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One of my favorite patterns in our industry is when the old and established are wiped out by disruption, irrelevance, or changing fashions. Like a forest fire, clearing out the old is very destructive and shouldn’t be taken lightly. But what’s left behind is a clean slate and immense opportunity.
Effort estimation is an important component of any project, software or otherwise. While effort estimation is something that everybody in industry is involved with on a regular basis, it is a niche topic in software engineering research. The problem is researcher attitude (e.g., they are unwilling to venture into the…
Learn how to spot the difference between and expert and an imitator with 5 key tells.
An interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and AWS CEO Matt Garman about their new partnership, plus my thoughts on OpenAI and Microsoft’s new deal.
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My neighbor introduced me to The Office back in 2005. Since then, I've watched every episode of both the British and American versions. I've watched the show…
Apple's not in trouble (yet) but here's how Cupertino can get its mojo back
Whether it is botched and haphazard layoffs, anti-trust regulators baying for its blood, or opportunistic saber-rattling by long-time rival Microsoft and its outsourced AI unit, OpenAI — 2023 has b…
OpenAI is to this decade’s generative-AI revolution what Netscape was to the 1990s’ internet revolution.
This is the story of a Bitcoin trade — the most financially impactful trade I’ve ever made in my life. It’s also the story of the…
I think a lot about how important cheap, safe, and abundant energy is to our future. A lot of problems—economic, environmental, war, poverty, food and water availability, bad side effects of...
Whatever course it takes, Microsoft’s future under Satya Nadella will not resemble its past.
Apple isn’t blocking the ability for Facebook to personalize ads, in any way. Apple is just providing *users* with control over their own privacy.
This quote, which went viral 2 months ago and that Steinbeck probably never said, has stuck with me:
Don’t let an LLM make decisions or implement business logic: they suck at that.
Thoughts on FOSS and fintech, layered by Mahmoud Hashemi
My recent predictions about which Google products will succeed (and which won't) are causing people to think that I'm anti-Google, which mak...
Miguel de Icaza's Blog
I should have thought of it first. I walked into Starbucks one afternoon. Ok. Ok. I do this every afternoon, but something was different this time. Something really neat was going on.
Plus how American professors are fighting back against the AI onslaught, a backlash over AI models in Vogue, and more.
On large platforms, it's impossible to have policies on things like moderation, spam, fraud, and sexual content that people agree on. David Turner made a simple game to illustrate how difficult this is even in a trivial case, No Vehicles in the Park . If you haven't played it yet, I recommend playing it now before…
Code level discussion of web scraping, gray hat automation, growth hacking and bounty hunting
The most talented data engineer I know, and my first manager, is a man that loves cooking. I mean, you might think you love cooking, but this guy loves cooking. The most excited text message I received this year was from him, proudly sharing the goddamn analytics on the heat distribution of chicken in his oven with…
