My garage is now planning to complete refurb on Feb 10 (original estimate for completion was Nov 5).
Did some 401k and IRA mgmt.
White Lotus season 2 was a masterpiece.
Chessboxing last night! Overall entertaining but it’s low-mid chess players and low-mid boxers. Would be better if everyone was mid-high on at least 1 of the 2 skills (imagine magnus vs mayweather).
Saw christmas spectacular at radio city music hall.
EU set 2024-12-28 as the day where all iphones must be sold with USB-C instead of lightning ports. iPhone 15 will be the model that has this. Great win for standardization and logical optimization; great loss for capitalization and greedy inefficiency.
There are only 1000 minutes in an NFL season.
Spent all of today on private work. Lots of progress.
Gotham is getting into live commentary recently. Did Ding/Nihal in the SCC quarterfinal today. He’s a good commentator. I still strongly prefer Agad for recap videos; direct content rather than cheesy clickbait titles/images.
My November verizonwireless bill was ~$110 more expensive than usual because of the octoberfest eurotrip. Got the $10/day mobile plan on many days. Wasn’t 11 though, that’s higher than expected. I was only there for 9 days. I think it double charged me on the days I switched countries. Be aware of this when flying. Maybe I paid for higher speed or more data too, I don’t remember.
90min deep tissue massage.
I was 1vs5 who hit rams last night (raiders -6) after the 14 point 5min 4th quarter comeback, just like bucs on monday.
The Merchant of Death we traded for Griner was less than halfway through a 25yr sentence. Insane that Griner was locked up, and she should absolutely be home. I don’t understand how prisoner swaps are legal though?
Remember the pentagon awarded JEDI (join enterprise defense infrastructure) to microsoft for cloud efforts in 2019, then it was legally challenged. Now, it is split across amazon, google, microsoft, and oracle (aws, gcp, azure, ibmcloud). Totals $9M.
I don’t know why I can never remember this, but antitrust = anti monopolies. Regulation to promote healthy competition.
This is a dumb take: https://ploum.net/2022-12-05-drowning-in-ai-generated-garbage.html
What is every human creation ever if not the individual’s life experiences put into the carbon blender of the mind?
Against, this is the layperson not understanding AI and critiquing it behind a car window.
Resistance to innovation…is one of evolution’s filtering certainties.
Pretty cool extension to put the chatgpt response to a google search alongside the standard results: https://github.com/wong2/chat-gpt-google-extension
Reminder about the misleading headline “tech layoffs continue piling up” – (1) all industries see attrition in a down market (2) it’s the supporting departments at the tech companies that are disproportionately let go. The “tech” qualifier in these statements is not just unnecessary; it’s inaccurate.
Lots of private work.
Updated GeForce (graphics cards) and iCUE (fan lights) drivers on my pc build. Secondary monitor seems to be smoother now.
The people criticizing the ethics of AI art clearly don’t understand how learning models work.
Underneath is more fear than signaling. Happens with workers of every job that automation has taken over.
Plus the unknown/unfamiliarity – how many grandparents trust new technology?
Continued issues with fedora sw and thinkpad hw. Battery problems. Incompatibilities with chromecast. Slow apps. Random shutoffs. Sticking with ubuntu + xps + macbooks for the future.
Unpin header rows in gdoc tables. Makes multi-page tables look unreadable in many cases.
Put pickles in fridge to stop fermentation. That’s 5d. Will try soon.
Aggressive testing schedule for neuralink allegedly led to many animal deaths.
Circle is no longer SPACing this year.
SBF was allegedly taking Selegiline, a parkinson’s medication that gives energy/motivation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fghk6leM_nY
Magnus destroyed Gukesh in the round of 16 for SCC.
SBSC updated banner and redeployed.
Bought a christmas tree, decorated lights. In NYC it’s around/over $25/ft. Balsam from nova scotia, a little cheaper and sheds more. Fraser from north carolina, a little more premium.
Finished the last AWS:reInvent keynote. CTO Werner Vogels.
Emphasis on asynchrony and event driven architectures.
AWS Application Composer. Connect different services, define their interfaces, configure, etc. A visual diagramming tool. Kinda like simulink, but for system design and software architectures.
AWS EventBridge is the event router. Collects from multiple sources, runs the bus, applies rules, and dispatches to multiple destinations. Also registers/enforces schemas.
AWS CodeCatalyst. Software dev tool, basically build projects quickly following blueprints.
Guest speakers: Trustpilot and Epic, unreal engine.
OpenAI for chat: https://chat.openai.com. ChatGPT, GPT = Generative Pretrained Transformer. It’s a language model.
ChatGPT was released by OpenAI last wednesday. They also make DALL-E. Cofounded by Musk (!) in 2015.
Lensa is the app for the digital art avatars of your selfies.
Laion has a very popular (image-text) dataset: https://laion.ai/blog/laion-400-open-dataset/. Laion = Largescale Artificial Intelligence Open Network.
Checked on GeminiEarn. Withdrawals are still paused. It’s hilarious how inconspicuous it is. They don’t show any issue – the withdrawal screen just says pending and a link to the FAQ. No direct info about an industry collapse, insolvency, corrupt partnerships, overcollateralization, bankruptcy, etc.
Finally finished cleaning from friendsgiving. 2 days total.
15% of the 1inch token’s total supply is unlocking this december (~$111M) – https://www.theblock.co/post/192098/1inch-tokens-december-unlock
Fixed the dishwasher, racks and rails needed adjustments.
Roasted and blended new batch of peanut butter, 5lbs. With red skins on for the first time! Not very different in taste (expected way more bitter), and a little extra nutrition.
GitLab Q3 earnings call. Beat EPS, beat rev.
Pyrrhic. Great word. It means you won, but the cost was larger than the benefits of the victory.
Named after Pyrrhus, King of Epirus (northwest region of ancient greece), who defeated the Romans but lost the majority of his troops.
More AWS:reInvent keynotes on-demand.
Swami Sivasubramanian.
ML.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TL2HtX-FmiQ
Analytics. Spark now integrates with both athena and redshift.
Guest: Expedia. Moved to EKS, uses AI/SageMaker to suggest hotels/flights/etc to user.
Deepdived sagemaker, to build/train/deploy ML models. Supports geospatial data now (super helpful for predictive traffic, predictive weather, many more).
Redshift is now multi-AZ, so you can automatically failover in seconds instead of minutes.
Mentioned security as well, GuardDuty (same as other talk). GuardDuty covers RDSs now too.
AWS Glue Data Quality. Measure, monitor, manage data quality in your datalake.
Went over DataZone like the other presentation, data governance.
Zero-ETL another big theme in this one. Redshift now has auto-copy from s3.
They’re offering AWS ML University to community colleges now!
DeepRacer is a very popular ML intro tool (racing simulation): https://aws.amazon.com/deepracer/
Used the phrase “democratize data” 😑
Ruba Borno.
AWS Partners, a ton of experiences shared by folks who use AWS.
Heineken, vodafone, ibm, confluent, nasdaq, more.
OCSF = Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework. AWS is working with palo alto networks, okta, more.
AWS Marketplace. You can sell software solutions to other people, buy AWS solutions from others, whatever. They’re launching some new dashboards for marketplace.
AWS Data Exchange. Provide, use, explore third-party datasets. Integrates with datalake, s3, more.
