Totally A Thing
de Sarah Smith
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AI mania. It happened before. In 1895.
AI mania. It happened before. In 1895.
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Apps, startups, tech and people. Stories & explainers that go to the heart of tech & culture from someone who’s been inside the tech sausage machine.
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- AI mania. It happened before. In 1895. · 20 minAbout 130 years ago, a scientist made a discovery that he could expose photographic paper to emissions from a glass tube and it went straight through human flesh and formed an…
- Emergent behaviour? Or stolen IP? · 15 minThe Attention is All You Need paper started the LLM gold rush, but it initially came from Google scientists who only expected it to do language translation. As more data was used…
- Pissed about Ads in OpenAI? Wait'll you hear what they want from our Government · 11 minChris Lehane is making our Governments Work for creepy AI companies This screenshot from a recent Karen Hao / A More Perfect Union video shows unintentionally what is going on…
- You're not Brainstorming with AI. Generative AI is not your Buddy. It's a SaaS product. · 12 minAnthropomorphising generative AI is wrong: we know that. But making the ChatGPT product successful includes hooking folks on its sycophantic charms and confident - but often…
- AI companies are like Uber - big spend but the profit will come... Oh really? · 3 minWhy do investors think AI companies are like Uber or AWS (big spend for years, big profits in the end) when the truth is they’re more like WeWork, FTX and Theranos? If you are…
- OpenAI to do Ads? Do they have any idea what they're doing? · 3 minI worked on Google’s ads serving infrastructure as a software engineer at their Mountain View, California HQ from 2007-2009. The system was complex, and included two AI clusters…
- Golf courses, humans and AI data centres? · 2 minData centres for AI use huge amounts of electricity and cooling water. But there’s folks that want to muddy the waters about these facts, and so they are using AI to generate…
- Australia's AI Roadmap is a Gift to Extractive AI Corporations: We should be mad as hell. · 15 minHey all, I’ve looked better and felt better! But after getting out of hospital I just wanted to show that I am on the mend, and will be back writing in the coming days. Hospital…
- Having Way too much Fun with Unreal · 1 minWorking through a series by Lesser Dog Tutorials on how to make a LucasArts style point and click adventure in Blueprints, I have instead of using Blueprints I have been…
- AI and the Great Pirate Book Ripoff · 14 minI have been struggling to write this article, and figure out what to do with this cartoon / diagram I made about the alleged use of stolen books by AI companies for weeks now…
- Worse is Better · 21 minEngineers love to deal in absolutes. We are trained for it, when we study mathematics, electronics and disciplines like finite element analysis or software development at…
- How Git works for your App Business · 28 min · Sezonul 1 Episodul 14Why? In my previous talks on how to build an app I’ve discussed source control briefly. Github, owned by Microsoft, is probably the most popular cloud service for source control…
- I want Web Pages, Not AI Guesses · 3 min · Sezonul 1 Episodul 13Google’s AI Preview is driving me insane! I just want web pages! Instead when I type a search, what happens? It thinks for a moment or two, then produces this bargain basement…
- Ep 6: How to Harness the Power of Apps · 11 min · Sezonul 1 Episodul 12This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit totallyathing.substack.com There’s some really great apps in the App Store and Google play store! When I was…
- The Flaming Limousine · 11 minWelcome to the second post in my series on team dynamics. Last time I talked about communication and how it’s the best bang for your buck when it comes to solving issues that…
- Ep 5: How Does my App Work as a Business · 35 min · Sezonul 1 Episodul 11This is the fifth post in my series how to build an app. We’ve already covered how to get your team together, shape up a product and build an app. But when that app and our team…
- Team Dynamics: Start with Communication · 8 min · Sezonul 1 Episodul 10Imagine the throughput of your team is defined by this triangle - in this model the sides remain in constant proportion. Once you have hired someone competence is fixed. Lets…
- Ep 4: Making Money from my App · 37 min · Sezonul 1 Episodul 9In this episode the rubber hits the road and our app is being put to the test. Will it succeed or fail? To get to this point an appreneur — either an app-based startup, or an…
- Ep 3, Pt 2: How to Build an App / Dev Side · 24 min · Sezonul 1 Episodul 8This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit totallyathing.substack.com In part 1 I looked at the Product Owner and UX Designer. I’m going to jump straight in…
- App Dev is not a Straight Line · 24 min · Sezonul 1 Episodul 7This is a tie-in for my series on How to Build an App. Please checkout the other posts in that series, but especially the one on App Startup Canvas. Use the App Startup canvas to…
