I didn’t start with a roadmap. Just a deep comfort wading through ambiguity.
I reverse-engineered what I needed by talking to AI until it talked back in something useful.
Turns out, you don’t need credentials to build something smart.
Just a high tolerance for weird errors [4/4]
In February, I had all the qualifications to build an AI model—by which I mean none.
Dropped out of 100 Days of Code on day 8.
Began promoting Supergrok & ChatGPT to prompt me to prompt them….
Realizing I was regularly arguing with AI… pure unadulterated joy [1/4]
Fast forward:
750 lines of working code.
A synthetic dataset generator I built from scratch.
And I’m prepping to fine-tune my third Mistral 7B model.
Somewhere along the way, I stopped asking Grok “how do I get back to venv.”
[3/4]
I view the recent developments related to Kevin McCarthy’s removal from the U.S. House of Representatives as related to the intense level of internal conflict within the U.S currently, and view this development as another step away from democracy and toward civil war. I delve into my thoughts more here: https://t.co/elnoSctTUV
The engineers briefed him on all the safety reviews and requirements they had endured.
“Getting the license was existentially soul - sucking,” Juncosa said.
Shana Diez and Jake McKenzie provided details. “My fucking brain is hurting,” Musk said, holding his head.
“I’m trying to figure out how we get humanity to Mars with all this bullshit.”
He processed in silence for two minutes, and when he emerged from his trance, he was philosophical.
“This is how civilizations decline. They quit taking risks. And when they quit taking risks, their arteries harden. Every year there are more referees and fewer doers.”
That’s why America could no longer build things like high-speed rail or rockets that go to the moon.
“When you’ve had success for too long, you lose the desire to take risks.”
#SpaceX #Starship #ElonMusk #Tesla
The conversation on AI between @elonmusk, @netanyahu, @gdb, and @tegmark is excellent.
From math to philosophy to economics to geopolitics. From Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem to Man's Search for Meaning.
I would love to see more conversations like these!
This quote about "Nintendo vibe" is on point, as The Creator production designer James Clyne took inspiration of the NES to design the Eravana, Baleen-class heavy freighter, for The Force Awakens (2015).
"Don’t overestimate childhood inspiration!”, he said.
"... '90s, '80s kind of Walkman, Nintendo [vibe]. We looked at all the product design from that era, and kind of riffed off little pieces and tried to put it on the robots."
Read More: https://t.co/G0occqlJ3A
The Creator (Sept. 29)
Gareth Edwards: "The way we tried to quickly describe the design aesthetic of the movie is that it's a little bit retro-futuristic. So it was like, imagine the Apple Mac hadn't won the tech war and the Sony Walkman had. So everything has this sort of..."
@profstonge#cbdc is surveillance for control
Tania Acabou was evicted from video surveillance she had broken a policy regarding how often a guest could visit overnight
Her ex-husband babysitting while she was attending night classes to become a lab tech.
https://t.co/mhrUp4Cweu
Tactical Evacuations are being done in Clifton rd and wilden areas. Please leave. This is worse then many think. I’m listening to calls and it’s really not good
#BCWildfire#wildfires
Steve Jobs had only one business book in his library and always recommended it.
Thesis breakdown of The Innovator's Dilemma:
When a firm gets to successfully create a product, it then proceeds to make infinite sustaining and efficiency innovations so that margins and productivity continuously improve. It then becomes the leading company, the one with the spotlight. Management now has three options to invest in:
Sustaining technology
Improving the productivity of an old product will be close to a guarantee that you remain leading in your market. It helps build brand value as customers see that you are working for them to get better results. It might allow you to charge a premium for the enhancement and, with costs being the same, drive margin expansion. Moreover, returns on capital are high on sustaining technologies, which, combined with margins, it’s the magic formula for investors. Your business will attract capital. Who wouldn’t want to invest in a business with high returns on capital and expanding margins?
Efficiency technology
Making a product more efficient means it requires less resources for it to be manufactured. Consequently, less costs are implied in its creation. Because efficiency innovations are done on existing products, it is very likely that you don’t need a ton of investment to find potential innovations in this regard. Therefore, returns on capital are high, margin expansion is guaranteed, and the probability of success is very high. Capital will flood into your business and customers will be happy if you charge them less for the same product. Fantastic.
Disruptive technology
You already have high-paying customers, you own the market and sell at very high margins. Investing for a disruptive technology implies for you to do a zero to one move, with all context provided above. No guarantee of success, the initial product will serve almost no one and it will be sold for much smaller margins than the ones you currently offer. Investing in disruptive innovation will depress your margins and returns on capital. Investors will criticize you because you are wasting money and customers will find no use in your new technology.
That is why good managements fail. It is impossible to logically arrive to the conclusion that investing in a disruptive technology is the best path forward. It’s utterly counterintuitive.
Option A and B are the ones that promise the best results, which is capital. It makes investors and customers happy. Nevertheless, it has always been the case that new technologies displace old ones.
An unforgettable moment just happened… country legend Jamey Johnson joined @AintGottaDollar for a surprise performance of his epic song “In Color” 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
Pepsico with great feedback about their 21 Tesla Semi's in daily use
- 3 Semi's are dedicated to long haul (250 - 450mi)
- vehicles are fully loaded
- Semi's are delivering every day
- They run them 12h a day (operating hours)
- 20 to 30 minutes charging from 5 - 10% to 95%
Director of fleet operation, Burton "This is a very big deal, this is going to revolutionize the way how th etruck industry is going to the market in the future"
Electrification Program Manager Antunovic "From here to Navada we're able to on the trip back to zero out in terms of state of charge improving through regenerative braking. Which for us is massive. This extends range in ways that's invaluable."
"For the last several months we've been able to stay below 1.7 KwH/mi"
A Lady driver "Its so comfortable its so easy, you're so close to the front of the tractor your visibility"
Another Lady driver "There is no switches and gages in the cabin of the truck so I have to strictly go with the monitors and within half an hour I felt comfortable. If you know how to use a smart"
Electrification Program Manager Antunovic "Where we are with the Tesla Semis is we are close to 50% in the transformation to electric. And to finish that out we will build though the rest of the depot putting in extended charging to satisfy 100% of electric fleet here"
The Tesla Semi will dominate the trucking industry!
https://t.co/7kWZ1yY9rr
@TeslaSportsFan @roch91741 @TeslaSynopsis It did. Felt like tiny ice picks hitting my face….and then came pure joy after the parachute deployed
Silently floating through the sky with a bit of warm rain
It was magical