MikeTheRocker

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by MikeTheRocker 1y ago
I have also really been enjoying these lectures. Sarah is quick witted and insightful. I recommend the Dwarkesh podcast to anyone interested in AI in general (though Sarah Paine lectures are completely unrelated).
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by MikeTheRocker 2y ago
I already feel like text models are already at sufficiently entertaining and useful quality as you define it. It's definitely possible we never get there for video or 3D modalities, but I think there are strong enough economic incentiv
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by MikeTheRocker 2y ago
IMO current generation models are capable of creating significantly better than "slop" quality content. You need only look at NotebookLM output. As models continue to improve, this will only get better. Look at the rate of improve
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by MikeTheRocker 2y ago
Generative AI is going to drive the marginal cost of building 3D interactive content to zero. Unironically this will unlock the metaverse, cringe as that may sound. I'm more bullish than ever on AR/VR.
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by MikeTheRocker 2y ago
Meta actually has a native SDK for apps that appears very similar to what Google announced today with Android XR. https://github.com/meta-quest/Meta-Spatial-SDK-Samples
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by MikeTheRocker 3y ago
No, the 7950X is a CPU. CUDA is an API for computing on GPUs.
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by MikeTheRocker 3y ago
Not your compute, not your girlfriend, as they say.
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by MikeTheRocker 3y ago
With >150,000 employees, I think they can probably do both
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by MikeTheRocker 3y ago
I'm hoping they're building a commodity AR/VR operating system -- essentially spatial Android. They've already announced a partnership with Samsung and Qualcomm so I've got to imagine some interesting hardware is co
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by MikeTheRocker 3y ago
In contrast, buying my Tesla new was about as easy as any Amazon order. I don't know why other car manufacturers don't make D2C a bigger focus for their business.
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by MikeTheRocker 3y ago
One of my all-time favorite records is entitled Crown Shyness. The eponymous track [1] uses this phenomenon as a metaphor for feeling alone while depressed. The branches are so close, but just out of reach. I always thought it was a beautif
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by MikeTheRocker 3y ago
I suspect for people like Sam who are compulsively ambitious and competitive, it's not about the dollars. It's about winning. Further, based on anecdotes from friends and Twitter who know Sam personally, I'm inclined to belie
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by MikeTheRocker 3y ago
This made me laugh out loud
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by MikeTheRocker 3y ago
Curious what your sample size is on evaluating IC8s. In my experience the small handful I’ve known have been very pleasant people.
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by MikeTheRocker 3y ago
Just curious, with so much runway do you still work? What motivates you?
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by MikeTheRocker 3y ago
> WFH is here. its not going anywhere. I hope you're correct, but empirically this appears to be wishful thinking, at least among larger organizations. How many tech big-cos have implemented a mandatory return to office policy in so
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by MikeTheRocker 3y ago
I love seeing this kind of detailed analysis of everyday things like this. It always seems to reveal intriguing correlations and insights.
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by MikeTheRocker 3y ago
Snap has 397 million DAU, up 14% YoY. They're far from irrelevant among young westerners. They just have a remarkably weak business for their scale. https://investor.snap.com/news/news-details/2023/Snap-I
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by MikeTheRocker 3y ago
As someone deeply interested in AR/VR as an industry, it makes me really sad constantly seeing Snap fumble.
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by MikeTheRocker 3y ago
This is misleading. $36B is for all of Reality Labs, which includes Virtual Reality, but also their Augmented Reality glasses in development, Ray-Ban smart glasses, Horizon, Meta's AI org, the Portal product line (now discontinued), th
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by MikeTheRocker 3y ago
I think you're conflating currency with interfaces to the financial system. The currency is the medium of exchange: the dollar itself. A debit card is merely a tool to transact using dollars.
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by MikeTheRocker 3y ago
Kotlin has the internal access modifier which can be useful for this
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by MikeTheRocker 3y ago
One datapoint: In 2022, I had an offer as engineer #2 at a venture backed startup in San Francisco for 1%. Not sure if this is typical, but I did some research at the time and it seemed about right.
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by MikeTheRocker 3y ago
Curious if you've ever done this personally? I've only ever worked at companies with tens to hundreds of thousands of employees, and my perspective has been that the bureaucracy is such that any nonstandard interaction with the co
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by MikeTheRocker 3y ago
I am coming around to this line if thinking much more lately. Especially if you work at a big company in a fungible role. The power imbalance is such that it costs the company essentially 0% of their assets to abruptly terminate you, but fo
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by MikeTheRocker 3y ago
Good luck getting something like that in writing at any big tech company
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by MikeTheRocker 3y ago
Is this project associated with Meta? The creator Hongbo Zhang worked at Meta on some of their open source programming language projects (ReasonML and Flow). According to LinkedIn, he's still employed there.
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by MikeTheRocker 3y ago
I'm going to make some assumptions, so please forgive me if this is not accurate. You said you were in San Francisco and looking to buy property, so I'll guess you were probably a Senior Software Engineer at the time, based on pre
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by MikeTheRocker 3y ago
That's interesting because I find home cooking to be very expensive, if you value your time. Cooking for one, the marginal difference between the price of groceries vs eating out is easily outweighed by the time cost of shopping, food
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by MikeTheRocker 3y ago
I don't know what to make of this. It just seems so incredibly implausibly that extraterrestrials would have the technology or motive to come to Earth without widespread detection.

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