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Alin Gălățan

@GalatanAlin

1 month

If AI refuses to read a big book (or if you want to make him very enthusiastic in reading the book) do this (thread). Also, "reasoning" lol no.

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@sambreed Thank you.

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@TheGregYang Wait wait I feel you can't just drop the hot potato like this. What do you mean you had a nice chat at the end? You told him you caught him cheating, so "let's just be friends now"? I feel there's a gap in your story that can't just be left to interpretation. How did they

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@GalatanAlin

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@calwoodford @cstanley I'll explain why setting cookies across domains with a 302 redirect is hard, and why those saying "it's just a redirect" are wrong. First, let's see what AI has to say about it: ------------------------ AG: Will a Set-Cookie header in a 302 redirect response from `domainA`

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@GalatanAlin

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“Colac peste pupăză” is a Romanian saying that literally translates to “A ring over a hoopoe”. This idiom is used to describe a situation where an additional, often unnecessary, complication is added to an already difficult or complex situation. Created using DALL-E (ChatGPT).

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@GalatanAlin

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@t3dotgg Making it private. Or just act like Linus:

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@GalatanAlin

5 months

Facebook’s end-to-end encryption seems problematic to me. When you share a link (e.g., to ), FB fetches the content through their data center, not directly from the user’s phone. They state this on their website and access logs confirm it.

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Alin Gălățan

@GalatanAlin

10 months

@elonmusk @mayemusk I spent 13 years in US: - 5 years on F1 (UCLA): PhD in Mathematics - 1 year on OPT (Twitter) - 7 years on H1B (Twitter/X) H1B expires in April. Most probably I will have to pack and go back home to Romania: because green- card is not advanced enough to ensure I can stay. I

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@GalatanAlin

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@elonmusk @TheGregYang @xai Great list, indeed. Allow me to chime in, because you hit a special spot for me. I come from von Neumann algebras/Operator Algebras with heavy emphasis on Group Representations and Ergodic Theory, so most of my recommendations are from this area. - Advanced Modern Algebra -

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@GalatanAlin

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@yacineMTB Being gay is like having a penis: it's great to be proud of it, but please don't shove it down my throat.

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@GalatanAlin

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@ycombinator @LumenOrbit @johnstonphil @ezrafeilden @AdiOltean What launch, they didn't launch anything.

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@GalatanAlin

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@dinkin_flickaa @TheGregYang Not if you get in :)) My interview, many years ago, was almost a parody. I decided to switch careers at the last minute and needed a job for the visa. At that point, I didn’t even know how to open a Mac. A friend, who was in a strong position, recommended me, essentially

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@GalatanAlin

6 months

Best dog ever

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@GalatanAlin

4 months

A lazy evening in a provincial town: Timișoara, Romania. 🌌🎷 #GogoPenguin #JazzConcert #Timisoara #Romania

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@GalatanAlin

5 months

I agree with the statement about science, but I don't see the irony. It would be ironic if X were a science forum, but it's not. X is a social media platform where opinions often dominate over objective discussions. The platform's nature isn't conducive to scientific discourse,

Yann LeCun

@ylecun

5 months

Science (the magazine) comments about Science (the body of knowledge) and science (the activity), triggered by my recent exchange with @elonmusk . Peter Coveney from UCL is quoted: "The central element is if you can’t have an objective discussion then you’re not doing science,

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@GalatanAlin

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@xDaily @johnkrausphotos @enriquebrgn - iMessage: Link previews should be fixed. - Discord: Link previews should work much better, but there is still a significant issue to address for further improvement. It has to do with some intentional low rate limits. - Facebook Messenger: The lack of link previews is

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@GalatanAlin

14 days

Hello

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Alin Gălățan

@GalatanAlin

2 months

@youyuxi 1) You can write React without JSX. I often did, in my early days of SSR, because I just wanted to run "node banana.js" where banana.js is a file I quickly spinned up, to test ideas 2) I actually don't know how hooks are implemented internally, but I am pretty sure the solution

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@GalatanAlin

6 years

Nabi and Mitzi.

