Ognjen Todic

Entrepreneur & Engineer. Building on-device speech recognition solutions @ and organically growing the business.

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

Before I was even pregnant, I asked my mom & dad for advice from raising me and my brother...

This is what they told me, maybe you'll find it useful too:

1. Your kids are not your friends. They’re yours to safeguard and support, but set rules. Biggest problem with most kids in our generation, their parents wanted to be liked not respected.

2. Psy ops are underrated. My mom had this line for whenever I got into trouble. She’d say, “When I ask you a question like this, I already know the answer. I am giving you a chance to come clean...” At which point I’d sing like a canary because I’m a scaredy cat. I found out today she rarely knew the answers. Brilliant and maniacal.

3. Always on the same page. My mom and dad rarely fought in front of my brother and I. They would never go back on the word of the other. United front to deal with us mini terrorists.

4. Make time. My dad had this silly line that is actually not silly: “You can make money, you can make a cake, but you can’t make time.” So they made allllll the time for us.

5. Four chairs. We have these four chairs in our living room, no tv. Growing up, we’d sit and debate and talk for hours. Politics. Opinions. Our days. Only thing not allowed was an opinion you couldn’t defend unemotionally. We still do this today.

6. Mi Sangre mi siempre. They’d always say, blood comes first. They meant it. I hired my brother, my dad, my mom, my cousin at times. We stick together and we may fight like hell but never in front of others.

7. Once you decide, you don’t quit. We could play any sport or instrument BUT if we committed we had to play the full year all out. No 3 lessons and quit. Taught us to choose thoughtfully and keep going even when it hurt.

8. Always call. They still pick up the phone nearly every time it’s family. My dad in a meeting will pause to answer my mom. My husband taught me this too, and I try to do the same. If they’re your first priority this is an easy way to prove it.

9. You’re not a princess, you’re a president. My dad always used to say that line. He told me this week that I lived up to it. Gutted me. He taught us we didn’t need to be saved, instead we could save ourselves and help others.

10. Hug often and seriously. If you’ve ever hugged my parents, they mean it when they do it. Such a simple, free gesture. My mom always gives you a hug and says vaya con dios... go with God. How can you not do big things with parents that hold you like that?

Just some lessons from parents I happen to think are some of the best in the world.

Moms & dads everywhere, I'm in awe of you.

Hardest job I've ever seen.

Hope I'm half as good at it as my parents were with us.

[Ben Gilbert @gilbert]

Still one of the best moments in a business interview ever.

[Duncan Stone @StoneDunk]

Neither Cartier-Bresson, Banksy nor Cold War Steve could have come up with such an image. Absolutely perfect composition and lighting (even the road signs are perfect)! 😍

[Manuel Simoni @msimoni]

Now we know that Affleck is a programmer, that picture makes a lot more sense.

[Demis Hassabis @demishassabis]

John Urschel is an incredible guy. Had the pleasure of co-presenting an award with him at the Breakthrough Prize a few years ago - wonderful person and an inspiration!

[Yugoslavian Visuals @YugoslavVisuals]

Clint Eastwood in Novi Sad, 1960s.

[Balkan & Beyond @BalkanAndBeyond]

💬 How did one Italian comic strip about a group of incompetent secret agents become the ultimate pop-culture phenomenon in Yugoslavia?

Alan Ford was created in Italy in 1969 by Max Bunker and Magnus. This dark, satirical comic flopped in countries like France and Brazil and never even received an English translation. But when it hit Yugoslavia in 1972, it became an absolute cultural obsession.

The secret weapon? The translation.

Croatian journalist and writer Nenad Brixy completely reimagined the Italian text. Brixy injected the dialogue with brilliant wit, mature jokes, and highly specific Serbo-Croatian idioms that transformed a simple comic into a literary masterpiece of social satire.
His work was so legendary that even after Yugoslavia dissolved, fans across the newly formed countries rejected new, localized translations. They only wanted Brixy’s original text! To the readers, Brixy's version was Alan Ford.

In 2015, the town of Varaždinske Toplice in Croatia even erected a memorial plaque honoring Brixy's massive contribution to the language.

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

I will return to this paragraph by C. S. Lewis at least once a week until the day I die

[Alisa @u_zemlji_luda_]

❤️🌹 kraljica

[Ognjen Todic @ognjen_todic]

@sophiamyang Perhaps something like this https://t.co/p0HAQjrxpZ with a bit of software work, would do the job. Limited to wifi availability though

[Mike Bradley @MikeBradleyAI]

For whoever needs to hear this. Most modern Nvidia GPUs have manual fan speed controls. NVML is your friend. Don’t run stacked GPUs in auto mode. The cooler bottom card will be lazy on airflow while the top card cooks. Make that bottom card earn its keep!

