arvidkahl

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by arvidkahl 4mo ago
The weirdest thing about this article, slop, part-slop, or not, is that even the memory of reading Pretchett when I was younger immediately brought me back into a different state of mind. Even the phrases that don't make sense and the
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by arvidkahl 8mo ago
At the same time, the 3D printing community is very much embracing AI as a means to circumvent price-gouging behavior by GW in particular. The popular STL slicer Lychee just recently added a generator tool at https://3dgen.lychee
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by arvidkahl 10mo ago
If "we need to have this done by Nov 12th" is the milestone they were going for, and not a functional flow, then it was a great success.
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by arvidkahl 10mo ago
Same here, been reporting the broken flow to customer support. An interesting part is the "we'll send you an email to confirm you're you", followed by a "enter validation code here" screen that immediately gets
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by arvidkahl 2y ago
Hey, Podscan is still very much B2B, I just had another Enterprise subscriber a few minutes ago :D I am actively moving further away from B2C, and even though I have a few individual users, the true power of the business shines with agencie
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by arvidkahl 3y ago
You might find https://syften.com/ interesting. I use it for monitoring Reddit and all kinds of communities for mentions of my name and the titles of my books.
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by arvidkahl 3y ago
Linked above is a subpage. The actual homepage at https://fennel-lang.org/ has code and even an integrated place to run it.
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by arvidkahl 3y ago
Love the episode and the guests, but let me point out just how good the hosted pages look at Transistor, the podcast hosting used here. I'm not affiliated, though I run my own shows there, too. The UI just vanishes into the background
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by arvidkahl 3y ago
Looking at the A16 chip and the neural engine on it, I am really happy to see machine learning and "AI stuff" moving onto my phone, away from the cloud. I can't wait to see phones becoming a place for _useful_ AI use cases —
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by arvidkahl 3y ago
Ive tried letting AI write my articles. It was horrible. I tried ignoring AI-powered tools (such as grammar checkers, summarizers, rewriters, speech-to-text apps), and the writing process felt sluggish. The middle ground is what works best
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by arvidkahl 3y ago
SEO optimization is actively destroying the archives of blogs out there. Pruning articles to rank better is rewarded. Removing knowledge to "play the game" is a viable path to making money. The saving grace here? The existence of
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by arvidkahl 3y ago
I appreciate this idea. Podcasts have the unique quality of allowing your company culture to subtly permeate the airwaves on which they're consumed. I listen to above/board by Paul Jarvis and Jack Ellis who are building Fathom Ana
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by arvidkahl 3y ago
Making the best of it :D
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by arvidkahl 3y ago
Besides Goodreads falling into complete disarray, it is equally painful to know that Amazon owns the .book TLD ( https://icannwiki.org/.book ) and has yet to make that available to anyone. A lot of Amazon's publishing-re
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by arvidkahl 3y ago
Was Captain Hindsight an option? :D
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by arvidkahl 3y ago
This becomes a question of orders of magnitude. On Twitter/Instagram/whatever, you're exposed to the arbitrary censorship choices of the platform AND the risk of being deplatformed for any reason. Once that happens, you don&#
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by arvidkahl 3y ago
I've been to tech conferences as a junior level engineer and, most recently, as a speaker. I don't think I have walked away from a single conference or convention without a meaningfully impactful new connection, project, partnersh
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by arvidkahl 3y ago
This is purely a positioning thing. Customers will understand "AI company" to mean "a business that uses AI to solve my problem," and nothing more. The insider perspective matters extremely little (, unfortunately.) It&#
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by arvidkahl 3y ago
What you describe sounds more like a habit to me. But even if it were a ritual —something (re-)enacted to imbue meaning to a moment— it's of a different quality than swearing in the head job of an organization that aims to bring humani
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by arvidkahl 3y ago
The expected answers and Caplan's insistence on (highly questionable) minute details are a sight to behold. I wonder what would happen if the prompt for this was expanded to include instructions to respond in the style of Caplan himsel
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by arvidkahl 3y ago
I consider ChatGPT to be a gaslighting engine at scale. Every word it "utters" is meant to sound believable and convincing. It doesn't know truth or fact, just likelihood of a string of text tokens being believable. I've
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How I Stay Consistent(thebootstrappedfounder.com)
2 points by arvidkahl 3y ago|0 comments
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by arvidkahl 3y ago
Besides the fact that this will hit every single company in the US that creates software in a non-trivial way (which is likely even true for many manufacturers), how crushing must this be for people just getting started. You pay $10.000 in
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US tax code Section 174 threatens to bankrupt small software businesses(ssballiance.org)
5 points by arvidkahl 3y ago|2 comments
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by arvidkahl 3y ago
Congressional inaction on Section 174 means huge, unexpected tax bills for companies that can’t bear the loss of R&E deductions. Instead of claiming 100% this year, it needs to be amortized over 5 years or more. Self-funded SaaS busines
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by arvidkahl 4y ago
I snuck SETI clients onto the computers in my school. This is a sad moment — but I rejoice in knowing that it embedded the concept of distributed computing among nerds in our collective memory. Protein folding, weather prediction, and looki
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by arvidkahl 4y ago
There is also an option outside "one exam" and "many exams" — and that's "no exams." Obviously, this is spectacularly hard to fit into the current system, but you see this a lot in vocational schools where
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by arvidkahl 4y ago
"Dieser Eingriffsanlass bleibt angesichts der besonders daten- und methodenoffen formulierten Befugnisse weit hinter der wegen des konkreten Eingriffsgewichts verfassungsrechtlich gebotenen Schwelle einer konkretisierten Gefahr zurück.
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by arvidkahl 4y ago
I for the life of me can't understand removing people who point out such critical issues from your community. Is it greed? Ignorance? Complete unawareness of the Streisand effect?
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by arvidkahl 4y ago
It was already dated when I read it 5 years ago. Motivated me to give myself permission to seek something other than employment. I regularly recommend it with the massive caveat that half of the resources in the book have link rotted away.

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