Alan Kay UCLA
Kaparthy on training as baby sitting
Nice read on the rarely-discussed-in-the-open difficulties of training LLMs. Mature companies have dedicated teams maintaining the clusters. At scale, clusters leave the realm of engineering and become a lot more biological, hence e.g. teams dedicated to "hardware health".
— Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) March 6, 2024
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Lessons from the British Library Cyberattack
The Library has not made any payment to the criminal actors responsible for the attack, nor engaged with them in any way. Ransomware gangs contemplating future attacks such as this on publiclyfunded institutions should be aware that the UK’s national policy, articulated by NCSC, is unambiguously clear that no such payments should be made.
Design Engineering
Design Engineering is not simply a re-brand of product design. Whether we like it or not, tech has a tendency to consolidate roles. Interaction Designers, UX Designers, UI Designers, and Visual Designers became Product Designers. Graphic Designers, Illustrators, Communications Designers, and Marketing Designers became Brand Designers...
My philosophy on org design is optimize for the desired results, not the existing org chart. I’ve been at places where Design Engineers reported to me (Design) and others where they report to Engineering. For the sake of Design Engineers, its important to have a clear reporting line. Creative Technologists (made popular at Airbnb and Uber) in the 2010s have never recovered from the trauma of having unclear expectations conflicting priorities of multiple orgs.
I'm giving a talk in a week or two with a section on the ability for AI to assist in doing tasks across both design and engineering. This enables some consolidation but will be difficult to apply to the existing org charts of Design and Engineering being different. What happens if you did consolidate Design/Engineering (UI?) into one part of the org chart and systems/infra into another?
Bluesky
World Server Throwing Championship
