Inactive Founder: First Chair Media Former @protocol, @technology, etc. [email protected] Signal: 3092656120 🌈

San Francisco
Joined July 2009
I’m taking a break from journalism for a bit, maybe forever. Venturing over to the otherside with my own content/consulting shop: First Chair Media. If you’re a company looking for a writer, advice on navigating the media landscape, etc., hit me up: [email protected]
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It is astounding the number of people who simply refuse to acknowledge a history in AI before ChatGPT. You’re the problem. Stop over-hyping everything.
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IT is fine.
Publicis organic growth was 9.4% in Q4 as data/tech services kept capturing shifting client spend. CEO Sadoun told me there have been some cuts in traditional marketing spend at the local level, but it hasn't seen a major change in client behavior so far wsj.com/articles/publicis-pu…
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Datadog allegedly asked developer to kill open source data export tool theregister.com/2023/02/02/d…
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1980s: AI companies spend vast amounts of $ hiring humans to write rules to patch brittle symbolic systems. 2020s: AI companies spend vast amounts of $ hiring humans to to patch brittle neural systems.
we're starting to see top companies spend the same amount on RLHF and compute in training ChatGPT-like LLMs for example, OpenAI hired >1000 devs to RLHF their code models crazy—but soon companies will start spending $ hundreds of Ms or $ billions on RLHF, just as w/compute
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Layoffs are giving a generation of techies the opportunity to decide what's ahead for Silicon Valley. Some quick thoughts on why this moment will come to define the culture of Big Tech for the coming decade and beyond: billablehours.substack.com/p…
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ChatGPT is making journalism worse and it has nothing to do with the actual product.
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Sitting down with AP for their first joint interview, the five women talked and laughed like old friends. They said their camaraderie and collaboration will be crucial as they work to keep the government running this year. w/⁦⁦⁦@seungminkim⁩ apnews.com/article/094c0b82c…
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This isn’t some overnight problem that can be fixed with layoffs. Some of us have been covering the problems at the company for a while.
Prediction: Salesforce will get sold for parts in the name of shareholder return. Also, Salesforce+ shuts down.
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Prediction: Salesforce will get sold for parts in the name of shareholder return. Also, Salesforce+ shuts down.
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I wish Bob Weir would just release the list of shows he’s planning to show up at.
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Controversial, but I thought The World Is Not Enough was a better game.
N64 classic GoldenEye 007 will finally arrive on Nintendo Switch Online's Expansion Pass and Xbox Game Pass on January 27. bit.ly/3H83WcB
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Voters don't care about the discovery of classified documents in Biden's home. So why does it seem like they do care?
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