Rodolfo Rosini ✨☕️
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Building near-zero energy chips @VaireHQ. Reversible computing, semiconductors, AI, and the future of computing.
London 🇬🇧, often SF 🇺🇸
Joined October 2008
WTF. This is the most impressive thing I have ever seen in computer vision. Absolutely incredible. I knew it was going to happen, nevertheless seeing it here is something else. The video is synthetic from a few pictures 🤯. But there is more re where this can go 1/.
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Me: Siri, set a reminder about cooking in 14 minutes.Siri: I got you fam, 40 years for looking it is
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Anyway speaking of dirigiste failure, here's another banger. Going from calling reusable rockets a dream to not having a space industry in 10 years. Good job guys!.
SpaceX primarily seems to be selling a dream. $50M launch is a dream. Reusability is a dream. How do you respond to a dream? You let people wake up on their own. They (SpaceX) are not supermen. What they can do, we can do. - Ariane space exec, 2013.
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@jasonjoyride And more importantly they were forced to give it all away as part of a settlement with the US government. Imagine Google being forced to give away all the DeepMind tech to keep ads on search.
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Guy Goma arrived at the BBC for an interview to get an accounting job. Somehow there was a misunderstanding at the lobby when he told them he was there for an interview, and he ended up being interviewed on live TV about Apple 🤣 and the absolute lad did it without a flinch.
15 years ago today, the greatest moment in rolling news TV history. #GuyGoma .
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It didn’t really sink in until now how big the issue of GPU shortage is. I thought it was like “+20% in prices and the top selling out quickly”. When in reality is more like “not a single retailer has a single card in stock. not even an old one. not one.” 😱.
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@ciphergoth @pursuitofprog I’m pretty sure we will find that they know, just someone somewhere is paid by the hour so they have no incentive to do it faster.
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If you know anyone at Telltale that is interested in starting their own studio, please send them to me, I might be able to provide seed funding to start and help raise more. /cc @emilybuckshot.
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Assassin’s Creed is an historically accurate game made by a team of expe.
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@todd_j_cooper @freezydorito already several reports in Italy of people calling the cops on their neighbors to have them stop singing.
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Games Workshop is the most culturally important UK public company. I will never stop beating this drum.
Number Crunching:. Glowing profiles of Microsoft CEO after his company grows 1,200% in a decade: 1. Glowing profiles of Games Workshop CEO after his (or her, dunno) company grows 1,800% in the same period: 0. One rule for three-trillion-dollar megacorps and another for the rest.
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Dwarf Fortress is the canary in the coal mine for the future of games: "Dwarf Fortress dwarves to be given memories, dev shows no remorse"
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Ursula, you don't get it. The solution is not to help these businesses to use AI. Is to create enough competitive pressure so that 13.5% wipes out the other 86.5%. This is what the EU fails to grasp.
"Only 13.5% of EU businesses are using AI. This must change. This year we will launch a broad AI Strategy for our continent, including an ‘Apply AI' initiative to drive industrial adoption of Artificial Intelligence in key sectors.". — President @vonderleyen on the EU
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My belief is that if VR didn’t take off during 2020, when people were forced to stay home, means that it can’t take off with this generation of hardware and unless there is some fundamental tech innovation it’s a dead end.
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I want time travel only so can go back in 1981 and tell my other self that this is actually 2020 (and there is a global pandemic but the problem is sea levels rising, really).
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Two type of AI companies:. founded by Google engineers: here’s this neural network that uses 20 petabytes of training data for 3 weeks on a cluster of 1,200 TPUs. We then actually use mechanical turk. founded by game AI engineers: here’s this non-ML architecture that solves it.
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TIL: "There’s a Japanese phrase that goes 「初心に戻る」Shoshin ni modoru, which means to go back and remember the feeling of being a beginner.".
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@classiclib3ral @teroterotero If only these was an historical precedent of someone attacking the opposition, like a Parliament or something, and then accusing the left-wing party of doing it themselves.
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Two years ago the EU told my company and to Arm that we don't understand anything about AI chips and that they were not going to fund PhD scolarships for chip designers in new architectures
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@mattprescott @cstross Also worth pointing out that this EU directive was drafted in (drum roll) January 2016! And in fact some parts of it were already passed into UK law by 2018. Just not the most important bits. Everything one needs to understand the reasoning for leaving the EU is in that directive.
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@moniza_hossain I was desperate for animal fiction at that age. and still found Animal Farm. lacking. It was more interested in making political points than really exploring its animal characters.
