Jack of all trades, master of some.
San Francisco, CA
Joined September 2013
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Michael Frye retweeted
Some stats on #php2shell. In the 10 hours before it was publicly announced, across the @Cloudflare network we saw thousands of attempts to exploit it. That jumped to tens of thousands in the 45 minutes post announcement, hundreds of thousands within 2 hours, and millions now.
Michael Frye retweeted
Guys, relax, the only risk in transiting the Strait of Hormuz is that Iran will shoot a missile at your ship. Otherwise it's open for transit.
An all-time quote from our Secretary of War.
Michael Frye retweeted
Everyone is talking about the impact of closing the Strait of Hormuz on oil and gas. I haven't seen much discussion of the war's impact on helium.
Most people think of helium as being a fun gas you use for children's balloons. But helium is actually one of the most important industrial gases, used in rockets, MRIs, quantum computers, and most importantly, in the production of semiconductors.
Qatar produces ~30% of the world's helium as a byproduct of its natural gas wells, and that supply is now cut off from the global market. 🧵
Michael Frye retweeted
We need @shell to address the 24/7 trespassing deterrent that blares from its shuttered station, audible from 300+ homes in our area in JLS Oakland. It is a total public nuisance and I’m sure harming business for our locally owned mezcaleria across the street. SO unacceptable!
Michael Frye retweeted
No one talks about the real reason driving the ~500k tech layoffs.
Section 174 in the 2017 tax cuts turned engineer salaries from an instant tax deduction into a 5yr write off, causing billions in tax bills.
It even incentivizes offshoring R&D, which has a 15yr write off!
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Michael Frye retweeted
LEAKED internal memo from CEO of Shopify @tobi around AI
10 quick takeaways i have after reading it:
1. a subtle but huge reframe: “hire an AI before you hire a human.”
2. AI is now a baseline expectation at shopify. hiring filters will probably favor ai-fluent candidates at shopify and other companies.
3. AI agents are now treated like teammates, not tools.
4. prompting is now a core skill. top performers will be top prompters.
5. AI usage is now measured. kinda wild. probably a business idea there to build the lattice for AI usage.
6. AI-first prototyping is the new standard. shipping speed will probably 10x even at a $100B company like Shopify.
7. org charts blur, headcount planning now includes bots, not just bodies.
8. AI literacy is the new coding literacy. prompting, contextualizing, or evaluating ai output is become mandatory.
9. AI is now a core layer in the software stack. not a plugin. not an add-on. ai sits beside infra, backend, frontend, and design. the best teams will be the ones who treat it like infrastructure.
10. tobi’s memo screams one thing: more impact per person. shopify is early to this, but i bet this will hit every major company over the next 12-24 months.
Michael Frye retweeted
Everyone angry about the age of DOGE workers is going to be very surprised when they find out how old the Founding Fathers were.
Michael Frye retweeted
Ironic that we got free AI from a hedge fund and $200/month AI from a nonprofit.
Michael Frye retweeted
When normies (that's what I call people who aren't into AI yet) ask me why AI is such a big deal, I often give them this quote form @natfriedman:
"Imagine we discovered a new continent with 100 billion people on it, and they're all willing to work for free"
It's astounding how much more productive I've become by using ChatGPT/Claude.
I feel like I have 10 free, insanely hardworking, and incredibly smart and detail oriented employees.
Michael Frye retweeted
Hey Trump/Vance/Elon,
Now that we have R sweep + confirmation that Trump will be in office, can we make sure to fix section 174 of the tax code?
Amortizing software development costs makes zero sense, and is quietly crushing tech in the US.
Michael Frye retweeted
1/ Can Large Language Models (LLMs) truly reason? Or are they just sophisticated pattern matchers? In our latest preprint, we explore this key question through a large-scale study of both open-source like Llama, Phi, Gemma, and Mistral and leading closed models, including the recent OpenAI GPT-4o and o1-series.
arxiv.org/pdf/2410.05229
Work done with @i_mirzadeh, @KeivanAlizadeh2, Hooman Shahrokhi, Samy Bengio, @OncelTuzel.
#LLM #Reasoning #Mathematics #AGI #Research #Apple
Michael Frye retweeted
If you have an .io domain you should read this.
When the British government announced last week that it was transferring sovereignty of an island in the Indian Ocean to the country of Mauritius, Gareth immediately realized its online implications: the end of the .io domain suffix. every.to/p/the-disappearance…
Michael Frye retweeted
Question: why would key people leave an organization right before it was just about to develop AGI?
Michael Frye retweeted
I don’t know who changed the @X algorithm — but the random rubbish in my timeline is driving me crazy. No — I don’t want constant posts about politics and memes all day from people I don’t follow.
Michael Frye retweeted
My theory: burnout has nothing to do with how many hours or how hard you work. It's caused by working for people you don't like, towards goals you don't believe in, in systems that grant you no agency.
