rogerkirkness

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by rogerkirkness 10d ago
I feel similarly right now, which is patr of why I shut down my company.
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by rogerkirkness 10d ago
I had to stop after 6 months because my testosterone dropped so much (serious, blood test confirmed). Felt way better for the first few months, then slowly lower energy and not like myself. Eventually realized more vegetables is good, but n
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by rogerkirkness 22d ago
It is fraud*
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by rogerkirkness 22d ago
Opus is probably ~2T parameter model, so that would probably not run on these. More like Sonnet.
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by rogerkirkness 28d ago
Facebook are the worst, and I hope the settlement exceeds their balance sheet.
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by rogerkirkness 1mo ago
I feel this way, so I shut my startup down. Not sure what I'm going to do next but I'm hoping it isn't so computer dependent. The reason I got into computers was unregulated opportunity and freedom and it's just the oppo
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by rogerkirkness 1mo ago
There is just no way all these data center investments in the trillions pay off. That has to be paid out of cashflow, like, real profit. The price to do useful things keeps falling, the payroll economy will crash long before there's ac
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by rogerkirkness 1mo ago
Yes it's a giant wire payment. Depending on your bank, it might have to be setup to send in daily large amounts (e.g. $999k every day for X days). It can actually cause problems for your local bank branch because one thing banks have t
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by rogerkirkness 1mo ago
In my totally uneducated opinion as a founder working on winding down my software company that can't differentiate anymore and considering finding someone in hard tech to partner with, I think problem first is a mistake. Problem first
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by rogerkirkness 1mo ago
Gemma and Muse Glimmer are pretty sweet, I like my adaptiveness odds against their sloppiness. It seems like the new billionaire move is starting a company with your buddies to do your 'life's work' of automating scientific r
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by rogerkirkness 1mo ago
Gen Z seems to have some kind of vaccine against all the Gen X problems.
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by rogerkirkness 1mo ago
I think this is accurate and a reflection of the pathological insecurity that leads someone to want to start a startup.
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by rogerkirkness 2mo ago
OpenAI, and it's legal officers.
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by rogerkirkness 2mo ago
I don't think anyone including Americans are really buying that OpenAI or Anthropic are capable of keeping people safe from AI models at this point, given they can't even run evals on them without significant real world harm.
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by rogerkirkness 2mo ago
Depends on whether you like have parasocial relationships with machines or not. It will say what is necessary to get you to keep using it on a regular basis.
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by rogerkirkness 2mo ago
the weights are the bones
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by rogerkirkness 2mo ago
> Still, in the end, open-weight models deter further AI capex. Good.
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by rogerkirkness 2mo ago
Around 2002 there was way more internet bandwidth and infrastructure available than utilized, eventually (not immediately) leading to business models like Netflix current one. I do think a lot about what the AI analogy will be.
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by rogerkirkness 2mo ago
Apple would punish him severely unless they cleared it in advance, it might be to their advantage for some reason (negotiating with Google for Gemma rights? idk).
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by rogerkirkness 2mo ago
Claude Code is bad UX that tries to rip work out of people's hands instead of actually being aligned and figuring out how to increase their differentiated expertise. It's about renting your future from Anthropic rather than buildi
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by rogerkirkness 3mo ago
I don't think so. We aren't hiring right now, but definitely add us :) Feel free to email the email on my profile.
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by rogerkirkness 3mo ago
32 hours full comp.
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by rogerkirkness 3mo ago
Our startup implemented four day work week without changing comp, and submitted various data as part of a recent Boston College study. Both wellbeing and output increased in statistically significant way with a team of only 15. Hard to avoi
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by rogerkirkness 5mo ago
Canada has tens of trillions of dollars in natural resources it could choose to monetize at any time.
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by rogerkirkness 5mo ago
It makes no sense to do broad layoffs during sweeping technical change that affects you, your customers and your competitors all at once. Makes way more sense to cling to your best people and re-train them in order to preserve your soul and
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by rogerkirkness 5mo ago
Shopify is a pivot from selling snowboards online in Canada
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by rogerkirkness 5mo ago
Going double or nothing using a business that invented reusable rockets and makes $8B a year in profit as the bet is overwhelming to think about.
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by rogerkirkness 5mo ago
You can see the business cycle each time there's a giant spike in the amount of debt carried by institutions that isn't paid down before the next one.
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by rogerkirkness 6mo ago
It's really tragic given how awesome SpaceX is as a body of work and financially to merge it with such a terrible disaster in X.
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by rogerkirkness 6mo ago
Yes. There's already rewrites 'inspired' by the now public code as well.

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