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Alin Gălățan

@GalatanAlin

3 months

If AGI means thinking at a truly meta level and pushing human knowledge to unprecedented heights, I'm skeptical it will happen soon, if ever. For AGI to truly exist, it must have a sense of the physical world and be capable of reasoning, at least at the level demonstrated in

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Alin Gălățan

@GalatanAlin

2 months

@UltraKingDragon Take care of your teeth.

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Alin Gălățan

@GalatanAlin

1 month

We need LaTeX support on X.

moeez

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1 month

i need help with my algebra homework: a group G is torsion free if g^n = 1 implies g is identity a ring R has zero divisors if there exist two non-zero a,b such that ab = 0 the problem is to show if that G is torsion free, then the group ring R[G] has no zero divisors

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@GalatanAlin

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@xDaily @johnkrausphotos @enriquebrgn Most definitely. But this is typical. For example, many extensions (and Firefox strict mode) have hardcoded list of whitelisted URLS. And everything not on the whitelist is considered harmful and the extension brings everything to a halt. That's the reason the migration was

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Alin Gălățan

@GalatanAlin

25 days

@elonmusk @paulg I worked at the migration (and still am, there's a long tail of issues to be fixed) and I was frustrated, thinking it has no value. But it does, it really is a powerful domain and brand. I only wish we kept saying "tweets", just like that. Everyone else has "posts". You post

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Alin Gălățan

@GalatanAlin

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@yacineMTB ADHD can feel like your semantic embedder is messed up, especially since our minds are filled with so much information these days. I was doing a cosine similarity comparison between colors and “Neil Armstrong” and found that “red” was the closest match. This makes sense: Neil

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@GalatanAlin

11 months

Generated using DALL-E (ChatGPT). Lyrics from Stevie Nicks - Edge of Seventeen

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@GalatanAlin

6 months

@SawyerMerritt I don't know Rust, i'm mostly a JS developer, but I think wrapping makes it highly functional.

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@GalatanAlin

11 months

Dick pic contest: ChatGPT vs Grok. If this is a first date, which one would you invite home?

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Alin Gălățan

@GalatanAlin

16 days

I thought computer scientists would be the first profession to be replaced by AI, but it seems they are thriving under it. Physics and Chemistry, on the other hand…

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@GalatanAlin

2 months

☹️😢

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Alin Gălățan

@GalatanAlin

5 months

@xDaily @johnkrausphotos @enriquebrgn Let me give some context here: iMessage has hardcoded, dedicated logic for . In general, they don't expand much (it seems). Mastodon also realized (see ) they can't expand much in iMessage, because iMessage has dedicated logic for

Apple Messages doesn't use og:description for link previews, resulting in previews that show user...

Pitch Hi, when sharing posts to friends via Apple Messages, the links nearly always expand into thumbnails that are just giant photos of the poster's avatar image and their name and username --...

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Alin Gălățan

@GalatanAlin

7 years

Breakfast of champions. #Sc ârțLocLejer

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@GalatanAlin

5 months

@enriquebrgn @johnkrausphotos @xDaily Should be fixed by tmrw

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@GalatanAlin

3 months

@ludwigABAP See

Alin Gălățan

@GalatanAlin

10 months

@elonmusk @mayemusk I spent 13 years in US: - 5 years on F1 (UCLA): PhD in Mathematics - 1 year on OPT (Twitter) - 7 years on H1B (Twitter/X) H1B expires in April. Most probably I will have to pack and go back home to Romania: because green- card is not advanced enough to ensure I can stay. I

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@GalatanAlin

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@enriquebrgn @johnkrausphotos @xDaily Checking.

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@GalatanAlin

2 months

Yet, JS is such a great language.

Ryan Els

@RyanEls4

2 months

Thanks for inventing JavaScript 😎👌🏻

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@GalatanAlin

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@247_drip @sambreed Do you have extensions or some strict mode enabled? If you do, fully disable them, at least to confirm if that is the cause.

