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by bodecker 3y ago
came across a related article recently that explored the economics and physics of airships [1]. seems like a monumental undertaking to actually bring to market but the principles seem sound [1] https://www.elidourado.com/p&#
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by bodecker 3y ago
Agreed, "real pain" is a subjective/vague term and even crypto is a broad term. My intended use here is to describe solutions that are more grounded/integrated into reality vs. more grounded in a fantasy of how the world
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by bodecker 3y ago
Agreed, but IMO it's their job to do stuff like this (and prob unrealistic to expect a world where it doesn't exist). I'd rather see a higher percentage of marketing for things that have more real value vs. less
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by bodecker 3y ago
Of course - there will always be investors/influencers pushing narratives to hype their bets. IMO everyone is better off when the hype is grounded in solving real pain points, which the AI projects I've seen seem to be closer to t
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by bodecker 3y ago
Congrats to the folks involved. Even knowing this is partly motivated by branding/marketing, it's great to see a16z getting more aligned with solving real pain points (vs crypto and churning out shallow media in recent years). Hop
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by bodecker 3y ago
> You will not use the Llama Materials or any output or results of the Llama Materials to improve any other large language model (excluding Llama 2 or derivative works thereof). [0] Interesting [0] https://ai.meta.com/res
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by bodecker 3y ago
I assume comments like these, "GPT-4: 8 x 220B experts trained with different data/task distributions and 16-iter inference." https://twitter.com/soumithchintala/status/16712671501017210... https:&
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by bodecker 3y ago
With regards to The Scientific Method (and other ideas mentioned), I found some of David Deutsch's work thought-provoking. Namely, the idea that deductive reasoning is more effective than inductive when seeking new hypotheses. The Begi
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by bodecker 3y ago
Related thread "OpenAI's plans according to Sam Altman removed at OpenAI's request": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36177895
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by bodecker 3y ago
As a recent addition, I've been impressed with Kevin P. Murphy's Probabilistic Machine Learning: An Introduction (2022)[1] and Advanced Topics (2023)[2]. [1] https://probml.github.io/pml-book/book1.html [2]
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by bodecker 3y ago
Thanks for the response. I do recall hitting some product limitations (a webhooks "beta" that we tried to use but hit a blocker). Reflecting more, I don't recall the supporting details specifically enough though. Edited origi
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by bodecker 3y ago
Also reminds me of this Martin Fowler post [0]: "The situation becomes interesting when the vast majority of your data sits in a single logical database. In this case you have two primary issues to consider. One is the choice of progra
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by bodecker 3y ago
(Significantly edited after discussion) I also had a tough time working w/ an app someone else built on Supabase. We kept bumping up against what felt like "I know feature X exists in postgres, but it's 'coming soon&#x27
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by bodecker 3y ago
nifty. neat linked astrophotography blog: http://wondroussky.blogspot.com/
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by bodecker 3y ago
obligatory Steve Mann reference: http://wearcam.org/myviews4.html "WearCam has been an experiment in connectivity, starting early 1994, running on and off until September 15, 1996 (shut down when I went to ICIP 96 in L
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by bodecker 4y ago
Open communication is great when there are incidents, but even better is having no incidents. (of course there are nuances depending on specific context)
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by bodecker 4y ago
> It’s simply not economically viable to continue adding functionality to a product that does not generate any revenue. I'd gently push back on this. If the primary purpose of the open source component of an open core project is to
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Hacksara: Hackathons at Samsara(medium.com)
1 points by bodecker 8y ago|0 comments
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Facebook’s GraphQL gets its own open-source foundation(techcrunch.com)
379 points by bodecker 8y ago|89 comments
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Samsara CEO Reveals What It Takes to Win(glassdoor.com)
5 points by bodecker 8y ago|0 comments
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Enterprise IoT Leader Samsara Raises $50M to Invest in Growth(samsara.com)
15 points by bodecker 8y ago|0 comments
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Tesla Model 3 will only have a center screen(jalopnik.com)
2 points by bodecker 9y ago|0 comments
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by bodecker 10y ago
> Ship daily This is great advice, but when it's not possible to ship daily, I find that even just committing once a day is a good micro-goal to keep projects moving. The GitHub streaks feature can help motivate you too.
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WageWorks Adds UberPOOL as a Commute Option(forms.wageworks.com)
1 points by bodecker 10y ago|0 comments
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by bodecker 10y ago
This is fascinating! Any idea how it is implemented? Guessing it's using some open source search engine like Elasticsearch to build the indices/compute relevance in a centralized manner. Would it be possible to leverage the distri
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New Spotify Web Player UI(play.spotify.com)
1 points by bodecker 10y ago|1 comments
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by bodecker 10y ago
Fei Fei Li has some great quotes near the end (starting around 31:10): "I find it very hard to convince women and underrepresented minorities to work in AI." “We are not sending the right messages to attract people of all walks of
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A16z AI podcast touches on cultural challenge in tech(a16z.com)
1 points by bodecker 10y ago|1 comments
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Script to List All Elasticsearch REST APIs(gist.github.com)
2 points by bodecker 10y ago|0 comments
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by bodecker 11y ago
Sorry, I didn't see that when I posted! Didn't mean to spam. (HN usually detects these at post time too, but I guess this didn't work for some reason.)

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