174. I feel sorry for the overseas labour that a US company startup would be now considering stopping for tax reasons. But I suppose they needed that 15 year amortisation clause (compared
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by magicloop 3y ago
All tech companies I've been at have had this challenge of churn. As an engineer, the deeper the experience in a field, the more business value you can create (all else being equal). So when you switch speciality, value creation is go
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by magicloop 3y ago
I think that is 2/3 of the story. The other 1/3 is the "patch" workflow. In linux kernel development, it is all about sending patch sequences to a mailing list, comprising well-crafted logical steps. Then the maintaine
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by magicloop 3y ago
Well, striking language indeed. But.. what are the responsibilities of the board that may be hindered? I studied https://openai.com/our-structure One tantalising statement in there is that AGI-level system is not bound by
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by magicloop 3y ago
9to5Mac.com are reporting that Apple are going to support RCS messaging soon: > Later next year, we will be adding support for RCS Universal Profile, the standard as currently published by the GSM Association. We believe RCS Universal Pr
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by magicloop 3y ago
It is the intensity of distraction that creates the gap for the serenity of concentration: - One way to "survive" is to logically separate the work into two different workflows. The "interrupt" workflow is where you are
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by magicloop 3y ago
It's about Fatima. The government was mocked for a "tone deaf" campaign to hire from a diverse workforce and re-skill in Cyber. So when a "senior" job was advertised in Cyber, the urge to mock brewed up as seen on
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by magicloop 3y ago
I have great respect for your current work and assurances on the business model. But what you are asserting is only _currently_ in your gift. If you keep controlling equity stakes in the business and don't need to raise significant ou
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by magicloop 3y ago
At the education stage, it is better to optimise for core learning/theory (e.g. mathematical foundations), with a bit of practical stuff thrown in, and then as you go further along, introduce longer projects (more practical work e.g Ne

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