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eichion In memo to Google's AI team, Sergey Brin says 60 hours a week is 'sweet spot'

When it comes to Google's success, another founder's experience, knowledge, other business competitiveness contributed most.

eichion 400 reasons to not use Microsoft Azure

Ah, most of b-guys are uncompetitive and make money by just being in already lucrative businesses. That's why there are solutions with Microsoft technologies.

eichion TokenVerse: Multi-Concept Personalization in Token Modulation Space by Google

Any update?

eichion Amazon Will Spend Nearly a Year of AWS Revenue on AI Investments

Oracle. I like bare-bone ARM VM and bare-bone volumes.

eichion Amazon Will Spend Nearly a Year of AWS Revenue on AI Investments

Spoil from incompetents is the good strategy and all too much nerd engineers should follow the strategy.

eichion Amazon Will Spend Nearly a Year of AWS Revenue on AI Investments

It's OK. The revenue is from incompetencies of engineers and enterprises that can not switch into siginificantly cheaper cloud vendors.

eichion Ingesting PDFs and why Gemini 2.0 changes everything

If is is a vendor work, you should probably hire person who are competitive in software engineering space. And do we actually need significant amount of processing as a solution? If this is the case, common markdowned public pdfs should be open-sourced. We shouldn't repeat other's work.

Despite that, cheaper is better.

eichion TokenVerse: Multi-Concept Personalization in Token Modulation Space by Google

Seems good tool for automated PowerPoint generation but I believe the content is much more important.

So why not automate the attachment of images to concentrate on the more important tasks? I hope the code will be available soon!

eichion DeepSeek's AI breakthrough bypasses industry-standard CUDA, uses PTX

I like this kind of geeky poetical comment while I'm not certain whether it is true or not.

eichion Understanding gRPC, OpenAPI and REST and when to use them in API design

And only needed when the product is good and company's size scaled.

eichion gRPC vs. REST: Understand gRPC, OpenAPI and REST and When to Use in API Design

We should use gRPC only after conducting proper domain driven architect. Properly categorizing classes into domain/services/infra is more important.

eichion Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers

History says almost all society was corrputed and previous 50 to 80 years are slight exception. People with power prefer to give power to selected people selected by their personal preference.

eichion Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers

Elison is a only self-made man I prefer

eichion Startup Winter: Hacker News Lost Its Faith

This kind of conversations give me a cofidence, so thanks.

eichion Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers

Probably from the corrupted financial system, but we need to forword the project, haha

eichion Working with The Associated Press to provide fresh results for the Gemini app

One of the CEO was really competitive and has been the few legecy asset which are contributing current Google: other legecy assets are pools of competitive people who hadn't found the best place to show the ability. Current google is just the target of the good profile.

eichion OpenAI is Visa – Buttering up the government to retain a monopoly

?? If I insist to use gemini or something umpopular, people around me need to accept that.

eichion McKinsey and Company to pay $650M for role in opioid crisis

>> consultants are cya and political support for things the management class allready know they want. That seem about right.

That is the most valuable job in virtually every profitable industries including tech.

eichion I made a free Figma library packed with components for fast prototyping

Why not create crappy frontend to validate demand for MVP then hire a designer? Designer is cheap.

eichion AI Product Management

There is common misconception among engineers about agile.

Agile is for reducing bunch of implementation docs. Your heavily crafted implementation docs will be gabage since implementation can be changed easily. However, we still need to define requirements and specs so that we won't create things no one want.

eichion AI Product Management

Actual AI project manager here.

eichion Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era

Gemini needs to improve quality of the software.

eichion OpenAI o1 system card

We might want to kick out guys who only talk about safety or ethics and barely contribute the project.

eichion OpenAI o1 system card

For some tasks, scores are significantly affected by subjects and prompts used in the tests. I don't think these are valid figures while it is good to try to evaluate them. Overall, it it a good report.

eichion Model Context Protocol

I eventually return from every brabra protocol/framework to SQL, txt, standard library, due to inefficiency of introducing meaningless layer. People or me while a go often avoid confronting difficult problems which actually matters. Rather worse, frameworks, buzz technology words are the world of incompetitive people.

eichion AI eats the world

I like your words which have metaphors. Does "Power" here mean Electricity Power, Political Power or Financial Power?

eichion You Exist in the Long Context

Impressive. Thanks.

eichion Against Best Practices

I want engineers to think about the best for the project but I let engineers talk about the best of implementation because it's better than doing irrevant things.

eichion Show HN: Documind – Open-source AI tool to turn documents into structured data

  const systemPrompt = `
    Convert the following PDF page to markdown.
    Return only the markdown with no explanation text. Do not include deliminators like '''markdown.
    You must include all information on the page. Do not exclude headers, footers, or subtext.
  `;

eichion The Internet Gopher from Minnesota

I thought it was about Golang mascot.