Gergely Kovacs
@gerego
Gergely Kovacs
We should prioritize values of being honest, fostering transparency, and welcoming doubt over the values of being right, feeling good, and getting revenge.
Mark Manson • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
Stop doing these ‘best practices’ as a Product Manager: - Backlog grooming
- Writing JIRA tickets
- Leading stand-ups
- Playing scrum master A thread on what to do instead 🧵
threads.comProduct management “do not do” list
A great story about simplicity from Akio Morita, the instigator of the Walkman project at Sony:
Engineers had the technology to add the recording function to the Walkman and it would’ve cost only 50 cents to a dollar per unit. Morita decided against it. He wanted the device to have one function, which it performs very well. Walkman should only play
Less is more is also a powerful story
Yet the strength of Italian cuisine has never rested on an ancient, coherent culinary canon. Most of what passes for ancient “regional tradition” was assembled in the late 20th century, largely for tourism and domestic reassurance. The real history of Italian food is turbulent: a saga of hunger, improvisation, migration, industrialisation and sheer... See more
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Long-term thinking is also hindered by the fact that political terms are only four years long.
The most interesting part for me is where @karpathy describes why LLMs aren't able to learn like humans.
As you would expect, he comes up with a wonderfully evocative phrase to describe RL: “sucking supervision bits through a straw.”
A single end reward gets broadcast across every token in... See more
Dwarkesh Patelx.comKarphaty on LLMs
Google's vibe-coding tool Opal comes to Gemini | TechCrunch
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Google Opal lets you build mini apps. Now it will be available straight from Gemini
Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox
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Probably not what their core users want
Given the powers of emergence, large human giants would be forces to reckon with. But unlike ants, humans are more than just cells in competing giants—they’re competing individuals too. So as tribes grew in size, the benefits of strength and capability would be accompanied by the cost of increasing instability. A human tribe is held together by... See more
waitbutwhy.com • A Story of Stories — Wait But Why
Humanity, stories