Reposted by AKHIL FKA SUMMERgodoglyness @godoglyness.bsky.social · 12/12/2024youtu.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 bornyoutu.beThe Sane & Eccentric in Present Thought - Brand Blanshard (1963)YouTube video by Philosophy Overdose 251
AKHIL FKA SUMMER @akhil.bsky.social · 29/11/2024powerful perspective I have had this realization myself 030
AKHIL FKA SUMMER @akhil.bsky.social · 28/11/2024classical 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 020
AKHIL FKA SUMMER @akhil.bsky.social · 26/11/2024AI has to seriously account for the distinction between prediction and explanation 010
AKHIL FKA SUMMER @akhil.bsky.social · 23/11/2024claude has gotten so good I have levered up in somethings even when I’m not using it 030
Reposted by AKHIL FKA SUMMERAKHIL FKA SUMMER @akhil.bsky.social · 06/05/2023when 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 093
AKHIL FKA SUMMER @akhil.bsky.social · 04/07/2023i just had a “ha that’s a computer” moment surprising amount of things are computers 000
Reposted by AKHIL FKA SUMMERAKHIL FKA SUMMER @akhil.bsky.social · 02/07/2023looking for books that tell the story behind large deals ( there’s one about a bank merger at the tip of my tongue ) 101
AKHIL FKA SUMMER @akhil.bsky.social · 04/07/2023slowly but surely i am trending towards writing a whole webrtc stack ( this evening I’m building an SFU ) 000
AKHIL FKA SUMMER @akhil.bsky.social · 02/07/2023i 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 ) 060
AKHIL FKA SUMMER @akhil.bsky.social · 02/07/2023looking for books that tell the story behind large deals ( there’s one about a bank merger at the tip of my tongue ) 101
Reposted by AKHIL FKA SUMMERAKHIL FKA SUMMER @akhil.bsky.social · 28/05/2023any good programming language has to be a consistent source of drama keep that in mind when you’re designing your language 061
AKHIL FKA SUMMER @akhil.bsky.social · 29/05/2023book i want to read: Identity and Agency in Virtual Spaces someone write it please 041
AKHIL FKA SUMMER @akhil.bsky.social · 29/05/2023expert programmers have a comfort with latent spaces that goes hard 120
AKHIL FKA SUMMER @akhil.bsky.social · 28/05/2023i go back and forth between enjoying the artistic talk about computing/internet to screaming “build something mf” 010
AKHIL FKA SUMMER @akhil.bsky.social · 28/05/2023everyday i thank Al Gore for inventing the internet 160
AKHIL FKA SUMMER @akhil.bsky.social · 28/05/2023any good programming language has to be a consistent source of drama keep that in mind when you’re designing your language 061
AKHIL FKA SUMMER @akhil.bsky.social · 28/05/2023the idea of personal computers was a mistake computing is a social activity 010
AKHIL FKA SUMMER @akhil.bsky.social · 27/05/2023i think the computer is primarily a way for people to depend on each other 010
AKHIL FKA SUMMER @akhil.bsky.social · 27/05/2023whatever replaces the document model will have to allow for infinite fracturing 010
AKHIL FKA SUMMER @akhil.bsky.social · 27/05/2023listening to music with your friends is a top tier experience 020
Reposted by AKHIL FKA SUMMERAKHIL FKA SUMMER @akhil.bsky.social · 15/05/2023this one time i was talking to a crypto person and 15m into a normal conversation he was like one day wallets will encapsulate all features of a browser that one interaction permanently tinted my view of crypto/web3 people 042
AKHIL FKA SUMMER @akhil.bsky.social · 25/05/2023“most important thing is to have a strong vision, be selfish, to build something for yourself, and then be able to convince others to do the same 000
AKHIL FKA SUMMER @akhil.bsky.social · 25/05/2023writing position papers is fun when it’s about a speculative new future for the web 010
AKHIL FKA SUMMER @akhil.bsky.social · 25/05/2023some of you have never created enterprise value i can tell 010
AKHIL FKA SUMMER @akhil.bsky.social · 25/05/2023got something i’ve been working towards for ages but it’s anticlimactic bc i’m already working on the next thing 000
AKHIL FKA SUMMER @akhil.bsky.social · 24/05/2023what comes to mind when you hear “charismatic software” 000
AKHIL FKA SUMMER @akhil.bsky.social · 24/05/2023i have learned more about the mouse and keyboard from the browser work than i care to admit 000
AKHIL FKA SUMMER @akhil.bsky.social · 24/05/2023wait sacrifice == make sacred i sacrificed my time to workout i made my time sacred to workout 020
AKHIL FKA SUMMER @akhil.bsky.social · 24/05/2023how many promises can your new technology carry? how new and compelling are these promises? 031
AKHIL FKA SUMMER @akhil.bsky.social · 23/05/2023ability to generate goals has to be a part of agency 031
AKHIL FKA SUMMER @akhil.bsky.social · 22/05/2023people have no idea the leverage that comes with software you can turn abstractions into institutional realities 020
