Felipe Volpatto

Put yourself under stress now, because someone else will definitely do it later

[Felipe Volpatto @Felipe_Volpatto]

@Rafaguedes01 @gustluiz @nubank Verdade. Não vi nada do banco central falando disso também. Que loucura…

[Felipe Volpatto @Felipe_Volpatto]

@diogodasilva @nubank Recebi isso agora também. E aí?

[Felipe Volpatto @Felipe_Volpatto]

Grande dia! 👍🏻

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

Today, at Build we showed you how we are building the open agentic web. It is reshaping every layer of the stack, and our goal is to help every dev build apps and agents that empower people and orgs everywhere. Here are 5 big things we announced today:

[Visual Studio Code @code]

Friendly reminder that you can go to any GitHub repo, press the . key, and the entire repo will open in the browser using @code

[Allen Holub. https://linkedIn.com/in/allenholub @allenholub]

I see no value in timeboxed "increments." Make the stories small and work on them until they're done, then work on the next one. I think the whole notion of a Sprint is one of the reasons Scrum (as usually practiced) is an utter failure—too much time is spent managing the Sprint and not enough time working. I see nothing good in a "timebox" or other artificial deadline. Motivate people by creating a great workplace, putting people first, and creating a culture of collaboration, respect, and pride in one's work. No need to bludgeon anybody with a timebox.

[Martin Fowler @martinfowler]

Latest Thoughtworks Technology Radar is out - our regular survey of technologies that capture our attention in our client work. We found lots of AI-adjacent tools to be useful, but also that coding assistants often lead to problems

https://t.co/7NRkjvT9zg

[Felipe Volpatto @Felipe_Volpatto]

@vini_restelli @gaminginthewild 👀

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

You know @elonmusk, I really feel sorry for you and your family to have been infected by a mind virus.
But the best defense against a mind virus is intelligence, knowledge, and science.

Fighting a mind virus by promoting other mental pathogens, like Trumpism, conspiracy theories, and attacks on science and the media, is not a good idea.
This is like trying to cure diabetes by spreading ebola: it will certainly stop your diabetes, but not without killing you.

The cure against mind viruses is the expansion knowledge through science, and the dissemination of reliable information.
Disinformation causes mind viruses to spread.
Distrust in decent media outlets causes mind viruses to spread.
Distrust in science and scientists cause mind viruses to spread.

The political movements you are currently supporting are squarely on the wrong side of history here.

[Allen Holub. https://linkedIn.com/in/allenholub @allenholub]

Rule #1 of Software Architecture:

YOU ARE NOT NETFLIX!

If you don't have 270M users, a quarter of which can be on the system simultaneously, you don't need the complexity necessarily to support that. Build exactly as much architecture as you need. Build it so that it can grow incrementally. Do not future-proof.

[Noah Kagan @noahkagan]

The 3 stages of career development:

1. I want to be in the meeting
2. I want to run the meeting
3. I want to avoid meetings

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

My opinion of @elonmusk
I like his cars (I own a 2015 S, and 2023 S), his rockets, his solar energy systems, and his satellite communication system.
I also like his positions on open source and patents.

But I very much disagree with him on a number of issues.

I disagree with how he treats his scientists.
Technology/product development may not need openness and publications to advance, but forward-looking *research* sure does, whether it's in AI, neural interfaces, material science, or whatever.
Secrecy hampers progress and discourages talents from joining the effort.

I also disagree with the hype. I mean, expressing an ambitious vision for the future is great.
But telling the public blatantly false prediction ("AGI next year", "1 million robotaxis by 2020", "AGI will kill us all, let'spause",...) is very counterproductive (also illegal in some cases).

More importantly, I think his public positions on many political issues, journalism, the media and the press, and academia, are not just wrong but dangerous for democracy, civilization, and human wellfare.
Say what you want about "traditional media" but you can't really have reliable information without professional journalists working for a free and diverse press. Democracy can't exist without it, which is why only authoritarian ennemies of democracy rail against the media.

Finally he doesn't seem to hesitate to disseminate batshit-crazy conspiracy theories as long as they serve his interests (e.g. boosting "PizzaGate", "illegal immigrants corrupt elections in the US", "person X is a pedo",...).
One would expect a technological visionary to be a rationalist. Rationalism doesn't work without Truth.

