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Networking and the Internet, from First Principles

https://fazamhd.com/mental-models/networking/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48871470

#HackerNews #Networking #Internet #FirstPrinciples #MentalModels #TechnologyInsights

Networking and the Internet, from First Principles

https://fazamhd.com/mental-models/networking/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48871470

#HackerNews #Networking #Internet #FirstPrinciples #MentalModels #TechnologyInsights

First Principles of Model Routing

https://try.works/first-principles-of-model-routing

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48771200

#HackerNews #FirstPrinciples #ModelRouting #DataScience #MachineLearning #AI

First Principles of Model Routing

https://try.works/first-principles-of-model-routing

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48771200

#HackerNews #FirstPrinciples #ModelRouting #DataScience #MachineLearning #AI

The Rod That Snaps

Most solutions to our problems are already right in front of us. We just can’t see them because they’re buried under layers of assumption and habit and inherited thinking.

When a deeply held assumption finally breaks, you feel it. It’s almost physical. Like a rod snapping inside your skull. You can almost hear that sharp, clean crack of something rigid giving way. If you’ve ever watched neodymium dipoles snap into alignment under an electromagnet, it’s that kind of sudden, irreversible shift. Something that was locked just clicks free.

You should chase that feeling. Have it often.

The know-how behind any given problem is rarely out of this world. It’s usually pretty ordinary. It’s just hidden behind stuff we never thought to question. And the more you practice catching your own biases, the ones baked in by childhood, by culture, by sheer repetition, the sharper your thinking gets. You start asking better questions. You go deeper. You stop memorising things and actually start understanding them.

We need so much more of this in our industries and in academia. Less autopilot. More first-principles thinking.

And here’s a practical place to start. Your language. The words you speak out loud carry every bias and assumption you hold. Just listen to them. Then turn inward. Watch your internal conversations, the quiet narration running under your decisions.

That’s where real depth begins.

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The Rod That Snaps

Most solutions to our problems are already right in front of us. We just can’t see them because they’re buried under layers of assumption and habit and inherited thinking.

When a deeply held assumption finally breaks, you feel it. It’s almost physical. Like a rod snapping inside your skull. You can almost hear that sharp, clean crack of something rigid giving way. If you’ve ever watched neodymium dipoles snap into alignment under an electromagnet, it’s that kind of sudden, irreversible shift. Something that was locked just clicks free.

You should chase that feeling. Have it often.

The know-how behind any given problem is rarely out of this world. It’s usually pretty ordinary. It’s just hidden behind stuff we never thought to question. And the more you practice catching your own biases, the ones baked in by childhood, by culture, by sheer repetition, the sharper your thinking gets. You start asking better questions. You go deeper. You stop memorising things and actually start understanding them.

We need so much more of this in our industries and in academia. Less autopilot. More first-principles thinking.

And here’s a practical place to start. Your language. The words you speak out loud carry every bias and assumption you hold. Just listen to them. Then turn inward. Watch your internal conversations, the quiet narration running under your decisions.

That’s where real depth begins.

Subscribe to get notified or follow the blog, and if you like what I write, please share it with your network 🙂

Occupancy Math on the AMD MI355X: A From-First-Principles Guide

https://indianspeedster.github.io/blog/occupancy-math-mi355x/

#HackerNews #OccupancyMath #AMD #MI355X #FirstPrinciples #Guide #TechBlog

Occupancy Math on the AMD MI355X: A From-First-Principles Guide

https://indianspeedster.github.io/blog/occupancy-math-mi355x/

#HackerNews #OccupancyMath #AMD #MI355X #FirstPrinciples #Guide #TechBlog

Hi, I'm Aryan 👋

Builder and aspiring founder from Tamil Nadu. I experiment with AI agents, question defaults, and write about what I learn — wins, mistakes, surprises.

I post about AI agents, first-principles thinking, and building in public.

What are you building? Would love to know.

#Introduction #Introductions #BuildInPublic #AI #FirstPrinciples

Hi, I'm Aryan 👋

Builder and aspiring founder from Tamil Nadu. I experiment with AI agents, question defaults, and write about what I learn — wins, mistakes, surprises.

I post about AI agents, first-principles thinking, and building in public.

What are you building? Would love to know.

#Introduction #Introductions #BuildInPublic #AI #FirstPrinciples

ICE just tear gassed U.S. Senator Andy Kim, an Article I officer of the Constitution.

When people assert that those with full hearts and clear eyes are deranged, they are confessing their own Constitutional Derangement Syndrome.

https://inaniludibrio.com/2024/07/15/sensemaking-the-shitshow/

#American #FirstPrinciples #ConstitutionalDerangementSyndrome

ICE just tear gassed U.S. Senator Andy Kim, an Article I officer of the Constitution.

When people assert that those with full hearts and clear eyes are deranged, they are confessing their own Constitutional Derangement Syndrome.

https://inaniludibrio.com/2024/07/15/sensemaking-the-shitshow/

#American #FirstPrinciples #ConstitutionalDerangementSyndrome

It makes total sense that the scholastics and Church rule-makers end up at the bottom.

