Andy Claremont
@andymci
Professional geek. Amateur dad. Surfing the web.
Andy Claremont
andymci.com
High accomplishment and hard work evoke many reactions, but very few of them are the ones that we want. For all that we want it to be, competence is not warmth. The emotions you get for being competent— faith, gratitude, admiration — are important, but they aren’t enough to fill the void when what you lack in life is warmth, love, and communion.
James Horton • You Can Seek Love Now, Not Later
A Good Life and Community
To spot weird signals, you need to go down rabbit holes. Follow your intuition. And remember, pursuing rabbit holes is not always an act of procrastination. Sometimes, it’s simply your mind telling you to follow your curiosity.
Alexi Gunner • Research as a form of pattern disruption
If we want to do AI, we need to build it on concrete, not quicksand. We are getting the process and data supply in good shape. We’re working on a data inventory and catalog, a data fabric with a new data structure and metadata layer, data pipelines, and ad-hoc self-service insights generation. We believe that generative AI will be a key way to
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Your personal experiences make up maybe 0.00000001% of what’s happened in the world but maybe 80% of how you think the world works.
collabfund.com • Ideas That Changed My Life
The size of the effect is astounding. Cross-class friendships are a better predictor of upward mobility than school quality, job availability, community cohesion or family structure. If these results are true, then we have largely ignored a powerful way to help people realise the American dream.
David Brooks • Why rich friends are so important to success
Community and
Policies and proofs of concept can be useful, but they don’t generate economic value. For generative AI to be truly valuable to companies, they need to customize vendors’ language or image models with their own data, and do the internal work to prepare their data for that integration.
Harvard Business Review • Is Your Company’s Data Ready for Generative AI?
This rant via Shalom Auslander
I was thinking about sex the other day because I was having a really depressing day, and a dead body had been found by the pier, and as I was taking my son to school and waiting at a traffic light, a homeless man in a mad fury began circling my car, shouting and spitting, and it felt like forever before the light
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