Amie Pollack
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Amie Pollack
Really I think the issue at the root of this existential drama is less about figuring out who you are and how to dress that way – which you’re not supposed to solve; the idea of fashion and more crucially of style is to grant you access to endless experiments, personae and dreams – and more about changing your relationship to what you have and what... See more
OT 98: IS SHOPPING REALLY IMPORTANT FOR STYLE?!
Another nuance is that most companies and developers do actually not self-host open source LLMs, but use services like together.ai to consume them. Thus, practically speaking, most developers consume open source models in the same fashion as they consume OpenAI or Anthropic models - via third party APIs. Also, most large models like DeepSeek R1 are... See more
Ambition, then and now
benn.substack.com
But at a minimum, we shouldn’t find our ambitions by accident. If we imagine that we’re no longer in our current pond—that we got fired, or are 16 years old and dreaming about what we to do with our life, or 80 years old and reflecting on what we did—what would we care about then? Are the ladders we spent our time climbing the ladders that we really want to stand at the top of?
Is it clear to you when a trend forecast is coming from amateurs versus the professionals?
ES: I mean, no. I think an amateur and a professional have kind of an equal chance at hitting the nail on the head. True flashes of cultural insight happen where you’re lucky enough to just put the right words against the cultural phenomenon at the right momen... See more
ES: I mean, no. I think an amateur and a professional have kind of an equal chance at hitting the nail on the head. True flashes of cultural insight happen where you’re lucky enough to just put the right words against the cultural phenomenon at the right momen... See more
SSENSE: Luxury fashion & independent designers
Oral History of Shang-Yi Chiang
An oral history interview with Shang-Yi Chiang covers his early life in China, education in electrical engineering, career at Texas Instruments and Hewlett-Packard, and pivotal role at TSMC in semiconductor advancements.
archive.computerhistory.org
Editing is easier when you know the patterns_
When it comes to essay writing, the idea of “patterns over process,” is just as relevant.
Tootzi instilled a philosophy of “all that exists is the artifact that’s on the table.” It doesn’t matter if your ideas come from your mind, your heart, your soul, your belly button, the tops of mountains, a bottle ... See more
When it comes to essay writing, the idea of “patterns over process,” is just as relevant.
Tootzi instilled a philosophy of “all that exists is the artifact that’s on the table.” It doesn’t matter if your ideas come from your mind, your heart, your soul, your belly button, the tops of mountains, a bottle ... See more