scottish, software engineer. ruby czar

London, England
Joined May 2023
It’s good to see the power hasn’t gone to his head yet…
Zohran Mamdani: "Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up."
Revolut needs to offer credit cards in the UK if they want people to ditch Monzo and legacy banks. I'd switch from Platinum Amex to their Ultra plan immediately if it was an actual credit card instead of a debit card
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Alexander retweeted
Plans for a 31-storey skyscraper have been approved at 130 Fenchurch Street in London. The ground floor will feature 300 sqm of public space and there will be an external garden terrace on the 20th storey.
We here in Britain truly lead the way in regulation and taxation…
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Alexander retweeted
Keir Starmer will put up your taxes. Bookmark this tweet.
The For You page is clearly full of boosted tweets. Accounts with 10k+ followers get a few hundred views while random paid posts dominate. @nikitabier @elonmusk the pay-to-win dynamic ruins the platform. Fix it
Training LLMs on synthetic data feels premature. Have we actually ingested all real data? AI still fails constantly. And AI generating data for AI to train on is just recursive garbage. A circlejerk that compounds errors instead of fixing them no?
Revolutionary concept… appoint a successful economist as Chancellor instead of career politicians who couldn’t hack the private sector and never studied economics
Cue the £30k earners tweeting 'I'm happy to pay more tax' while completely missing that they're not the target. Other people's money is always easier to spend
£46k makes you a 'high earner' to Labour. If you can move, do it. They're committed to big government and high taxes. This budget is the warm up, not the finale.
"Forecasts are looking in the rear view mirror." Translation: she already knows her budget will tank the economy and is pre-emptively telling you to ignore the warnings. Incredible stuff.
Reeves treats taxpayers like we're responsible for the government's failures. They broke it, but somehow we owe them more money to fix it. The framing is absolutely wild
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If this guy gets anywhere near Mamdani it’ll prove X engagement is total bullshit. Sub 1k likes vs tens of thousands. Turns out the “NYC voice” might just be the rest of the world LARPing as New Yorkers.
NEW YORK CITY, get out there and VOTE! Remember I’m on the second line of the ballot under Fight & Deliver. #VoteforCuomo
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If I pay for a service, I don’t want to see ads. The deal was: free gets you ads, paying gets you no ads.
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Europe being prosperous as ever
NEWS: France votes to tax large Bitcoin and crypto holdings as “unproductive wealth”
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Alexander retweeted
Voice memos are a form of assault.
Buy a new m5 MacBook pro just to put Omarchy on it
The Amazon layoffs were to pay for Sama’s NVIDIA chips.
Very pleased to be working with Amazon to bring a lot more NVIDIA chips online for OpenAI to keep scaling!
Unfortunately, raising taxes and increasing spending won’t fix anything. The services and infrastructure are rotten to the core; they’re all outdated, broken or fraudulent.
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