#dshr — Public Fediverse posts

someone should write a mystery novel in which the murder weapon is a paintbrush and then a hose to quickly spray away a very temporary white line.

from #DavidRosenthal #DSHR https://blog.dshr.org/2024/04/elon-musk-threat-or-menace-part-4.html

"So that's all there is to Autopilot. No radar, no lidar, no GPS, no map, no geofencing, no proper driver monitoring. It just uses the camera to follow the lines. It doesn't disengage if it can't see the lines, it just keeps going."

"The fundamental problem is that most layers in the software stack are highly concentrated, starting with the three operating systems. Network effects and economies of scale apply at every layer. Remember "no-one ever gets fired for buying IBM"? At the Ethereum layer, it is "no-one ever gets fired using Geth" because, if there was ever a big problem with Geth, the blame would be so widely shared." #DavidRosenthal #DSHR on how "Decentralized Systems Aren't" https://blog.dshr.org/2024/04/decentralized-systems-arent.html

“The attraction of cryptocurrency investment for VCs is the way List And Dump Schemes provide much faster liquidity than developing a startup to the point of IPO or acquisition” #DavidRosenthal #DSHR https://blog.dshr.org/2023/08/prof-hilary-allen-on-venture-capital.html

#DSHR on getting a locally run LLM up and running. https://blog.dshr.org/2023/06/a-local-large-language-model.html