Roundup #39: Europe is not really losing free speech, and moving house
List of things that caught my eyes and that I've been thinking about.
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In Playbook Musings I share my hard-won insights and strategies for life and work. I draw on a lifelong drive to understand what's going on, search for meaning, adventure, and a ridiculously varied career spanning Private Equity and building startups.
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Resharing a classic: Reality has a surprising amount of detail
Everything has a surprising amount of interesting details that are only revealed when you start looking under the hood.
Vacation thoughts
Just got back from a two week camper trip in Northern Queensland.
The race for training data and the next big thing after coding on the AI frontier
A primer on the mechanics of a key ‘battleground’ in AI development: generating more training data for models.
Roundup #38: Advice for young people, El Mariachi, Dolphins, and ripping DVDs
Yes, it's a wide-ranging one with a break from AI
Notes on AI in the enterprise
A collection of short thoughts on challenges and observations from the frontline of AI transformation.
Roundup #37: Some nice quotes, Singlish corporatisms, inventions, fish oil, bioweapons and more
A wide ranging good old roundup of interesting things that caught my eye
An update on my favorite newsletters
Some I still read, and some new ones too!
A serious consideration of what a post AGI economy and labor market might look like
My usual programming focuses more on what is possible now, and what futures seem most likely, given the current trajectory. But every now and then I try to think about extreme scenarios.
Trip report: Visiting Shenzhen for a robotics conference
I went to Shenzhen to see China and to see robots at CITE, one of the biggest consumer electronics conferences in the world. In 1980, Shenzhen had 300,000 inhabitants, today 18 million!