Robert Vassov

Robert Vassov

Forester turned developer.

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I have been (and in a lot of ways I still am) a forester/reclamation specialist from Northern Alberta Canada. I have extensive experience and boots on the ground leading Reclamation Operations Lead at various companies in Fort McMurray, Alberta. I co-founded the Oil Sands Vegetation Cooperative (OSVC), a collaborative initiative that enables major oil sands mining companies to share resources and bank seeds for the restoration of disturbed boreal forest ecosystems. Now I have turned my sight towards developing PrivateACB, a cryptocurrency software package designed to provide private calculations on your desktop so you don't have to send your information to the cloud.

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Nvidia's New Chip: Smartphone Moment for PCs?

Nvidia just dropped the RTX Spark at Computex 2026, and CEO Jensen Huang isn't being subtle about the stakes, he's comparing it to the invention of the smartphone.

The chip promises to turn your Windows laptop into an AI "teammate," not just a tool, with major OEMs like Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Microsoft Surface already on board for autumn releases.

2mo ago

Who is more likely to be replaced sooner? White collar vs Blue collar workers

2 significant things are circulating on the internet simultaneously this week:

  • A tweet about how a human beat a machine (a 10-hour livestream in which a human sorted packages and compared it to the productivity of a robot).

  • Or an announcement of a Microsoft AI chief that predicts AI will automate most white-collar work within 18 months.

While I don't think there will be a complete replacement of humans in either case, I do think we will see mass layoffs. My guess is that it will be white-collar jobs first.

3mo ago

How long is it appropriate to work for one employer?

When I started my first job after school at a small local agency, a project manager once said something like: If someone has three companies on their CV and stayed less than a year in each, it doesn t look good.

I took that to heart. I tried to stay longer in every role, so I wouldn t seem unreliable, even in underpaid jobs I didn t enjoy. I endured it just to make my CV look stable. In hindsight, it was a little bit stupid. (Sometimes a waste of time.)

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