AKHIL FKA SUMMER

weekend reading

YouTube video by Philosophy Overdose The Sane & Eccentric in Present Thought - Brand Blanshard (1963)

youtu.be/xEddsmnY228?...

One finds lectures of folks reminiscencing about what intellectual life was like "before the great war" (number one, that is...) & starts to pick up on queer habits of speech otherwise lost to history before one's parents were even born

how do you like decentralization now?

powerful perspective

I have had this realization myself

classical theory of computing is inadequate for true agents with autonomy

LLMs — clearly crude instruments — indirectly reveal a new path and that’s the most interesting thing about them

AI has to seriously account for the distinction between prediction and explanation

turned 28

elder technology brother arc

it feels like first day back in school here

claude has gotten so good I have levered up in somethings even when I’m not using it

when Ellul said “I am somehow unable to believe in the revolutionary value of an act which makes the cash register jingle so merrily.”

i felt that

i just had a “ha that’s a computer” moment

surprising amount of things are computers

looking for books that tell the story behind large deals

( there’s one about a bank merger at the tip of my tongue )

video games are very impressive software

slowly but surely i am trending towards writing a whole webrtc stack

( this evening I’m building an SFU )

i think i’m going to write a long form essay on all the things i love about technology

( mostly pulled from my tweets on software/technology )

don’t stop making music

looking for books that tell the story behind large deals

( there’s one about a bank merger at the tip of my tongue )

any good programming language has to be a consistent source of drama

keep that in mind when you’re designing your language

some of y’all are very tedious

ha i just ordered that! love Turkle

book i want to read: Identity and Agency in Virtual Spaces

someone write it please

expert programmers have a comfort with latent spaces that goes hard

modern day mating call

i go back and forth between enjoying the artistic talk about computing/internet to screaming “build something mf”

everyday i thank Al Gore for inventing the internet

any good programming language has to be a consistent source of drama

keep that in mind when you’re designing your language

the idea of personal computers was a mistake

computing is a social activity

i think the computer is primarily a way for people to depend on each other

whatever replaces the document model will have to allow for infinite fracturing