andrewedstrom

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by andrewedstrom 2y ago
So curious who the anonymous example is
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GitButler Product Demo [video](youtube.com)
2 points by andrewedstrom 3y ago|0 comments
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by andrewedstrom 3y ago
These are not solopreneurs. They’re entrepreneurs.
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by andrewedstrom 3y ago
You may be interested in a recent AI safety paper by Redwood Research. In it, they have GPT-4 generate solutions to coding problems, but instruct it to insert backdoors into the solutions some fraction of the time. Then, they explore differ
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by andrewedstrom 3y ago
Standard Ebooks is fantastic! In fact, I love what they're doing so much that I actually built a little SaaS product on top of their ebook collection. The site is called Modern Serial, and it lets you read books from Standard Ebooks in
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by andrewedstrom 3y ago
Slight correction: Portuguese Man-o-wars are actually considered multicellular organisms. They’re weird organisms composed of multiple distinct animals that cannot survive independently and that originate from the same fertilized egg. But t
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by andrewedstrom 3y ago
Rectangle has worked well for me in the past, but recently, it's been losing a lot of windows. I often have to restart Brave to get Rectangle to be able to control it again.
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Modern Serial: Read a book as a newsletter for only $4 (Black Friday Deal)(modernserial.com)
1 points by andrewedstrom 3y ago|0 comments
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by andrewedstrom 3y ago
Not necessarily, no. Open source models are already being used for all kinds of nefarious purposes. Any safety controls on a model are easily stripped off once its weights are public. Usually I love open source software. Most of my career h
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by andrewedstrom 3y ago
You contradict yourself
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by andrewedstrom 3y ago
I can't help but think of the similarities between Frankenstein's Monster and AI. Both are human-created intelligences that learn to understand us by observing our behavior and writings.
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by andrewedstrom 3y ago
Just linking to the education tab of her profile is misleading. Many people in AI safety are young. She has more professional experience than many leaders in the field. https://www.linkedin.com/in/helen-toner-4162439a&#
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by andrewedstrom 3y ago
Execute Program is one of the best tools for learning a programming language out there. I’ve worked through several of your courses on TypeScript and the Modern JavaScript, SQL, and Regex courses as well. Can’t wait for this one. Thanks for
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by andrewedstrom 3y ago
There are official docs, they just aren’t very good.
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by andrewedstrom 3y ago
You could get the exact same alerting benefit with 1/10 the Bitcoin, or less. There is no tax penalty for moving bitcoin. You should definitely move most of this elsewhere.
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Alexei Navalny's lawyers are arrested(economist.com)
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by andrewedstrom 3y ago
Alternative explanation: ketamine isn’t better than placebo for treating depression when given to someone who’s under anesthesia. You have to be awake. Similarly, I bet that if you gave psilocybin to someone under anesthesia, they wouldn’t
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by andrewedstrom 3y ago
Not pictured: the cost of switching to DynamoDB when this service inevitably gets shut down in two years.
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by andrewedstrom 3y ago
It makes sense the CEO would either step down or be forcibly removed by the board. Unity's mishandling of the Runtime Fee policy announcement has caused permanent damage to their reputation. It was a perfect case study in how to undo d
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by andrewedstrom 3y ago
Fantastic, clear, and thoughtful essay. This should be added to every list of recommended readings on the subject of AI risk.
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My SaaS was featured in the Morning Brew and I had my best day of sales yet(indiehackers.com)
2 points by andrewedstrom 3y ago|0 comments
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Don't get too fixated on any one opportunity(andrewedstrom.substack.com)
1 points by andrewedstrom 3y ago|0 comments
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by andrewedstrom 3y ago
I would never work for this company.
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by andrewedstrom 3y ago
I haven’t had any issues with that. However I don’t send any marketing emails, and since people are paying me to send them these emails I think the chance of getting flagged as spam is particularly low.
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by andrewedstrom 3y ago
Haha well, it's no secret that the books are free. Instapaper users pay to read free articles from the internet in a way that fits into their lives better. Same concept here.
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by andrewedstrom 3y ago
Thanks, glad you like the site! Yes that is correct—all of the books I sell are in the public domain. I use Sendgrid to send emails, which has worked great so far although it took a while to get my account fully set up. Re: customers, so fa
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by andrewedstrom 3y ago
Serial Reader is great! I came across it a year ago while looking for a service that would let me read classics as email newsletters. I used it for a couple of weeks. The app is slick and it has some really cool features (like letting you
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Show HN: I built a website that lets you read classic books as email newsletters(modernserial.com)
39 points by andrewedstrom 3y ago|9 comments
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We finally have a –~room temperature superconductor~~ modern scientific process(spinespresso.substack.com)
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by andrewedstrom 3y ago
Honestly, a pretty reasonable solution to that problem. It's cool that we have the technology to make that work.

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