Frederik Vig @frederikvig

Worked in the tech industry 15+ years. Developer, investor, traveler, tennis player. Tweets mostly about life and politics. frederikvig.com New York, Los Angeles, Oslo Joined December 2008

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Simon Willison @simonw

2 months ago

Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw.

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Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦 @JessicaBRiedl

7 months ago

“Why aren’t you cheering Trump & DOGE? I thought you wanted spending and deficit cuts!" Because I’ve been doing this for 25 years and can’t be tricked by gimmicky nonsense. Trump’s first term added $8 trillion in enacted spending hikes and tax cuts to the deficit - half of…

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Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul

a year ago

12 thoughts about the Columbia University protests and what is happening on campuses across the country 1. I have to be honest about something: I'm really starting to hate writing about anything related to Israel or Gaza. I feel like I can't write authentically about this latest…

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David Frum @davidfrum

3 years ago

For Americans to understand what happened tonight in Mexico ... Through most of the 20th century, Mexican elections were run by officials answerable to the Mexican president. The president told the officials the result he wanted. They delivered it. 1/x

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Sam Altman @sama

3 years ago

ChatGPT is incredibly limited, but good enough at some things to create a misleading impression of greatness. it's a mistake to be relying on it for anything important right now. it’s a preview of progress; we have lots of work to do on robustness and truthfulness.

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Frederik Vig @frederikvig

3 years ago

Great read - nytimes.com/2022/06/14/mag…

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Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum

4 years ago

8 January 1932 | A Norwegian Jewish boy, Leopold Moses Borøchstein, was born in Kristiansund. He arrived at #Auschwitz in a transport together with his mother Masha and four siblings on 3 March 1943. They were all murdered in a gas chamber after selection.

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Frederik Vig @frederikvig

4 years ago

Same as with self driving cars and general artificial intelligence.

Aaron Levie @levie

4 years ago

Same as with self driving cars and general artificial intelligence.

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Frederik Vig @frederikvig

4 years ago

😂

Aaron Levie @levie

4 years ago

😂

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Shane Parrish @ShaneAParrish

4 years ago

People who understand are drawn toward simple solutions. People who don’t understand prefer complicated solutions.

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Frederik Vig @frederikvig

4 years ago

I sometimes forget how racist many people in Norway are. Reading the comments of this article is just sad. aftenposten.no/meninger/debat….

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Frederik Vig @frederikvig

4 years ago

This is so useful.

Jonathan Carter @LostInTangent

4 years ago

This is so useful.

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Frederik Vig @frederikvig

4 years ago

Yes 🙌🏼

Cori Bush @CoriBush

4 years ago

Yes 🙌🏼

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Jim Sciutto @jimsciutto

4 years ago

As with climate change and Covid itself, politics and disinformation are trumping medicine and science on Covid vaccines. It is alarming to watch in real time. Remember: more than 99% of Covid deaths last month were among the unvaccinated.

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Ryan Grim @ryangrim

4 years ago

From WestExec to the White House, a global consulting firm, and this is just the tip of it. This would be a massive scandal under Trump. theintercept.com/2021/07/06/wes…

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Frederik Vig @frederikvig

4 years ago

“For me, as a democracy scholar, it’s ridiculous to say America is the oldest democracy in the world,” Lindberg said. “The U.S. did not become a democracy until at least after the civil rights movement in the ’60s.” nytimes.com/2021/07/01/opi…

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@[email protected] @Nick_Craver

4 years ago

It seems like a lot of time is spent on building things to scale out that...don't need to scale out. If some time was spent, they'd likely never need more than 1 instance going. HA is a great goal, but that's not the reasoning usually: it's scale out and overly-complex to do so.

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Frederik Vig @frederikvig

4 years ago

I don’t think Google will be the only one: blog.google/inside-google/…

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Jon Syu @jonsyu

4 years ago

I'm seeing a lot of people FOMO quit their jobs to join "crypto", probably out of some over-romanticized view of what goes on in these projects. Let me illuminate you about what actually happens: 👇