Nicholas_C

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by Nicholas_C 13d ago
Go to Latin America for a few months and think about what career would make me happy.
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by Nicholas_C 16d ago
This is neat. It might be nostalgia but there was just something magical about using those early iPhones.
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by Nicholas_C 18d ago
Yup. This whole thing was a publicity stunt.
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by Nicholas_C 21d ago
There are so many reasons to do this but a big one is that investors/buyers are laser focused on retention metrics and companies with a lot of PLG customers have worse retention metrics since those customers are smaller and tend to sta
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by Nicholas_C 21d ago
Is Harness Engineering the new Prompt Engineering?
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by Nicholas_C 22d ago
The aesthetics of this sculpture look very similar to the Moai on Rapa Nui (Easter Island).
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by Nicholas_C 28d ago
>It was only in college, when I read Douglas Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach I see this book referenced all the time (HN, tech CEOs, misc. articles, etc), especially from folks who got into AI early. Is it really that amazing? Or is thi
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by Nicholas_C 1mo ago
> Second, as I dive deeper, I need a way to organize the information in a useful way as I begin to branch out in many different directions. This is the issue with using ChatGPT as-is in the web app. I use ChatGPT/Claude/etc in
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by Nicholas_C 2mo ago
Wow it really does. Thanks for sharing.
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by Nicholas_C 2mo ago
I found the Dawn of Everything to be misleading - I did research on a few parts of the books that I found interesting and discovered the authors present many things as fact which weren't true or hand wave away or omit contradicting fac
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by Nicholas_C 2mo ago
I see you have read James C Scott as well.
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by Nicholas_C 2mo ago
I was skeptical about that as well so I googled it and: >Helium cannot support life because it is a chemically inert noble gas. It does not form the complex, stable molecular structures (like carbon chains) required for biology. Unlike o
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by Nicholas_C 2mo ago
I'm confused on why browsers can't automatically handle the cookies pop ups. It's beyond annoying and something that should just be automated since my preferences don't change.
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by Nicholas_C 2mo ago
Do you have a link to this? Sounds very interesting. Another idea I had was simulating an entire town with an LLM representing each person, which sounds somewhat similar.
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by Nicholas_C 2mo ago
I had this idea for an LLM that would play Sim City 24/7 while broadcasting live. It would be fun/interesting to check in now and then. Implementing this would be somewhat challenging.
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by Nicholas_C 2mo ago
This idea of this book fascinates me but I haven’t had a chance to read it. Worth it?
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by Nicholas_C 2mo ago
I wasn’t aware of that but it looks like he is upset that Spain won’t meet its defense spending commitments for NATO. Which goes back to my point about how the EU is totally reliant on the US for security. Europe’s biggest threat is itself,
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by Nicholas_C 2mo ago
China and Russia would love that. It would also be very bad for European security that is mostly guaranteed by U.S. strength and willingness to fight wars.
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by Nicholas_C 2mo ago
We’ve been boiled in water like frogs, or however the saying goes. Even cars these days have subscription pricing for features which is insane to me but the average consumer is accustomed to this garbage. If they tried this 20 years ago it
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by Nicholas_C 3mo ago
>I believe Western countries will be poorer than they are now, and countries in Asia and Africa will become richer as more money will flow into their manufacturing and Agricultural industries. I believe the opposite will happen as the po
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by Nicholas_C 3mo ago
I get a lot of ads from clothing brands I already buy stuff from. It will usually be a sale or a new style.
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by Nicholas_C 3mo ago
I’d agree with you if it doesn’t cost billions to train models.
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by Nicholas_C 3mo ago
I'll admit that instagram ads get me every now and then.
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by Nicholas_C 3mo ago
It's all about the execution. Most of our customer's prefer AI (per their feedback, so there is some selection bias) since they can get quick responses 24/7 rather than wait. That said there are still many cases where you nee
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by Nicholas_C 3mo ago
Their tone is just as fake as typical fake marketing speak - they are trying to come off as nonchalant. I bet this announcement was wordsmithed to hell.
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by Nicholas_C 3mo ago
Is it a better or worse idea than doing putting them in the ocean? https://panthalassa.com/
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by Nicholas_C 4mo ago
Any reading suggestions? That sounds very interesting. I’m reading through the Bible this year and I’m currently working through the NT.
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by Nicholas_C 4mo ago
I think they will all be minor going forward, feels like the major improvements have all been made and we'll only see incremental improvements from here on out. Maybe I'm wrong but we'll see.
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by Nicholas_C 4mo ago
I've lived/traveled all over the Bible belt and I can't remember that ever happening even once. I'm sure it does happen but never seen it.
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by Nicholas_C 4mo ago
I don’t use any mods, I’m a pretty casual player but maybe I should look into some.

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