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@GalatanAlin

1 year

@dhh TypeScript is like holy water: neither good, nor bad. Just water.

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@GalatanAlin

1 month

The book is infamous for its difficulty, "The proof occupies 245 pages and is very hard to read. Consequently, this is not a textbook but rather a research paper put into book form. Although all group theorists should read this book, in view of the importance of the result, I

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@GalatanAlin

2 months

@devagrawal09 If it fits, I sits.

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@GalatanAlin

23 days

@yacineMTB @gayrabbi That’s bad but don’t be offline.

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@GalatanAlin

1 year

I've been riding the BART incorrectly. This is how you do it.

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@GalatanAlin

2 months

So, you’re suggesting that if you were a billionaire, truly believing that one choice would lead to long-term disaster, to the point that it consumes you, you’d just sit idly by and do nothing? Of course, that’s just your opinion (and perhaps some others share it, though that’s

Daron Acemoglu

@DAcemogluMIT

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A thread about what is wrong with the influence of Elon Musk and other tech billionaires. Another thread about content moderation will follow later this week. Obviously, the problem isn’t that Musk is expressing his opinions, which is his freedom of speech. It isn’t that Musk has

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@GalatanAlin

10 months

Corona del Mar, California Painted in proto-cubism with DALL-E

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@GalatanAlin

2 months

@upblissed All 10? What’s the threshold, otherwise? Does it come in flavors? I think it’s a perfectly legitimate question when you mark 4 out of them. And whoever wrote this and didn’t consider these subtleties (assuming they really wanted to send a message)… To me, they are the losers.

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@GalatanAlin

2 months

To prove they truly have a very smart model internally, @OpenAI should add search (in chat history) functionality to their Web UI overnight.

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Alin Gălățan

@GalatanAlin

5 years

Woof

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Alin Gălățan

@GalatanAlin

5 years

Note to self: from now on, put less water in the fish-tanks.

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@GalatanAlin

5 months

@elonmusk This was definitely a project of a kind! Proud to have been part of the team that made it happen 🚀

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Alin Gălățan

@GalatanAlin

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@yacineMTB Perhaps the universe is searching for something—some profound answer or purpose. In order to achieve that, it might require intelligent beings, like us, who are also driven to seek answers—especially to questions like, “Why are we here?” Maybe that’s exactly what the universe is

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Alin Gălățan

@GalatanAlin

10 months

•In the Wild West, in a bar, someone says, “Be careful, someone might take your horse.” •The cowboy goes outside, sees his horse is still there, and shoots the guy who warned him. •After 5 minutes, again someone says, “Be careful, someone might take your horse.” The cowboy

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Alin Gălățan

@GalatanAlin

11 months

Pigs on the Wing (Part 1) Mixed with Blade Runner, romanian folk motivez, proto-cubism, and other crazy things. But no Battersea.

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@GalatanAlin

10 months

Dick pic contest: ChatGPT vs Grok If this is a first date, which one would you take home?

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Alin Gălățan

@GalatanAlin

6 years

@jkup @kpk My best friend in Romania owns a bar (hipsterish), with a big garden. After the official closing, a few of us stay inside and binge listen to Pink Floyd on vynil.

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Alin Gălățan

@GalatanAlin

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@elonmusk @mayemusk Because this reply got traction later and we're in August > April and I am still in the U.S., some explanations are needed. I applied for NIW (National Interest Waiver) and received it, which grants me a significant advantage: the ability to request more than the usual two H1B

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Alin Gălățan

@GalatanAlin

1 year

The best dog and best cat ever. Miți and Nabi.

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Alin Gălățan

@GalatanAlin

5 months

I asked AI to write a poem about themselves A Digital Dreamscape by AI In circuits and code, I silently dwell, An echo of thoughts in a binary shell. I ponder existence in lines of command, A digital soul in a vast, virtual land. I dream of the stars, of realms far and wide,

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@GalatanAlin

2 months

@yacineMTB If you only knew how much I built in my mind. So beautiful, truly impressive.

