Gadget Guy DaveMathews.eth
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Founder @NewAer Proximity Platform. Podcast host on What’s Next Wall St. Lifelong Inventor & CTO advisor. Priors: Make, Boxee, Slingbox, CueCat & the )'( 747.
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Joined April 2008
This reminds me of the Samsung vs Apple wars of 2009. What I’ve found is that when teams are forced and cajoled to work together like Zuck is doing, there will be infighting and egos. Work output goes down. Unless he builds #Llama like the manhattan project with different Indy’s.
SCOOP: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is hitting back at Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s recent AI talent poaching spree. "Missionaries will beat mercenaries," Altman wrote in an internal memo to OpenAI researchers. WIRED has obtained it:
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Female attention to complex details is tried and true, Rosie the Riveter helped win the war! Oh, after four years of building our LED total within @BurningMan747 was something like 300,000 #Artnet controlled pixels over 135 feet of #747 fuselage for #burningman from 2016-2019.
By the way Dave (the host) was on the team that brought a 747 to Burning Man. That is the coolest thing ever, no? . He told me about having a team soldering 100,000+ lights into it. Says the women would mess up a lot less often then the men.
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Thanks for the good times in the #superboom in the forest with innovators from @BoomCapital and new and old friends like @Scobleizer @samlevin @barneyp etc!
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RT @Scobleizer: Knowing how the world works is a torment. Went to a camp today of entrepreneurs. Run by @CCgong. Great event. Sat next to….
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I’ve heard of underground storage for data centers. But keeping moldy cardboard boxes with paperwork is nothing we should be doing in 2025.
Federal employee retirements are processed using paper, by hand, in an old limestone mine in Pennsylvania. 700+ mine workers operate 230 feet underground to process ~10,000 applications per month, which are stored in manila envelopes and cardboard boxes. The retirement process
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Wait, is this John Stewart @TheDailyShow on @cspan supporting @elonmusk working with @POTUS and not slamming them? 2025 is the final season of the #Apprentice IRL!.
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Back when I was a kid, we didn’t have rules for spring break, or shootings, or ghost riding, or takeovers or disrespect of the law. #springbreak #worstspringbreakever #miamibeach.
Consider this your reality check. Spring Break and Miami Beach don’t mix. Learn more:
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My old #malibu apartment was a victim of the #PalisadesFire yet the house next to it luckily stayed intact. Private water providers helped keep the Village shopping area safe. Neighbors across the street lost their home as well, sadly.
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RT @EricAbbenante: Blistering ending monologue from Bill Maher as he torches LA Mayor Karen Bass 'Nero who fiddled in Ghana as LA burns':."….
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AI assisting complex problems is the future of work. Word salad poetry and music is not.
over a 36-hour livestream, I built a neutron-producing nuclear fusor in my kitchen using Claude. successfully achieving nuclear fusion, entirely assisted by AI. this was my first hardware project!—full story below
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I had the future cofounder of #Salesforce port his #BBS software from his #Kaypro to my #Osborne sad to read that Ward Christensen, BBS inventor and architect of our online age, dies at age 78
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Christensen kick-started online culture by inspiring thousands of hobbyist communities.
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I always say wait for the Apple iOS X.X.1 update before you upgrade your primary iPhone or iPad that you use daily. That day has come. Your are now free to update your devices. iOS 18 ads a bunch of cool emojis now, it some AI for newer phones and M1 Tablets in the future. Go!
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RT @hi_is_back: As you see.The world is frozen. A solitary ice stands alone.Smooth as crystal, hard as stone.Flawless and untouched by ti….
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RT @McGrewSecurity: If you find these in your child’s room, it’s time to have a serious talk with them about the dangers of hacking https:/….
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Happy 50th birthday to the barcode with its unwavering parallel lines. Without you, the CueCat Wound not have nine lives!
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The scanning of a package of gum in an Ohio grocery store in 1974 marked the beginning of an era.
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