patrick
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patrick
@ConsumerRick
predicting @aaruHQ
New York, USA Katılım Mayıs 2015
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Retired 1 star Admiral who is heavily involved in UAP/“alien” disclosure says Atlantis is real, and they can prove it.
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@___4o____ its silly how zcash makes you opt into transaction anonymity (but nobody really knows its not privacy preserving by default)
monero is pretty much for buying drugs
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@ryanbrewer I am intimately familiar with the market dynamics here
I was mmcolorado.
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@ConsumerRick I was selling them on instagram for Amazon gift cards and then selling the gift cards haha
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@ryanbrewer could bootstrap android tablets off Amazon after first 1.5M or so coins and then it would multiply exponentially
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@ConsumerRick Lmao I had a bunch of android phones and tablets in my basement running auto touch scripts and accelerator
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Data itself is not yet a commodity so yes
but data platforms are basically a commodity with race to the bottom economics
—> experts have near 0 switching cost between platforms
—> labs are platform agnostic (only care that benchmark goes brr ^^)
Low barriers to entry + incentive misalignment between labeling platforms creates constant down pressure on margins.
great to be a brain, tough to be a consciousness extractor, great to get extracted consciousness
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This take is so stupid only a VC could say it. Oh, wait.
Data is by far the most capital intensive and resource constrained factor for training AI. The models have a never ending hunger for training data.
We have barely scratched the surface of the long tail of human knowledge
Jamie Quint@jamiequint
On Mercor, Handshake, Surge AI, Turing, Micro1, etc. If you're considering making a career move I would not go work at any of these companies. These businesses are a race to the bottom. There is no structural defensibility in outsourced research/training data for a set of 5-10 very large customers. Once the frontier labs have to start caring about margins, one of two things will happen: they will drive vendor margins down until these businesses trade at 0.5–1x revenue, like every other staffing company (potentially worse because of the customer concentration risk), or they vertically integrate. All arguments about how these are important outsourced research companies that the labs really value are cope.
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if you want to know what running a database company is like. the ladies love it.
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If you take AI advancement seriously enough
screens become obsolete and intent is all there is
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@ndrewpignanelli @mo_battah its the last software
users.ece.cmu.edu/~gamvrosi/thel…
everything else is eaten
vintagedata.org/blog/posts/mod…
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Seriously don’t do this. It will set you back significantly. I started my career in Salt Lake City where I grew up, and I would be ~3 years further ahead if i had moved to SF or NY on day one
Marc Randolph@marcrandolph
If you want to succeed with an early-stage startup, your best move might be far away from Silicon Valley, to a small city with an active startup community of its own.
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@ndrewpignanelli @mo_battah skill issue if you need capital for anything outside of hardware at this point
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@mo_battah The capital allocated to tier 2 and 3 cities is like an order of magnitude less than tier 1. You’re just making it harder on yourself
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I would agree here on the school point
Stanford has Berkley
MIT has Harvard
but also these cities are generally known to be capital attractive (Venture Capital technically originated from Boston) and most of the startup effects you see are the culmination of large capital nodes and bottoms up hacker culture vs Georgia tech's historical relevance as a trade school which heavily influences all of its downstream culture to fit more inline with producing worker bees
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@ConsumerRick @catboosted Eh. It’s probably its location in the South and a lack of other, nearby elite schools so it suffers from a lack of agglomeration effects.
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Georgia Tech is a good trade school but it isn't known for producing highly productive or creative people
The most famous founder from there in recent years was the Soylent guy, and he got ousted because there were rats in production facility
altra@catboosted
Just a reminder, if anyone says they went to Georgia Tech for grad school, 99% of the time they did the online degree which basically lets in everyone
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the modern robotics infrastructure stack:
- simulation and testing (NVIDIA Isaac, Gazebo, MuJoCo)
- connectivity and comms (Wi‑Fi/5G/LTE/Starlink VPN backhaul)
- fleet management and monitoring (Formant, Open‑RMF integrations)
- hardware abstraction and drivers (ROS 2, micro‑ROS, vendor SDKs
- edge compute and onboard AI (NVIDIA Jetson, Qualcomm RB series)
- deployment and OTA updates (Ubuntu Core, Balena, Airbotics)
- safety, compliance, and kill switches (mostly custom built)
- visualisation and replay (Foxglove, Rerun, RViz)
- CV/ML model training and labelling (Roboflow, Scale AI)
- data upload from robot to cloud (Alloy)
- data logging, storage and management (mostly S3, Alloy)
– data pipelines and model delivery (custom ETL, CI/CD, registries)
- observability and root cause analysis (metrics, traces, Alloy)
- the AI-native data layer with MCP/API (Alloy)
Joe Harris@_joe_harris_
Every robotics company we work with has more data than they can use and less infrastructure than they need
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@yashdulla you’re always playing a game, there is baseline always a game it’s how humans work
your self selection, imo, is a function of
pain tolerance
raw iq
leadership (eq)
with this you either choose the game you play or your game is selected for you.
most people in sf lack 1&3
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after moving to sf, I’m increasingly understanding that people self-select themselves out of the game
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Not to jinx it but sf could actually become a major cultural hub.
There’s a bubbling scene of folks who actually care about cultural production.
If the spirit of execution that exists in the tech world gets channeled in the right way it could be really exciting.
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