michaelje

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by michaelje 2mo ago
Once upon a time, physically shipping faulty software had real costs borne by the organization - production, redistribution and transportation of a physical disc. Today there’s no disc, no recall - that cost to shipping broken software is g
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by michaelje 4mo ago
The CBC recently reported on videos pretending to be from Canadians promoting similar anti-Canada messaging. They used AI generated copies of real Canadians and hired voice actors. They use this divisive content to drive views and ad revenu
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by michaelje 5mo ago
The overreach on access and then storage will be a meaningful issue we will have to reckon with more and more. Companies are acquired, companies die. What happens to your data in 5, 15, 50 years? It doesn’t just disappear. From a few months
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by michaelje 5mo ago
Open models keep closing the eval gap for many tasks, and local inference continues to be increasingly viable. What's missing isn't technical capability, but productized convenience that makes the API path feel like the only reali
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by michaelje 5mo ago
Absolutely. Pricing exposure is the quiet story under all the waves of AI hype. Build for convenience → subsidise for dependence → meter for margin is a well-worn playbook, and AI-dependent companies are about to find out what phase three f
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Rented intelligence: AI's mainframe moment(mjeggleton.com)
1 points by michaelje 5mo ago|0 comments
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Reshape, not replace: What AI is changing about our work today(mjeggleton.com)
2 points by michaelje 5mo ago|1 comments
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Your Data Never Dies(mjeggleton.com)
1 points by michaelje 6mo ago|0 comments
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by michaelje 9mo ago
https://sorso.app/ A fresh PWA to log / improve your coffee brewing process. We use it to see what we are all drinking, find new coffees, explore new cafes, and understand what we like / don’t like. It’s primarily
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by michaelje 2y ago
Every other country appears to have the “bread” at a reasonable price. Ironically, it’s the US which has the same bread for 100x the cost.
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by michaelje 3y ago
Not sure medicine is the best example given the same profit seeking culture is driving decisions where care takes a back seat
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by michaelje 3y ago
>> critics argue that it reduces the supply of rental apartments and creates housing shortages I don’t follow the logic. It doesn’t destroy the property or take it out of supply, it just means someone might not purchase it specificall
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by michaelje 3y ago
I assume the people in the market for an a380 already know what it looks like
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by michaelje 3y ago
More consumers to consume
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by michaelje 3y ago
Or a technical audience is not the market
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by michaelje 3y ago
Wrt who is happy to exploit TFWs: is it Canadians, or the Canadian government at the request of Canadian big business? Who stands to gain? Without TFWs the minimum wage (or the amount actually paid for workers) would have to rise - supply a
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by michaelje 3y ago
Or maybe the issue is regulatory capture of government, not government itself? ‘Government intervention’ isn’t the same as a government who works to support the needs of citizens.
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by michaelje 3y ago
Agree - I’ve been using a set of Eve (from memory) power plugs that are thread enabled - my understanding is it doesn’t connect directly to the internet (ie you don’t connect it to your wifi) but you connect to a border hub (ie an Apple TV,
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by michaelje 3y ago
It doesn’t have to be a good or bad investment. It can be something you pay for and use, and it provides actual utility. We could make owner occupiers first class citizens in our own society, having housing as primarily for housing people
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by michaelje 3y ago
Increasing mortgage rates is a poor mechanism for countering inflation. It only directly impacts a minority of the economy and private companies (banks) earn the profit.
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by michaelje 3y ago
Why should controlling inflation be used to transfer wealth from individuals to a for-profit third party (banks)? Also, it doesn’t target the entire population fairly - surely there is a better way? I found this a thought provoking starting
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by michaelje 4y ago
This was a thoughtful read - but found the conclusion avoided the biggest challenge of all - that housing is not *just* a financial decision - but rather, people require housing to live their lives.
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by michaelje 4y ago
This was a thoughtful read - but found the conclusion avoided the biggest challenge of all - that housing is not just a financial decision - but rather, people require housing to live their lives.
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by michaelje 4y ago
I can’t wait to hire Stephen Colbert to write prompts then
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by michaelje 4y ago
I just got back from the Banff Film Festival, where I saw Fire of Love[1]. It’s the story of French scientists Maurice and Katia Krafft, who become fully devoted to each other and the study of Volcanos for the rest of their lives. Created u
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by michaelje 4y ago
This needs a solid [2012] in front of it
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by michaelje 4y ago
I’ve just completed a 6 month self comparison of the Whoop v4 and Watch S6 for cycling. I found for long endurance efforts they were surprisingly accurate to each other - but during intervals of intense exertion (eg a KOM/hill climb) o
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by michaelje 4y ago
Founded in Brisbane. Acquired by MS about a year ago.
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by michaelje 4y ago
Very.. Salesforce bought Slack in 2021.
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Olive AI lays off 450(axios.com)
6 points by michaelje 4y ago|3 comments

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