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.
@w7voa Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences...
@neil but, bit, BRIAN BLESSED!
Just went onto X for the first time in ages. The level of open antisemitism is quite something.
@axios Florida cuts taxes so attracts business tho insurance is the new tax due flooding / hurricanes etc.
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.