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Austen Allred

Austen Allred

Founder/CEO GauntletAI.com: Free AI training for the smartest engineers. Will tweet as I wish and suffer the consequences. Accelerando:

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  Why aren’t there more Elons?
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  The likelihood that he’s dead is just really, really high
  
  not even a single $ has moved since the last 16 years peak self control wonder what he is doing these days
  
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  Wife: “What did your teacher remember about September 11th?” Nine-year-old: “She was only four then, she doesn’t remember it at all.”
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  So the “Chase unlimited money glitch” that went viral on TikTok was: * Writing yourself a giant check * Mobile depositing that check * Going to an ATM to withdraw cash before the check cleared …Literally just committing check fraud
  
  Yesterday, a glitch in Chase Bank's system allowed people to withdraw funds they weren’t entitled to, prompting the bank to place 7-day holds on the affected accounts. As a consequence, chase account holders who participated in this glitch are now dealing with massive negative
  
  
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  John Mulaney getting on stage and mercilessly mocking everyone at Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference is one of the funniest things I’ve ever read
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  Christmas gift from my grandma this year: A 380-page, full-color cookbook with all of her favorite recipes she’s collected over the past 70+ years. She spent the past few years typing out her hundreds of handwritten recipe cards and taking photos of everything she makes.
  
  
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  Programmers can literally just sit down at a computer and create value for people out of thin air
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  Am I crazy or are real-time translation and Duolingo… not at all competing products?
  
  Duolingo stock fell 3.5%, wiping out ~$250M in market value, within minutes of OpenAI demoing the real-time translation capabilities of GPT-4o
  
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  This is one of my favorite threads on X. People who don’t lift dismissively mocking average people for not being able to curl 50kg (110 pounds). And jacked gym bros explaining how extreme it is to be able to do so.
  
  
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  I was very very sad when I learned the Domino’s pizza tracker is entirely fake (based solely on time since order), but I have to commend whatever engineer suggested doing that instead of spending $200 million building out the infrastructure to support it being real
  
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  Paying taxes hits different when you see just how many places it gets blown for nothing. 100millionhere,100 million here, 100millionhere,500 million there, 5billionoverthere,5 billion over there, 5billionoverthere,300 million there. People work their entire lives to pay $500k in taxes, and it’s a rounding error on one wasteful program.
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  I wish I could have been a fly on the wall for when the Google team realized, “You know what, if you look at the cumulative number of miles of roads on the planet… we could actually just mount a camera on a car and drive down every single one of them.”
  
  If you think about it, Google Streetview is one of the absolute coolest things humans have ever created
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  Do we have to pretend like a murdered out black nearly silent nearly indestructible car that goes 0-60 in 2.6 seconds isn’t cool?
  
  My neighbor thinks he is Batman.
  
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  The entirety of the Joe Rogan <> Marc Andreeseen podcast is fascinating, but please, please listen to this part. The abuse of power within unaccountable (and arguably unconstitutional) federal agencies has become so extreme the stories are almost unbelievable.