a1exyz

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by a1exyz 6d ago
i am doing something about it personally with the citizens climate lobby
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by a1exyz 3mo ago
Well as we get poorer and poorer it will be less worth putting effort into advertising to us. Im guessing AI will instead focus its effort on convincing rich people of various things.
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by a1exyz 10mo ago
There are a few clashing forces. One is the power of startups - what people love is what will prevail. It made macs and iphones grab marketshare back from "corporate" options like windows and palm pilot. Its what keeps tiktok runn
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by a1exyz 2y ago
is clojure boring yet? Im considering using it for a web app.
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by a1exyz 2y ago
I agree and think that this is a huge growing cultural expectation - "you have to live for your children". I don't think it used to be the case. Well OK sure I get that that would be good for kids but you're also gonna l
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by a1exyz 3y ago
Yes. But my understanding is that you have to be exceptional already - probably have a pHD and notoriety in some way so you won't be surprised when you get the offer anyways and already would have a strong opinion on it. Most of us don
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by a1exyz 3y ago
I think I have unique insight on this. I used to prioritize "important" work especially things that improved the world (I didn't have a good metric though), and even more especially, something which was important for me speci
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by a1exyz 7y ago
can you elaborate?
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by a1exyz 7y ago
Where did the assumption that tech solves big problems come in? Consumer problems of course, but societal problems? Somehow people assumed that solving the problem of being bored on the train is a short jump from solving the problem of hous
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by a1exyz 7y ago
Good startups are about making something that people will love. Not something that solves a global crisis. Thinking of the latter instead of the former often results in "playing house" ideas that sound like startup ideas but aren&
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by a1exyz 7y ago
My Dad did the coolest one for my fifth grade class that everyone still remembers. He showed us how binary addition in a calculator/computer works by giving us all 0 or 1 notecards. Then since the class is already arranged in a grid, e
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by a1exyz 9y ago
go outside during lunch mang.
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by a1exyz 9y ago
I think you're right but at least startups incentivize trying really really hard - as opposed to joining some big R&D firm. It challenges people to wrestle again and again with the ideas of value and what we want this world to be.
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by a1exyz 9y ago
Are you sure that human thought isn't basically brute-force bulldozing? Just because we don't feel like it is doesn't mean it is. The time it takes us to learn something, the number of times we have to see/experience it
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by a1exyz 9y ago
"ing"
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by a1exyz 9y ago
This is awesome. I have noticed this type of logic with most content online. If a message is targeted towards a demographic consistently it probably means its not actually a problem and that the reverse message perhaps needs more representa
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by a1exyz 9y ago
Yep, every item would be a node. Similar items like bookmarks would be in 1 cluster while blog posts would be in another. As far as publishing, its mainly for my own personal use, for me to organize my thoughts, bookmarks, aspirations, etc.
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by a1exyz 9y ago
Im still learning/building. I will link you when I have something more substantial to show. For the first iteration, I am making it with d3.js - something like this: https://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/3127661b6f13f9316be
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by a1exyz 9y ago
as opposed to what? An app? A website is accessible from the largest number of places - my phone, any computer, etc. Also, 1 intention of this is to streamline my browser use. So that instead of just opening up a new tab and getting distrac
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by a1exyz 9y ago
Im building a personal notes classifier, a website where I can write down links, bookmarks, ideas, thoughts, blog posts, projects, articles, etc. and it classifies them based on the text. It also knows whether something should be public or
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by a1exyz 9y ago
This thread provides a wide enough sample population of people who have a problem with these services. Additionally, this population is getting bigger. I do hear friends and family concerned about facebook -even in the early days. Does gran
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by a1exyz 9y ago
She wouldn't. But there are many people who don't like Facebook for privacy reasons or other reasons mentioned in this sub-thread. They might opt for such a service. And then it would grow organically if the experience/total
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by a1exyz 9y ago
do you use this?
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by a1exyz 9y ago
I believe that the internet is powerful because it connects us to people rather than content. My dream is for our portal into the internet (currently google or Facebook) to become a search engine for people. I am interested in x. This perso
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by a1exyz 9y ago
thats because its tough! Its tough to come up with good useful things to build. Ideas may not be everything but they are something.
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by a1exyz 9y ago
whats your new company?
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by a1exyz 9y ago
I think this is a great idea. However, I share kkotak's concern
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by a1exyz 9y ago
These innovations are not widely publicized. Perhaps it would be beneficial to all if people could learn about new innovation at Walmart as easily as they can about Amazons. I wonder why the two are different in that department?
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by a1exyz 9y ago
do you have advice on whether it is worth going back to school if your goal is to build novel and useful software/ai tools using deep learning - not necessarily improving the algorithms themselves. Would you expect to still need those
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by a1exyz 9y ago
Interesting. Ive run into this issue before. How do you get around it? I am not a parent, old person, hiker or knitter (a generalization but you know what I mean). Thus how can I solve their problems and solve my own problems at the same ti

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