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pbiggar
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About pbiggar
Previously founder/CTO of Dark (http://darklang.com), and founder/CEO of CircleCI (https://circleci.com)
https://hachyderm.io/@paulbiggar
https://twitter.com/paulbiggar
https://blog.paulbiggar.com
Contact: paul@techforpalestine.org or paul.biggar@gmail.com
Recent public activity
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Comment #49172614
This has already happened. It appears that Israel has poisoned the Common Crawl. https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-brad-parscale-ai-chatb...
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Comment #49046025
America had a violent revolution. So did practically every other country. Are violent revolutions de facto bad?
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Comment #49037200
We evaluated Bitchat and determined it would be a really useful tool for Gaza - Israel controls all internet access to Palestine and would frequently cut off internet access to Gaz…
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Comment #49036055
Relevant section: Microsoft, Alphabet and Amazon grant Israel virtually government-wide access to their cloud and artificial intelligence technologies, enhancing data processing, d…
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Comment #49036025
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Comment #49035997
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Comment #48926108
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Comment #48844209
Microsoft's human rights stain will take decades to wear off (just like Meta, Google, and Amazon).
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Comment #48542081
I'm sad to see Intercom/Fin's CEO, Eoghan McCabe, did not face repercussions after credible allegations about sexually harassing his employees came out in The Information in 2019 […
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Comment #48479580
Thanks for catching that, should have done a better job vetting that. The rest of my post is still true.
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Comment #48478346
[edit] Removed as my link was to a different Eric Ries.
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Comment #48458123
Facebook is also paying far right israelis, whose content incites violence against Palestinians. > a new report titled “Monetizing Occupation: Meta’s Financial Enablement of Settle…
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Comment #48428064
Every Big Tech company employs hundreds of "former" Israeli spies - Google just brought on another 900 via their acquisition of Wiz (to add to their existing 6000).
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Comment #48396496
Defensive missions? Was the UK under attack?
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Comment #48356627
We work on helping people move to Signal from WhatsApp. It'll be easier once they have a Communities feature, as WhatsApp is very far ahead there. The main advice we got is that al…
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Comment #48292798
Definitely. Not to mention that their major investor, Sequoia, has been war profiteering and Sequoia partner Shaun Maguire has been publicly islamophobic and a huge supporter of th…
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Comment #48291618
> Before eventually admitting to the theft of organs, the Israeli government initially denied the allegations and called them antisemitic. This is basically the MO for anything. Ca…
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Comment #48276749
The best advice I saw on this was to think of the LLM as simply a tool, and if you get bad results, it's because you -- the user of the tool -- are using it wrong. After that, I'm …
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Comment #48178202
They mention Vibecoded compiler, here is one: https://blog.paulbiggar.com/full-optimizing-compiler-with-ai... . I continue to work on it in some limited spare time, but it continue…
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Comment #48172634
To get a flavor of what Ahmed Eldin speaks about, here is one of the last episodes of his podcast before his arrest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9poJrS_VgI
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Comment #48121221
Disagree on his characterization of Claude as being much better than OpenAI (a very low bar), esp from a sovereignty perspective. Here's what Anthropic's CEO had to say (from https…
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Comment #48119985
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Comment #48011677
CircleCI seems to not have the same problem: https://status.circleci.com/
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Comment #47952802
Would not recommend getting attached to an editor that's VC funded by Sequoia.
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Comment #47952760
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