# Twtxt is an open, distributed microblogging platform that # uses human-readable text files, common transport protocols, # and free software. # # Learn more about twtxt at https://github.com/buckket/twtxt # # This is an automated Yarn.social feed running feeds v0.1.0@72e53a9 # Learn more about Yarn.social at https://yarn.social # # nick = cosmix_org # url = https://feeds.twtxt.net/cosmix_org/twtxt.txt # type = rss # source = http://blog.cosmix.org/feed/ # avatar = https://feeds.twtxt.net/cosmix_org/avatar.png#7wnqs6h22wml2xizbqcenq3jb67kp2nbavo2ckxl66mbdvmfmqna # description = # updated_at = 2024-10-26T20:37:24Z # 2020-07-01T16:11:41Z Re-clamping the 52/10 ⌘ https://blog.cosmix.org/2020/07/01/re-clamping-the-52-10/ 2020-03-13T21:05:41Z On Remote Working ⌘ https://blog.cosmix.org/2020/03/13/on-remote-working/ 2018-07-21T18:54:27Z Why despite the EU’s €4.3bn Google Fine, things won’t be fine. ⌘ https://blog.cosmix.org/2018/07/21/why-despite-the-eus-e4-2bn-google-fine-things-wont-be-fine/ 2018-04-28T20:22:19Z Bulldoze the Business School. ⌘ https://blog.cosmix.org/2018/04/28/bulldoze-the-business-school/ 2017-08-14T09:05:57Z The jing-jang of hardware and software support ⌘ https://blog.cosmix.org/2017/08/14/the-jing-jang-of-hardware-and-software-support/ 2016-07-10T09:48:21Z Ζήτημα αξιοπιστίας ⌘ https://blog.cosmix.org/2016/07/10/a-matter-of-reliability/ 2015-11-01T14:11:48Z Disempowering the user. ⌘ https://blog.cosmix.org/2015/11/01/disempowering-the-user/ 2015-08-25T13:23:51Z Τηλεπικοινωνιακή παράνοια. ⌘ https://blog.cosmix.org/2015/08/25/telco-insanity/ 2015-07-04T09:21:15Z Ανόητη Ερώτηση. Συμβολική Απάντηση. ⌘ https://blog.cosmix.org/2015/07/04/silly-question-symbolic-answer/ 2015-05-01T07:08:43Z Η Ώρα του Ηλίου ⌘ https://blog.cosmix.org/2015/05/01/the-time-of-the-sun/ 2020-08-15T20:11:41Z EVs — For the Few. ⌘ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cosmixorg/~3/NGiBleEbyoM/ 2020-08-30T20:34:18Z EVs – For the Few. ⌘ http://staging.cosmix.org/2020/08/30/evs-for-the-few/ 2021-05-20T08:06:59Z Oh that’s bad! ⌘ [Read more...](https://blog.cosmix.org/2021/05/20/oh-thats-bad/) 2021-06-26T20:12:35Z Regression 11 ⌘ [Read more...](https://blog.cosmix.org/2021/06/26/regression-11/) 2022-08-10T09:34:57Z **The ‘West’ is losing. How could it not?**
I’m pretty sure that February 24th, 2022 is going to be written in the history books, if those books ever get written and we’re not all subsumed in an imminent nuclear winter. The predictability of a Europe, and later United States-dominated world, where the ‘West’ ruled and enjoyed unprecedented levels of comfort, material wealth and peace and the rest of the world either suffered or gradually developed, feeding from the leftovers of Western consumption, i ... ⌘ [Read more](https://blog.cosmix.org/2022/08/10/the-west-is-losing-how-could-it-not/) 2023-02-13T08:46:56Z **The impending first era of AI**
There’s an article in WSJ about the imminent ‘AI Boom’ and how a couple of companies, the ones that have already been both enabling and controlling our existence, to a large extent, are bound to become even more powerful. It’s interesting to ‘see’ the interplay if you’ve been working in computing technology for the past decade or so. Christopher Mims, the author of the WSJ article, posits that the computing requirements of large language models, latent text-to-image diffus ... ⌘ [Read more](https://blog.cosmix.org/2023/02/13/the-impending-first-era-of-ai/) 2023-11-19T21:48:00Z **Starlink and Natural Monopolies**
