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Ognjen Regoje
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August 27, 2023

ChatGPT == Google News?

Just like Google News consumes others' content and profits off of it, so does ChatGPT, only worse. (58)

July 31, 2023

Don't thank Chat GPT

Not only is there no need to thank Chat GPT but it takes tokens for it to get rid of your thanks. (49)

February 18, 2023

Users are prudent

Believing the misconception that a customer has decided not to use your product because they're lazy is only hurting you. (245)

February 13, 2023

MIT NO-AI license

MIT license that excludes use as sample data for machine learning (417)

July 21, 2021

What institutional sexism looks like in tech

“Institutional sexism” is an abstract concept for many of us. It’s often difficult to put into words.This post appeared on my LinkedIn feed on 8th of March this year. The poster... (813)

April 20, 2021

Turns out Elastic aren't the bad guys

Elastic changed the licence for ElasticSearch disallowing providing it as a service. A lot of people were upset. My reflex was to join in the outrage but I wanted to better understand the motivation behind this decision. My reflex was to join in the outrage but I wanted to better understand the motivation behind this decision. I also wanted to consider the different arguments against it. I bookmarked the HackerNews threads and came back to them only recently. I tried to strip away the emotion and noise. Following is a summary of the different arguments that helped me form a more nuanced understanding of the situation. (2343)

February 28, 2021

The Star's misguided attempt at being woke

The Star is a popular newspaper in Malaysia.They published a couple of articles about sexual harrassement. In a country where FGM is swept under the rug as being “part of the cu... (163)

2020

June 20, 2020

Zoom doesn't deserve more chances

Update: Feb 2021China-Based Executive at U.S. Telecommunications Company Charged with Disrupting Video Meetings Commemorating Tiananmen Square Massacre I wonder who that could b... (674)

January 23, 2020

The demanding environment for autonomous cars

Cruise announced Origin, their shared autonomous car product/concept. It’s absolutely the type of vehicle I imagine would be part of the daily commute of nearly everyone, eventu... (623)

January 08, 2020

Public Venmo, ewallets and the unbanked

New York is apparently proposing the creation of “public Venmo” in order to help the “unbanked”.This seems so misguided to me. It just attempts to fix a symptom.Since they don’t... (296)

January 01, 2020

Battling inequality with a leaderboard

Once a person earns a specific amount of money they keep earning not because they need it, but because it becomes a scoreboard. It tells them how much better they are than other... (242)