This has become particularly concerning since he bought himself a platform to disseminate his dangerous political opinions, conspiracy theories, and hype.
He has been quite naïve about the difficulties of running a social network and the (legal) necessity of doing content moderation. One can claim to be a 1st Amendment absolutist, but a lot of content *must* be taken down by law, e.g. terrorist propaganda, child exploitation, blatant hate speech (in the EU and other regions).
Then, there is dangerous disinformation that puts public health in danger or corrupts the democratic process. You have to moderate that too.
Content moderation is a complicated problem whose best answer is not an attitude of total laissez-faire but a complex trade-off.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

If you don't have an opinion, resist the pressure to have one.

[Felipe Volpatto @Felipe_Volpatto]

@vini_restelli @plbrasil1 Ele tá com cara daquele senhor de bodega do interior

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

* Language is low bandwidth: less than 12 bytes/second. A person can read 270 words/minutes, or 4.5 words/second, which is 12 bytes/s (assuming 2 bytes per token and 0.75 words per token). A modern LLM is typically trained with 1x10^13 two-byte tokens, which is 2x10^13 bytes. This would take about 100,000 years for a person to read (at 12 hours a day).

* Vision is much higher bandwidth: about 20MB/s. Each of the two optical nerves has 1 million nerve fibers, each carrying about 10 bytes per second. A 4 year-old child has been awake a total 16,000 hours, which translates into 1x10^15 bytes.

In other words:
- The data bandwidth of visual perception is roughly 16 million times higher than the data bandwidth of written (or spoken) language.
- In a mere 4 years, a child has seen 50 times more data than the biggest LLMs trained on all the text publicly available on the internet.

This tells us three things:
1. Yes, text is redundant, and visual signals in the optical nerves are even more redundant (despite being 100x compressed versions of the photoreceptor outputs in the retina). But redundancy in data is *precisely* what we need for Self-Supervised Learning to capture the structure of the data. The more redundancy, the better for SSL.
2. Most of human knowledge (and almost all of animal knowledge) comes from our sensory experience of the physical world. Language is the icing on the cake. We need the cake to support the icing.
3. There is *absolutely no way in hell* we will ever reach human-level AI without getting machines to learn from high-bandwidth sensory inputs, such as vision.

Yes, humans can get smart without vision, even pretty smart without vision and audition. But not without touch. Touch is pretty high bandwidth, too.

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[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

“Coding” was never the source of value, and people shouldn’t get overly attached to it. Problem solving is the core skill. The discipline and precision demanded by traditional programming will remain valuable transferable attributes, but they won’t be a barrier to entry.

Many times over the years I have thought about a great programmer I knew that loved assembly language to the point of not wanting to move to C. I have to fight some similar feelings of my own around using existing massive codebases and inefficient languages, but I push through.

I had somewhat resigned myself to the fact that I might be missing out on the “final abstraction”, where you realize that managing people is more powerful than any personal tool. I just don’t like it, and I can live with the limitations that puts on me.

I suspect that I will enjoy managing AIs more, even if they wind up being better programmers than I am.

[Felipe Volpatto @Felipe_Volpatto]

@XadrezVerbal O que anda salvando a noite do sábado do all star weekend é o torneiro de arremesso de 3. Ontem, ainda mais interessante, foi o Curry jogando contra a Sabrina

[Felipe Volpatto @Felipe_Volpatto]

@vini_restelli Não só pela habilidade, mas também pelo carisma. Que cara brilhante!

[Felipe Volpatto @Felipe_Volpatto]

Outstanding yet scary!

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Introducing Sora, our text-to-video model.

Sora can create videos of up to 60 seconds featuring highly detailed scenes, complex camera motion, and multiple characters with vibrant emotions.

https://t.co/YYpOAcrXQ3

Prompt: “Beautiful, snowy Tokyo city is bustling. The camera moves through the bustling city street, following several people enjoying the beautiful snowy weather and shopping at nearby stalls. Gorgeous sakura petals are flying through the wind along with snowflakes.”