Keith Patarroyo
@keithpatarroyo.bsky.social
Open-Ended Learning Agent
Yesterday I had a very similar experience to Poincaré. I wasn’t able to sleep because I drunk a coffee at night and I was focused for several hours to synthesise my thoughts about evolution as a fundamental law of the universe. It was a coincidence because I read what I needed before going to sleep.
October 26, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Yesterday I had a very similar experience to Poincaré. I wasn’t able to sleep because I drunk a coffee at night and I was focused for several hours to synthesise my thoughts about evolution as a fundamental law of the universe. It was a coincidence because I read what I needed before going to sleep.
Reposted by Keith Patarroyo
I’ve been casual student of physics for four decades. Why did no one ever explain to me so clearly what a conservation law is?
From Susskind and Hrabovsky (2014) The Theoretical Minimum.
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This is why reading basic material from brilliant thinkers is so often worth the investment.
From Susskind and Hrabovsky (2014) The Theoretical Minimum.
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This is why reading basic material from brilliant thinkers is so often worth the investment.
October 25, 2025 at 7:43 AM
I’ve been casual student of physics for four decades. Why did no one ever explain to me so clearly what a conservation law is?
From Susskind and Hrabovsky (2014) The Theoretical Minimum.
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This is why reading basic material from brilliant thinkers is so often worth the investment.
From Susskind and Hrabovsky (2014) The Theoretical Minimum.
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This is why reading basic material from brilliant thinkers is so often worth the investment.
Catholicism is fundamentally pure suffering.
October 25, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Catholicism is fundamentally pure suffering.
Some people have called me ageist in the past, however if anything I’ve become more ageist as I get older. While I’m not making definitive statements about age, or about things that happen at a specific age. There are certain elements that can’t be denied.
October 12, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Some people have called me ageist in the past, however if anything I’ve become more ageist as I get older. While I’m not making definitive statements about age, or about things that happen at a specific age. There are certain elements that can’t be denied.
The Keith of 2018-2022 would be appalled by how mainstream my opinion on LLMs and AI has become… The capabilities of LLMs completely changed my mind, I used to argue for alternative architectures, new math, new algorithms, a complete change of framework… but no longer, it may have to do with age…
September 28, 2025 at 10:52 AM
The Keith of 2018-2022 would be appalled by how mainstream my opinion on LLMs and AI has become… The capabilities of LLMs completely changed my mind, I used to argue for alternative architectures, new math, new algorithms, a complete change of framework… but no longer, it may have to do with age…
Sailed for the first time, little wind… not suuuper fun, but I’m amazed, it’s one of the few activities with an unbalanced female/male ratio. I think it was roughly 3/1. Maybe a complete fluke…
September 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Sailed for the first time, little wind… not suuuper fun, but I’m amazed, it’s one of the few activities with an unbalanced female/male ratio. I think it was roughly 3/1. Maybe a complete fluke…
Vacations are over, very mixed feelings when telling people how things went… It will take time to process everything by myself. I mean, almost everything was like a dream…
September 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Vacations are over, very mixed feelings when telling people how things went… It will take time to process everything by myself. I mean, almost everything was like a dream…
Update #9.5: Grape picking in a vineyard in Tuscany. The ultimate dream… unless you have a meltdown… Vacations started badly and ended terribly, this seems to be a pattern… This will be one very difficult to process, because I feel I was wounded quite badly…
September 22, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Update #9.5: Grape picking in a vineyard in Tuscany. The ultimate dream… unless you have a meltdown… Vacations started badly and ended terribly, this seems to be a pattern… This will be one very difficult to process, because I feel I was wounded quite badly…
Update #9.0: Saturday Market, Tarot reading of the future, lunch at a terrace overlooking the valle and sunset in a stunning location. Somehow under the sunset light everything shows its true nature... I just never expected it was going to be so ominous… the message was grape danger…
September 22, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Update #9.0: Saturday Market, Tarot reading of the future, lunch at a terrace overlooking the valle and sunset in a stunning location. Somehow under the sunset light everything shows its true nature... I just never expected it was going to be so ominous… the message was grape danger…
Update #8: Eating even more fish, improv in our terrace, eating under the moonlight, movie night, stargazing in a mountain, nudist beach, chanting session and a lot of fun. I’m so happy spending time here with my friends that I didn’t feel compelled to travel anywhere else… It’s been that fun!!!
September 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Update #8: Eating even more fish, improv in our terrace, eating under the moonlight, movie night, stargazing in a mountain, nudist beach, chanting session and a lot of fun. I’m so happy spending time here with my friends that I didn’t feel compelled to travel anywhere else… It’s been that fun!!!
Update #7: Hiking on the coast of the Mediterranean, crossing waters in a boat, watching stunning landscapes, swimming in an Italian beach town, and eating calamari and fried sardines. All of this while getting to know an amazing group of friends, very intellectually stimulating, and very playful...
