William Saar
@saarw
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Freelance data engineer | Backend and data engineering for Spotify, Candy Crush, helped build SF-based appsec startup, @javamissionctrl | JVM, Rust, TypeScript
Stockholm + Remote
Joined October 2012
Used Claude 3.5 Sonnet to build an AI app in Rust that generates newspaper-style homepages from activity in Github repos and supports vector search for related commits. It started with the following prompt Link to working example in 🧵
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Thanks Vance for stopping more bad tech regulations. It's scary that the EU Commission clearly haven't learnt anything and are still trying to pile more bureaucracy on the industry
By European Commission standards, this is a vibe shift.
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RT @karrisaarinen: Reworking my previous thoughts a bit: The EU’s investment, deregulation, and new interest in supporting AI are steps in…
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Then today, a new kind of reasoning model drops 😅 Though the recurrent latent space technique seems like it could benefit from being used in combination with CoT model techniques
New open source reasoning model! Huginn-3.5B reasons implicitly in latent space 🧠Unlike O1 and R1, latent reasoning doesn’t need special chain-of-thought training data, and doesn't produce extra CoT tokens at test time. We trained on 800B tokens 👇
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@GergelyOrosz Yet both Zoom and OpenAI have been pretty successful in creating large businesses in markets that those giants should be able to own
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@nejoom @andreasklinger Their lobby is one of the top obstacles to investments in central European companies
12 hours and counting - notary reads every single word of Series A docs in Germany out loud in front of founders. In person. Guys, we have GDP to grow here. Pure prehistoric madness.
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@andreasklinger People underestimated the destructive force of German bureaucracy when they ran through GDPR and wiped out much of EU tech
One single regulation is estimated to have reduced small business tech profits by 15% That regulation is GDPR. This is an almighty pivot by the EU. From regulation first to de regulation. Mario Draghi is the former head of the European Central Bank and Italy Prime Minister. Let's see if this shock therapy works. For the EU to be this direct, in such a major way is massive. The EU might be about to get off it's ass and lift some big rocks.
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@halvarflake @jonaut @euacchq @EU_Commission Is the cost the same to the company? Or would a 1M payout lead to a lower German salary? Seems Switzerland is pretty good with those fees, and not just taxes...
"Why are salaries after tax lower in countries like France/Belgium when the cost of living is comparable to e.g. the UK or Switzerland?" Because of taxes! And cost of employment for companies. Here's how much it would cost for a company to pay everyone €100K/yr after taxes:
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@jordwalke The problem aren't the AI supremacists who want to accelerate. Those usually believe that there will always be new things to do The real problem are the people who use AI as a justification for implementing socialist solutions, whether the AI future actually warrants them or not
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@jaredpalmer ...guess John Carmack would qualify in both categories, but it's probably too generous by at least a magnitude to say there are 5k people of that caliber
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