Alasdair Allan
@aallan
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Scientist, author, hacker, maker, and journalist. Writes, speaks, and builds. Accidental privacy advocate. Previously wrote things down at @Raspberry_Pi.
Exeter, UK and ✈️
Joined March 2008
If you couldn't make it to my @NDC_Conferences keynote in Oslo last week, I've gone ahead and posted the video along with a transcript of the talk to @Medium. #AI #MachineLearning #ChatGPT #NDCOslo
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The problem with asking successful people about how to get to where they are now is that how to get where they are has inevitably changed since they did it. You almost certainly can't do what they did, and end up in the same place. That's just not how the world works any more.
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Stumbled across this piece by @wilschroter. Was absolutely fascinated, because he's right. Doesn't matter whether you're working a job, freelancing, or building a startup. Plenty of people will encourage you to start, nobody will tell you when to stop.
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I started flying regularly just a bit too late to take the Heathrow to Gatwick shuttle. Like missing my one opportunity to fly the Concorde, and just not getting around to flying @British_Airways' Baby Bus out of London City to New York, I really rather regret it.
Anyone know that BA used to operate “British Airways Helicopters” and had 6 Chinooks? Those ran to support oil rigs in the North Sea but they also ran an “Airlink” high frequency Heathrow-Gatwick shuttle service, and a Penzance to the Scilly Isles service. #avgeek #avgeeks
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As time goes by I'm starting to think that vertically integrated startups are the way to go. Going broad is hard, go down from your product and you're always going to have one customer, yourself.
Decision to do our own engines was probably the single most important one in Boom history. Company most likely would have died waiting for the big guys to get stuff done. Also being in control of powertrain means we can make it do what we want. Including something pretty cool…
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This is everyone else's retirement plan as well? Right?
I'm retired. I got a phone call at home a few weeks ago from someone reimplementing code I wrote over 20 years ago. There was a comment "now for the tricky bit" followed by about 250 lines of confusing perl. No feature description. No reason. Just my name and a smiley at the end. Sorry.
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So $NVDA is down 11%. What do people think Deepseek-r1 was trained on? It was trained on GPUs, probably grey market unacknowledged NVIDIA GPU. 🙄
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Genuinely think that cloud-based models are a transition stage. If you can't run it locally then it's not actually that useful.
i’ve been running deepseek locally (i have a highest end mac studio) for few days, & it’s absolutely on par with o1 or sonnet. i’ve been using it nonstop for coding and other tasks, & what would’ve cost me a fortune through api’s is now completely free. this feels like a total paradigm shift.
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There is no way this can go wrong. 🤦♂️
I got early access to ChatGPT Operator. It's OpenAI's new AI agent that autonomously takes action across the web on your behalf. The 9 most impressive use cases I’ve tried (videos sped up): 1. Ordering dinner ingredients based on a picture and a recipe
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@peterrhague Having worked in both countries my rule of thumb is that a US salary has to be around ×2 to ×2.5 a UK salary to buy the same standard of living. This is for the west or east coast, no real reference for the midwest, presumably my rule of thumb breaks down there.
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This is an absolutely fascinating thread. I'd really love to know if this is a real deck from Nokia, weighing it, it sort of feels real. Unfortunately only the folks in the room at the time would know for sure!
1/ This internal 2007 Nokia presentation on the first iPhone is a really good example of how incumbents actually get disrupted Oftentimes, the incumbent already knows what needs to be done. It's just that organizational incentives inhibit the incumbent from doing it
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Let's all be careful out there… 😬
⚠️ Developers, please be careful when installing Homebrew. Google is serving sponsored links to a Homebrew site clone that has a cURL command to malware. The URL for this site is one letter different than the official site.
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