Making internets, one gif at a time. I work on recommendations at @amazon. Before: podcasts at @spotify, @turntablefm, @amazon.
Newport Beach, CA
Joined March 2009
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This episode came out in 2016, before the Transformer paper, before The Bitter Lesson.
🤖 Made with AI
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Word of the day: perspicacity - the quality of having a ready insight, keen mental perception, and the ability to understand things or people quickly and accurately
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Have had to explain to multiple people at work recently what a "brown noser" is a why it's called that. Awkward.
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Our parents to us 30 years ago:
“Stop watching so much TV. It’ll rot your brain.”
Us to our parents now:
“Stop watching so many Reels. It’ll rot your brain.”
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AI companies not having "ChatGPT" as an option in the "How did you hear of us?" drop down is such an obvious miss
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Auto mechanic: how did you hear about us?
Me: honestly, I’m pretty sure it was ChatGPT
Auto mechanic: You know I’ve heard that a bunch lately, going to have to add that as an option to the system
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Throwing an older AI models at an project I haven't updated in years and saying: "make this better/faster/cheaper, go." What could possibly go wrong?
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At least once a year a company decides to move a chunk of their ad budget to podcasts. Targeted podcast ad inventory is pretty small, so they end up being the pre-roll and all mid-rolls for an every episode on relevant podcasts for weeks on end, maddening
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Old suburban dude pro tip: Home Depot sells a (small) furniture dolly for $12. Magic for moving around heavy things.
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