🤖 Cofounder & CEO of @SuperpoweredSDK, cross-platform low latency audio SDK 🔊 Acquired by @splice.
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Patrick Vlaskovits retweeted
The Star Wars story accidentally contains the seeds of this transcendence btw. The galaxy is not saved when Luke conquers his hate and becomes a pacifist. The galaxy is saved when Vader turns his hate towards the Emperor and kills him out of love for his son.
Yes, Star Wars at its most mythopoetic would have transcended both the Jedi and the Sith. Luke would have gone through the Freudian integration of the id and superego by the ego, becoming the kind of man Nietzsche called a “Caesar with the soul of Christ.” This is what the final trilogy ought to have been. Unfortunately for us, no one (and especially not George Lucas) has any idea what that man would be like.
Patrick Vlaskovits retweeted
-don’t watch Euphoria
-don’t call your girlfriend your “partner”
-don’t own a dog under 50lbs
-lift weights
-go for walks
-don’t follow Instagram models
-don’t cheat on your girlfriend
-stay up til 2AM with your girlfriend’s dad on Christmas Eve watching Saving Private Ryan
-call your friends for no reason
-treat customer service employees kindly
-take random moments throughout your week to be grateful for your health
Patrick Vlaskovits retweeted
America was supposed to be Art Deco.
The lobby of 450 Sutter Street, San Francisco, opened in 1929. We don't appreciate this architecture enough.
Patrick Vlaskovits retweeted
your regular reminder that while the modern man thinks of memorization as "rote" and "uncreative," the ancient Greeks literally considered memory to be the mother of all the muses
Patrick Vlaskovits retweeted
I've said this before: the majority of people who use AI (and I'm not talking about programmers or people who actually have to constantly run agentic tasks at desk or other truly token-hungry stuff like that, but just the typical person using ChatGPT as a replacement for Google) could simply download an open-source model, run it locally on their home PC, and get a perfectly acceptable result. Altman is mortally afraid of the average AI user figuring that out.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says it’s “quite terrible” that people have so much DRAM sitting in their own PCs instead of being used in data centers.
“Everyone have a bunch of the world’s limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer. And be used 5% of the time,”
He argues that cloud data centers should make better use of limited memory supplies instead of people running AI models locally.
Patrick Vlaskovits retweeted
1975:
“a lot of people want personal computers, and somehow they assume that the problem is solved now because we have microprocessors, we’re going to be able to run them in our homes, and so we’re not going to need all the stuff in the mainframe. but from a global allocation perspective, actually it’s quite terrible to have everybody, like, have a bunch of the world’s limited supply of memory chips sitting on their own desk and being used five percent of the time. you want maximum utilisation on the time-sharing terminal. somehow many people’s intuition is the opposite of that”
sam: local inference is a terrible allocation of scarce resources
“a lot of people want local inference, and somehow they assume that the problem is solved now because we have open-source models, we're going to be able to run them on our computers, and so we're not going to need all the stuff in the data centre
but from a global allocation perspective, actually it's quite terrible to have everybody, like, have a bunch of the world's limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer and being used five percent of the time
you want maximum utilisation in the cloud if you're trying to deal with this very supply-constrained environment
somehow many people's intuition is the opposite of that”
macOS 26 already has an itty-bitty LLM built in.
Doesn't seem outrageous to think that hardware providers would bundle an LLM with every device in the very near future.....
Lots of shade being thrown at this, and I can appreciate the pushback, but he's not wrong.
This is the normal progression. Shared telephone lines, time-shared mainframes, even refrigeration. Shared resources are normal at the beginning of a new technology.
He's the guy selling mainframes, so it rankles people when they hear this from him, but for now, he's right.
We'll have our personal computer moment, but it's going to be early adopters on an Altair 8800 - cool, directionally right, and mostly useless.
I used to not agree with this ---- and then I smoked one of my kids in Spanish tu command form....that I had been forced to memorize as a high schooler.
Memorization is hard. Is annoying. And is totally useful.
The demonization of memorization is one of the top ~3 reasons that we have become retarded as a society.
Memorization is like pumping iron for your brain and you inevitably also come to understand/internalize what you memorize.
It shouldn’t be limited to vocabulary and times tables either. It should be poems in foreign languages, the ability to trace maps by hand from memory, timelines and dates, etc.
I had lunch with someone whom I respect in tech. He's been around a few tech cycles. He has serious technical and business chops, been both CTO and CEO. (Sold a company for a hair under one billion.)
He thinks we're seeing an exact re-capitulation of the dotcom mania (which he lived through).
In other words, the new AI-driven product ideas are, mostly, sound and interesting and truly innovative/disruptive.
But...the valuations and business fundamentals aren't.
Hence, a reckoning is coming soon. The ideas will be re-vived and live on -- but many of these companies, prob not.
Patrick Vlaskovits retweeted
Little known fact that Thunderstruck was originally arranged for xylophone.
Out of curiosity - @realEstateTrent would you characterize yourself as bashing and diminishing cash buyers?
:P
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Here you go Don:
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Our Stone-Age brains were never designed to handle a 24/7 digital thing that can communicate like a human and this will fry a lot of people's brains (already has) -- hopefully, not mine and the people I love.
:/
Patrick Vlaskovits retweeted
hey sam, your mclaren is only used 5% of the time. this is a terrible allocation of scarce resources. have you considered taking the bus to work
sam: local inference is a terrible allocation of scarce resources
“a lot of people want local inference, and somehow they assume that the problem is solved now because we have open-source models, we're going to be able to run them on our computers, and so we're not going to need all the stuff in the data centre
but from a global allocation perspective, actually it's quite terrible to have everybody, like, have a bunch of the world's limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer and being used five percent of the time
you want maximum utilisation in the cloud if you're trying to deal with this very supply-constrained environment
somehow many people's intuition is the opposite of that”
Patrick Vlaskovits retweeted
Sir Patrick Stewart describes his first experience of a Hamburger in America. (You’ll read this in his voice)
Patrick Vlaskovits retweeted
Brain dead. No understanding of second order effects. "Let everyone do drugs." We tried that with marijuana. Now he wants to legalize even harder drugs. He should move back to California rather than jibber jabber from a red state he fled to.
I used to agree with Joe Rogan that people should be able to gamble, do drugs, whatever they want. Then I realized that free will is an illusion and addicts don’t know they’re addicts until they try it for the first time.
Rogan’s reason for defending gambling is he used to hang out in a pool hall with gamblers, and if someone couldn’t handle it, then just stay away.
The problem is these gambling ads are EVERYWHERE now, and the apps are constantly with you, sending you notifications to gamble just a little bit more.
People are gambling their money away on sports and their life away on drugs, and Rogan’s answer is to let them do it.