[Milan Ćopić @MCopic]

Jedna lepa priča sa FB 👇

"Glavna železnička stanica Beograd, jul 1982. godine.
Ova fotografija, koju je snimila Goranka Matić, beleži trenutak kada basista grupe Idoli, Zdenko Kolar, odlazi na odsluženje obaveznog vojnog roka u Jugoslovensku narodnu armiju (JNA).
Na peronu ga ispraćaju devojka i kolege iz benda Vlada Divljan, Srđan Šaper, Nebojša Krstić i Boža Jovanović.
U istoriji jugoslovenske pop-kulture, ovaj snimak je ostao zabeležen kao vizuelna tačka koja označava kraj rane, najkreativnije faze beogradskog Novog talasa.

Te godine, Beograd je mirisao na slobodu, ali i na neku potmulu strepnju. Bilo je to vreme nakon Titove smrti kada je stari sistem polako pucao po šavovima, a kroz te pukotine prokuljala je neverovatna kreativna energija. Mladi su preko noći osvojili javni prostor. Prostor oko Studentskog kulturnog centra (SKC) i prvi beogradski kafići u okolini bili su puni klinaca koji su izgledali kao da su upravo sišli sa ulica Londona ili Njujorka. Muzika, umetnost i fanzini stvarali su se u hodu, na kolenima, u zadimljenim sobama.

Idoli su postali arhetip novotalasnog Beograda - bili su to momci iz komšiluka koji su čitali ozbiljnu literaturu, nosili odela sa kravatama iz čistog cinizma i stvarali muziku koja je provocirala malograđanštinu. Njihov album „Odbrana i poslednji dani” bio je vrhunac te drskosti – spojili su pop melodije sa vizantijskom ikonografijom i pitanjima koja se niko pre njih u socijalizmu nije usudio da postavi. Bili su na vrhu, nedodirljivi u svojoj mladosti i uspehu.

Ali, ta 1982. imala je i svoju drugu, administrativnu stranu – jugoslovensku realnost od koje niko nije mogao da pobegne. Koliko god neko bio velika rok zvezda, intelektualac ili umetnik, država bi u nekom trenutku poslala zvanični poziv, papir sa pečatom. Vojni rok u JNA bio je nezaobilazna stanica, oštar rez koji nasilno oduzme godinu dana života.

Ovaj peron sa fotografije zato svedoči o direktnom sudaru dva nespojiva sveta. Sa jedne strane stoji beogradski Novi talas – prostor slobode, ironije i umetnosti koji personifikuju Idoli. Sa druge strane je teška, čelična kompozicija voza i sivo-maslinasta uniforma koja simbolizuje sistem koji te usisava i šalje u anonimnost kasarne.

Ova fotografija nosi simboliku prelomnog trenutka u kojem se magična, rana faza Novog talasa završava. Ti momci na peronu ne ispraćaju samo druga u kasarnu; oni nesvesno ispraćaju sopstvenu bezbrižnost. Zato se kroz tu julsku žegu i dim cigareta oseća melanholija. Svi oni glume da je sve u redu, ali svesni su da se točak pokrenuo. Kada se voz jednom udalji sa te stanice, Beograd više neće biti isti, a Idoli će, u potrazi za opstankom na sceni, morati da postanu nešto drugo – komercijalniji, pitkiji i daleko manje hermetični."

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Saya, known as the 'Ghost of Kabini,' is a famous black panther known for his territorial battles and rise through the leopard hierarchy in Kabini, India

Wildlife photographer Shaaz Jung spent years following and documenting Saya’s life in the Kabini forest

[Ognjen Todic @ognjen_todic]

living on the edge, ha! 😀

[Marko Anastasov @markoa]

have you ever taken your phone out of its case and used it bare?

magical experience

[Lost In Film @LostInFilm]

«Your move, chief»

[Ognjen Todic @ognjen_todic]

😂

[Lucas Beyer (bl16) @giffmana]

Not gonna lie i thought this was going to be:

Welcome to X, @JensenHuang! I've been on X since 1991: [link to blog] 😁

[Ian Hogarth @soundboy]

Have we ever seen "commoditise your complement" done before by a large nation state?

Open source the AI model layer.

Capture value in raw materials/hardware/energy layers of the stack.

[Gašper Beguš @begusgasper]

Learning, after all, begins with careful listening. Listening requires the ability to step outside your own perspective and try to imagine how another person experiences their own unique world. This requires a high degree of humility. It is the real purpose of an education and it is something that no silicon intelligence can teach us. This gives me hope that the future of academia has at least 2,400 more years to go. If we are humble enough to listen not only to each other but to other intelligent beings, we might discover new things about the world that we can’t even imagine yet.

[Ognjen Todic @ognjen_todic]

@gabriberton https://t.co/chR20JnZWi