David Peto (@davidpeto) 's Twitter Profile
David Peto

@davidpeto

Working on new things. Previously founded General System, Aframe and Unit. Iain M Banks' Culture series is my North Star. Hard tech to solve hard problems.

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Andrew Côté (@andercot) 's Twitter Profile Photo

There is no 'energy floor' for computation because operations can be made reversible. In contrast robots need one joule for every newton-meter of force, no matter what. I think future energy consumption will be dominated by matter manipulation over information manipulation.

Andrew Rogers (@jandrewrogers) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Joran Dirk Greef Integrity checking mechanisms on most filesystems are weak, the ones they have are unreasonably slow, and the their guarantees, such as they are, can arbitrarily change with configs. I started using raw block devices for storage engines over a decade ago and never looked back.

Andrew Rogers (@jandrewrogers) 's Twitter Profile Photo

LLMs are an elegant demo of the proof that AI learning and data indexing are equivalent. Data models LLMs can't reason about overlap data models we can't index at scale. Enough is known about the indexing problem to know LLM architectures can't represent these data models.

Keith Williams (@keithwillcode) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Have seen lots of engineers avoid writing automated tests because they aren’t fun or “they slow us down”. With AI, there’s no reason to not have incredible test suites, even for small startups. Our output has doubled over the last year since we put quality first.

Paul Graham (@paulg) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Don't take money from an investor you have moral qualms about because of valuable connections they claim to have. Being upstanding matters more in the long term than connections.

Grant Brown (@gbthevc) 's Twitter Profile Photo

There’s a founder from Ukraine flying from CA to the frontlines in his homeland to test counter drone systems he built with his own two hands to protect his people from destruction, and yet some people still choose to build ai tools that help you cheat on job interviews? How sway

Jeff Crusey (@jeffcrusey) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Is the world a better place today? A few years ago, I was talking with Andrew Peterson, CEO of Array Labs, about whether the world is a better place today than it was ten years ago. I think it is. Longevity has gone up, poverty has gone down. There's good evidence of collective