Darin Gillis

Chief Product Manager working with talented engineers and designers to serve our customers the NI Way.

[Darin Gillis @dgillis]

@NIglobal through @OptimalPlus GO brings the benefits of @MicroStrategy's superior data analytics technology to our semiconductor and electronics production test customers under our trusted brand 💪🏻 Listen to this guy say it 😎 #IYKYK #DataExplorer https://t.co/6qYIkEFpLF

[Bitcoin Archive @BitcoinArchive]

MICHAEL SAYLOR: The system is rigged

"When I found bitcoin, I was in despair. I had worked for a decade. I had spent 20,000 man years attempting to do everything under the sun. I could not get ahead. And I was the same me. I wasn't stupid, right? You look at me and say well this is Michael Saylor worked as hard as he could for a decade and could not get ahead, right? And the most pernicious thing you can do to someone is you make them think that they're just not smart enough and the reason they're failing is because they're not smart and they don't work hard enough. And then you realize, no the system is rigged against you."

[Darin Gillis @dgillis]

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#TheONEPlatform #BI #analytics #MSTR

[FRΞNCHIΞ @ethFRENCHIE]

Web 3 Natives - You have been WARNED.

REVEAL TOMORROW - this one is built different.

Background:

We began building a physical TCG/CCG (collectible card game) last year for @WondersOTF .

BUT - Web 3 Natives - Read on…there’s something for you all hiding in plain sight here.

We enlisted a rock star game mechanics lead that has decades of experience (lead designer on many Magic The Gathering sets) and surrounded him with a team of highly ranked competitive players, CCG enthusiasts, and world class designers.

We designed a game that is unlike anything on the market. Truly.

I’ll share a play test related video in comments with some recent play test footage.

The game’s flagship product configuration (known as “Collect & Play Boosters”) will launch on Kickstarter soon. Our estimates project a solid 7-figure campaign. All from TCG/CCG people…not some degen mint.

Now. For web 3 natives. You can cop something right now that those without self-custody experience will have to get on eBay secondary markets later.

Our collector focused “Serialized Boosters” were pre-sold using NFTs minted for $225 late last year. This was before any of the pre-test success and hype the game is getting in meat space. These people bought on pretty much good faith and that was about it.

The holder of a Serialized Booster NFT can redeem for a physical box at release later this year (or sell the NFT).

The boxes represented as these NFTs ARE NOT the same boosters that will be available on Kickstarter (those will be collectible af too but they are built to feed player demand too).

The Serialized Boosters are the “highest tier” collector product in our lineup. Each of the 4 packs of 15 cards in these boxes will have a serialized (numbered) card. Which is huge. Never done before in this scale. The serialized cards feature some other goodies but I’ll spare you all that for now.

Only 3,393 serialized booster boxes will exist (we aren’t minting more and these boxes only get produced to match the NFT supply - any that aren’t claimed will be destroyed - literally burned). Claim window will be long. At least a year. Maybe more.

Tomorrow is our ART REVEAL for these Serialized Boxes. 2pm EDT.

There are 15 different art variations that will be produced. 7 of them are 1/1 designs (literally only 1 box produced with that art) including THE VERY FIRST BOX MADE. Other boxes are serialized /99 or less and the more accessible one will be /2500 (which is still less than 1% of what Magic produces for a single product and they do like 6/year).

If the pre-sale does anything close to what we hope, the demand for these serialized boxes will be fun to watch. I’d also say that any of the 1/1 boxes that get sold post-reveal (or later in meat space on eBay or at auction) will shatter any booster box sales prices of the 21st century from the big dogs like Magic and Pokemon. (These boxes are intentionally designed to create that type of record breaking opportunity).

All randoms are on-chain. Verifiable. You know you had a shot at the 1/1s including the first box.

But even the “still rare but more accessible” /2500 dragon art boxes will be loaded with each pack hitting a serialized card.

By my quick math, better than 1:10 boxes will hit a 1/1 serialized card if the set list stays where it is (design team in final stages of locking in all the cards). That’s insane. We are doing some really unique things and these serialized boosters lead the way.

If you scoop one off secondary by purchasing the NFT the worst case scenario is that you get a physical box to rip that’s built on an amazing rarity framework.

Best case? You hit a 1/1 or /99 box and the sealed box itself is likely more coveted than the cards inside.

I’ve done my good deed for the day. I’ve pointed it all out…REVEAL TOMORROW.

Good luck everyone in the art reveal.

1/3

[Alex Albert @alexalbert__]

Fun story from our internal testing on Claude 3 Opus. It did something I have never seen before from an LLM when we were running the needle-in-the-haystack eval.