A couple of weeks ago Elon Musk tweeted (or Xed, or whatever it’s called today) that Starlink has broken even and congratulated its team. The company has been offering fast satellite internet access through its own Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation of more than 5000 satellites. As part of SpaceX, it’s the first company of […] ⌘ [Read more](https://blog.cosmix.org/2023/11/19/starlink-and-natural-monopolies/) 2023-11-19T23:41:39Z **The Coding Robot**
Back in 2019, after deciding to leave Beat, I was contemplating starting a new project. It was an ML-based project, informed by my experience at both smaller and larger companies, like Beat: An ML-based Code Reviewer. The idea was that smaller companies, founders aside, seldom have senior engineering talent on board, and the quality of […] ⌘ [Read more](https://blog.cosmix.org/2023/11/19/the-coding-robot/) 2024-01-24T07:55:26Z **The Mac at Forty**
Even in the darkest times (for Apple), in the mid to late 1990s, the importance of the Macintosh could not be understated. Today, exactly 40 years to the day, Apple is constantly contending for the top spot in market cap globally, the Mac is far from Apple’s most profitable product, but it’s arguably, still, one […] ⌘ [Read more](https://blog.cosmix.org/2024/01/24/the-mac-at-forty/) 2024-03-12T22:59:47Z **A short story.**
In mid 2020 I took a break from work. I was burnt out and exhausted, both physically and mentally, and — in the midst of Covid19 — wanted a break before starting on my new role as CTO of a Blockchain network analytics company. During those sweet couple of months of Summer 2020, I was […] ⌘ [Read more](https://blog.cosmix.org/2024/03/12/a-short-story/) 2024-05-06T11:24:11Z **Η ζωή που μας αξίζει.**
Το περασμένο καλοκαίρι η Ελλάδα βίωσε ίσως τον χειρότερο καύσωνα της τελευταίας σαραντακονταετίας. Παράλληλα με τις ανυπόφορες θερμοκρασίες (που ξεπέρασαν τους 43° κελσίου σε πολλά σημεία της χώρας) η Ελλάδα βρέθηκε αντιμέτωπη με σωρεία πυρκαγιών (και το 2024 προβλέπεται χειρότερο, τουλάχιστον κατά 22%.) Η ελληνική κυβέρνηση ισχυρίζεται πως μεγάλο μέρος αυτών οφείλονταν σε ανθρώπινο παράγοντα, […] ⌘ [Read more](https://blog.cosmix.org/2024/05/06/%ce%b7-%ce%b6%cf%89%ce%ae-%cf%80%ce%bf%cf%85-%ce%bc%ce%b1%cf%82-%ce%b1%ce%be%ce%af%ce%b6%ce%b5%ce%b9/) 2024-07-28T12:25:07Z **Beyond the Heat Island**
Growing up in Athens in the 1980s air conditioning was not exactly commonplace. Not in our cars and certainly not at home. We first got air conditioning at my parents’ home in the late 1990s. With very few exceptions during my childhood, we didn’t feel we needed any. Nobody did. Sure, the weather got hot […] ⌘ [Read more](https://blog.cosmix.org/2024/07/28/beyond-the-heat-island/) 2024-10-26T20:35:53Z **Beware the frauds, the bozos, the doomers or the ‘accels’.**
When technology becomes indistinguishable from magic, it’s very easy to get excited, carried away, or even become irrational. Why irrational you might ask? Because when the expectation from any technology or system extends well beyond what is known to be feasible, that is an irrational behaviour. Sadly, as the result of completely unjustified expectations, financing, […] ⌘ [Read more](https://blog.cosmix.org/2024/10/26/beware-the-frauds-the-bozos-the-doomers-or-the-accels/)