Mechanical Dirk

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@carnage4life It's much easier to execute on many-bets strategy when you have a money printer. Harder when you have a money furnace.
@carnage4life In this thread: MBAs discover Amdahl's law
@carnage4life What if Nvidia is giving the picks and shovels to mining companies for free, receiving shares in those companies instead?
i think IDEs which allow you to use "AI" to generate code should always display those specific lines of code in Comic Sans
@carnage4life I tried vibe coding recently on a little side project. It went hilariously badly. I develop LLMs for a living. I have every reason to believe the hype. But I think that people claiming it works on Twitter are lying.
@carnage4life You can re-read her books to learn that, but it only works looking backwards.
@carnage4life "Deaths per fatal crash"? So if someone dies in the accident, a Tesla makes it more likely that multiple people died?
@carnage4life Please don't amplify Gary Marcus. He's been wrong on every single call since 2017, and somehow parlayed that into becoming a sought-after expert.
@carnage4life For a while I watched a lot of reviews of battle tanks on YouTube. Turns out the most important feature that makes a tank successful in battle is whether it's fighting for the winning side.
@carnage4life "Bubbles take a long time to burst"? I feel like this metaphor has run its course.