Blake Martin @blakeatech

machine learning dev. "beyond the code" author. lifelong builder. commentator on random stuff in tech. blakeatech.com Joined March 2025

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Blake Martin @blakeatech

7 hours ago

i've arrived at the opinion that prefacing your take with "hot take but..." makes you sound stupid asf

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Blake Martin @blakeatech

7 hours ago

if all your tweets just sound like you're paraphrasing excerpts from zero to one, i mute you. personality goes a long way.

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Blake Martin @blakeatech

8 hours ago

is this supposed to be news? "already wealthy people are far more optimistic on the economy than middle class people"

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Blake Martin @blakeatech

8 hours ago

getting close to 500 followers would be neat to get there in the next week!

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Blake Martin @blakeatech

21 hours ago

finally got some advisors using a university advising tool i developed. this is feedback from a first-time user. great to see it impresses!

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reputation is everything in sf (i think) talked to a ton of founders these last couple of days everyone knows someone and has an opinion on them those small interactions w ppl can define their perception of you and how they describe you/your startup/your product to someone…

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Blake Martin @blakeatech

a day ago

unless you go to some super competitive, academically rigorous school, the student who is capable of "leading multiple clubs" should be able to get at least a 3.7 in practice, the kids who succeed outside of the classroom generally also succeed in the classroom

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Hubert Thieblot @hthieblot

a day ago

Big fundraises and flashy launch videos have one thing in common: They will create a false sense of success. You still have to build a real business.

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Catalin @catalinmpit

2 days ago

I really don't trust X that Codex is better than Claude Code or even Gemini CLI. People on X switch to whatever AI tool is the flavor of the day and have the ability of hyping everything undeservingly.

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Blake Martin @blakeatech

2 days ago

you could make the same argument about women and reality tv shows

bangerz @bangerzNFT

4 days ago

you could make the same argument about women and reality tv shows

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Blake Martin @blakeatech

2 days ago

“look at him. that’s my founding engineer. do you notice anything different about him? look at his face. look at his eyes. he hasn’t slept in two days. he lives on mello yello and adderall! he doesn’t even get equity! yeah i’m sure we can deliver the product.”

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jason liu @jxnlco

3 days ago

why i avoid graph databases the question: "is knowledge graph rag production ready? should we use it?" the answer: after 10 years in ml, i stay away from graph databases. every company i've seen go into the graph world moves back to sql within 4-5 years. the issues are real:…

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Franky @FrankYouChill

5 days ago

A 14B model just beat a 671B model on math reasoning. Here’s how Microsoft’s rStar2-Agent achieves frontier math performance in 1 week of RL training - by “thinking smarter, not longer.” 🧵

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Zephyr @zephyr_z9

6 days ago

> be me, browsing Twatter > see post from "Arcarae" > mfw I've never heard of it > "I am excited to announce that Arcarae has $2.5M in funding" > holy shit some VC actually fell for it > their mission is to "help humanity remember and unlock the power each individual holds within…

NICOLE SUMMER HSING @NicoleSHsing

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Blake Martin @blakeatech

5 days ago

all of the "hot takes" (not counting obv ragebait) i see from sf people on here are just them projecting to validate their life choices they be like: - "hot take: if you don't move to sf in your 20s, you're ngmi" - "hot take: work smarter, not harder is for unambitious ppl"