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Does all social media reduce to the empty pursuit of popularity contest likes and follower #s in the end?

Twitter kinda washed tbh

Zaps at Microstrategy World courtesy of #[1]​ cc #[2]

Cool to know I’m not the only one that feels this way about Apocalypse Dreams https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxwzbZXoIFHxxA5-xZzzqic7o5uJ9OBKeD

Hmmm

I seriously had a fellow engineer tell me his job was easy a couple years ago. Seriously discounting the fact that it took him 10+ years to get good at his job. A newbie to his discipline wouldn’t even know where to start.

It’s really common for very smart engineers and people to completely underestimate their work. Chatgpt has all the code available at its fingertips that any noob does. When you tell ChatGPT to do something, just knowing that the thing you’re telling it to do is something worth doing is insanely valuable. The feedback after it gets it wrong the first time is even more valuable. ChatGPT is a new coder on stackexchange, think very carefully about feeding it your 20 yoe battle tested engineering judgement

The most nefarious part about large cloud AI is that once again— you are the product LLM’s are impressive because they are trained on tons of data. The base level of knowledge scraped from millions of humans is there. What’s nefarious is in interacting with an LLM, you are training it how to think and reason like you. Your good ideas are going in and being added to the training. You get some value but you give a lot more

🍁🍁End of maple season 2023 update: Sap collected: ~ 20 gal across 2 trees Syrup made: ~ 56oz Pic shows early vs late season color difference. We had tapped a 3rd tree but got no sap out of it. My neighbor was driving by when I was pulling the taps and hopped out of his car to show me where to tap next time. Neighbors are awesome. Overall, pretty happy with the first run! Season was a little weird this year, hopefully next year is a little more consistent

I know we demonize the ad driven internet, but what does it mean when creators seek out and even prefer sponsor revenue sources even when they’re at the top of v4v?

#onlyzaps V4v vs ad revenue is an interesting thing to think about. I like the v4v idea but I can’t help but notice it can make things as weird for creators as taking on sponsors. In the streaming world, getting a contract, or essentially getting a much larger cut of ad revenue in advance for driving a large part of that revenue for the platform is king. Top streamers also can take on sponsors directly for typically very high value. A contract is typically on the order of $millions and sponsor revenue if done right can be similar. What’s interesting is that most creators on streaming platforms are v4v supported until they make it to the tippy top. Only maybe the top 50-100 get such deals. Top streamers like Ludwig have come out and said that they feel weird taking money from people. At the top of his twitch career pre subathon he was averaging ~20k subscribers a month. Assuming $5 / subscription and a 70% cut (note both of these numbers have changed, sub cost is up and top creator cut is down to 50%) he was grossing $840k on v4v from his viewership alone. Before getting a contract or nice sponsor deals these creators work for years growing their viewership. V4v in streamer form means you can literally watch this 6+ hour a day grind. The fact that Ludwig favors monetizing off his viewers via ad revenue vs direct payment sort of says something. Maybe it’s the fact that each sub is $5+ / month. It seems like at some point he felt guilty for how much viewers would give him especially at his peak, likely thinking of other up and coming creators that would stand to gain much more from each sub.

Chess is wild

Where do the notes go?

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Was 2015-2018 a local peak for music?