Nostr notes by HalvarFlake

In the last years, I wrote up some of the advice I often found ...

2026-06-23T10:55:52Z

In the last years, I wrote up some of the advice I often found myself giving to other founders, and a general list of lessons I learnt doing two companies, zynamics and optimyze. The full article - still work-in-progress - is here:

https://thomasdullien.github.io/guides/entrepreneurship/

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2026-05-13T06:31:09Z

https://www.faz.net/premium/digitalwirtschaft/thomas-dullien-zu-anthropics-mythos-software-war-nie-auf-perfekte-sicherheit-ausgelegt-das-raecht-sich-accg-200822228.html

I wrote an FAZ guest article

I finally managed to write something about my recently deceased ...

2026-04-17T23:16:44Z

I finally managed to write something about my recently deceased dear friend Felix 'Fx' Lindner.

https://phenoelit.de/fx.html#Halvar

Current events: ...

2026-01-19T16:23:25Z

Current events:

Kinda wild that the insignias of the iron front are now deemed ...

2025-09-20T05:45:48Z

Kinda wild that the insignias of the iron front are now deemed "far left". I mean c'mon, the SPD was always center-left, the iron front was "centrists to protect the democratic constitution of Weimar against fascist takeover". That's not far left, that's "I want democracy".

A small slide deck for a 15 minute impulse talk at Cycon 2025 in ...

2025-05-28T14:43:36Z

A small slide deck for a 15 minute impulse talk at Cycon 2025 in Talinn: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_3Iu74UijAjfSLHzqWDkDEaIwoB6WBSo9-mY5e0u0HM/edit?usp=drivesdk

ArXiv AI papers should list a "flops needed to reproduce ...

2025-05-08T20:03:42Z

ArXiv AI papers should list a "flops needed to reproduce experiments" in the abstract.

I never liked nu metal and I feel retrospectively justified by ...

2025-04-17T09:29:36Z

I never liked nu metal and I feel retrospectively justified by the fact that both Fred Durst and Kid Rock seem to be almost uniquely brain damaged even today.

https://youtu.be/Gv8Onf_c5vs I made a video that shows some MLP ...

2025-04-04T05:50:11Z

https://youtu.be/Gv8Onf_c5vs

I made a video that shows some MLP learning dynamics, this time a network with shape [10]*10 + [2] + [10]*3.

Expect more such videos to follow, I find them both fascinating and insightful.

My contempt for anyone involved with this drivel knows few ...

2025-03-14T08:06:29Z

My contempt for anyone involved with this drivel knows few limits. Conflating issues and fear mongering because a Chinese company dared to publish an actual open model:

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/13/openai-calls-deepseek-state-controlled-calls-for-bans-on-prc-produced-models/

And trying to talk about copyright after training in Libgen.

Hypocrisy, lies, grifting :-( - the level of despicable behavior is just out of this world.

I gave a day 1 closing keynote at DistrictCon yesterday. ...

2025-02-22T11:39:18Z

I gave a day 1 closing keynote at DistrictCon yesterday. Surprisingly, it was a security talk about memory safety.

Slides are here:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-CgBbVuFE1pJnB84wfeq_RadXQs13dCvHTFFVLPYTeg/edit?usp=drivesdk

Today's insanity: ...

2025-02-02T15:32:02Z

Today's insanity:

huh.

2025-01-29T08:41:26Z

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huh.

David Sacks and OAI complaining about distillation is extremely ...

2025-01-29T07:20:20Z

David Sacks and OAI complaining about distillation is extremely rich considering OAI trained in all of Libgen. :-(

Everyone is r*tarded.

OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor - https://www.ft.com/content/a0dfedd1-5255-4fa9-8ccc-1fe01de87ea6?shareType=nongift via Frank Tisellano (npub1y3m…e72y)

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2025-01-08T10:11:33Z

Insanitywolf idea: Buy a bunch of AMD stock, then try to fix ...

2024-12-23T08:07:16Z

Insanitywolf idea: Buy a bunch of AMD stock, then try to fix their software stack.

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2024-12-20T13:41:31Z

Somebody tell Elon: "Never go full retard."

Anyone have experience with a ThinkPad T14s Snapdragon and Linux? ...

2024-12-18T10:05:37Z

Anyone have experience with a ThinkPad T14s Snapdragon and Linux? Is this the ARM laptop I'm looking for?

I am mildly amused that OpenAI telemetry rollout led to a ...

2024-12-18T08:37:25Z

I am mildly amused that OpenAI telemetry rollout led to a classical Kubernetes control plane DoS.

In my experience DDoSing your own control plane is the #1 way people generate large failures in K8s. What are others?

As a dreamer and product person, I have written up what I'd ...

2024-12-05T10:11:47Z

As a dreamer and product person, I have written up what I'd like for Christmas for the European startup ecosystem: A smooth workflow for starting and managing early-stage companies:

addxorrol.blogspot.com/2024/12/what...

The summary is: A website that allows company formation, basic cap table management, payroll/social security contributions, basic tax filing up to a certain revenue threshold, and management of employee stock grants.

If this existed, and was smooth to use, ...

[@bert_hubert](https://fosstodon.org/@bert_hubert ) did you ...

2024-11-12T21:56:56Z

[@bert_hubert](https://fosstodon.org/@bert_hubert ) did you follow any of the discussion around the Eurostack? Do you know where I can read up about it?

I gave a keynote at the FUZZING24 workshop. The video is here: ...

2024-09-18T07:53:05Z

I gave a keynote at the FUZZING24 workshop. The video is here: https://t.co/Q0tyqEiqv6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd1hItbf52k&feature=youtu.be

The slides are here:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1vw9lywrMnNojiOIu-xU5KXZz7WzE0MYNQF6V7n6vyY8/edit?usp=sharing

That is fair. But how am I going to learn anything useful on the ...

2024-08-01T18:34:46Z

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That is fair. But how am I going to learn anything useful on the topic then? :-(

... or generally learn more about the issues involved.

2024-08-01T18:27:56Z

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... or generally learn more about the issues involved.

... between a person that has had years of androgen exposure and ...

2024-08-01T18:27:33Z

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... between a person that has had years of androgen exposure and someone who hasn't had that is deeply unfair (we ban steroid use for good reason).

In my mind, trying to find ways to accurately estimate lifetime androgen exposure and then segmenting on that seems more tractable (and in some sense fairer?) than trying to find good and fair other lines?

Am I insane for thinking this may be tractable or "fair"? I'd be happy to hear comments, or corrections,..

Honest question, and I am hoping I am not offending anyone: With ...

2024-08-01T18:23:16Z

Honest question, and I am hoping I am not offending anyone:

With all the controversies about both trans athletes and athletes with XY DSD 5-alpha reductase deficiency (5-ARD) - would it not be a workable proposal to segment athletes by estimated lifetime androgen exposure?

It's pretty clear that testosterone and other androgens provide *lasting* advantages in many sports (both for muscle mass and bone density), to a point where direct competition ...