Russell Calvin

Computer stuff

[Riley Walz @rtwlz]

made my computer dramatically play BBC news music before every meeting

[TMZ @TMZ]

🕊️ Chuck Norris has died at 86. https://t.co/iEc9C997Ik

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The layoff wave tells two stories, not one.

Tech giants like Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft are cutting to fund GPU purchases. Their revenues are growing. Their stock prices are climbing. They're firing people to free up cash for compute. This isn't cost-cutting during a downturn. It's a forced reallocation from payroll to datacenter capacity. The math is brutal: every percentage point of headcount reduction funds another batch of H100s.

Meanwhile, UPS, Nestle, Ford, and Target are cutting for the opposite reason. They've already deployed AI tools that work. Customer service automation, supply chain optimization, generative design systems. The productivity gains are real and compounding. These companies don't need to buy massive GPU clusters. They're renting inference from hyperscalers and cutting headcount because the math finally works.

Both sides are feeding the same beast. Tech companies are buying the shovels. Everyone else is buying the gold those shovels dig up. Semiconductor companies sit in the middle, collecting rent from the entire value chain. TSMC, NVIDIA, and ASML are printing money while employment craters on both ends.

The timing matters. We're at 10% enterprise AI adoption, heading toward 50%. History says this phase moves fastest and generates the most wealth. But that wealth is concentrating in compute, not labor. The gap between market cap growth and wage growth has never been wider. This isn't a recession. It's a rebalancing. And most workers are on the wrong side of it.

[Russell Calvin @Russman9]

@NVIDIAGeForce @FalconNW GeForce PC Week

[Russell Calvin @Russman9]

@AgabaAbbas1 @AgabaAbbas1 I am truly sorry for your loss. May her soul rest in eternal peace, and may you find solace in cherished memories.

[Nextars @nextarsug]

Catch @irungiDorah and @Bavis_Mc on #Impulsive with special guest Russel Rutaro 🌟

Download the @mtnug pulse app to stream live or listen online at https://t.co/YAkZ6RFuMZ

#PulseRadioUG

[AppAbout @AppAboutAfrica]

🎉🎉10 YEARS OF APPABOUT🎉🎉

Great things take time and time costs money.

Our humble space has allowed us to explore our problem statement less the pressure of costly financing or limited leave of stay.

We deeply appreciate our immediate community for making this possible.

[AppAbout @AppAboutAfrica]

🎉🎉10 YEARS OF APPABOUT🎉🎉

This September, we'll make ten uninterrupted years of providing online entertainment info for Kampala..

But first, we'd like to thank all our past and present staff for proving the resilience of small teams over time.

🙏🏾THANK YOU🙏🏾

#AppAboutAt10

[Hemant Mohapatra @MohapatraHemant]

So now that Nvidia has far outstripped the market cap of AMD and Intel, I thought this would be a fun story to tell. I spent 6+yrs @ AMD engg in mid to late 2000s helping design the CPU/APU/GPUs that we see today. Back then it was unimaginable for AMD to beat Intel in market-cap (we did in 2020!) and for Nvidia to beat both! In fact, AMD almost bought Nvidia but Jensen wasn’t ready to sell unless he replace Hector Ruiz of AMD as the CEO of the joint company. The world would have looked very different had that happened. Here’s the inside scoop of how & why AMD saw the GPU oppty, lost it, and then won it back in the backdrop of Nvidia’s far more insane trajectory, & lessons I still carry from those heady days:

[Scuderia Ferrari HP @ScuderiaFerrari]

Team Statement

Scuderia Ferrari is pleased to announce that Lewis Hamilton will be joining the team in 2025, on a multi-year contract.

[Sky Sports F1 @SkySportsF1]

BREAKING: Lewis Hamilton will join Ferrari for the 2025 season 🚨

[Sean Kelly @seanpk]

9 years ago, Peter Thiel did a Reddit AMA.

Yesterday, I was going through it and found his philosophy of building companies.

10 startup-building nuggets from the Don of Paypal Mafia👇

[Wanjiku Reports @WanjikuReports]

Kim JH of Tanuki Garage, @gtrtanuki tested the fuel quality at Shell Spring Valley in Nairobi, and he was surprised by the results.

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Current LLMs are trained on text data that would take 20,000 years for a human to read.
And still, they haven't learned that if A is the same as B, then B is the same as A.
Humans get a lot smarter than that with comparatively little training data.
Even corvids, parrots, dogs, and octopuses get smarter than that very, very quickly, with only 2 billion neurons and a few trillion "parameters."

[Sam Altman @sama]

❤️🫡❤️

[proper @ProperPrompter]

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[The Economist @TheEconomist]

Max Verstappen’s brilliance is hurting Formula One. The sport has a boredom problem https://t.co/nqm8GTneya 👇

[Russell Calvin @Russman9]

RT @AppAboutAfrica: Looking to blow off Monday blues from a long weekend? Find the perfect plot in your area code to ease you into the new…

[Mckay Wrigley @mckaywrigley]

I gave ChatGPT a screenshot of a SaaS dashboard and it wrote the code for it.

This is the future.