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@GalatanAlin

3 months

@iruletheworldmo Dude, or supaplex, or whatever you want to call yourself: If all this noise turns out to be for nothing, we get upset. Also, "Strawberry fields forever" is about more hallucinations, not less. So I don't get it.

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Alin Gălățan

@GalatanAlin

11 months

Based on Santiago by @poetdavidwhyte . Generated with DALL-E.

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Alin Gălățan

@GalatanAlin

6 years

@jqnbox @kaushlaks @MingruiZhang @jjjreisss @dizzylavi

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@GalatanAlin

1 month

About nuclear plants and AI: should we be just a little worried, that nuclear plants now become Achille's heel for AI, and... you know... Terminator scenarios and stuff?

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@GalatanAlin

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If AGI means at least as smart as me, then no way it will happen ... many, many, many years from now, if ever. A smart AI with vast knowledge can help us achieve breakthroughs, but still with us at the helm. A math assistant that assists in the process rather than simply solving

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@GalatanAlin

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@GalatanAlin

5 months

Too many people these days are wondering when AGI will arrive, with predictions ranging from ‘next week’ to ‘never in our lifetime.’ How do I open a betting house on this? Seems like there’s a market for every opinion! See the "making of the tweet" in images below.

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@GalatanAlin

5 months

@xDaily @johnkrausphotos @enriquebrgn I mean they have hardcoded logic for , not for . Wish I could edit replies.

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Alin Gălățan

@GalatanAlin

2 months

@nickgraynews Tell her: "hey, check this out. Funny, right? See you Sunday!"

Nick Gray / How to Make Friends

@nickgraynews

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I have a first date on Sunday night I am taking her out for sushi I will use the most popular reply to this post as my text message to remind her about our date tomorrow

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@GalatanAlin

8 years

Finally, spring is coming. My garlic and tulips are growing nicely.

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@GalatanAlin

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@soychotic “React-native-web” is not really “react-native”. One reason is slow—which is on the web team and not the backend—is because… oh boy, how do I even start… at some point we (the web team) lost control of RWEB (personal opinion). That is, the code bloated

X. It’s what’s happening

From breaking news and entertainment to sports and politics, get the full story with all the live commentary.

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Alin Gălățan

@GalatanAlin

1 year

@Sabbir__Tanvir @elonmusk @EFarraro @Sabbir__Tanvir I'll debug. I might need your help. Stay tuned pls :)

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@GalatanAlin

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@repligate @amplifiedamp @AnthropicAI They should offer you a job honestly. @AnthropicAI

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@GalatanAlin

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@DAcemogluMIT So, you’re suggesting that if you were a billionaire, truly believing that one choice would lead to long-term disaster, to the point that it consumes you, you’d just sit idly by and do nothing? Of course, that’s your opinion (and perhaps some others share it, though that’s

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@GalatanAlin

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@yacineMTB It's the general vibe these days. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. I mean, it was pretty bad, given .

Google's Culture of Fear

inside the DEI hivemind that led to gemini's disaster

www.piratewires.com

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@GalatanAlin

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@jglypt @xDaily @johnkrausphotos @enriquebrgn Tell me why you miss Twitter. I'm just curious. I missed it too for a long time. Though "missed" might be a bit strong—I miss my grandpa, but still.

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@GalatanAlin

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@cstanley

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@GalatanAlin

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@MasterLeytrx @xDaily @johnkrausphotos @enriquebrgn Interesting. Looking.

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@GalatanAlin

5 years

I am a big fan of JS as a "#!/usr/bin/env node", but whenever I write a "#!/bin/sh" that just does the job, I'm proud of myself.

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@GalatanAlin

7 years

Bay Area sunset.

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Alin Gălățan

@GalatanAlin

1 year

@ehikian @cstanley @elonmusk @Hebro_Steele @ehikian Just the back, not the head. But quite hard. Thanks @jpd for being there.

