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I'm not sure why the author takes such umbrage at A16Z promoting its own portfolio companies. It is their blog after all.
by EAtmULFO 2y ago
I'm not sure why the author takes such umbrage at A16Z promoting its own portfolio companies. It is their blog after all.
- anonylizard 2y agoYeah, and the quality of the 'marketing writing' is good and informative. Because A16z can afford high quality writing... These 'emerging stack' articles do promote their own companies, but are nevertheless useful for newcomers into a field, to quickly grasp the process and the players. If you don't like it, compile your own version. I've used some companies recommended in their data architecture and it worked very well.
- refulgentis 2y agoHot take: I think the fact vector DBs are even a hot field with multiple competitors speaks to the bending of the branches due to VC weight, so to speak. These things take ~40 LOC and 3 hours to write yourself, they can process ~20 pages/seconds ms, locally, on devices from 3 years ago that fit in your pocket. Having it hosted is a massive privacy risk. Yet how many vector DBs as companies articles have we seen, and how many ONNX tutorials have we seen?
- dboreham 2y agoAh the "I could write that in a weekend and still go camping" 1000X developer.
- refulgentis 2y agohttps://github.com/Telosnex/fonnx https://github.com/Telosnex/fonnx - note thats on 6, count em, 6 platforms, and I need to write 4 implementations (Swift/Kotlin/C++/JS). I'm not kidding. Maybe 4 hours. It's trivial. 93 lines of code. And its extremely rote. Allocate X input arrays. Call run. Pull out Y output arrays. Free. https://github.com/Telosnex/fonnx/blob/6d3d80be136002ae28ce278ccc3676296928193d/lib/ort_minilm_isolate.dart#L141 https://github.com/Telosnex/fonnx/blob/6d3d80be136002ae28ce2...
- mrcode007 2y agoHe’s not wrong, you know ?
- refulgentis 2y agothank you for writing this. even with showing my work, was still downvoted below 1 on both comments. that flipped considerably after your comment.
- ryanai 2y agoSince A16Z is famous, any bias advertisement can lead to monopolization and do damage to the production competition. Any kind of monopolization needs to get supervised.
- dmix 2y agoMonopolization of what? Information?
- swyx 2y agosounds very close to saying speech should not be free if it influences people in any way.
- ryanai 2y agoNot any way but some way, freedom is not always an excuse. This the reason why we need to have police man and why Zuck need to explain himself in the congress
- airstrike 2y agoI think you mean "unfair advantage" rather than "monopolization", and the existence of former is much harder to argue
- ryanai 2y agoThanks for pointing out that. Yes, but these unfair advantages can accumulate to become monopolization
- nabakin 2y agoI mean, I'm glad I know there's a bias in those blog posts now. Until this post, I didn't know a16z funded companies/projects let alone biased their posts toward them and I've read a few of their LLM blog posts.
- defrost 2y agoBugger all umbrage: I have tremendous respect for a16z, a firm that helped pioneer the practice of working with and nurturing founders rather than forcing them out pre-IPO or minmaxing term sheets. more a call to be more transparent and less submarine: but to do so under the guise of being helpful and impartial is just plain silly.
- ajkjk 2y agoit's the lying