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@nerdsane

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Datadog, Inc.
@nerdsane
VP, cognitive systems & research @datadoghq | minimalist { engineer | athlete | artist } | opinions-my-own
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  • @nerdsane
    /sesh/null
    Datadog, Inc.
    @nerdsane
    8 Oct
    Exciting opportunity
    @diamondbishop
    Diamond Bishop
    Datadog, Inc.
    @diamondbishop
    7 Oct
    If you’re a Staff PM-type who wants to work in NYC and thinks about self-improving software or how we might make software systems “evolve” more on their own; I’ve got the gig for you! Join me to build “dark factories” at @datadoghq. DMs open
  • @nerdsane
    /sesh/null
    Datadog, Inc.
    @nerdsane
    7 Oct
    Love all financial derivations of technical debt. This was a real/fun presentation at Datadog.
    @akshat_b
    Akshat Bubna
    Modal
    @akshat_b
    6 Oct
    Love how engineers derive so many things from first principles
  • @nerdsane
    /sesh/null
    Datadog, Inc.
    @nerdsane
    4 Oct
    I spend my days at the intersection of arts and tech with @arni0x9053, and this paper nails it on so many levels. And this passage captures something I’ve been trying to articulate in my own writing.
    @hardmaru
    hardmaru
    @hardmaru
    4 Oct
    Simple Algorithmic Theory of Subjective Beauty, Novelty, Surprise, Interestingness, Attention, Curiosity, Creativity, Art, Science, Music, Jokes

Jürgen SCHMIDHUBER

Abstract

In this summary of previous work, I argue that data becomes temporarily interesting by itself to some self-improving, but computationally limited, subjective observer once he learns to predict or compress the data in a better way, thus making it subjectively more “beautiful.” Curiosity is the desire to create or discover more non-random, non-arbitrary, “truly novel,” regular data that allows for compression progress because its regularity was not yet known. This drive maximizes “interestingness,” the first derivative of subjective beauty or compressibility, that is, the steepness of the learning curve. It motivates exploring infants, pure mathematicians, composers, artists, dancers, comedians, yourself, and recent artificial systems.
    Recently learned that Schmidhuber’s Formal Theory of Fun and Creativity, covering compression progress and intrinsic motivation and their relationship to beauty, curiosity, art, science, music, and jokes, was published in a Japanese scientific journal in 2009.
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  • @nerdsane
    /sesh/null
    Datadog, Inc.
    @nerdsane
    4 Oct
    Here are some old boring ideas applied differently. And agree that compile/deploy/restart can be compressed. Me and my team at @datadoghq are researching a runtime that has such compressed loop. x.com/nerdsane/statu…
    @GeoffreyHuntley
    geoff
    @GeoffreyHuntley
    4 Oct
    dear young farts out there who have grown up with Docker/Kubernetes and the compile/restart/deploy phases of CI/CD. Did you know that the entire loop can be squashed but hasn't been because of the VC [1] industrial complex (tm)? please stop arguging that golang/existing prior
    1
  • @nerdsane
    /sesh/null
    Datadog, Inc.
    @nerdsane
    4 Oct
    There was a time I used to pay for sending texts on phone but get drinking water for free. Now it’s the other way around. Don’t underestimate our ability to find something else to charge for.
    @rauchg
    Guillermo Rauch
    Vercel
    @rauchg
    3 Oct
    AI will make everything free, including itself. The last domino to fall will be free energy, which is humanity’s final frontier.
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