@echelon

Brandon. ArtCraft. I've built five nines systems that move billions, skyscraper-scale video games, shot a dozen photon-on-glass films, and had an IPO exit.

 Atlanta, Georgia, US
brand.io
Joined March 2007
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Someone made this in VectorCraft. Love me some good Always Sunny memes. (Apologies for not having the source, this was sent to me in Discord. Will credit if someone tells me the brilliant soul that made this.)
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Kind of like closed source model routing and not giving back post-trained fine tunes of open weights models. Hmmm...
Matt Workman
@mattworkmanOct 18
these are hot piles of garbage though right?
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Way to go, egui! The real MVP.
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Nah. 3. Uncensored (music, video, voice, code, "safety", etc.) 4. Fast for edge hardware (robots, raspberry pi, etc.) 5. (We're not there yet - ) Online learning, where the weights adjust to you / your world There are more
Garry Tan
@garrytanOct 12
There are only two winning positions in foundation models. The absolute best. Or the best for the cheapest.
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I've not slept much in the past 48 hours working on this. CI is melting, my inbox is full, everyone needs something. Yet I'll be here six months from now to give you version 1.2. Foundations take work.
ふ 玲音@BoogiepopWritesOct 12
Vibecoder: Hey, I´ve oneshot this amazing project! Programming is solved! User: Cool! Is it usable in an actual working environment? Do you have plans for long term maintenance and support? Vibecoder: Nope! Nope! And Nope! EVERY! SINGLE! TIME!
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Semantic Web (true Web 3.0) was an idyllic yet impractical vision of what the web could've been People and machines share data independent of big companies. RSS, ATOM. It was hackable, P2P, ours Hyperscale product platforms didn't see anything in it for them, so they killed it
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To be fair, it was also too architecture astronauty for its own good. Now that we have agents, imagine the cost savings of encoding features this way and reasoning on the graph as your agent interacts with mine. These logical assertions are cheap as hell to encode + execute
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Paxos and Raft are cool.
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INFRASTRUCTURE and MODELS must be open too. We're doing the infrastructure bits. Document clouds. Collaboration protocols.
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They took the cool internet of the 90's-00's away from you. We're gonna get it back Web 1.0 = epic Web 2.0 = hot garbage Web 3.0 = SemWeb had good intentions; too academic; pre-agent Web3 = stolen name Web 4.0 = taking back the web The internet is hackable. It belongs to you
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Shut your yap. Open Office / Libre Office sucks. It ate my 40 page essay during finals week. I'm paying back a grudge that has been years in the making. Stop dragging along shitty OSS software and venerating it like it's some holy relic. Let it die.
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I loved the 00's internet Everything was exciting. Personal websites, filesharing, IRC, RSS, downloadable apps, hackable protocols, flash Web 2.0, platforms/centralization, cellphone incrementalism killed it Web 1.0 was bright. It's coming back. We'll own everything again
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I hate LibreOffice so bad. It once killed a 40-page essay I wrote the week it was due, during finals.
Matt
@matt503ea5sf9z5Oct 11
Replying to @echelon
its amazing how bad libreoffice is. In-browser Javascript powered Microsoft Office alternatives are much better at this point.
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I have never liked Gimp and Kdenlive, nor would I want to continue with their decisions. They are stuck in a 20 year plus local maxima. The best way out is a clean attempt Come on, y'all know this.
John McBride
@johncodesOct 10
Why? Why spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on slop tokens when you could direct the same effort and tokens at good, established, distributed projects like LibreOffice, Gimp, Kdenlive, Thunderbird, etc etc My hunch is that this is pure clout chasing and they have zero interest in actually maintaining the software past its slop-formation
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Software industry transmutes into something resembling the food services industry Tons of competition, low margin for most. Price, quality, brand, and customer service matter. If you're McDonalds, you're gonna have a bad time If you're Chick-fil-A, you're going to the moon
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You have to be customer-obsessed to win in the new world. You can't just put up a "moat" and expect to exist forever. LOC/headcount is no longer a moat An army of gamers are going to try to clone GTA 6 and that cost billions. Not a moat. The moat will be being good at scale.
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Hey everybody, while I've got a little bit of your attention, could you take a moment to read something very important I want to say? I would very much like to defend liberty and privacy, and I think rearticulating watermarks as "spymarks" will help. Link in comments >>
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Here's the link to the post. I promise it's a short read: brand.io/article/spymarks/

Spymarks, not Watermarks - brand

Watermarks that spy on users are no mere watermarks

brand.io
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These systems were designed by advertising companies.
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Oh my god 😂
sudox
@kmcnam1Oct 9
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