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  "title": "note on Rob Watts",
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        "content_html": "<p>Excited about DeepSeek and the market shake-up it’s causing. If it delivers in real-world scenarios as well as it does in benchmarks, this could be a monumental win for open-source AI.</p>\n<p>The fact that it trained on less expensive hardware is the cherry on top.  It&rsquo;s a reminder of what happens when arbitrary barriers (eg the nvidia export restrictions) are placed in front of smart, driven people: they will smash through them.</p>\n<p>Open source and open international trade drive innovation, improve the world, and make everyone better off. Only hope those protectionists in the Trump administration can see this.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-01-27T14:32:46+00:00",
        "url": "https://robwatts.org/2025/01/27/excited-about-deepseek-and-the.html",
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        "id": "http://robwatts.micro.blog/2025/01/11/oh-hello-orion-browser-from.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>Oh, hello <a href=\"https://kagi.com/orion/\">Orion browser</a> from Kagi. This looks like the alternative to Arc I&rsquo;ve been searching for.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-01-11T11:22:45+00:00",
        "url": "https://robwatts.org/2025/01/11/oh-hello-orion-browser-from.html",
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        "id": "http://robwatts.micro.blog/2024/07/09/highly-recommend-reading.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>Highly recommend reading <a href=\"https://mbuffett.com/posts/programming-advice-younger-self/\">Programming Advice I&rsquo;d Give To Myself 15 Years Ago by Marcus Buffet</a></p>\n<p>Tasty morsels in here, including&hellip;</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fixing things that are transparently accepted pays off / &ldquo;fix the gun that shoots you in the foot&rdquo;</li>\n<li>Contextualising the trade-off between quality and pace</li>\n<li>Deeply knowing your tooling will always pays off / &ldquo;sharpening the axe&rdquo;</li>\n<li>Difference between real complexity and incidental complexity</li>\n<li>Understanding bugs one layer deeper</li>\n<li>Learn more from shipping imperfect code early than waiting for it to be perfect</li>\n</ul>\n<p>via the <a href=\"https://changelog.com/subscribe/news\">changelog newsletter</a> (also recommend!)</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2024-07-09T10:28:21+00:00",
        "url": "https://robwatts.org/2024/07/09/highly-recommend-reading.html",
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        "id": "http://robwatts.micro.blog/2024/04/22/innovation-is-not.html",
        "title": "Innovation is not linear, example #n",
        "content_html": "<p>Absolutely loved this 2020 article about Acorn, once a British computer company in the 80s and 90s you maybe haven&rsquo;t heard of, and how it went on to influence chip designs in the devices we use everyday.</p>\n<p>Tickles the bones of any British developer of a certain vintage (such as myself).</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://arstechnica.com/features/2020/12/how-an-obscure-british-pc-maker-invented-arm-and-changed-the-world/\">How an obscure British PC maker invented ARM and changed the world</a></p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It&rsquo;s nice to just take a moment and reflect: because the British felt they were being left behind by the computer revolution, they decided to make TV shows about computers. To do that, they needed a computer, so an underdog British company came up with a good one. And when that little company needed to build a faster CPU, because Intel couldn&rsquo;t be bothered to answer their calls, they made their own. This in-house CPU just so happened to not use much power or make much heat, which got the attention of Apple, who used it to power what most people consider to be its biggest failure. From there, of course, the company went on to take over the world.</p>\n</blockquote>\n",
        "date_published": "2024-04-22T13:12:48+00:00",
        "url": "https://robwatts.org/2024/04/22/innovation-is-not.html",
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        "content_html": "<p>This excellent post is a reminder of the merits of “boring tech” in most companies of the world who aren’t Big Tech or AI startups\n<a href=\"https://antonz.org/stupid\">antonz.org/stupid</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2024-03-25T20:49:18+00:00",
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