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pixelmonkey

6,105 karma · joined October 5, 2007

Founder of PX Systems, which ships a daily developer tool to go from code to cloud cluster in seconds. More info @ https://px.app

Formerly the founding CTO of Parse.ly. Coding in: Python, JavaScript, Zig. Pleased to be a Pythonista and UNIX lover.

Parse.ly was acquired by Automattic (creators of WordPress.com) in February 2021; more here: https://www.techmeme.com/210208/p12#a210208p12

My essays & technical blog: https://amontalenti.com

My AngelList profile: https://angel.co/p/amontalenti

My occasional tweets: https://twitter.com/amontalenti

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AI and the Ship of Theseus

lucumr.pocoo.org·184 pts·pixelmonkey·
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Javier Milei speech at Davos (translated, dubbed, lipsynced via AI model heygen)

twitter.com·3 pts·pixelmonkey·
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Elon email to staff: affirm “hardcore” culture, or quit with 3 months severance

twitter.com·23 pts·pixelmonkey·
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What Happened In 2020

avc.com·69 pts·pixelmonkey·
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Clasp: Google's open source CLI for Apps Script projects

github.com·2 pts·pixelmonkey·
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Bill Gates: The Next Epidemic – Lessons from Ebola (2015)

nejm.org·3 pts·pixelmonkey·
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The Kids in the Conference Room (1999)

newyorker.com·1 pts·pixelmonkey·
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Silicon Valley's Youth Problem: profile of Meraki and tech's two cultures (2014)

nytimes.com·4 pts·pixelmonkey·
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Live Transcription Service from Android

android.com·1 pts·pixelmonkey·
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AWS-Data-Wrangler: Python Package to Move Data on Pandas, S3, Redshift and Spark

github.com·3 pts·pixelmonkey·
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Doodling at work could help you be more productive

fastcompany.com·2 pts·pixelmonkey·
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Rabb.it, a “video watch party” service, shuts down; IP acquired by Kast

kast.gg·2 pts·pixelmonkey·
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Uber: Bits vs. Atoms (2016)

youtube.com·1 pts·pixelmonkey·
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Netflix: 10,000s of VMs for 1,000,000s of customers, with 10s of ops engineers

twitter.com·1 pts·pixelmonkey·
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A Poem about Silicon Valley, Assembled from Quora Questions about Silicon Valley

splinternews.com·2 pts·pixelmonkey·
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Some Fun Numbers About the Human Brain

blog.piekniewski.info·3 pts·pixelmonkey·
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An update on Python's governance

snarky.ca·4 pts·pixelmonkey·
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Machine learning for news: the NLP engine behind Parse.ly Currents

blog.parse.ly·2 pts·pixelmonkey·
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A Democrat is running for president on a platform of Universal Basic Income

mobile.nytimes.com·37 pts·pixelmonkey·
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Learning from physician suicides: “Assembly-line medicine kills doctors.”

washingtonpost.com·2 pts·pixelmonkey·
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Data that shows Facebook newsfeed changes have been happening for months

axios.com·3 pts·pixelmonkey·
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“Intel Core 2 bugs will assuredly be exploitable from userland code” (2007)

marc.info·325 pts·pixelmonkey·
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Rands: "The Guard"

randsinrepose.com·1 pts·pixelmonkey·
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Don't Overinvest in Engineering

burakkanber.com·2 pts·pixelmonkey·
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Startup Podcast: The Domain King (Season 6, Episode 1)

gimletmedia.com·2 pts·pixelmonkey·
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Why We Said “No” to a $40M Round

blog.parse.ly·192 pts·pixelmonkey·
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Dataviz: How much do doctors really make, after opportunity cost?

statnews.com·3 pts·pixelmonkey·
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Probability and betting theory applied to follow-on financing

reactionwheel.net·2 pts·pixelmonkey·
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The Great Reckoning in Digital Attention

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Restoring Hope and Humanity to Health Care (follow Up to “Dark Side of Doctoring”)

ericlevi.com·1 pts·pixelmonkey·
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