Andrius Aucinas

Technology and privacy. @Apple, previously @Brave, Co-Founder @dataswift_io. Opinions my own

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

I see so much FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) about the future of sw engineering, mostly from non-devs. Along the lines of “soon anyone can spin off AI agents in bulk that act as hundreds of devs.”

A false premise. Just open your airline app that is built by ~hundreds of devs.

[Andrius Aucinas @AndriusAuc]

more details on how Apple’s PCC works: https://t.co/e6LBhdfBVX

with a link to a very detailed security guide as well

[Andrius Aucinas @AndriusAuc]

pretty proud to have played a small role in the Private Cloud Compute https://t.co/2upffeQLYz

[Matthew Green @matthew_d_green]

So Apple has introduced a new system called “Private Cloud Compute” that allows your phone to offload complex (typically AI) tasks to specialized secure devices in the cloud. I’m still trying to work out what I think about this. So here’s a thread. 1/

[Andrius Aucinas @AndriusAuc]

shock horror, retailers slap different brands on the same third-party products and sell at different price points: https://t.co/pUHnw2JuKe
the main thing I find dubious here is the claim that it has much to do with online shopping per se

[Andrius Aucinas @AndriusAuc]

pretty cool! And fun what problems become exciting at scale

[marius eriksen @marius]

I wrote a blog post for SIGOPS giving the backstory of our OSDI paper on Flux (global capacity management for millions of servers). If you’re curious about how this kind of work happens in industry, read on!

https://t.co/syh1zmEwFu

[Andrius Aucinas @AndriusAuc]

fully funded PhD positions open with some fantastic people in Cambridge: https://t.co/43MQBh0fVV

[Andrius Aucinas @AndriusAuc]

@levelsio @Cobratate but the line above seems to clarify that by AI he means Aikido!

[Andrius Aucinas @AndriusAuc]

quite vague for now, but looking forward to the continuation in the series. Public discourse is useful both if there are lessons to learn and lessons to teach the industry

[Andrius Aucinas @AndriusAuc]

@olliecook madness!

[Dumpster Cat Capital @DumpsterCatCap]

1/ This recent Bernstein note on food delivery was really interesting - and totally contrary to my priors. It kind of looks like food delivery apps… actually maintain differentiated products? $ROO $UBER $JET $TKWY

[Andrius Aucinas @AndriusAuc]

@cecim @KaylaButkow I hear doing video meetings when visibly on a treadmill is a real power move

[Nathan Benaich @nathanbenaich]

🪩The @stateofai 2022 is live!🪩

In its 5th year, the #stateofai report condenses what you *need* to know in AI research, industry, safety, and politics. This open-access report is our contribution to the AI ecosystem.

Here's my director's cut 🧵:
https://t.co/QtkXZcQpJj

[Andrius Aucinas @AndriusAuc]

prescription videogame to treat ADHD (https://t.co/Rd2hxSvFQG) sounds like a much more profound prediction from snowcrash than any of the VR stuff. And in a good way! There may well be some risks with it as well (again, snowcrash?), but surely less than stuffing kids with meds

[Andrius Aucinas @AndriusAuc]

@Philzered cliché one

[VeryBritishProblems @SoVeryBritish]

#Autumn

[Andrius Aucinas @AndriusAuc]

“48 of the top 50 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) customers, use AWS Graviton processors for their workloads” incredible shift to ARM, one of those things years in the making and then all of a sudden feels overnight

[Andrius Aucinas @AndriusAuc]

some data marketplaces are worse than others (but are any really better?). Of course when even the FTC comes after you that does not inspire confidence https://t.co/0oO3dfwmYE

[Andrius Aucinas @AndriusAuc]

@realhamed bring it to a cafe and you’ll be the coolest hipster around

[Corey Quinn @QuinnyPig]

"Why is @Amazon acquiring @OneMedical bad news?"

Let's explore.

1. Horizontal integration at Amazon scale of a company that now has the right to access my medical records under HIPAA opens up a huge problem for abuse.