September 18, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Update #7: Hiking on the coast of the Mediterranean, crossing waters in a boat, watching stunning landscapes, swimming in an Italian beach town, and eating calamari and fried sardines. All of this while getting to know an amazing group of friends, very intellectually stimulating, and very playful...
Update #6: Chilling on the beach, beautiful Mediterranean town, playing beach volleyball, and of course Italian coffee. Only perk, I’ve been eaten alive by mosquitos the past few days. Also, I actually worked yesterday, funnily enough !
September 16, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Update #6: Chilling on the beach, beautiful Mediterranean town, playing beach volleyball, and of course Italian coffee. Only perk, I’ve been eaten alive by mosquitos the past few days. Also, I actually worked yesterday, funnily enough !
Update #5: Survived the night in the Forest, learned a lot of survival skills, ate a bunch of cheese, and had Sunday night dinner at a Pizzeria. Taking care of the fire during the night in the forest felt like stepping into a dark realm, like a fever-dream... also, Italian people are very colorful.
September 15, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Update #5: Survived the night in the Forest, learned a lot of survival skills, ate a bunch of cheese, and had Sunday night dinner at a Pizzeria. Taking care of the fire during the night in the forest felt like stepping into a dark realm, like a fever-dream... also, Italian people are very colorful.
Update#4: More Italian delis, surfing in the Mediterranean, and surviving in the Italian wilderness. It’s been a complete blast so far! The Italian forest reminds me a lot of California. The weather is apparently the same. Also It seems to be a really cool combination to be Colombian and Scottish!
September 13, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Update#4: More Italian delis, surfing in the Mediterranean, and surviving in the Italian wilderness. It’s been a complete blast so far! The Italian forest reminds me a lot of California. The weather is apparently the same. Also It seems to be a really cool combination to be Colombian and Scottish!
Update #3: Finally had My “Ichnusa non-filtrata”, a san peregrino, a pizza, went to an Italian supermarket. The san peregrino tasted as when first arrived to the UK, it doesn’t taste like that anymore… the pizza was great, specially the doe. The supermarket was like a kid in a candy store, amazing!!
September 11, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Update #3: Finally had My “Ichnusa non-filtrata”, a san peregrino, a pizza, went to an Italian supermarket. The san peregrino tasted as when first arrived to the UK, it doesn’t taste like that anymore… the pizza was great, specially the doe. The supermarket was like a kid in a candy store, amazing!!
Update #2: Super great time, went to the beach, cooked with friends, hiking, went to the aquarium, and even drove twice in Genova and la Spezia. Naturally eat good food! Although I’m a pretty rusty driver…, also I should be working more haha 😅
September 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Update #2: Super great time, went to the beach, cooked with friends, hiking, went to the aquarium, and even drove twice in Genova and la Spezia. Naturally eat good food! Although I’m a pretty rusty driver…, also I should be working more haha 😅
Update on vacations: Actually, it's been absolutely great so far! I met an old friend that I hadn't seen in person for years, amazing Italian end of summer weather, beautiful Italian Tuscany plus medieval city, only perk so far: I forgot my plug converter from UK to EU... got it already, €8...
September 9, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Update on vacations: Actually, it's been absolutely great so far! I met an old friend that I hadn't seen in person for years, amazing Italian end of summer weather, beautiful Italian Tuscany plus medieval city, only perk so far: I forgot my plug converter from UK to EU... got it already, €8...
Vacations up to a bad start, this is never a good sign… anyways I solved the problems… money always solves the problem or at least it helps a lot…
September 7, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Vacations up to a bad start, this is never a good sign… anyways I solved the problems… money always solves the problem or at least it helps a lot…
After a few very tough months, I got some good news... My summer was a complete dread, except for a sliver of happiness at the beginning. I think the end is going to be a banger as well. Let's come back in two weeks and see...
September 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
After a few very tough months, I got some good news... My summer was a complete dread, except for a sliver of happiness at the beginning. I think the end is going to be a banger as well. Let's come back in two weeks and see...
Claude failed me for the first time yesterday. Probably my productivity was reduced by 10%, to the ideal case of me doing the bulk of the work + Claude doing the parsing. I don't blame it, the documentation online was literally three diagrams in three different websites and no readable code anywhere
September 1, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Claude failed me for the first time yesterday. Probably my productivity was reduced by 10%, to the ideal case of me doing the bulk of the work + Claude doing the parsing. I don't blame it, the documentation online was literally three diagrams in three different websites and no readable code anywhere
I coded with Claude all of this week and I can safely say that I did something in a week that would have taken me a month. This means my productivity was increased by 300%. While the project is not over, I predict that overall my productivity will increase by a minimum of 40%.
August 23, 2025 at 10:25 AM
I coded with Claude all of this week and I can safely say that I did something in a week that would have taken me a month. This means my productivity was increased by 300%. While the project is not over, I predict that overall my productivity will increase by a minimum of 40%.
I'll start posting here about topics related to evolution and other thoughts I have in my mind!
August 21, 2025 at 10:09 AM
I'll start posting here about topics related to evolution and other thoughts I have in my mind!