@shaneparrish Agency is hard. Sleep-walking is easy. If you take responsibility then you have to accept that all these terrible feelings are yours and yours to deal with. Sometimes that hole is deep and awfully hard to claw out of.
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Benjamin Ranck
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Benjamin Ranck
@benjaminRRR
Technology entrepreneur from strategy to boots on. Formerly @future_neutral, @Jetabroad, @BlueChilliGroup, @allovergeo, ChatterSpike.
Sydney, New South Wales Katılım Ekim 2008
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The only controllable variable in any situation is you. Oddly, it's the last one people adjust.
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Prove to me you’re an old gamer in one sentence. I’ll drop a like if I’m convinced.
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@mikko I got my 0.01. And then 10 years later dug it out of an old hard-drive. Had to rebuild the whole ledger as my wallet was OG. Worth it.
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DPRK realtime deepfakes ruining developer WFH for everyone. If you're working on anything remotely secure it's back to the office for you. One time pads are coming to your video conferencing future.
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What guest will you listen to on ANY Podcast, regardless of who the interviewer is?
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I just donated to the Internet Archive.
This is what makes the internet great. Initiatives like this.
Chip in if you can;
archive.org/donate?iax=ctx…
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This paper outlines 7 classes of errors that destroy strategic decisions, ending with the epic-sounding Type VII Iatrogensis Cascade.
If you understand these errors, you will know what questions to ask to avoid strategic failures. So, a 🧵on seven types of errors... 1/9
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@emollick Agree, the text is much improved, but still not there. At least they've mostly eliminated the squishy text-like smudges.
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Generally better than Gemini multimodal at text and compliance, if slower.
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I’ve had access to the new GPT-4o image generator for a bit:
“now i need you to perfectly illustrate the moment that Elvis met Napolean at waterloo"
"make it photorealistic"
"napoleon is wearing a rubber duck on his head elvis's pants have the ideal gas law printed on them"
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@hubermanlab @StuartMcMillan1 @shengwangtime It certainly feels like it would be very difficult to
"skip in anger".
I am working on freeing myself from social norms, but until then I'm glad I have kids to skip with, and avoid the pierce of judging eyes.
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Well @StuartMcMillan1 uses skipping drills to make Olympic Track & pro athletes run faster and win world titles but @shengwangtime teaches it to bolster mental health. A new era is upon us.
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SciFi has another moment, can't help but think we're knee deep in @Shteyngart Super Sad Love Story with a dash of RKM's Altered Carbon.
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@Anthony_Bonato One of the most (consistently) deflating experiences was in my undergrad signals and systems class, where the professor would say "it is then trivial to arrive at" when discussing a z transfer function. In my brain we skipped at least 10 (mind bending) steps.
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"I will teach myself mathematics from books."
The books:
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Please continue to name and shame. There's power in publicity.
Maxwell Tabarrok@MTabarrok
"One Boba Tea equals 1.2 years of safe BPA consumption"
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Useful insights. I'm finding very good results with Claude (Anthropic) and python. Particularly handy is the artifacts and projects feature.
Markus Zimmermann@zimmskal
Benchmarking >80 LLMs shows: The best model is not necessarily the best for your programming language 😱 - Best overall: Anthropic’s Sonnet 3.5 - Best for Go: Meta’s Llama 3.1 405B - Best for Java: OpenAI’s GPT-4 Turbo - Best for Ruby: OpenAI’s GPT-4o Good models for one language can also be bad for others, e.g. Google’s Gemini Pro 1.5 is GREAT for Go, but not so much for Java and Ruby. Deep dive blog post about the DevQualityEval v0.6 results soon 🏇 Let us know in the comments🙏 which programming languages you want to have implemented for the benchmark!
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@pmarca The way I work around this is decaf first thing (good decaf is not distinguishable taste-wise), so a placebo dose and then take regular coffee later, much better energy levels throughout the day.
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@jasonleowsg Maybe it's the same people that setup a database 20 years ago when IO from spinning disk was something you thought about...
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I don't get it. Why does SQLite (in production) have such a bad rep?
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@hmemcpy Do you even source safe?
(Also known as "promises in a name that doesn't deliver")
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When I started working professionally, git wasn't a thing. You wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me
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Testing out an OpenAI automation for our portfolio companies and hit a roadblock
ChatGPT can access the Internet to answer a query but not OpenAI API, what is everyone using to work around this without having to cook up their own agent?
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This @hubermanlab episode with Dr. Hollis is an absolute banger. The wisdom density ratio is off the charts. To say I'm blown away is an understatement. hubermanlab.com/episode/dr-jam…
"To grow larger than that thing inside you that says you can't do this or do that"
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@QuinnyPig Mistakes were made. The old unprecedented bug. (Which begs the question - when is it precedented, and isn't that what risk management is there for)
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Either Google Cloud has done something next-level horrifying, or this superannuation company is being highly misleading about their own mistake.
Bets?
unisuper.com.au/contact-us/out…
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