bayeslaw

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by bayeslaw 6mo ago
Thanks for the detailed reply, really appreciate it! Re post agi world and coefficients: yupp totally agree. This isn't proper modelling. I just wanted something I can play around with to test my intuitions. Re Jevons: ok let's sa
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by bayeslaw 6mo ago
Hey thanks for reading and for leaving a considered comment. You might be right, we'll see. In my mind, GDP growing isn't really that reassuring: 1/ GDP has been growing steadily while people's happiness and overall sati
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by bayeslaw 6mo ago
Finally a useful comment. Thank you :D
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by bayeslaw 6mo ago
Fair point on the rhetoric: "no regression, no noise, just compounding" overstates it a bit. Individual family wealth does dissipate across generations. The model actually reflects this: η=0.85 inheritance fraction, threshold gati
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by bayeslaw 6mo ago
Cool, I'm a scientist too w a PhD and everything, I just don't make a big deal out of it - unlike you it seems. Granted, distributions don't get multiplied, random variables do. Funnily enough the essay's actual model (l
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by bayeslaw 6mo ago
Hey HN, author here. Thanks a ton for the comments, really appreciate it. It seems like a few of you haven't really read the piece before forming your opinion on it, which is understandable, it's super long. So here's a short
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by bayeslaw 6mo ago
or two centuries, the credential system gave intelligence a route to heritable capital. Artificial intelligence is closing that route. This essay builds the argument from first principles - with probability theory, interactive simulations,
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by bayeslaw 8mo ago
Ok maybe I'm off by an order of magnitude. That's still 3 orders of magnitude of cheaper.
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GenAI turned producing $1M videos into $100 and dead easy(drive.google.com)
1 points by bayeslaw 8mo ago|3 comments
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by bayeslaw 8mo ago
I'm an ML engineer/founder and I'm frankly amazed what has happened to the promo/intro video industry.. A few years ago this video that I just made in about 2 days would have required serious funding and whole group of 3
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by bayeslaw 8mo ago
Asked this here 2 years ago. Answer is: no
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Ask HN: How do you pick side projects?
1 points by bayeslaw 8mo ago|2 comments
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The equation of making money changed forever in 2026(hel1.your-objectstorage.com)
2 points by bayeslaw 8mo ago|5 comments
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by bayeslaw 8mo ago
The equation for making money with software changed forever in 2026. But not the way you think. And not the way everyone says. Everyone's celebrating that AI made building cheap. They're missing what it made expensive. The equatio
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by bayeslaw 9mo ago
Hope you succeed!
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by bayeslaw 9mo ago
Sounds really valuable and relevant! Best of luck!
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by bayeslaw 9mo ago
Cool, what country are you focusing on?
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by bayeslaw 9mo ago
How did you get to this many subscribers? Where and how do you promote? Or is it all organic?
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by bayeslaw 9mo ago
Wow! Vertical Saas for poultry producers is not something I was expecting to see :) awesome, best of luck!
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by bayeslaw 9mo ago
Love how niche this is!
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by bayeslaw 9mo ago
Who's the target audience? How would you market it, or get it in front of ppl? Sounds like a really solid product ..
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by bayeslaw 9mo ago
This is awesome!
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by bayeslaw 9mo ago
Most things worth doing are simple and hard. - Raising good kids: be present, be patient, love them unconditionally, let them be. - Staying married 40 years: communicate daily, accept them instead of trying to change them, do joyful things
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Ask HN: What are you building as a side-project or side-hustle in 2026?
22 points by bayeslaw 9mo ago|40 comments
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BuildSherpa – end to end validation platform for your ideas(buildsherpa.ai)
1 points by bayeslaw 9mo ago|1 comments
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by bayeslaw 9mo ago
We are launching soon and would love some grilling, feedback, or whatever. Context: We failed more times with our ideas than we would dare to admit and we wanted to build a platform that ensures that others don't have to and can find s
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40 Year Heist(40yearheist.com)
5 points by bayeslaw 9mo ago|0 comments
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by bayeslaw 1y ago
We have validated thousands of ideas from this and other bootstrapper / indie hacker communities over the last month. While we cannot share stats on the private ideas (i.e. ideas that our users wanted to keep to themselves), there&#x27
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by bayeslaw 1y ago
We made this business idea validator app and almost every day someone tries to jailbreak the app with some LLM-bending jedi-trick. Or so they think :D
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Show HN: Shouldibuild.it – Validate your startup/product ideas with real data(shouldibuild.it)
3 points by bayeslaw 1y ago|0 comments

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