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This will be my last post here on X/Twitter. I've decided, as many others have, to migrate to Threads.
I attribute part of this decision to business logic - Twitter is dying. Why waste energy on a platform that will die? But on a more visceral level I just can't stand Musk.
Say what you will about other billionaires, but I don't they match his level of narcissism. So, I'm taking my business elsewhere.
On a separate note, I've become a registered financial advisor in Canada, and started blogging regularly on eddywealth.com/ I have very high regard for many of the people here, so I hope we can connect elsewhere.
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An interview with Barron about AI, LLMs, the moratorium call, etc.
barrons.com/articles/ai-chat…
There were ~1,000 users when I joined my #MastodonSocial server (mstdn.ca) about a week and a half ago. There are now nearly 20,000 users. The poor server admin is going nuts trying to scale resources.
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Unless you operated large systems, it’s hard to appreciate both how they work, and how they break.
Twitter won’t go down with a big b, and it won’t go down irreparable.
Things will work fine for a while - thanks to no new deploys! Then, here’s what’s likely to happen (cont’d):
Great interview of the founder of Mastadon. He actually sounds like he's doing it for the cause and not for the money.
wired.com/story/the-man-behi…
"We’re accumulating technical debt much faster than before"
And that's why I have zero faith that Tesla will ever achieve full self driving.
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My new blog post. I've spent way too many months writing this one, but I think it was worth it. Please give it a read!
No talented engineer I know dreams of working at a big telco like Rogers. I've always wondered if the lack of tech talent would lead to issues like this one. I'm actually surprised there hasn't been similar issues at big banks.
UPDATE: Rogers still doesn't have an estimated time for when its services will return, but a new statement from the company mentions the possibility of “proactively crediting all customers” who were impacted by Friday’s outage.
trib.al/YBR804O
Why do so few people ask if Musk will actually uphold free speech on twitter?
Elon Musk says he wants free speech, but his track record suggests otherwise cnb.cx/3KbsUat
Thought provoking comment from Nadal. I feel that it's applicable to startup life as well. Nadal doesn't lie to himself during tough situations, and I imagine that frees him to overcome it.
One surprising aspect of machine learning is the amount of customization required for a model to be useful. You look at some problems and go "hmm, a simple multilayer perceptron (or linear regression) will work". But then it doesn't.