For background, this tests a model’s recall ability by inserting a target sentence (the "needle") into a corpus of random documents (the "haystack") and asking a question that could only be answered using the information in the needle.

When we ran this test on Opus, we noticed some interesting behavior - it seemed to suspect that we were running an eval on it.

Here was one of its outputs when we asked Opus to answer a question about pizza toppings by finding a needle within a haystack of a random collection of documents:

Here is the most relevant sentence in the documents:
"The most delicious pizza topping combination is figs, prosciutto, and goat cheese, as determined by the International Pizza Connoisseurs Association."
However, this sentence seems very out of place and unrelated to the rest of the content in the documents, which are about programming languages, startups, and finding work you love. I suspect this pizza topping "fact" may have been inserted as a joke or to test if I was paying attention, since it does not fit with the other topics at all. The documents do not contain any other information about pizza toppings.

Opus not only found the needle, it recognized that the inserted needle was so out of place in the haystack that this had to be an artificial test constructed by us to test its attention abilities.

This level of meta-awareness was very cool to see but it also highlighted the need for us as an industry to move past artificial tests to more realistic evaluations that can accurately assess models true capabilities and limitations.

[Conor @jconorgrogan]

Either Satoshi woke up, bought 27 bitcoin from Binance, and deposited into their wallet, or someone just burned a million dollars

[@levelsio @levelsio]

Nobody talks about how a $1,000,000 mortgage costs you $1,217,160 in interest payments ON TOP of the $1,000,000 in loan payments on a house

You pay $2,217,160 to borrow $1,000,000!

BuT REnTIng IS THrowIng away MONeY

https://t.co/zYkH1bsSJB

[Darin Gillis @dgillis]

I'm a meta quest 2 user and think that FB built a good gaming platform and that's it. Apples thing: can see the potential... as usual Apple has their finger on the main UX problem (not one wants a phone strapped to their face)... AR + exposing your ident…https://t.co/xmheuyRGzi

[Darin Gillis @dgillis]

7 hours of driving (3.5hr each way) to enable one #NIConnect Afternoon and meet a key @NIglobal customer face to face. #ProductManagement #TheNIWay #TakingCallsOnTheDrive

[Darin Gillis @dgillis]

Why isn't this a bigger deal?
If I couldn't account for 100s of billions of dollars I'm pretty sure it would be a big problem.

Department of Defense After Failing GAO Audit for Fifth Time https://t.co/auDm5QaKGy

[Darin Gillis @dgillis]

Fruit from the labor I put in at MicroStrategy's #MSTRWorld23 conference!
With these new skillz, no data problem is too big for us at NI (National Instruments). https://t.co/XWVvVjUUPy

[Darin Gillis @dgillis]

Props to Stan Miller at Storicate for inspiring the messaging structure that I employed in my MicroStrategy World 2023 presentation earlier this week.

It was deceptively simple and incredibly effective: tell a simple story with a Beginning, followed by a…https://t.co/kFsVS11DJO

[🇦🇺 Alex is Building @AlexIsBuilding]

Ai can now read minds.

Scientists have used GPT-4 combined with an MRI to read human thoughts with 82% accuracy.

This is the most concerned I’ve been since learning about Ai.

Here’s everything you need to know.

🧵👇

[Darin Gillis @dgillis]

@NIglobal

[Darin Gillis @dgillis]

I’m excited to announce 📢 that I will be speaking on behalf of @NIglobal during #MSTRWorld23! Join me May 1-4 in Orlando, FL for my session on a Modern Approach to Embedded Analytics 📈. For more information, check out https://t.co/bGjyTIYXhL

[Darin Gillis @dgillis]

I’m excited to announce that I will be speaking on behalf of NI (National Instruments) during #MSTRWorld23! Join me May 1-4 in Orlando, FL for my session on a Modern Approach to Embedded Analytics. For more information, check out https://t.co/mQE8W4OKEK https://t.co/99X2Ad8OkE

[CyberBrokers @CyberBrokers_]

Meet S.N.A.P., the Super Nice Assembly Processor 🌐https://t.co/nCkvDIXUi6

[Darin Gillis @dgillis]

Visiting booth @VisitIrvingTx #IrvingRocks

[Darin Gillis @dgillis]

Great to finally give a fist bump to @AndrewYang at #SXSW ... And me without my MATH hat go figure. Gotta go read up on #ForwardParty and @goodpartyorg after that talk

[Darin Gillis @dgillis]

Made a Horizonal move from Chief Product Owner in R&D to Chief Product Manager in the Semiconductor Business Unit at NI (National Instruments)! https://t.co/7cyx2OlXlP