Navigating Hubris, Ambition, and Acceptance in the High-Stakes World of Startups The line between visionary thinking and delusion can be razor-thin. We all want to "cross the chasm" - a special place in hell familiar only to those who have successfully scaled startups to post IPO. Attempting crossing
Birds fly by flapping wings. Planes fly with engines. Both achieve flight, but through completely different means. Similarly: Humans think via complex biological processes. AI generates responses based on data patterns. While both produce outputs, the mechanisms are fundamentally different. Who cares? Using "think" for AI is misleading.
Accelerationism is a philosophy that seeks to leverage rapid socio-economic and technological change as a driving force to radically transform society. Effective Accelerationism, in particular, advocates for actively accelerating these trends through strategic interventions to catalyze paradigm shifts beyond the constraints of our current systems. As Canada grapples with challenges
A Guest Post by Joe, The Mailman. The philosophical concepts around accelerationism can seem abstract and detached from the daily realities of most Canadians. As a mailman going about my appointed rounds each day, talks of rapidly advancing technology, "epochal socioeconomic shifts", and upending our institutional frameworks may
All startups begin as a spark, an idea that's usually the brainchild of an inventor, often because of some really annoying problem they require to be solved in this world. I've yet to meet an inventor who wasn't extremely cool and extremely annoying, but
"Hey John, do you read? What do you read?" Printed books are not for me, but audio books I love. Here is a dump of my audible library, I'm guessing I've listened to most of them twice: https://h4x.zip/books Enjoy! <3
I was recently sitting by a hotel bar in Atlanta for work when a young man in his early 20s asked me what it was that I thought he should consider as he grew into an adult. Outside of the astute nature of this question, I was myself drawn to
The technology of a "GPT" (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is really just a storyteller with an infinite imagination. Just as a human writer crafts stories, Any GPT (a GPT is a technology, not a product by OpenAI "ChatGPT" is their product) can generate coherent and engaging text
Latent Diffusion is an advanced technique in the field of AI and machine learning, particularly in the realm of generative models. It combines the principles of latent space representation with the iterative process of diffusion to generate high-quality data, such as images or videos. To better understand Latent Diffusion, let&
When we talk about "models" in the context of AI, we're referring to the core component that powers all the amazing things AI can do, from generating text to creating images and videos. This shit is a little complex, but we'll get there! :P
How Does Stable Diffusion Work for Video Outputs? I talked about the image thing before, but did you know the image thing is also a video thing? lol yuuuupp....! it can also generate very very very good video content. Think of it as an artist who not only paints static
The Technology of Stable Diffusion Stable Diffusion is a new type of AI model that generates high-quality images from text prompts. It can do video too as I've written about here. Just as a human artist creates visuals based on descriptions, Stable Diffusion can produce coherent and engaging