Aaron Kroontje

Everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. - Vonnegut.
Be urgent about good work, be patient about the reward. - Elman.

[Aaron Kroontje @AaronCrunch]

If you add DIGITAL,
to a BROKEN THING,
you just get a BROKEN DIGITAL THING.

[Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi]

I normally don’t think much of these pictures showing people on smartphones but this video from last night in Paris is pretty wild.

https://t.co/R1S005P5gM

[Carl Vellotti 🥞 @carlvellotti]

being a lone PM at a startup and referring to "the product team"

[Aaron Kroontje @AaronCrunch]

🤮🤑💸

[Sar Haribhakti @sarthakgh]

"The e-scooter company Bird, which became the fastest startup ever to land a $1 billion valuation, was delisted from the NYSE and is now worth $7 million. That’s less than a third of the $22 million its founder paid for a Miami mansion in 2021."

via @MorningBrew

[James Shield @jshield]

Love this detail on Russian attempts to hack St Andrews:

[Billy Binion @billybinion]

This is Joseph Ruiz. In 2021, the FBI seized his life savings—$57,000—from his safe deposit box in LA. He could no longer afford his medical treatments & he struggled to buy food.

The kicker: He wasn't suspected of a crime.

There are many other victims in this saga. A thread.

[Aaron Kroontje @AaronCrunch]

😮😮😱😱

[Pika @pika_labs]

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[Alistair Croll @acroll]

Spent some time discussing hot topics in data with the @DUNYevent team. One of the things I think we’re underestimating is that AI will make qualitative datasets quantitative. “Based on security footage which of my wait staff makes customers happy?” was once hard to answer.

[Aaron Kroontje @AaronCrunch]

Just glorified compression eh?
Let's see what middle out can do...

[Chomba Bupe @ChombaBupe]

Recent papers support that current artificial intelligence paradigm - deep learning - is based on compression.

Transformers & diffusion models encode compressed versions of the original data.

AI is currently just glorified compression.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

Ah well nevertheless

[Carl Vellotti 🥞 @carlvellotti]

PMs, it's go time 🦃🤎

[BuccoCapital Bloke @buccocapital]

Ladies and gentleman, we got him

This is a perfect encapsulation of the Sacksian world view:

Complete and utter confidence you invented something you categorically and verifiably did not

[Kevin Dahlstrom @Camp4]

New policy.

[Aaron Kroontje @AaronCrunch]

Fantastic primer for those wanting to understand some key principles related to the “AGI” acronym being bandied about now and why the OpenAI fiasco needs a wider lens than most of the fanboying going on.

[Tomas Pueyo @tomaspueyo]

Most ppl are missing the key point regarding OpenAI
This is not standard startup drama
This is literally a fight for the survival of humanity, linked to the original purpose of OpenAI: saving us from the end of the world:
🧵

[Maria Elena Vignoli @me_vignoli]

Important new read from @tomporteous @hrw 👉 International Humanitarian Law Applies to All States: Violations of These Laws by One Side Do Not Justify Violations By Another

“The hypocrisy and double standards of Western states are flagrant and obvious.”

https://t.co/okr2PyI9lL

[Saif Ahmad @KhanSaif_Ahmad]

HRW’s deputy programme director Tom Porteous says that in the case of Ukraine, the US and Europe denounced Russian war crimes. Fast forward 18 months from Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and the West is largely silent on war crimes by Israel in Gaza.

[Aaron Kroontje @AaronCrunch]

Like, wha? Frick.

[Ashraff Hathibelagal @Hathibel]

@chaseleantj Wow, these are absolutely stunning. The level of detail DALL·E 3 adds leaves me in complete awe.

Prompt: Black and white technical drawing showcasing an advanced mecha robot with lots of weapons and defences. Annotations detail its powers and capabilities.

[Aaron Kroontje @AaronCrunch]

@Forward4ever @jukkan Great post! Perhaps could benefit from a few more recommendations as it relates to ALM/pipelines, environment guard rails, documentation and good ole multiplexing!

[Aaron Kroontje @AaronCrunch]

@ABDanielleSmith Yeesh this thing needs some community notes…

https://t.co/BtGzIbzb7g

[Emma Graney 🇦🇺🤷🏻‍♀️🇨🇦 @EmmaLGraney]

Uh, nope. You have to be invited via a motion to testify at a HoC committee meeting, and Smith wasn't. The invite was specifically for Ministers Jean and Neudorf - not the Alberta govt. You can't just sub in, even if you're the premier. https://t.co/trnpeGYWdO #ableg #cdnpoli