Senior Engineering manager at Microsoft. Tech jargon aficionado. Curious in both senses of the word. he/him

Brooklyn, NY
Your company’s IT is a portfolio of technical investments. #technicaldebt is the result of failed predictions of the IT market.
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If you disappear for 6 months and do these things you will be unrecognizable - pick up some kind of accent - wear an eyepatch - practice walking with a limp - mess up your face somehow. I don’t know, squint a lot? When you return, go to a town where they never heard of you
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Because my note taking app has daily backups I can calculate the first time I used every word in my notes going back ten years
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Acronym alert: LAM - Large Action Model - due to Rabbit r1 announcement. Good explanation on what a LAM is is on this salesforce blog of all places blog.salesforceairesearch.co…
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Any guesses on the generic term the industry will ultimately settle on? NeuMo, NNP, AIPU, AISIC, Aiccellerator, MLPU, AIGPU? Full disclosure, I made some of these up.
Reading Jeff Dean's #NIPS2017 slides, it's hard not to believe that specialized chips will replace GPUs for Deep learning, same as Bitcoin learningsys.org/nips17/asset…
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It’s been six years and I’m calling it. The winner is “AI accelerator” and “AI chip”
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I keep reading the quote “if you can’t decide, the answer is no.” That’s always bugged me. If you cannot decide then the options are of roughly equal weight to you. Pick one at random. If that choice disappointed you, switch to the other one
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every unhappy IT infrastructure is unhappy in its own way
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I’m cautiously optimistic about @tana_inc - it has the basic feel of Workflowy and doesn’t have the endless customization of Roam Research
The o in megaflops stands for “operations” but megaflopsps is hard to pronounce
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What if after AuthZ and AuthN we add AuthY - authenticity
BREAKING: Nvidia now makes slide projectors
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The opposite of a buzzword is a fizzword
Is there psychotherapy dedicated to people in IT? Let’s invent that.
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If you’re going to frame infrastructure management in terms of technical debt you gotta also talk in terms of technical investment
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technical and financial debt are generally bad but sometimes getting a low-interest loan to obtain a high-return asset is the way to go
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Don’t ignore technical debt but don’t view it in isolation either
What’s between AT&T and Microsoft? Me.
Been reading up on Danksharding and now I want to put dank in front of everything - dankcasting - dankcryption - dankentication - deep smart serverless dankosystem
I guess I spent my IT infrastructure career beneath Web3’s layer 0 in the sub-basement
The local TV meteorologist just said “today most of us are below normal”