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Rick Minerich

@rickasaurus

Algos/ML/LLMs/FP/Mgmt, Formerly: AI Healthcare VP of Eng, AI RegTech CTO (successful exit). Twitter circa 2008.

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Putting toys in your children’s bookstore is a potentially bad strategy. Yes you probably make more sales as a percentage of people entering the store. You don’t get to see the people who never come in because the toys will distract the kids from book buying.

25.02.2026 13:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I have this 2018 Honda Fit. I use it to take the kids to school down the street. Everyone else showing up in their massive SUVs and us in this tiny car, I think it’s funny.

21.02.2026 14:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What If Death Was Optional?
What If Death Was Optional? YouTube video by CGP Grey

It's a good time to watch the Fable of the Dragon Tyrant again www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZYN...

13.02.2026 19:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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this is how we used to onboard new devs in the 2000s

12.02.2026 17:53 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I think it could be ok if they used expensive ingredients

03.02.2026 14:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I bought some reduced fat sour cream to improve my diet and it’s literally some of the saddest food I’ve ever eaten. Up there with non-alcoholic beer.

03.02.2026 03:13 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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The madman finally did it

01.02.2026 04:16 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Yes but having kids I’d never keep pottery I care about.

24.01.2026 14:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Something like effective agency, are there any actual avenues for you to exercise agency within. Freedom as opportunity-space maybe.

24.01.2026 14:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

There is another dimension to freedom I’m thinking about, if you are forced to work you are not free, if you don’t have to work you are free, what if your don’t have to work and would-be work is meaningless or unnecessary, it almost seems like another type of slavery, or at least a kind of trap.

24.01.2026 14:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Asking my wife to review my Weee order

24.01.2026 04:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Have you seen a more badass book cover?

22.01.2026 23:13 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

What if instead of a paperclip maximizer we're building a claude tokens maximizer.

22.01.2026 16:02 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What if instead of building a paperclip maximizer, we're building a Claude tokens maximizer?

22.01.2026 15:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Am I the only one who thought the Anthropic constitution was kind of lame? Like way below the qualify of the other work I’ve seen come out of @anthropic.com

22.01.2026 04:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You know MistralAI really missed the mark by not naming their first image input capable model “Eurovision"

21.01.2026 22:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Is Claude it's last name or first name? Should I be calling it "Mr. Opus Claude"?

21.01.2026 20:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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Are you ready for claudepocolype

14.01.2026 15:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Neat thanks

14.01.2026 00:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Install?

13.01.2026 23:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’ve been checking but not a lot of content to engage with

13.01.2026 23:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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I’ve been saying this the whole time! Could anything be so obvious?

12.01.2026 14:30 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Asian Pears are looking good this year, it's their season now if you want to buy some

21.10.2025 17:31 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I caught my daughter reading her first no pictures book today: “Daddy, it’s like you said, I can see the book inside my head!”

15.10.2025 18:45 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Post: what I think good looks like with regard to model context management craftingteams.substack.com/p/what-about...

03.10.2025 13:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Why the vast majority of AI startups are doomed

Why the vast majority of AI startups are doomed

The big problem facing many 1-2 year out AI startups, just starting to get real customer traction craftingteams.substack.com/p/the-opposi...

01.10.2025 14:56 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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New post about the problems in apply a single AI query over some large number of records open.substack.com/pub/crafting...

26.09.2025 19:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This is the good shit right here

19.09.2025 00:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Semi-recent book purchases

18.09.2025 17:18 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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My Crash Course AI Study Buddy How I've been studying with ChatGPT (GPT-5) Voice Mode

I had already written most of this post before hearing on the recent 80K podcast that Neel Nanda (the head of Google Deepmind interpretability team) takes a similar approach to studying with AI, but it was certainly validating to hear it craftingteams.substack.com/p/my-crash-c...

17.09.2025 14:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0