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@itsrickyszn @endingwithali How to get into the tech community in Miami? As someone who wants to be in bed by midnight

@endingwithali direction is true but a lot of this is false miami is full of fitness forward communities that dont drink or party at all real estate is bigger than hospitality relative to other major metros RE is self imposingly anti-tech hence the lack of tech

i've been saying this for years - miami will never be the next tech hub. south florida actually used to be a major tech hub. the first personal computer was invented about an hour and a half north of miami. i bet most people didnt know that IBM used to have a huge campus in boca raton where major innovation happened in the 80s. it used to be alluded to as silicon beach! the reality is that miami is a city where international people come to park their money. there's a saying - miami is 90% occupied by 10% full. thats because so many of the major communities and apartment buildings are literally just investment properties. everyone in miami wants to be 23. partying until the early morning and vapid displays of wealth are the biggest qualifiers. miami is extremely fake - rented luxury, posturing, and leased cars are used to social climb. as a reminder, money doesnt buy taste. but in miami, fake luxury buys clout. if you just rent the right car, purchase the right fakes, you can come off as extremely successful in miami even if you're living in a rented unit with no furniture (this is a thing people literally do). miami isnt the home for any major industry. the largest industry in miami is hospitality - parties, clubbing, etc. many of the locals work in the hospitality industry. every other industry is so completely dwarfed by this, its impossible to find like minded people interested in tech that arent grifters. speaking of locals, if you're not a miami native or into going out and partying its extremely difficult to make friends in the space. this is a lived first hand experience of mine. sorry, i dont feel like leaving to go to space at 2 am to get home at 7 am. i'm sleepy. if you're not into partying, there isn't much else to do. beyond the major grifters, miami is not an intellectual hub in the way that SF or nyc is - there isnt a great technical university or any major industry that relies on technology to succeed. the largest school in miami is UM - but their engineering program isnt a top engineering program or producing engineers at the rate that a school like NYU, columba, stanford or ucberkely are. many of the start up founders i met in miami were either building something completely unfeesable (i met someone trying to put health records on a public block chain.....) or were calling their small business a start up when in reality their TAM was about $5m max. the VC funds i met in miami were extremely disjointed from the actually of how vc works in the rest of the world - they were playing the NYC vc game when they should really be playing the SF vc game. They need to invest in moonshots and delusion, to get more people to see miami as an aspiration. instead many of the vcs were expecting unrealistic ARR for miami based companies. - a former miami+sf resident, south florida native, and current nyc resident.

@george_ @wlooblockchain those guys always cooking and could use compute

I have $7,000 in extra GPU credits lying around. Building something interesting in AI/ML/research/open-source? Please comment / dm me! I'd love to help. Limited to Waterloo ppl / ppl I've met irl.

@Kazanjy @JeffiniteVC Higher IQ and bad intentions just means things get shitty faster

@JeffiniteVC Sucks? We finally have a competent human being throwing their hat in the ring and the support sucks? When in doubt, bet on IQ.

Eric Swalwell is a completely vacant empty vessel of a human. Gavin Newsom, but with EVEN less content. Imagine voting for this dude over Matt Mahan, a Watsonville raised child of a school teacher and letter carrier, Harvard grad, teach for America teacher, who then started a software company before becoming the successful mayor of California’s third largest city. Madness. Embrace competency.

@thdxr Where do you find these Miami tech events?

@jwatte @raechellambert It was from a multi billion dollar listed tech firm 💀 Hint - they beef with vercel on twitter

@ChinesePowered @raechellambert $50 is the cost on one person eating out one night in SF (having a beer, not wine or cocktails) If they don't pay out that, what's wrong with them? I'd payit from personal checking if my name was attached to it...

Husband and I tried Miami for 1 year after living in SF and NYC tech scenes. Very top heavy - mostly successful founders and VCs who go to live in their nice houses and aren’t out there being part of the community Tons of larping founders - I got invited to some “female founder dinners” and every single woman showed up dressed for a kardashian wedding and had obviously spent all their time in the salon, not building a startup The grifting is real - we won Miami Hack Week in 2023. The $10k prize money did not exist and it took 6 months to even get a hold of the organizer. He never paid. When the next Miami hack week came around, I tried telling 3 people in the community. Organizer told them I was a liar and that I had been paid. This bullshit would never happen in SF or NYC. Miami hack week seems to have a new organizer now so I’m hopeful it’s being better managed.

@deedydas No they're not using Claude code and codex because they're using something better - qwen cli

I’m not exaggerating, I hear from so many big software cos which don’t use Claude Code/Codex. CTOs are asleep at the wheel. Engineers are typing code by hand. Fixing a bug a day. Like it’s 2024. If youre at these cos, demand change or leave. Now. You’re in for a rude awakening.

