ApicalDendrite

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by ApicalDendrite 5y ago
Wasn't part of the issue with Stallman that his behavior, not just his ideas, were problematic. Like telling a college freshman that he'd kill himself if she didn't go out with him: https://daringfireball.net/
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by ApicalDendrite 6y ago
I interviewed there a couple of years ago. I was really excited going into the interview because I'm a big fan of Atul Gawande and I thought there was huge potential for a transformative impact. But when I talked to them it was clear t
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by ApicalDendrite 6y ago
Based on this tweet, I believe she was the interviewer: https://twitter.com/moiragweigel/status/1341423429958979593
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by ApicalDendrite 6y ago
I initially saw the link on her twitter feed: https://twitter.com/moiragweigel/status/1341414901143777280
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by ApicalDendrite 6y ago
I've worked with engineers at Amazon up to the senior principal level. Even if you grant that people in cybersecurity see a broader swath of the company, there's just no way that he can talk authoritatively about everything from A
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by ApicalDendrite 6y ago
To me it feels like someone was kind of bullshitting with their friends and maybe making themselves seem more knowledgeable and important than they really are. It's totally irresponsible to put it in print.
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by ApicalDendrite 6y ago
This person is very clearly mixing things that he knows directly, things that he's read about in books (e.g. Amazon's strategy in the early days), and rumors that he's heard (e.g. Jeff Bezos' personal life). There's
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by ApicalDendrite 6y ago
Ferdinand Demara impersonated a surgeon on a Canadian naval ship during the Korean War. He performed a number of successful surgeries and was only caught because of a newspaper article about how he had successfully removed a bullet from a w
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by ApicalDendrite 6y ago
Were there any concerns about GPT-3's latency? It looks like it takes a long time for online use cases.
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by ApicalDendrite 6y ago
A friend discovered that he had a pocketknife with him just before he was about to go through security. So he went out to the airport smoker's area, dug a little hole in the ground, and buried the pocketknife. When he returned from his
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by ApicalDendrite 6y ago
Nothing I saw indicated that the Echo Show was in any way influenced by Nucleus. I suspect, but don't know directly, that this investment was more about trying to jumpstart an ecosystem of third-party Echo devices rather than hedging b
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by ApicalDendrite 6y ago
I worked on the Echo Show team. The product had been in development for over a year when we invested in Nucleus. I remember thinking it was very strange that Amazon was investing in that company when we were building such a similar product
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by ApicalDendrite 6y ago
Fitbit users are probably more representative than Apple or Garmin users. Apple Watches are a lot more expensive, and Garmin markets more towards athletes.
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The Impact of Coronavirus on Global Activity(blog.fitbit.com)
75 points by ApicalDendrite 6y ago|30 comments
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by ApicalDendrite 7y ago
There are a lot of regional differences within the US. In Massachusetts, it's a lot better than this: * MA has 40 hours of mandatory paid sick leave a year * Assuming that your employer doesn't offer health insurance, if you'