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mmcconnell1618

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Founder and President of BV Software. marcus@ bv software dot com

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mmcconnell1618
·قبل 10 أيام·discuss
Even if they could "do it better" it is still locked into a single device/vehicle and can't match the eco-system that Apple and Google have developed across a family of devices and services. In order to really compete, they would need to enter markets already dominated by big tech companies.
mmcconnell1618
·قبل شهرين·discuss
10MB for the Google Homepage! 44MB for Facebook Homepage! I have not been paying attention to website bloat. Wow, and people were annoyed when a site had to download a whole JQuery library for a single function.
mmcconnell1618
·قبل 3 أشهر·discuss
Anthropic clearly doesn't understand that customers see their brand as "Claude", Google's brand as "Gemini" and OpenAI's brand as "ChatGPT." They have so many plans and exclusions that they risk customer confusion. I was surprised when I was pay $200/month for Claude Code, finding it super helpful, and then I had to pay separately to get API access for an experiment. Why are so many parts of "Claude" separate from each other, especially on a $200/month subscription.

Anthropic better get this sorted out with a proper product manager and marketing or they risk customers jumping to easier to understand platforms that are good enough.
mmcconnell1618
·قبل 3 أشهر·discuss
NASA "Force?" It sounds very similar to Space Force and Air Force and adds a militaristic tone to NASA. Maybe that is the intent. I know that NASA and the military are closely linked but the general brand of NASA is a the science-focused civilian side while something like Space Force would be the military side.
mmcconnell1618
·قبل 4 أشهر·discuss
I've built a few transportation simulations where I started out with pathfinding methods like A* but the compute cost doesn't scale well with 10,000 or 100,000 agents running around. Pre-computing flow fields for common map destinations is one of those areas where you trade off storage for compute. The agents just look for the signpost telling them "this direction to destination x" instead of actually calculating a path.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A*_search_algorithm#

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr6ObNVgytk
mmcconnell1618
·قبل 4 أشهر·discuss
Also, have massive layoffs every few months just to keep people on edge. AWS wants people to leave with RTO and badging policies, comp range shifts lower unless you have year over year ratings, and an obsessive push to force AI into every process. Top talent is leaving and will continue to leave AWS.
mmcconnell1618
·قبل 5 أشهر·discuss
I made a decision to reframe "news" as the "fear network" so my brain had that context as I found out the news of the day. The article had an interesting perspective on information diets contributing to overall pessimism.
mmcconnell1618
·قبل 6 أشهر·discuss
Marco Rubio needed this for his presidential run in 2028. Does this mean that Putin will look the other way for Maduro as long as Trump looks the other way when Putin captures or kills Zelenskyy? Have they officially agreed to divide the world as spheres of influence?
mmcconnell1618
·قبل 7 أشهر·discuss
Learning to play individual notes from sheet music only helps you learn one song. The breakthrough for me was thinking in musical structure.

- There are 12 keys on the piano just repeated - A scale can start on any of those 12 keys - The "home" key of the scale get labels with a roman numeral one, I - The rest of the keys in the scale get roman numerals ii,iii,IV,V,vi,vii - The I,IV,V are all upper case to represent major chords, the lower case for minor chords - Most pop songs use I,IV,V from a scale. In C-major scale, C, F, G major chords. - You can start on any key on the piano and if you play the same sequence of I, IV, V, you'll get the same song, just transposed into a different key. (the scales are slightly different due to even temperament for advanced ears)

So, learn songs by the chord structure first. It is easier to remember and you'll start to recognize patterns in other songs and unlock them faster.
mmcconnell1618
·قبل 7 أشهر·discuss
Color grading is pretty interesting. Please share good resources if you find some.
mmcconnell1618
·قبل 7 أشهر·discuss
Technical:

- Understand how to deploy teams of agents effectively to accomplish significant goals

- Learn ECS/Dots in Unity to scale a system to hundreds of thousands of actors

Non Technical:

- Improve people management skills for leading technical teams with a target of helping each person grow in 2026 and level up the team

- Automate more of my personal finances to gain leverage from systems instead of hoping I make good decisions consistently
mmcconnell1618
·قبل 9 أشهر·discuss
I do the same. It lets you see exactly what the LLM is using for context and you can easily correct manually. Similar to the spec-driven-development in Kiro where you define the plan first, then move to creating code to meet the plan.
mmcconnell1618
·قبل 9 أشهر·discuss
When you get the answer you want, follow up with "How could I have asked my question in a way to get to this answer faster?" and the LLM will provide some guidance on how to improve your question prompt. Over time, you'll get better at asking questions and getting answers in fewer shots.
mmcconnell1618
·قبل 10 أشهر·discuss
Doesn't MacOS already render as 2x resolution and downsize in order to do font smoothing? Looks are important to Apple and I think they are willing to add custom hardware capable of handling these type of effects without killing battery life and CPU cycles.
mmcconnell1618
·قبل 11 شهرًا·discuss
Self-learning opens new training opportunities but not at the scale or speed of current training. The world only operates at 1x speed. Today's models have been trained on written and visual content created by billions of humans over thousands of years.

You can only experience the world in one place in real time. Even if you networked a bunch of "experiencers" together to gather real time data from many places at the same time, you would need a way to learn and train on that data in real time that could incorporate all the simultaneous inputs. I don't see that capability happening anytime soon.
mmcconnell1618
·قبل 5 سنوات·discuss
M1 MacBook Pro (13 inch) and M1 MacBook Air were released near the end of last year. The newest machines (14 and 16 inch) and the M1 Pro and M1 Max MacBook Pro. The combination of "MacBook Pro" and "M1 Pro CPU" can be confusing. The original poster appears to have gotten an original M1 CPU in the 13 MacBook Pro about 10 months ago from their employer.
mmcconnell1618
·قبل 5 سنوات·discuss
I like the mention that luck/timing can be a factor. You can apply for a prestigious role where you would do extremely well but not get the position due to factors outside your control. An internal candidate was already selected, someone with just a little more experience also applied, you would be great but are missing one bullet point from the job criteria, the interviewer assigned to you does a poor job or is having a bad day.

Try and maximize your luck by making sure you’re well prepared for interviews and apply for positions where your skills and interests really line up perfectly to the job description. But if it doesn’t work out, try not to take it personally, just reset and try again.
mmcconnell1618
·قبل 6 سنوات·discuss
I'm not sure this applies. If the workouts are recorded, they are not realtime person-to-person experiences.