Patrick Collison
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460 appearances
2 recordings
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 28 Apr
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Yeah.
And I actually experimented a lot with uh genetic algorithms.
Um they were I guess more practical on you know your own computer.
Like it's it's it takes a lot of computer training on your nets.
So I I experimented a lot with with genetic algorithms and actually I use Vorjak at the keyboard layout because uh it's more comfortable to type on than QWERTY.
Um but uh but uh as as
John and my um
My brother, so no one can ever use our our computers.
But um uh I wrote a genetic um, I don't know, optimizer uh to uh to figure out what the optimal keyboard layout was.
And it turns out it is in fact basically Vortac um uh using a genetic approach.
Um so I went deep down that rabbit hole, but I never really played with neural networks, and I guess that's why, you know, um that, but probably seven other 70 other reasons is why, you know, um uh I did not create
Chat GBP.
Yeah, it's been it's been interesting how a lot of the ideas have been kind of have been borrowed by the JavaScript ecosystem and in a strange way, like through the web inspector.
Yeah.
Um where you have this, I mean that that's one of the richest run times in some sense that people have you know general, general exposure to.
I don't think JavaScript has first class stack frames.
Um maybe there's some weird extension or something where you can get that, but it but yeah, ru
r um ECMA script uh uh doesn't have that, I'm pretty sure.
First class stack frames actually let you do a lot of other things for kind of obvious reasons.
So m maybe that's very that's kind of too specific.
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