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Not advice. Not a discouragement. An opinion. Shoot holes at it if you want. To invest or not invest. Timing. What is the most relevant question today? That is where we should start because the framing matters. The breathless coverage, the roadshow, the 21 banks, the ticker symbol SPCX going live on Nasdaq on June…
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You Do Not Need to Invest in the IPO of SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI
Not advice. Not a discouragement. An opinion. Shoot holes at it if you want. To invest or not invest. Timing. What is the most relevant question today? That is where we should start because the framing matters. The breathless coverage, the roadshow, the 21 banks, the ticker symbol SPCX going live on Nasdaq on June…
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Tariffs, Trump, and Other Things That Start With T – They’re Not The Problem, It’s How We Use Them
Let’s be honest: talking about tariffs is about as sexy as discussing different types of dental floss. But here we are, because tariffs have somehow become the economic equivalent of a Taylor Swift album drop – everyone has an opinion, especially if they’ve never actually studied economics. The Problem Isn’t Tariffs, It’s Trump Trump’s approach…
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Apple Intelligence – Innovation Enabling Mediocrity?
This is the first ad I saw about Apple Intelligence… …and it is a shame. It is an unthinkable letdown. Not to mention this one. Apple’s latest advertisement for its Apple Intelligence features represents more than just a marketing misstep—it’s a betrayal of the company’s foundational principles. As I watched their first AI-focused commercial, I…
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A Uniquely American Democracy Is The Winner
Win or lose, American voters can take solace in the fact that democracy won. In an era where democratic institutions face unprecedented challenges worldwide, the American electoral process demonstrated its enduring strength in the US Presidential Elections 2024. Democracy won, not tyranny, or monarchy. The political landscape in the USA reveals fascinating contradictions. There are…
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AI Systems, As Of Now, Never Hallucinate; They Confabulate.
Originally published on August 22, 2023 00:Abstract; … but the word “hallucinate” seems more alluring and easier than “confabulate”, so it wins in the world of shortcuts and short reads in media. Hallucination is sensory in nature. Confabulation is a cognitive and psychological phenomenon wherein humans (and maybe AI) fills up gaps in thought and…
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Global IT Outages!
### pointer arithmetic gone awry…process gone awry…blast radius reduction gone awry…all the processes, sophistication, overhead, mumbo-jumbo, pretensions, expertise, and politics… reduced to a few bit and bytes that crippled so much… ### will the real programmers of yore, please stand up???will the warrior tech and ops leaders of yore, resurrect??? ### as you get closer…
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This AI Was Not Our AI Dream.
So the idea was/is … To generate a ton of good enough and mediocre stuffs and potentially misused scam(-ish) materials at scale(-ish), at disproportionately enormous amount of energy, attention, and intellectual hijack to level the playing field on a lower level playing field … Then … To create of a lot of validation and verification…
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Of Nuggets And Tenders. To Know Or Not To Know, Is Not The Question. How To Become, Is.
Join us at GoSwifties.com It happened truly by accident, that what began as a pure data and analytical indulgence, became something interesting, at least to us here at GoSwifties. We were interested in the art but also the graft of what it takes to succeed in the business of music, films, entertainment, and the like. It…
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A Nescafe Minute. An Ally For Getting Through My Day.
Come over at GoSwifties.com We live in a moment – not even a time worthy of being called an age, eon, or era yet – where the human spirit of creativity and imagination is under threat to the guile of uncertain provenance. There is, sort of, a need to defend the artist’s creation against the overarching…
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Maximise Your Festival Fun. A Complete Guide To Perfect Preparation.
Come over at GoSwifties.com Gear up for an unforgettable festival or concert experience with our essential preparation guide! From securing your tickets to packing the right gear, we cover all the bases so you can enjoy the music and festivities without a hitch. Get ready to dance, sing, and make memories; just follow these tips to…