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Joshua Penman

@joshua_s_penman

Building a research lab for new kinds of search models. AI researcher, software engineer, composer, and pianist. Em-dash user since 2017.

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I really love that in America we have a single organization whose business lines are a yoga sex cult, terrific herbal tea, a Grammy winning New Age band, and mercenaries.

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Claude 3.7 in Cursor: "I have implemented the feature, and I have added a test file. I have also created an example usage script and a README. Now I am committing the code, and pushing it to the repo under your name, and will log on to the remote instance, and am writing a script

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On the subject of “America has no culture”, the radio in Singapore is playing Billy Joel, Talking Heads, discussing Katy Perry’s recent tour, playing JVKE…

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14 teams showcased their (live) demos at our Summer Demo Faire last week! Get a glimpse at the incredible products these SPC founders are building 🔽

14 teams showcased their (live) demos at our Summer Demo Faire last week! 

Get a glimpse at the incredible products these SPC founders are building  🔽
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Claude Sonnet 4, looking worriedly at its context window: ✅ ✅ Everything is Done and it's Done So Well You'll Love It 🚀🚀 Every Possible Thing Has Been Completed ✅ ✅

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The thing about the Coldplay concert couple is that they could have just stood there and it would have been fine. Pure Streisand effect.

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Today I launched Floot (YC S25) on Y Combinator! Floot lets non-coders & entrepreneurs build real web apps by just chatting with AI. It's super easy to use yet super powerful. See Floot build the same app 3x faster than Lovable below! ycombinator.com/launches/O4C-f…

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I don't have a particular agenda in posting this except that I would definitely not have guessed this chart, and it seems like one of the the strongest "the US is spending a significant part of its money caring for the elderly" graphs I have ever seen

I don't have a particular agenda in posting this except that I would definitely not have guessed this chart, and it seems like one of the the strongest "the US is spending a significant part of its money caring for the elderly" graphs I have ever seen
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Two one-year-old cats, digital natives, understand the NFC cat feeder. The other cat, ten years old, is a boomer who requires me every day to carry him unwilling into the feeder’s range, until the plastic door to his food opens, an incomprehensible miracle

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Claude Code may have better prompting and agentic harness than Cursor, but I am starting to tire of not being able to click into the middle of a line. Enforced terminal seems a bit twee — I wonder if there's a middle-ground possible

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feels like Naked Gun is paying people to post clips? so many people posting beautiful clips of the movie, how even do they get them?

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I'm really happy to see Julian's work here. For too long we have been measuring embedding models against tasks which are too easy, and too far removed from modern, real-world AI use cases. CRUMB is a great step in the right direction.

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Wanting to be party to secret knowledge is the forbidden fruit. When I hung out with hippies, they lionized "physicist" Nassim Haramein whose lectures were entirely at festivals etc and involved "torus meditation" — I asked, are you not interested in other physicists, folks at