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If you do an Al/ML startup tackling climate change let me know and I will fund it. RTs appreciated.
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This is FUCKING AMAZING. Having the ability to grow a third set of teeth would be fantastic. The future is awesome. 🤩.
World's 1st 'tooth regrowth' medicine moves toward clinical trials in Japan - The Mainichi
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Once again a reminder that if your job is to be in a position of trust, you should not lie. But above all if one ends up lying, whether on purpose or accidentally, one should not then write it down like, ever.
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@ID_AA_Carmack There was an Internet Society task force that worked on a protocol for interplanetary Internet back in the day. IIRC was headed by Vint Cerf.
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Wow. The difference in the press conference between the UK and Italy or the US is humongous. Experts, explaining the reasoning, the epidemiological modeling. This is a country that has been preparing for a pandemic. Really proud of the civil service.
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The US is starting to slowly move into a world where they are not the major market for tech consumption. Huge implications, and unclear if it’s permanent (3x the population is no joke).
IKEA x ASUS ROG collab announced in China yesterday. It is a new line of furniture for gamers & esports players. More than 30 products were developed together, including chairs, desks, tables, accessories etc. Not sure when it's launching worldwide.
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@bcmerchant also such a bizarre choice to send his infant son Kal-Elon Musk aboard that spaceship.
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We can also reconstruct the past. Already the oldest recorded video was reconstructed just from a few surviving frames, now the entire scene could be navigated 3/.
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My son is delivering virtual pizzas in Roblox to generate currency and it’s a level of abstraction that not even Stephenson came up with.
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I have been shortlisted for the "40 Under 40 Innovators Award" 2019. Requirements to win is to pay $1,000 and “must exemplify the impact of innovation”. What is not required is to actually be under 40.
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The DeepMind budget is now higher than MI5, MI6, and GCHQ combined.
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The future of entertainment is going to be incredible 5/fin.
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Large platforms have more than a decade of user generated video and photo archives. And some (Snap) already privately experimented on it. But this tech means we can start reproducing synthetic replicas of large scale events, like concerts 2/.
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But there is no reason to stop at stuff that exists in the real world. By tuning the network we could feed it a movie or even fantasy art to reconstruct imaginary places - and then feed this into a segmentation pipeline and covert it to low poly 3d 4/.
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PS: the more likely application of this that we will first encounter is going to be able to move and rotate the camera on your old photos on Apple 🍏 Photos 🤩.
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💯 .Games Workshop is Britain’s Disney. A strategically important company that can define the lore of Britain through the ages. And definitely bigger than the fucking fishing industry.
Development & production of this sort of British IP should be state-funded, instead of gentle, unwatched boomer comedies set in neglected British regions, preachy kitchen sink parables, 7th wave Brit gangster dramas etc etc.
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The UK games industry is one of the leading markets in the world. Over 2,000 companies employ 14k people. And virtually all of this is due to the fact that the BBC made its own computer. It was cheap so 80% of the school adopted it. What kids do w/ it? They learned to make games.
So many startup founder stories now start with “I played video games and then wanted to make my own” that zero screen time parenting seems questionable.
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I never really made announcement but 3 years ago I co-founded @VaireHQ, a startup working on a near-zero energy chip. We are quickly approaching the end of Moore's law and the bottleneck is the horrendously inefficient process of turning energy into information 1/.
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Steve Jobs made Breakout and worked at Atari, Kapor worked on the first Zork, and Gates shipped solitaire which until mobile games were out it was the most widely played computer game in the world, as well as Microsoft Flight Simulator.
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The more I delve into the ASML components supply chain, the more I am convinced that replicating it is less "copy a product" and more "speedrun from the Renaissance into the Atomic Age" level of technological difficulty.
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@DawnHFoster new Netflix series: everyone in Great Britain pretends to leave the EU because nobody wants to break little Mark’s heart.
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This is the stuff that will kill entire categories of B2B Saas startups and take down VC funds with it. Simply put a lot of enterprise customers will stop buying external software as category.
JP Morgan presents FlowMind. Automatic Workflow Generation with LLMs. The rapidly evolving field of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) has made significant strides in automating repetitive processes, yet its effectiveness diminishes in scenarios requiring spontaneous or
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The entire EU R&D budget (that includes basic science and socieconomic research) is going to be $15bn/year from next year (was $13bn for the last 7 years).
