Mark Allewell

@Jason I’m in

We started an AI founder twitter group... reply with "I'm in" if you're a founder and want to be added

The covers come off @FlyCloudline - very cool! supersport.com/rugby/news/dd8…

@farzamehsani Agreed. Nice work @farzamehsani

VALR had a few choices for logo placement… couldn’t be greater for interviews like this.

@mahkus There was a South African company that built these sorts of tours based on position: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism_R…

My Dad had a cool thought after riding with FSD in the Cybertruck today. Tesla should have preprogrammed "tours" in cities where it'll take you along a designated sightseeing route. Would be cool if it had an audio track to narrate what you were seeing.

@pixelsthatrock @BienneHuisman Where, how ?

@BienneHuisman There’s a new transcription option on WA. Meta must have heard my screams.

2:30 voice notes are the Olympian task of our time 😵

Ariston, Sensor Networks to Bring Smart Water Heating Solutions to SA Consumers READ: techeconomy.ng/ariston-sensor…

@Leon_Schreib Renewing a passport should be straightforward. Improving the website's language, functionality, and usability would help. After paying, being told no bank appointments are available for 30 days is a terrible experience.

@henrythe9ths AI guide

There's a shocking fact about AI that nobody tells you: You can catch up to the public AI research frontier in just 2 weeks. Yes, really. I've built a $150M annual revenue startup over the last 8 years and If I were to start a company today, I’d drop everything and go all-in on AI. But like many busy software builders, I felt lost—overwhelmed by the noisy, crowded and fast-moving modern AI landscape. And I wasn’t alone. So I spent my entire holiday diving deep into AI research—reading 30+ papers, watching hours of lectures, analyzing trends, and catching up to the research frontier. ✨ Here’s what I learned: - You don’t need months (or years) to catch up. - You don’t need a PhD or decades of ML experience. - You need fewer than 20 papers and 2 weeks to understand the major breakthroughs shaping AI today. It's because the technology is extremely nascent and most techniques that came before are no longer relevant: - ChatGPT is barely 2 years old and Transformers are only 7 years old. - Most game-changing discoveries happened within the last 4 years, driven by a few breakthrough ideas, scaling laws, and efficient matrix multiplication. The biggest secret? Many groundbreaking AI papers with thousands of citations are surprisingly simple and applied, like adding "let's think step by step" to the prompt, or simply asking the LLM over and over again to improve its answer (Self-Refine). I realized there are tons of founders and builders in the same boat—wanting to dive deeper into AI but unsure where to start. I've created an essential AI Guide that helped me catch up, in just 2 weeks, to the frontier of public AI research to figure out where the next opportunities and gaps were: - Curated list of only the most important papers - Simple explanations of key concepts - Clear pathway to understanding the frontier of modern AI It’s perfect for: - Founders expanding into AI - Builders wanting to innovate at the frontier of AI - Investors looking to separate the signal from the noise 👇 Want the full guide? - Like and Share this post - Comment "AI Guide" - I'll send you the complete guide (ps, I’m also teaming up with @VishalVasishth, co-founder of @obviousvc with @ev (focused on large-scale societal impact companies like Twitter, Medium, Beyond Meat), to host a small meetup to discuss what's working and needs to be solved in the AI stack in SF. Message me if you're interested)

@sundarpichai @elonmusk @immunewolf_ @Jaspritbumrah93 Cc @geordinhl

@elonmusk @immunewolf_ @Jaspritbumrah93 Gotta watch a sa-ind game one day at newlands or wanderers:)

name a better comeback than ‘google it’

Opinion | Smart tech can be a magic fix for South Africa’s energy crisis, writes Mark Allewell techcentral.co.za/magic-fix-sout… @markallewell

Letter to the editor: gaslighting by candlelight techcentral.co.za/letter-editor-…

@dwaine_van Not...so....fast....techcentral.co.za/ellies-may-be-…

@sampaddock Had some particularly special memories there. Had to see the main house is still intact!

It's fire season. And this weekend the most devastating fire tore through our property in the Bainskloof area. After the devastation we will have front row seats to the rejuvenation of this incredible part of the Cape Floral Kingdom. drakenskloof.com/post/wild-fire…

@dwaine_van @webafrica Take your router, throw it out the window and get another provider. Will save you hours and hours of pain and stress. @webafrica is a classic example of over promise under deliver on every front.

Two legends in one day ! @JohnSmit123 @SFitzpatrick92

Letter to the editor: smart geysers would help end load shedding techcentral.co.za/letter-smart-g…

@chrismediabotha @99cbrand @Neil_Schreuder Nice one @99cbrand

Genius. Yet another brilliant piece of work from the team at Shoprite Checkers. Nice one @99cbrand @Neil_Schreuder and the marketing and agency teams involved.

@allangraymakers is it Cape Town? How do I get an invite ?

@markallewell Hi Mark, the #MakersFest is 1-2 September. If you do not receive an invitation we are live-streaming this event on LinkedIn! 🤩 Join us here: linkedin.com/events/allangr…

The future is SMART and SMART homes are part of that future 🏠 This means artisans installing the doors, electrics & geysers need to know how SMART homes function 💡 These are the kind of innovations in the trades we will be highlighting at #MakersFest 2023 🗣 #MakerToMaker