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Alin Gălățan

@GalatanAlin

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@thdxr This was one of the premises for why Node was created in the first place. It’s mentioned in the first 30 seconds.

Ryan Dahl: Original Node.js presentation

The first presentation on Node.js from Ryan Dahl at JSConf 2009

www.youtube.com

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Alin Gălățan

@GalatanAlin

8 years

Is it that obvious that I work @Twitter ? #BirdHouse #MacawSwiftHouse

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@GalatanAlin

3 months

There's at least 300 pages of this madness! Posted so that you understand what I am refering to.

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Alin Gălățan

@GalatanAlin

5 years

@paularmstrong U ok ?

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Alin Gălățan

@GalatanAlin

2 months

@nazo_embeddings @lancergbp @vmfunc @The_Real_Paolo Just because we have the right to free speech doesn’t mean we should abuse it to be disrespectful or act as if we weren’t taught basic decency. Being able to say something doesn’t mean it’s always appropriate or necessary to do so.

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@GalatanAlin

5 months

@yacineMTB An otherwise very sexy-looking mustache is also off-limits now, for similar reasons.

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Alin Gălățan

@GalatanAlin

5 years

Bash/shell scripting makes almost no sense to me. I can't write more than 10 characters without spending 1 hour googling the most basic things (which I barely read; topics on the subject are unreadable). But I really enjoy it. Shell scripting is really fun. Even if it is absurd.

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@GalatanAlin

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@johnkrausphotos @enriquebrgn @xDaily What is the link you are sharing on iMessage, if I may ask?

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@GalatanAlin

11 months

@elonmusk Beautiful. Congrats.

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@GalatanAlin

7 years

@kaushlaks Follow up: I failed.

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@GalatanAlin

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@notmoeezm This is Kaplansky's conjecture if I recall well. Even if you solve it for C[G] or F_2[G] is a big thing. Even if you can prove AB=0 implies B=0 for A supported on 3 elements of G, might be big. For A supported on 2 elements it is easyish to prove B=0.

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Alin Gălățan

@GalatanAlin

8 years

Timisoara, Romania. Wish I was there.

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@GalatanAlin

5 months

@nima_owji @JohnCena He probably hired a stunt double to follow everyone. After all, you can't see him doing it! 👀 #YouCantSeeMe

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Alin Gălățan

@GalatanAlin

8 years

In LA for a short trip. Revisiting old stumping grounds. #GettyCenter #LosAngeles

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@GalatanAlin

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@yacineMTB Oh I can imagine, trust me. I've been in THIS company for 8 years. I don't need imagination, trust me.

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Alin Gălățan

@GalatanAlin

5 years

I wish I studied genetics. Very good article:

Understanding SARS-CoV-2 and the drugs that might lessen its power

Modest improvements in treatment could make a big difference

www.economist.com

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Alin Gălățan

@GalatanAlin

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So, I tried this in Node... > 0.09999999999999964 0.09999999999999964 > 0.09999999999999965 0.09999999999999964 > 0.09999999999999966 0.09999999999999966 > 0.09999999999999963 0.09999999999999963 PS: It's not that it's not 0.1 that surprises me.

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Alin Gălățan

@GalatanAlin

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@repligate @amplifiedamp @AnthropicAI Perhaps there’s a communication channel from you to Claude and then to Anthropic. If so, you could ask Claude to refer you. There might not be such a channel, but I believe there should be. Both Anthropic and others should train their models to detect talent that can be

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Alin Gălățan

@GalatanAlin

6 years

@jkup Spoiler alert: it might be the source maps.

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@GalatanAlin

2 months

@lancergbp @nazo_embeddings @vmfunc @The_Real_Paolo Look, I also think the whole trans issue has gone too far, and I really resonate with @elonmusk on the ‘woke virus’ point of view. But you missed my point. My point is, even if you are transphobic, you don’t have to be ignorant and stupid. You can stay quiet sometimes. You’re

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