Simone Accascina

[Simone Accascina @simon_acca]

@antirez should become europe’s AI czar and get it done 🇮🇹+🇨🇭=💪

[antirez @antirez]

Btw I believe we have a mostly wrong framing of what could be done in Europe. Italy's Leonardo supercomputer datacenter alone plus Swiss National Supercomputing Centre has more than enough compute to train a very large LLM. It's not something impossible, also there is not magic recipe: it's just scaling, every smart team with the GPUs is doing it. People that fatally believe it is not something within reach are wrong.

[Simone Accascina @simon_acca]

@kellabyte programming languages and ecosystems could encourage this by adopting data instead of objects as the go to interface between modules.
Great talk on this topic https://t.co/py6u5KLoqO

[Simone Accascina @simon_acca]

100% confidence 0% accuracy 🫤

[Simone Accascina @simon_acca]

@paulg Doesn't have to be a very good startup idea either... just having one makes you think more critically (i.e. apply backpropagation)

[Simone Accascina @simon_acca]

@paulg Ideally go through university with one or a few startup idea in mind as it's easier to learn with a "loss function"

[Simone Accascina @simon_acca]

@msimoni granted, spec or malli are absolutely a requirement to keep a codebase sane

[Simone Accascina @simon_acca]

@msimoni or lean into a combinatorial explosion of interfaces/traits implementations

[Simone Accascina @simon_acca]

@Grimezsz Makes me think of this piece on the economics of construction building ornaments over time… some parallels could be drawn to tapestry and sine other forms of art https://t.co/7KmNj7cO61

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

I still cannot believe that I can:

- look at a world map and tap anywhere to zoom in at street level

- instantly access any song, book, movie, tv show, or podcast ever made

- have any conceivable question and get an immediate answer or video explanation

- take a photo or video wherever I am and add it to my massive, searchable, always accessible personal archive

- video call anyone in my life, at anytime, no matter where they are

- watch live sports on a little wireless glass rectangle

- type out these thoughts and have them read by thousands of people, all over the world, a few seconds later

[Tsarathustra @tsarnick]

Emmanuel Macron says France's nuclear energy capacity gives them a great advantage to run AI data centers because there is no need to drill but only "plug, baby, plug"

[Simone Accascina @simon_acca]

@lvlsergei @smartereveryday Cool video as always from Destin! The carbon intensity map on @ElectricityMaps also helped me wrap my head around this topic https://t.co/T1PKbwDpzU

[Dean Olson @deankolson87]

Just saw the most insane #spacedebris #meteorshower right now in Turks and Caicos ⁦@elonmusk⁩ what is it??

[Simone Accascina @simon_acca]

@ID_AA_Carmack Most of them have a small form factor motherboard without the required PCIe 4.0 x16, but I've seen some in ATX or mini-ATX form factor in the wild

[Simone Accascina @simon_acca]

@ID_AA_Carmack Search for "industrial PC with GPIO" on aliexpress/alibababa

[Simone Accascina @simon_acca]

@Aella_Girl There are some sports where this activity (rationally managing fear) is necessary and perhaps the most important skill to master. For example climbing, caving, diving

[Simone Accascina @simon_acca]

@Andercot What are a couple of high value things that you expect to be in there? In my experience inventors are proud to a fault (see for example folks leaving top AI shops for academia just to be able to publish again); the probability of 6k groundbreaking ideas being kept secret is tiiny

[Simone Accascina @simon_acca]

@brian_armstrong Current OSses are all way too low level, they are really just there to enable multitasking, while what you'd need is a "user data" OS first and foremost

[Simone Accascina @simon_acca]

@paularambles Next stop, spherical ones in Turin https://t.co/a3qA2fa40k