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Dan Advantage

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Dan Advantage

@DanAdvantage

Uncursing RL! Puffer: puffer.ai Agnostic Experimenter @ Clipfrac LLC Paper: Pokémon Red via RL My backstory: youtu.be/Om6zglxM8-Y see details!

drubinstein.github.io/pokerl/

Joined February 2012

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Dan Advantage
@DanAdvantage
Mar 18
i procedurally generated the entire pokemon fire red world map with every single player-traversable location rendered with correct tilesets, transitions/warps, and sprites on a single 10mb, 13184 x 22272 png. it took me 4 prompts and a few minutes.
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Dan Advantage
@DanAdvantage
Aug 26, 2025
i have an original, 1st generation 5gb apple ipod never opened. let that sink in
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Dan Advantage
@DanAdvantage
Oct 5, 2025
don't say you understand electronics until you've read horowitz and hill's "the art of electronics." -transistors, from basic switching to current mirrors -op-amps, stability and compensation -low-noise design and grounding techniques must have for any hardware engineer.
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Dan Advantage
@DanAdvantage
Oct 6, 2025
you don't know mechanical engineering until "shigley's mechanical engineering design" breaks your spirit >fatigue analysis & stress >the dark arts of bearing life >bolted joints that don't shear a must-have if you want your designs to not fall apart
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Dan Advantage
@DanAdvantage
Oct 4, 2025
Replying to @birdabo
holy, i thought for sure it was going to be trapped in the thing but no!
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Dan Advantage
@DanAdvantage
Sep 30, 2025
i didn't start doing reinforcement learning until i was 33 and now i work on a cutting edge research project at one of the top labs in the world. and since pufferlib is 1000% free and open-source, you can just do things too
Jeremy Trimble
@jeremytrimble
Sep 30, 2025
I didn’t start doing physics until I was 33 and now I work on a cutting edge research project at one of the top labs in the world. You can just do things
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Dan Advantage
@DanAdvantage
Oct 9, 2025
you probably think you're flexing, colin, and perhaps this is a flex in your circles. so, i'll let you in on a little secret: this is question 1 on our job interview. you get as much time as you want, we'll wait
Colin
@Colin_d_m
Oct 8, 2025
The hardest programming problem I've ever solved was recreating the Apple Maps graphics style. Just the 3D building occlusion effect took ~100 hours of work 🫩
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Dan Advantage
@DanAdvantage
Oct 7, 2025
so you beat the electrical engineering final boss, "microelectronic circuits," you say? okay, then name three things more cursed than: -the miller capacitance -gain-bandwidth product -the body effect i'll wait.
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Dan Advantage
@DanAdvantage
Feb 16, 2025
Replying to @skooookum
how much work can you get done with all that time??? code retreat incoming
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Dan Advantage
@DanAdvantage
Aug 30, 2025
Replying to @willdepue
Cuz Americans use Tide Pods, which are only good for snacking
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Dan Advantage
@DanAdvantage
Oct 22, 2025
Replying to @nikitabier
thank you nikita untappable also android doesn't work either
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Dan Advantage
@DanAdvantage
Feb 8, 2025
Replying to @tekbog
Torvalds has so many bangers it's unreal. He's been doing this since before most of you were born.
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Dan Advantage
@DanAdvantage
Jul 26, 2025
Replying to @jiratickets
How about entire bedroom of just mattresses on the floor? There's a giant chifferobe in here as well
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Dan Advantage
@DanAdvantage
Feb 5, 2025
Replying to @zeroxjackson
Cute. Wait until you're married: the notes turn into a TODO list
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