Johann Van Tonder
@jvt
20 years in ecommerce, now CEO of a CRO agency. Probably doing analysis in R or building stuff with AI. Or walking on the beach. Yeah, probably that.
Johann Van Tonder
Meta AI released LLaMA ... and they included a paper which described exactly what it was trained on. It was 5TB of data.
2/3 of it was from Common Crawl. It had content from GitHub, Wikipedia, ArXiv, StackExchange and something called “Books”.
What’s Books? 4.5% of the training data was books. Part of this was Project Gutenberg, which is public
AI skepticism and
I spent so much of my life terrified what I was going to become and whether I was going to be right here, right now. God, how much time did I waste? Afraid I wasn't going to be right here, right now. If I could change the only thing I'd change about my whole life would be fearing less that I wouldn't get right here, the place that I was going
... See moreQuotes and Mental Health
Your company will grow as quickly as your customers determine it will grow.
Sahil Lavingia • The Minimalist Entrepreneur: How Great Founders Do More with Less
"One kind of entrepreneur you say, Whose need am I satisfying today? [...] The other kind, to quote Michael Schraig here, is to say, the purpose of my business is to change people, to change them from something into something else. This is the kind of business that we remember generations later"
“There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.”
• Ken Olsen, Founder of Digital Equipment Corporation (1977)
Quotes and Underestimating the Future
Olsen’s comment was actually about computers controlling homes, but it was interpreted as skepticism about the personal computer, becoming legendary for how wrong it seemed in retrospect
https://martech.zone/failed-predictions/
Best-selling author Jack Canfield once said, “Everything you want is on the other side of fear.” And he’s right. But I’m going to take it one step further. Pain, discomfort, shock, boredom, impostor syndrome, awkwardness, fear, being wrong, failing, ignorance, looking stupid: Your avoidance of these feelings is stopping you from a life greater than
... See moreBenjamin Hardy • Willpower Doesn't Work: Discover the Hidden Keys to Success
Quotes and Motivation
If we strip everything else away, the reason we need an ability to learn is to help us find and obtain food. We need fuel to learn, and we need learning to find a source of fuel…’ (Ratey & Hagerman, 2009).
A lot of very smart people work in strange ways / with a lot of quirks (e.g. contemplating for hours and appearing to do nothing, while then suddenly having 100x output burst). This usually makes them not a great fit for traditional corporate world, where you often have to fake…
Laura Wendelx.comYounger workers benefit more from labor-augmenting tech, like AI.
“In other words, workers who were used to doing things a certain way struggled to adapt when complementary technology arrived, while less-experienced workers could harness the power of these new tools.”
Source: Kellogg Insight