aliston

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by aliston 7mo ago
I'm having trouble just keeping track of all these different types of models. Is "Gemini 3 Deep Think" even technically a model? From what I've gathered, it is built on top of Gemini 3 Pro, and appears to be adding speci
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by aliston 1y ago
Wait, are you saying the Obama O’s story - that the 500 boxes sold out, saving AirBnb - is not totally true?
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by aliston 2y ago
You can find a medical professional to basically claim anything these days. I could go into specifics, but there's a whole industry of ethically questionable doctors that can help you take advantage of well-intentioned accommodation p
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by aliston 3y ago
There's also a huge difference between someone who is working as an ML researcher versus someone working on AI infra or AI-based feature development.
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by aliston 3y ago
Wow, I hadn't thought about it through that lens exactly, but you are 100% right. Virtually everyone in large organizations (engineers, PMs, designers) are incentivized to launch things that align with their end-of-year performance go
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by aliston 3y ago
What's so bad about the Spotify app? For the most part, it looks like a bunch of lists (not so much spreadsheets) to me... As someone that is only tangentially in the design space, why do you think collaborative design works so poorly
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by aliston 3y ago
While Faraday discovered induction, wasn't it Maxwell that unified electricity and magnetism? Given what answer.ai is attempting to do, Edison seems like a great example since he was both a brilliant inventor and an absolutely shrewd
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by aliston 3y ago
I don't know if it was led by Sam, and don't dispute that it may have been "hacky," but there is no denying it was a visionary project. Yes, other companies had similar models. I know Google, in particular, already had
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by aliston 3y ago
This is actually a semi-plausible angle. Given Sam's personality, I could see a scenario where there was disagreement about whether something in particular would be announced at demo day. He may have told some people he would keep in
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by aliston 3y ago
ChatGPT blew the doors open on the AI arms race. Without Sam leading the charge, we wouldn't have an AI boom. We wouldn't have Google scrambling to launch catch up features. We wouldn't have startups raising 100s of millio
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by aliston 3y ago
If it was really just about seeing eye to eye, why would the press release say anything about Sam being "consistently candid in his communications?" That seems pretty unnecessary if it were fundamentally a philosophical disagreem
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by aliston 3y ago
I've been out of the web-dev game for a while, and have been pretty blown away by how much has changed. Suddenly, it seems like everything is a 1-page application, SSR, and doing a lot more on the client than I was used to back when j
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by aliston 3y ago
Ironically, I was just using ChatGPT to answer another seemingly simple question: What is an example of an item that would show up in EBIT but not operating income? > In standard financial reporting and accounting terminology, "Oper
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by aliston 3y ago
Is it true that the safeguards are considered part of the model? I had assumed that the "safeguards" that limit certain types of responses in ChatGPT were separate from the actual language model.
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by aliston 3y ago
It will be really interesting to see if Google, Facebook etc. become more closed as a result. There was already a lot made of the fact that OpenAI hired away a group of engineers from DeepMind to get GPT out the door. With these LLMs and
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by aliston 4y ago
That's odd - I am seeing a pretty clear difference on iPhone 13, iOS 16.1.
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by aliston 4y ago
Not to mention, he literally tweeted a week ago that "We don't invest client assets (even in Treasuries)." FTX is not bank. It's not supposed to be susceptible to a bank run. This entire line of tweets makes no sense.
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by aliston 4y ago
Speech codes, redefinition of words, 2nd Amendment infringements, byzantine and contradictory government approval processes, centrally-planned price floors and caps... The CA legislature literally just passed a bill last week criminalizing
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by aliston 4y ago
I'm also in my 30s and enjoy the challenge of chess, but have never been able to get beyond the basics. Sure, I can learn one particular gambit by approaching it like an algorithm, but I've never felt like I was able to grasp the
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by aliston 4y ago
If you look deeper, though, the biggest difference is actually in "other income" which itself was primarily driven by gain/loss in securities. In other words, the entire difference in net income this quarter is really a resu
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by aliston 4y ago
Did you bother to read the letter? This is directly addressed: "This may seem like a counterintuitive claim to some, given the widespread understanding that performance on the SAT/ACT is correlated with socioeconomic status. Rese
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by aliston 5y ago
Somewhat related to this case is the way in which the Santa Clara County Sheriff was using concealed carry permits as a way of soliciting campaign contributions from Silicon Valley executives.[1] [1] https://www.latimes.com/c
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In the Salary Race, Engineers Sprint, but English Majors Endure(nytimes.com)
1 points by aliston 5y ago|0 comments
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by aliston 6y ago
There is something special about software engineering because it is fundamentally about automation. As a result, an individual software engineer can create the sort of impact that traditionally would require a team. I'm trying to make
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by aliston 6y ago
Companies like to claim this, but it's not the reality due to an imbalance in power between managers and IC engineers. A manager controls a reports salary, career progression, has more face time with VPs and so on. Software engineeri
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by aliston 6y ago
I think you're getting downvoted because your post includes a great deal of profanity and comes across as an angry rant. I say this as someone who is generally politically conservative: like all things in life, you've got to pick
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by aliston 6y ago
Look at the costs: Revenue was up ~30%, but costs an expenses up ~50%, primarily SG&A and product development... basically they hired a lot of people it looks like.
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by aliston 6y ago
The seesaw in revenue over the last 3 quarters is insane: 841M, 334M, 1.3B in Q1, Q2, Q3. They even posted a profit last quarter. I've gotta say, the S1 looks appealing considering how few profitable silicon valley companies there ar
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by aliston 6y ago
That graph is only as good as the "contribution profit" metric, which is basically a thing made up by DoorDash to make the financials look better. It is not "profitable" in any standard metric. Look at how many things a
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by aliston 6y ago
The point is not that founders don't take on more risk than employees. It's that that software engineers fresh out of college are not good at evaluating risk adjusted returns. If they were, they'd realize that the current m

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