Vin Baker
The Guardian
What holds, and what fails, under pressure, standards and accountability.
Vin Baker embodies The Guardian by converting personal catastrophe into protection for others. Addiction, public shame, and a career implosion could have been his permanent story. Instead he rebuilt trust methodically, staying at Hartford rather than transferring, returning to the Bucks in a role built entirely on earned credibility, and founding the Bouncing Back Foundation to extend that shield outward.
“And I think we'll see that in more and more domains. But I do think they are already at a level where unless you're a true expert or just have an intellect that is beyond mind, it's hard to see the progress. And that's why I do think we need to shift from getting more intelligent to more useful.”
“If I were to deposit like an event path, I think the Blackwell models are going to be amazing. The dramatic reduction in per token cost enabled by the GP300 in the probably more the MI450 than the MI355 will lead to these models being allowed to think for much longer, which means they're going to be able to do new things.”
“By friendly employees who are not stealing from you, you're going to be a $20 billion company, a $30 billion company, like 15 companies have been able to do that. It's really hard. And it's the same thing. Doing all of these things well is really hard. And then reasoning with this flywheel, this is beginning to create barriers to entry.”
“Could result in the success. And I actually think it's shameful that the Intel board fired him when they did it. But Leap Boo is a good executive, and now he's reaping the benefits of Patrick's strategy. And Intel has all these empty fabs. And eventually, given the shortages we have of compute, those fabs are going to be filled.”
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