alasdair_

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Early Niantic employee where I worked on the Pokemon GO backend. Then Facebook. Then a Staff Engineer at Stripe.

Currently a Principal engineer at Remitly, a public fintech.

I definitely do not speak for my employer.

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Comment · 1 day ago
Most evonomies in the global south are dysfunctional. Once you are talking about billions of people, you may as well just say “economies”
Comment · 1 day ago
People in countries with crazy inflation can use usdc wallets to avoid the inflation. Plus pay for US goods like a Netflix subscription without losing 30% on the exchange.
Comment · 1 day ago
What os the point of crypto if some entity can freeze it whenever they want?
Comment · 1 day ago
It’s agents all the way down.
Comment · 1 day ago
The agent sounds like the perfect attack target - it has rights to upload arbitrary code everywhere without setting off alarms.
Comment · 5 days ago
Every corporation requires collusion with the state to simply exist, so of course it’s a requirement for a monopoly.
Comment · 15 days ago
It’s not premium enough for collectors. I could see plenty of tech people buying one as a daily driver that they also take to the track though.
Comment · 15 days ago
He took preorders for the roadster nine years ago. It never shipped.
Comment · 16 days ago
This is gaia and the answer is yes they do.
Comment · 20 days ago
Taking pictures inside people’s privately owned homes is very different from a wide shot cctv camera in a company-owned building.
Comment · 1 month ago
From my memory of the 80’s, the introverts dealt with the stress of dealing with so many people for so long by quietly getting drunk enough to talk to people.

With less people, this happens less nowadays.

Comment · 2 months ago
I heard it when I worked at Niantic right when they spun out of Google. Maybe they stole it from you :)
Comment · 2 months ago
Looks very useful - thank you!
Comment · 2 months ago
Yes, basically like alphago. I’m teaching it to play magic: the gathering.

I had to start with some heuristic-based bots that played the decks very simply just to get to the point where the was some signal to learn from. I did behavioral cloning on the bots as a foundation, then self-play.

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