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Wayne Yamamoto
@kazabyte
CEO/Founder of Charity Blossom -- charityblossom.org. My personal blog is at kazabyte.com
Joined January 2008

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Are there ethical issues in “converting” a nonprofit (501(c)(3)) to a for-profit entity (DE C Corp)? I’m guessing this can be done legally, but still…I’m looking at you OpenAI….
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I needed a simple email client so I asked chatgpt: "smtp email client to retrieve email in python." Here's what I got. %python smtpclient.py runs and does the right thing. Impressive. In the future, a program will write all the programs....
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Decentralization. No single point of failure. Open APIs. For Better or Worse, Parler is the real world test case for the Internet. Peer-to-peer op? Is DNS the choke point?
It's the last lecture in a senior level computer architecture class. It's the last words many students will hear in their academic life. What words of wisdom would you have?
Amazon has the best (real time) distribution network. Maybe the president should ask Bezos if he would do us a favor. To get supplies where they need to be. He’s the best at asking for favors. It would be perfect.
As we continue to fight the easy-to-win trade war with China, the best selling book in China is about Deep Learning. The English version is available in preview.
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TIL: While FB friends lament Common Core because arithmetic isn’t taught as when they grew up, Google (and others) are ditching IEEE floating point 16 for brain float 16.
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A large (disproportionate?) effort is being made to provide more (efficient) compute cycles for ML. Is there really that much demand? Or is it a reflection that we can’t get many more “GP” cycles, so focus on something else?
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As tech boils over from the fires of hubris and criticism (ahem We), it’s a throwback to another era when some people show up for a conference with little fanfare. It’s like Taylor Swift showing up at the local bar or LeBron for a pickup game.
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