Aydin Kurt-Elli

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Entrepreneur and technologist. Fanatical pilot & early music bigot. Got an MBChB once upon a time. Toots are mine, and just mine. Lives in Lausanne, loves being in Europe.
A must-read post from my friend John who has an upper spinal injury... https://secondtimearound.life/kureishi-an-update/
Kureishi & an update – Second Time Around

Ok, so enjoying the #adventofcode which always reminds me how poor my coding skills are... ...just did day 5 where my first attempt ran out of memory after 10mins of iterations, and my second attempt gave the answer in less than a second. Always learning...

A powerful and useful initiative.

https://www.xlast.org/

xlast

Collective action to address X's hateful, dangerous direction and help strengthen better, more functional alternatives.

xlast
"The product [GPT4] has reshaped the tech industry"
No, it hasn't. It has reshaped what credulous muppets spend their time focusing on. Most of the tech industry is still writing buggy C and Java while failing to patch virtual machines running end-of-life versions of Windows.
Most of the tech industry is engaged in thoroughly boring things, just like every other industry.
Just went onto X for the first time in ages. The level of open antisemitism is quite something.
Python in Excel?! Love it.

Just finished Zed by Joanna Kavenna. Brilliant.

Thoughtful, insightful, funny, and prescient given it was published in 2019 - lays out a future if someone like Musk were in charge of a hegemonic AI that took charge of our public and private lives.

Reading the news that AMZN is producing their own ARM-based silicon is good news for energy comsumption - means more energy efficient silicon being used at scale. To be celebrated.

Also, the move towards normalising ARM based silicon may hasten the move away from x86.

Is it only me or is the bird site's "new" logo not so new?... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System
X Window System - Wikipedia

Elon Musk puts a reading paywall on Twitter

Elon Musk blamed AI companies for new “temporary” limitations on Twitter access. Verified accounts can read up to 6,000 posts per day, while unverified users are limited to seeing 600 posts per day.

The Verge