Knowing the work culture, I highly doubt the quality of life in Japan & Korea are better. Singapore is amazing indeed but it's unfair to compare it to governments of much larger nations.
Looks cool! One piece of feedback I have is that I personally wouldn't want to autocomplete prompts as shown in the image you have there. I'd want something that "fixes" my prompts so that they're understood by the model. Like say if I put "Afro-Asian samurai carrying two swords in a cyberpunk environment", for it to say how I could re-word it to generate something closer to what I actually want.
I haven't got access to DALL-E 2, but I did give Midjourney (https://www.midjourney.com/) a go. I found it really cool it created images that somewhat resembled my prompt, but I still felt it was way off what I really wanted. Maybe I didn't word the prompt correctly, maybe I didn't give it enough tries. Either way, I feel like we'll eventually move away from generic prompts to something that'll look a lot like...programming, funnily enough.
Looks impressive to a layman like myself. I'm guessing it addresses the global shortage of single-board computers like Raspberry Pis right? Curious to know how long it'll take to do that as well.
How do you find those smaller accounts though? When you look by topic you tend to get tweets from popular influencers. And I may sound lazy but I don't like the idea of doomscrolling through Twitter just to find the right person.
Sure, here are a few things on my mind now:
- Practical use cases for crypto/blockchain. I don't believe in the speculative financial assets that came out of it, but I am intrigued by the idea of a central bank digital currency for example.
- How to make some side income while having a full-time dev role in London.
- General startup ideas chat with people who aren't too attached to one particular view.
Yes, when I realised it's just like Facebook I decided to stop posting altogether. I never heard of angel.co as a social platform, only know of it for startup jobs. I'll have another look, thanks!
Those were the kind of posts I was writing, and they didn't work. A lot more effective to do a low quality outrage-economy style post. My most successful one by 100x was a generic complaint about tech recruiters.
I agree, it's more for reminding existing connections that you exist.
Sadly not interested in nonprofit volunteering at the moment, too worried just making ends meet. London’s very expensive these days and wages aren't great.
I got a few really good exchanges on Reddit. But I always feel weird reaching out to people directly afterwards, I feel the platform isn't made for that.
I find Twitter conversations are just as shallow unfortunately. I do follow a couple of people there - Benedict Evans and patio11, but comments on their tweets aren't any better.
I really want to believe in this, but from personal experience it hasn't worked out. I used to spend a lot of time posting frequently on LinkedIn, nothing came out of it. Maybe I didn't try hard enough, maybe there's survivor bias in the success stories, who knows.
As a crypto skeptic, CBDC-as-a-service are the only thing that make sense. Say you're a country like Zimbabwe and you want to quickly create a currency that everyone trusts? You buy a third-party CBDC service. Obviously a lot of things also have to happen before this becomes a reality.
Funny, I'm typing from Schiphol having just taken a flight there with KLM, and about to take another one with them. Everything seems fine, no large queues or long waits.