Amazon’s R&D spending each year:. 2019: $35.9 billion .2018: $28.8 billion.2017: $22.6 billion.2016: $16.1 billion.2015: $12.5 billion.2014: $9.3 billion.2013: $6.6 billion.2012: $4.6 billion.2011: $2.9 billion.2010: $1.7 billion.2009: $1.2 billion
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@paulbz @hkanji @soundboy @HarryStebbings @taavet - no restrictions in hiring and firing.- ban all non-competes.- 250 limit for EMI needs to go.- build more housing, man.- have Palantir or Faculty run immigration tech stack.- higher marginal tax rate needs to go down, the most productive people need to be incentivized to work.
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In 2005 the license to develop on Symbian was $20k and app signing took up to 6 months
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It is incredible that Twitch is streaming Parliament. If you are old, and remember when launch, already this feels UNBELIEVABLE. But there’s more, the UX is so much better than the BBC’s. Polls, social, better UI controls.
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The new Meta Quest Pro is good, probably the best headset I have ever used, and have been using VR headgear for 30 years (yes, 👴🏻) 1/.
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@jimwaterson as a journalist how do you feel about sending political correspondents instead of healthcare correspondents?.
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@DawnHFoster They should obviously both go hungry because raising taxes for the wealthy is apparently impossible?
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70 million players. And nobody would call Apex Legends truly a breakout success. But it’s interesting because their user acquisition strategy mostly was:.- absolutely nothing before launch, not even mentioned. No press, no previews, no screenshots.- paid twitch streamers.
Some highlights from EA's financial results-. Apex Legends has now surpassed 70 million players, and this is before it has released on mobile. Shows the power of F2P. 69% of EA's total sales in the quarter were digital (Games, DLC, MTX, Subs). 78% over the last 12 months.
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@mhdksafa @theomitsa they did not resign from the force. Just from the ERT. Meaning they are still fully employed and nothing has changed.
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So,. I have started a new company. Still stealth but I am hiring. Right now looking for:.- full stack engineers.- NLU devs.- crypto/security.
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well, almost. The panic in his face at the beginning when he realized they mistook him for someone else is hilarious.
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So I will say just one thing. I have been involved in helping politicians understand AI for almost a decade, and I can tell you that "there are so few people that are being called upon to advise on AI policy" is clearly not coming from someone who showed up to do the work.
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Palantir refuses to work with China in the same way I refuse to date Naomi Campbell.
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The genius responsible for this article went on to become chief of staff for Brexit, just in case you were wondering.
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@nedwards @mr_james_c - hunting, but for pleasure.- overpopulation dystopia: more than 500 people in one settlement.- technology forcing to plough a field for food.
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@jurieongames @Pramas I mean that the grey area is enormous, and I suspect it’s that way so they can refuse entry if they don’t want to. Also they have quotas to meet their targets. The system is inhumane.
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Every European country that cares about entrepreneurship should.- allow convertible notes between investors and startups.- have a preferential tax treatment of options.- fasttrack visas for tech employees.- invest as LP. But they don’t because Europe’s priorities are elsewhere 😕.
Every European country that cares about supporting global entrepreneurship should be investing in efforts like this. Some other great examples?.@LaFrenchTechEN 🇫🇷 paves the way w/ a great diaspora network.@DKTechAmb 🇩🇰's Tech Ambassador.@siliconvikings Nordic tech diaspora.
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@gh_geek @NorahWoodsey sell this to a museum as “kids art during the lockdown”. I am dead serious. Do not throw it away. Do not clean it.
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@DawnHFoster I am looking forward to their front page article about “pension deficit solved, more money for the NHS, and more housing available*. *also, 2m elderly dead”.
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@Pramas @jurieongames part of the problem with ESTA is that you are allowed in for “Business” but not “Work” like WTF does that even mean??.
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A bit of personal news. I have joined @conceptionxtech as tech coach. In this role I am helping young people to start their entrepreneurial journey with a deep tech focus. Thanks @Riam_Kanso, @BetterCity, and the team for this opportunity. 1/.
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My thesis was always that people did not care about the AR mechanics of Niantic games and instead were into the walking/pet training/pvp part of it, plus the Pokemon IP
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Been reading about the spiders, of which Portias are the most intelligent of the bunch . They can:.- use trial-and-error to discover strategies.- remember winning strategies.- have entity persistence.- short term memory of 1 hr.- exact pathfinding even when nearby paths are wrong.
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