@eurofounder Seven boyfriends. She didn't mention me since she didn't have my consent to share with her cuck yet

My wife asked to open our relationship last year "No way" I thought at first Then I caught myself That was a very toxic, right-wing reaction I apologized immediately Fast forward a year, she has now six different boyfriends I use the free evenings to study for my online certificate in EU Regulatory Compliance This is what an open and progressive society looks like

Better learn chinese before the AI overlords take over

@Tancrededib What if I'm not European and I want unlimited Chinese food? Studies have shown authentic Chinese food helps people ship 20% faster

This exact house 40 beds San Francisco Unlimited food and drinks 8 weeks to build a company Who are you bringing? What are you building ?

@hthieblot Wait why? Why move to SF instead of staying where the innovation is happening (Shenzhen, Shanghai)

I am BEGGING you to move to SF

@adelwu_ Y'all should give your employees boba during this

“table time” at work is like tummy time but the time of the day when everyone starts naturally congregating to work at the communal table (around 5pm)

Cursor's new "state of the art" coding model. Is actually just a Chinese model :)

@laurenlself I disagree with you. Building built 2010s. All subsidies bad

Anyone who disagrees with me is legally required to disclose their annual salary and the year their building was built 😤

It is diabolical that rent control is not means-tested. Rent control in SF is determined not by a tenant’s income, but by the building’s structure and the year it was built. Was it built before June 1979? It’s probably rent controlled. If Marc Andreessen or Garry Tan signed a lease in a duplex built in 1978, their landlord would not be allowed to increase their rent by more than 60% of Bay Area CPI/year (1.6% this year) Meanwhile, an elementary school teacher living in a single family unit built just two years later in 1980 can see a 40% annual rent increase. There are no rules against that! 1 in 5 rent-controlled tenants in SF pays less than 50% of market rent. No income analysis. No verification. No one even asks! We means-test food stamps. We means-test Medicaid. We means-test student aid. But the biggest housing subsidy in San Francisco? Yeah, we’re gonna base that one on whether your building was framed before or after June 1979. Unrelated: does anyone know why the rent is so damn high?

@jeffwsurf This is a good move. No reason why "update my readme to include this link" should cost as much as "see plan.md that'll cost 600k output tokens and 20m input tokens to complete, don't stop until done"

As agents become longer running and output tokens become more expensive than before, we had to make changes on how we calculate multipliers. Rather than being forced to increase model multipliers to 20x+ and draining accounts quickly, we are aligning to the industry standard quota system, which refreshes daily and weekly so you can keep using Windsurf over time. Most users won’t reach their quota

@robinebers Nah I gave them that feedback during their event that charging for tokens is better since it doesn't penalize short easy questions.

lol yeah I'm sure THAT'S why they're changing man, fuck this corporate bullshit at least be honest and don't treat your users like they're dumb smh

Windsurf is finally dead the last reason people actually used it was price this will be the last straw, and the rest will switch off too really sad to see a once great competitor become so irrelevant in such a short time

@EricaJSandberg What day/time was this?

AND THE BEAT GOES ON.16th and Mission - it’s not hyperbole to say there is death and destruction everywhere. But nice young girls with scars on their arms are giving out fentanyl foil and needles like they’re candy.

@guyfelicella @EricaJSandberg Lol so you're the reason why Vancouver is so fucked up with druggies

So you would rather have people contract HIV AIDS? You might be one of the most naive people on the planet to believe that not handing out clean needles means people will stop. They'll share needles like they did in the 90s and spread HIV AIDS HEP C outbreaks. You really have no understanding.

@andrewdfeldman @cerebras Yeah I'm surprised Nvidia didn't try to acquire cerebras instead of groq. Cerebras seemed ahead on every metric that mattered

NVIDIA's biggest GTC announcement was a $20 billion bet on the same problem we solved 6 years ago. Their next-gen inference chip - not available yet - has 140x less memory bandwidth than @cerebras. To run a single 2 trillion parameter model, you need 2,000+ Groq chips. On Cerebras, that's just over 20 wafers. Even paired with GPUs, Groq maxes out at ~1,000 tokens per second. We run at thousands of tokens per second today. And every day. In production now. Why? When you connect 2,000 chips together, every interconnect has latency. Every cable has overhead. It doesn't matter what your memory bandwidth is on paper if you're bottlenecked by the wiring between thousands of tiny chips. We solved this with wafer scale. One integrated system. Little interconnect tax. Jensen told the world that fast inference is where the value is. He’s right - it’s why the world’s leading AI companies and hyperscalers are choosing Cerebras.

@x0reanna_ @bayneframer Yeah. She's looking at him a certain way as well

@bayneframer no cap, how can you even tell? she could easily just be his girl and people are just jumping to conclusions.

Who brough an escort to the OpenClaw meetup? Fucking Bali nerds always doing weird shit 😂 You forgot the audience doesn't know where the hole is? No need for this 'flex' lmfao