Jose Mora

Retweets account for @j_mora (I guess this is the "main" account now)

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

This is huge: Llama-v2 is open source, with a license that authorizes commercial use!

This is going to change the landscape of the LLM market.
Llama-v2 is available on Microsoft Azure and will be available on AWS, Hugging Face and other providers

Pretrained and fine-tuned models are available with 7B, 13B and 70B parameters.

Llama-2 website: https://t.co/PKrrXgHdem
Llama-2 paper: https://t.co/aINNrXNhMb

A number of personalities from industry and academia have endorsed our open source approach: https://t.co/N7HwgW9Suh

[Simon Wardley @swardley]

Me : I can guarantee you that this contract will lead to massive cost overruns and I can even tell you where those cost overruns will be.
X : Is this a new thing?
Me : Relatively. I've been doing this for 18 years. Most majors contracts I get to see are flawed from the beginning.

[Simon Wardley @swardley]

This is brillant. The need for compensation in open source is an important topic and this is the right way of doing it. I've seen many proposed schemes which fall flat in this space - https://t.co/ovt5agIAg2

[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

In most organizations, evaluations run in only one direction, with the manager assessing the managee. The managee typically disagrees with the assessment, especially if it is worse than his or her self-assessment, because most people believe themselves to be better than they really are. Managees also have opinions about managers that they wouldn't dare bring up in most companies, so misunderstandings and resentments fester. This perverse behavior undermines the effectiveness of the environment and the relationships between people. It can be avoided by getting in sync in a high-quality way.

Your reports have to believe that you're not their enemy--that your sole goal is to move toward the truth; that you are trying to help them and so will not enable their self-deception, perpetuate a lie, or let them off the hook. This has to be done in an honest and transparent way, because if someone believes they are being pigeonholed unfairly the process won't work. As equal partners, it is up to both of you to get to the truth. When each party is an equal participant, no one can feel cornered. #principleoftheday

[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

You just have to know what they are like and get a sampling. Regular sampling of a statistically reliable number of cases will show you what a person is like and what you can expect from them. Select which of their actions are critical enough to need preapproval and which can be examined later. But be sure to do the audit, because people will tend to give themselves too much slack or could cheat when they see that they're not being checked. #principleoftheday

[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

Anything that requires change can be difficult. Yet in order to learn and grow and make progress, you must change. When facing a change, ask yourself: Am I being openminded? Or am I being resistant? Confront your difficulties head-on, force yourself to explore where they come from, and you'll find that you'll learn a lot. #principleoftheday

[Daniel Lemire @lemire]

@jmason @geofflangdale @fulmicoton I think all programmers would rather see all good software be open source... it just gives us superpowers... but we just don't have very good business models for people who write useful software to get paid. Maybe I am just an idiot and I fail to see these business models...

[Farnam Street @farnamstreet]

Over the long term, the average person who constantly puts themselves in a good position beats the genius who finds themselves in a poor position. What looks like talent is often good positioning. The best way to put yourself in a good position? Good preparation.

[Simon Wardley @swardley]

X : Tips on introducing pioneer - settler - town planner (PST)?

Me :
Step 1. A five year ban on any re-organisation.
Step 2. Spend five years fixing your doctrine (see attached).
Step 3. Now you can talk about PST.

[Tom Kerwin @tom_d_kerwin]

“each new invention creates both the possibility of, and the need for, more inventions … Each invention opens up new niches for future inventions, and components from one invention are often recycled into new forms.”

[Corissa @CorissaNunn]

A feisty wee debate following different readings of this quote 👇

[Tom Kerwin @tom_d_kerwin]

“If I offered you the chance to make a decision in your division which had a 75% chance of increasing your profits by 30% and a 25% chance of reducing your profits by 30%, would you make that call?” All but two replied no. Why? Because it meant a 1 in 4 chance of getting fired.”

[Tom Kerwin @tom_d_kerwin]

Louder please!

“Whether through voice or text, a conversational interface can be a burden if the application is complex or the system isn’t robust enough to correctly guess the user’s intent.”

Writing a conversation out is often powerful. Forcing chatbots is often dumb.

[Tom Kerwin @tom_d_kerwin]

“In order to learn about influence, we must leave the comfort of models, linear sequences, and step-by-step recipes. The magic of influence is less in what we say and more in how we say it and who we are.”

[Tom Kerwin @tom_d_kerwin]

Stop polishing turds - with this one weird trick

[Tom Kerwin @tom_d_kerwin]

The Simple Sabotage Field Manual by the CIA was great, but it was written in 1944.

"How to achieve 0.1x developers" by @trylks is a much needed update for the post-Agile-manifesto world.

[〶 @trylks]

@tom_d_kerwin IMHO, wasting the human potential for building a better future is the greatest sin; it leads to a worse future: dystopia, suffering, existential risks,…

We never had 8B people or the current potential per capita. Waste is at ATH

Nothing has ever been so necessary and urgent

[Tom Kerwin @tom_d_kerwin]

“… there will be nothing learned from any challenge in which we don’t try our hardest. Growth comes at the point of resistance. We learn by pushing ourselves and finding what really lies at the outer reaches of our abilities.”

[Tom Kerwin @tom_d_kerwin]

“You cannot deduce a strategy from some set of always relevant preset principles.”