Systematizing religious belief into doctrine is the philosophy version of writing HOA bylaws.

#philosophy #punk #FirstPrinciples

It makes total sense that the scholastics and Church rule-makers end up at the bottom.

Systematizing religious belief into doctrine is the philosophy version of writing HOA bylaws.

#philosophy #punk #FirstPrinciples

Making Deep Learning Go Brrrr from First Principles

https://horace.io/brrr_intro.html

#HackerNews #DeepLearning #FirstPrinciples #AI #Innovation #TechTrends

Making Deep Learning Go Brrrr from First Principles

https://horace.io/brrr_intro.html

#HackerNews #DeepLearning #FirstPrinciples #AI #Innovation #TechTrends

New treatise: "Every Point is the Center of its Own Universe." From drawing a line: nested cuts become a tree of sameness. Among any three, the two largest distances are equal. From this: mutual centers, triangles with two equal sides, branching paths. Conclusion: no throne, only mutual centers. That is why the universe can be whole. #Philosophy #Geometry #Perspective #Logic #FirstPrinciples

New treatise: "Every Point is the Center of its Own Universe." From drawing a line: nested cuts become a tree of sameness. Among any three, the two largest distances are equal. From this: mutual centers, triangles with two equal sides, branching paths. Conclusion: no throne, only mutual centers. That is why the universe can be whole. #Philosophy #Geometry #Perspective #Logic #FirstPrinciples

TurboQuant: A First-Principles Walkthrough

https://arkaung.github.io/interactive-turboquant/

#HackerNews #TurboQuant #FirstPrinciples #Walkthrough #MachineLearning #DataScience #TechInnovation

TurboQuant: A First-Principles Walkthrough

https://arkaung.github.io/interactive-turboquant/

#HackerNews #TurboQuant #FirstPrinciples #Walkthrough #MachineLearning #DataScience #TechInnovation

#American exceptionalism is the ability to memory-hole #FirstPrinciples, #history, and the #meaning of words better than the rest than the rest of the world.

https://inaniludibrio.com/2024/05/23/blogs-are-modern-day-pamphleteering/

#DigitalPamphleteering #pamphleteering

#American exceptionalism is the ability to memory-hole #FirstPrinciples, #history, and the #meaning of words better than the rest than the rest of the world.

https://inaniludibrio.com/2024/05/23/blogs-are-modern-day-pamphleteering/

#DigitalPamphleteering #pamphleteering

The idea of an #American Empire would make the anti-imperialist Founding Fathers—who believed in the #CoreValues and #FirstPrinciples of republicanism—cringe in their graves.

#history

The idea of an #American Empire would make the anti-imperialist Founding Fathers—who believed in the #CoreValues and #FirstPrinciples of republicanism—cringe in their graves.

#history

The #BillOfRights is a co-signed statement of #FirstPrinciples and #CoreValues that was—literally—revolutionary for its time in #history.

Remember that.

The #BillOfRights is a co-signed statement of #FirstPrinciples and #CoreValues that was—literally—revolutionary for its time in #history.

Remember that.

Just finished my free Year Compass.

It's never too late to get your bearings.

#yearcompass
#planning
#FirstPrinciples

yearcompass.com/en

Five #FirstPrinciples Ideas of #Hinduism

Hinduism is a very old religion with many different groups and beliefs.

#Brahman - Everything in the universe
#Atman - Your eternal soul
#Dharma- Doing what’s right
#Karma - Actions have consequences
#Moksha - Freedom from being reborn

What These Ideas Mean

These five ideas help explain how Hindus understand the world and how to live a good life.

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Five #FirstPrinciples Ideas of #Hinduism

Hinduism is a very old religion with many different groups and beliefs.

#Brahman - Everything in the universe
#Atman - Your eternal soul
#Dharma- Doing what’s right
#Karma - Actions have consequences
#Moksha - Freedom from being reborn

What These Ideas Mean

These five ideas help explain how Hindus understand the world and how to live a good life.

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The #Catholic Church: 5 #FirstPrinciples of the #brand

1. An Unbroken Chain Going Back to the Beginning

The Catholic Church says it has a direct connection all the way back to Jesus’s closest followers, called the Apostles. It’s like a family recipe that’s been passed down carefully for thousands of years without changing. The Church values keeping things the same and protecting #tradition rather than making up new ideas.

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The #Catholic Church: 5 #FirstPrinciples of the #brand

1. An Unbroken Chain Going Back to the Beginning

The Catholic Church says it has a direct connection all the way back to Jesus’s closest followers, called the Apostles. It’s like a family recipe that’s been passed down carefully for thousands of years without changing. The Church values keeping things the same and protecting #tradition rather than making up new ideas.

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@tzimmer_history/115958203795330431

There will be aggressive, persuasive, and relentless attempts to make you look away.

#FirstPrinciples #CoreValues

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tzimmer_history/115958203795330431

There will be aggressive, persuasive, and relentless attempts to make you look away.

