benmathes

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by benmathes 8d ago
The appearance of heroic efforts to get authoritative lists of what datasets went into which major model versions prevented actual data laundering (up to intent and mistakes). But don't attribute malice to that which is far far easier
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by benmathes 8d ago
Don't attribute to malice what is better explained by coordination headwinds in extremely large companies. The engineering around tooling wasn't remotely the issue. It's getting all the (thousands?) data researchers mostly it
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by benmathes 8d ago
All of your points are valid, and believe me I was trying to make them. The problem is one of culture. Most of the people doing this kind of work didn't like version control, and their work was really just running notebooks (like iPyth
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by benmathes 8d ago
I worked in the tracing and tracking all the thousands of data sets that got tweaked and permuted and changed hands between thousands of researchers and data engineers at a major lab. The data that goes into training runs is permuted so muc
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by benmathes 6mo ago
that many people likely live in different timezones, or have conflicting meetings, etc. etc.
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by benmathes 7mo ago
One model I've seen is moving the review stage to the designs, not the code itself. I.e. have a `planning/designs/unbuilt/...` folder that contains markdown descriptions of features/changes that would have gotten a
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by benmathes 8mo ago
in 2020 we lived through the extreme left's remedial lesson in public safety. Now we're living through the MAGA right's remedial lesson in trade policy. (Most MAGA right know this, don't care, see tariffs as a hammer. Bu
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by benmathes 11mo ago
XKCD has a good video about this. The top of the water is remarkably safe, and a life vest would keep you up there! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFRUL7vKdU8
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by benmathes 1y ago
I see the value here. The problem isn't just the search; it's the trust. The biggest hurdle for Zenode won't be the tech, but convincing an engineer that your AI's summary of a footnote is accurate enough to risk a $10,0
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by benmathes 1y ago
"personal" doing a lot of work there :-) (And I'd be envious of your impact, of course)
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by benmathes 1y ago
Searched for "innovator's dilemma" in the article, didn't find it. The crux is not whether the extremely rich incumbent (google) will have better infrastructure, but whether that is the field of competition that matter
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by benmathes 1y ago
With golf, there are other dimensions course designers could use to make the pro game less about distance. Tighter fairways, faster greens, etc.
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by benmathes 1y ago
I suspect this may result in more pitches away to these batters so they have to make contact on the narrower end of the bat. I.e. it's a move that may well have a counter move.
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by benmathes 6y ago
descriptively: Apple has enough market clout so that it (implicitly) thinks developers will pay the time cost to overcome the lack of documentation and save apple the time it would take to write the documentation. The lever isn't good&
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by benmathes 6y ago
Well, sure, but then YC in the _present day_ is collecting value based on what YC was in the _past_.
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by benmathes 9y ago
I had a terrible time trying to find react performance _monitoring_. There's plenty of performance _troubleshooting_ once you already know what component is slow, but nothing that monitors. Did I miss something? I see some `measureLife
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by benmathes 9y ago
Uber has different share classes with different voting rights https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/12/technology/uber-chief-tra... --------------------------------- Even if a worker sells only 10 percent of h
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by benmathes 9y ago
Hi Eric, Tiho, Marcus, etc. This is a fantastic start. Yes, angel.co/clear was complicated. I hope you have better luck driving adoption. What you are charting at the top is the company exit value. But the UI controls enter info tied
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by benmathes 10y ago
Is that real return? (i.e. adjusted for inflation) Or even better, is that comparative performance, i.e. 10% better than a vanguard index fund?
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by benmathes 10y ago
Some of the earliest work that Kahneman and Taversky (think behavioral economics or biases) stumbled upon that told them the brain was filtering/processing unconsciously and incorrectly was hearing focus. Different people would be ab
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by benmathes 10y ago
Just have to put away 5k/month to afford a barebones downpayment... in 5 years.
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by benmathes 10y ago
IIRC (8+ years ago), athenahealth was very open with internal data, as part of building an internal culture of honesty and trust. The Exec team walked the walk and showed us very detailed financial info during all-hands.
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by benmathes 10y ago
Fair. I went too terse with the title.
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by benmathes 10y ago
That experience was the instigator. It's why I wanted to make the product.
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by benmathes 10y ago
yeah, hence "at best". There are bigco's where you'll stagnate. There are startups where you'll only learn how to make CRUD apps in rails.
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by benmathes 10y ago
Author here. Yes, that was my stupidity at 24 that cost me over $100k. Woohoo! Ask away. This is early, feedback welcome. Loads of edge cases to explore and catch. For the most part, saves the 30-minutes “this is how equity works” conversat
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by benmathes 10y ago
True, but startup employees shouldn't be effectively penalized for inexperience in arcane startup securities and tax law.
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by benmathes 10y ago
Yes. Nobody who understands the risk-adjusted rewards of startups does it for the money. Best odds of getting rich? Go work at Google and bank your check/bonus. At best, startups are a faster way of getting experience. [1] Employees do
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by benmathes 10y ago
yeah, log is largely just a cute approximation of that stepwise reality.
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by benmathes 10y ago
"china" and "bubble" makes for more clickable headlines?

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