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ijidak

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I’m a software engineer turned entrepreneur. Technology, SEO, and Marketing are my passions. Over the last 36-months my ads have made $1.36+ million in sales.

https://medium.com/@ijidak https://www.linkedin.com/in/ayo-ijidakinro-3a32b1b0/

At the same time, I believe our world is broken. And I'm not looking for human governments to solve a single thing. They've proved themselves totally incapable of solving our toughest problems.

To understand my perspective better, see:

https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/questions/what-gods-kingdom-will-do/

https://www.jw.org/en/library/magazines/watchtower-no2-2020-may-jun/

Submissions

USDA lowers beef export sales by 90% amid growing doubts over data

reuters.com
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Did AI write this article?

economist.com
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Intro to Q#, Microsoft's Quantum Programming Language

learn.microsoft.com
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Generative Recursive ReAsoning Models (Gram)

arxiv.org
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March heat in American west has left snowpack at record-low levels

theguardian.com
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Trump's great Venezuelan oil gamble

economist.com
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Jensen Huang says China 'will win' AI race

ft.com
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It Looks Like a Desert, but It Has Lakes

youtube.com
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Reinventing iOS Automation: Editorial Review

macstories.net
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MSTY AI Studio

msty.ai
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The Cost of Progressive Rollout

surfingcomplexity.blog
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ijidak
·przedwczoraj·discuss
When the voice models start rambling, I think of C-3PO. When Uncle Owen told 3PO to shut up and 3PO said, "Shutting up, sir."

Or even some scenes where Data did something similar.

It's funny to now experience it.
ijidak
·8 dni temu·discuss
Ok. This is the most interesting man in the world. Literally.
ijidak
·10 dni temu·discuss
Is this inflation adjusted?
ijidak
·10 dni temu·discuss
Is this inflation adjusted?
ijidak
·15 dni temu·discuss
IBM's contributions to computing hardware and software are incalculable.

So many breakthroughs in hard drives, chips, transistor density, and other aspects of computing have come out of their labs.

Great to see them continuing to innovate.

But, yeah, usually they partner and license. Over the years, they've spun off more and more of their hardware businesses.
ijidak
·17 dni temu·discuss
Just redo Slack already. :-)

I know this is much easier said than done. And my comment is partly tongue-in-cheek.

But Slack isn't great. It isn't loved.

I don't understand why Slack still doesn't have a true single inbox view of all activity.

And their LLM integration is poor, for what feels like one of the clearest use cases for a rich LLM chat experience -- to discuss what's happening in a channel, filter cruft, and ask an agent to take actions against MCP productivity tools like add a todo, etc.

Slack's current AI integrations are piss poor. Just summaries with zero customization. I mean, isn't it obvious that's not good enough?

Eventually a ground-up rethink of Slack in an LLM age is going to displace Slack.

They'll likely survive forever as an enterprise provider, like Microsoft Office and related tools, simply because of integrations, etc.

But Slack feels ripe for disruption.
ijidak
·18 dni temu·discuss
Crossing my fingers that this boom jumpstarts 90's like improvements in computing hardware.

I feel like part of the reason for the relative stagnation in hardware over the last twenty years was simply the lack of use cases to justify hardware refreshes by businesses.

Most of the money and energy went to mobile for the last fifteen years.

Affordable local inference might be the gravy train the server, desktop, and laptop manufacturers need to get back in gear.
ijidak
·19 dni temu·discuss
What type of task are you running for ten hours? Is this a programming task?

I've not come across a programming task that would take an LLM ten hours.
ijidak
·28 dni temu·discuss
Intelligence is now data in the form of weights.

And once it leaks, it's permanently in the wild.

Interesting times.
ijidak
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
Don't worry. They're just leaving the door open for OpenAI and other model makers.

They'll relax these safeguards once competition increases.
ijidak
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
I think of this episode as well. I can't believe, in my lifetime, we've reached the point where we can have this debate.

The current debate also makes me realize that, like that episode "Measure of a Man", even if humans do create sentient machines, we can now see that this debate will continue to rage.

A part of me hopes we never create sentience, because we will mistreat it just as we mistreat each other.
ijidak
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
That's actually a powerful way of stating it.

If I did all of these calculations by hand, would it be conscious...

That's a powerful argument I haven't seen stated quite that way before..

I do think it's hard to know when consciousness exists, because we can't really prove it for our neighbor. We just intuitively know that it would be crazy, even immoral, to assume otherwise.

But, It's likely easier to dismiss consciousness, once we understand the mechanism, than it is to prove it.
ijidak
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
Markets value future cash flows, not today's cash flows.

By the time you see the applications, the market will have moved on to value the next set of future cash flows.

If the market only valued the obvious, investors would jump in to buy the price up, until it met the average expectations.

The market might be wrong, but the question is not: "Have you yet to see?", but rather, "What do you see in the next three to five years?"

Otherwise, how could investors ever invest in a startup?

Startups never have revenues to justify their initial valuations.

It's a bet on the future.

Investors are future looking.

Consumers are present looking.

We didn't see LLM harnesses coming even two years ago. Now they generate billions per month.

Investors can't wait until reality materializes to make their estimations of the future.

That's why investing is hard.

You have to try to predict the future.
ijidak
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
I'd like to learn more about how they've been sabotaged. What happened?
ijidak
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
> It's worth reflecting on why it's so hard to convince hold outs to discover how AI might help them

I have. My conclusion is... humans are deeply irrational when it comes to rapid change.

Egg or olive oil prices spike, humans out an entire government.

The rate of immigration spikes, humans throw them into camps and break useful treaties.

Most of the resistance I've observed amongst engineers is resistance to change generally.

And then digging in when challenged.
ijidak
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
I'd add Email to the list.

Email is right there waiting for disruption.
ijidak
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
What changes are you seeing? When I look at these images, it shows me what sea surface temperatures are today, but I don't have context as to how it's changed.

I would love someone to stitch years of these images together in a video to help me get better context.
ijidak
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
Yeah I think it was the word "fundamental" he took issue with.
ijidak
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
Is the quant competitor Renaissance? The Medallion Fund?
ijidak
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
I believe it's caused by even the slightest imbalance in mass. Because the moon is so close to Earth, the imbalance causes gravity to be slightly stronger on one side than the other side. Eventually, that leads to no rotation at all.

I imagine most bodies rotating around a second object will eventually lose their angular velocity.