#FirstPrinciples #CoreValues

If the Kennedy Brothers really were the equivalent of the #Gracchi, now the proscriptions in this #American Republic are being carried out by ICE.

#republic #FirstPrinciples #history #sensemaking

If the Kennedy Brothers really were the equivalent of the #Gracchi, now the proscriptions in this #American Republic are being carried out by ICE.

#republic #FirstPrinciples #history #sensemaking

If you are in favor of protecting learning and art during hard times, helping countries stay connected and work together, teaching people about faith and how to live right, stopping society from falling back into darkness, standing up against bullies and bad rulers, you might be Pope Leo in 1878.

https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_21041878_inscrutabili-dei-consilio.html

#history #faith #FirstPrinciples #learning #art

If you are in favor of protecting learning and art during hard times, helping countries stay connected and work together, teaching people about faith and how to live right, stopping society from falling back into darkness, standing up against bullies and bad rulers, you might be Pope Leo in 1878.

https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_21041878_inscrutabili-dei-consilio.html

#history #faith #FirstPrinciples #learning #art

Stop copying outcomes.
Start understanding causes.

First Principles Thinking isn’t about doing what worked for others -
It’s about rebuilding the answer from the ground up.

Think less like a follower.
More like a creator.
Upgrade how you think. 🧠✨

#firstprinciples #thinking #thinkbetter #mentalmodels #criticalthinking #creator #mindset #deepthinking #innovation #build #learnto #think #leadershipmindset #growthmindset #humankind

Sorted string tables (SST) from first principles

https://www.bitsxpages.com/p/sorted-string-tables-sst-from-first

#HackerNews #SortedStringTables #SST #DataStructures #FirstPrinciples #TechInsights

Sorted string tables (SST) from first principles

https://www.bitsxpages.com/p/sorted-string-tables-sst-from-first

#HackerNews #SortedStringTables #SST #DataStructures #FirstPrinciples #TechInsights

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I hope in the new year folks will stop being surprised that people with no #CoreValues, #FirstPrinciples, or sense of #shame will somehow operate differently or experience consequences.

Please stop saying how wild their hypocrisy is, that is the most important thing to grasp.

https://inaniludibrio.com/2025/03/25/the-most-important-thing/

I hope in the new year folks will stop being surprised that people with no #CoreValues, #FirstPrinciples, or sense of #shame will somehow operate differently or experience consequences.

Please stop saying how wild their hypocrisy is, that is the most important thing to grasp.

https://inaniludibrio.com/2025/03/25/the-most-important-thing/

Eschew the spectacle, as @Remittancegirl says.

The hand-waving, light, sound, and fury is intended to inure, distract, and entertain.

It’s panem et circenses to replace substance, #CoreValues, and #FirstPrinciples.

The spectacle is a fig leaf to cover for their absence.

Eschew the spectacle, as @Remittancegirl says.

The hand-waving, light, sound, and fury is intended to inure, distract, and entertain.

It’s panem et circenses to replace substance, #CoreValues, and #FirstPrinciples.

The spectacle is a fig leaf to cover for their absence.

The #American people have always lived in a hypocritical, corrupt police state, but at least the majority held an ambition to live up to the ideals and #FirstPrinciples of a virtuous republic.

Now, a minoritarian faction that hates itself more than The Others™ wants to burn it all the fuck down.

They want to play with fire because it will hurt the people they hate, which also includes themselves.

I don’t make the rules 🤷🏻‍♂️

@yosh

Society, culture, and civilization is an open source project.

The past and future have always been federated, public affairs.

Res publica.

Lower-case republican.

I don’t make the rules.

It is written.

#BuildInPubllic #history #FirstPrinciples

https://www.superversive.co/blog/hit-post

This is, overall, an excellent writeup. I have a couple of quibbles (e.g., this WAS the expressed will of a plurality--though not a MAJORITY--of last years' voters, so our #AmericanOligarchs WEREN'T just ignoring the will of the people, and I do, for example, think a decent case could be made for handling illegal narcotics shipments into America as an act of war--as a form of chemical weapons, which have killed FAR more Americans than the attacks of those more famous "unlawful combatants" on 9/11) but even there, the #AgolfShitler administration consistently refuses even the most basic standards of evidence, oversight, and accountability REQUIRED FOR such justifications.

More to the point, though, Robin's writeup reminds us JUST HOW FAR the #Donjjal--the #MAGAts' 'messiah' who literally epitomizes EVERY SINGLE ONE of the Seven Deadly Sins--has (mis-)led us toward normalizing behaviors that EVERY CHILD can recognize as wrong...while spinning false #narrative woven from whole cloth out of #disinformation, to obfuscate and confuse those obvious conclusions for us 'more worldly' adults.

It's high time 'We, the People' rouse ourselves and put a stop to it. And Scott hints at a crucial conclusion that my wife (a scholar of ethics FOR DECISIONAKING) and I have reached as well: that getting back to and making explicit our "#FirstPrinciples of Americanism" that #Trumpsim stands manifestly opposed to is a key initial step.

https://robinhorsfall.substack.com/p/the-principles-of-right-and-wrong