davidhunter

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by davidhunter 4mo ago
Using your analogy, imagine it's the year 2026. Two armies are fighting. One uses letter to communicate. One uses phones. Which army do you want to fight in? This is an obviously poor policy.
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by davidhunter 5mo ago
I cycle 60 mins per day along the tow path in London on my Brompton, put it under my desk in the office, and then get the train back in the evening. No issues handling that distance.
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by davidhunter 6mo ago
If you don’t understand then you should invest some time learning microeconomics, marketing, and moats. Principles from (at least) those 3 areas are involved here. To give 3 examples: 1. The marginal value of these products is in the mind o
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by davidhunter 6mo ago
There's the Tony Hoare Room [1] in the Robert Hooke Building. We held our Reinforcement Learning reading group there. [1] https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/jennifer.watson/tonyhoare.htm...
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by davidhunter 8mo ago
Seems like the role of the human operator in the age of AI is to be the entity they can throw in jail if the machine fails (e.g. driver, pilot)
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by davidhunter 8mo ago
"No, I am not a horse." Horse rumours denied.
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by davidhunter 10mo ago
Top of the market
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by davidhunter 11mo ago
Optimal | London, UK | ONSITE Simulation and Control Engineer: Up to £150k + 2% depending on experience. Full-stack Software Engineer (Python, React): Up to £150k + 2% depending on experience. Reach out directly to me (founder): david@optim
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by davidhunter 1y ago
I’d suggest reading about competitive moats and where they come from. The ability to replicate another’s software does not destroy their moat.
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by davidhunter 1y ago
Optimal | London, UK | ONSITE Backend Software Engineer (Python): Up to £150k + 2% depending on experience. Optimal builds AI agents to control the world’s critical infrastructure - from factories, to datacenters, to farms. We are backed by
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by davidhunter 1y ago
Anyone else think “vibe coding” is a poor choice of name. Too ambiguous. Friend of mine suggested “apping”. I ‘apped’ this in 2 hours vs I ‘vibe coded’ this in 2 hours.
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by davidhunter 2y ago
Optimal | London, UK | ONSITE AI Simulation and Control Engineer: Up to £150k + 2% depending on experience ( https://wellfound.com/l/2AUs7A ) Backend Software Engineer (Python): Up to £150k + 2% depending on experience (
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by davidhunter 2y ago
Bill Gates also lost money on greenhouses [0][1] [0] https://www.reuters.com/technology/bill-gates-green-tech-fun... [1] https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/03/iron-ox-lays-off-50-amount...
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by davidhunter 2y ago
Optimal | London, UK | ONSITE AI Simulation and Control Engineer: Up to £150k + 2% depending on experience ( https://wellfound.com/l/2AUs7A ) Full-Stack Software Engineer (Python): Up to £150k + 2% depending on experienc
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by davidhunter 2y ago
Optimal | London, UK | ONSITE AI Simulation and Control Engineer: Up to £150k + 2% depending on experience ( https://wellfound.com/l/2AUs7A ) Optimal builds AI agents to control the world’s critical infrastructure - from
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by davidhunter 2y ago
That's a nice idea. Thanks for sharing. I have a single sheet per account (current accounts, share accounts etc). I download csvs and append to the relevant sheet - usually once per month. In each sheet I've added a column called
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by davidhunter 2y ago
Has anyone else gone on the following journey: 1. Use excel 2. See ledger/hledger. Think this must be 'the way'. Go all in. 3. Constantly wrestle with ledger/hledger because you only do your accounting once per month&#x2
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by davidhunter 2y ago
AI-generated content marketing has finally got to the front page of HN
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by davidhunter 2y ago
The answer my friend, is rovin’ in the wind
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by davidhunter 2y ago
Skin in the game for evangelists
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by davidhunter 2y ago
Did anyone else check each item manually one-by-one to ensure that the system was accurate?
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AI powered greenhouse outperforms human growers(hortidaily.com)
3 points by davidhunter 3y ago|0 comments
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by davidhunter 3y ago
Investigative journalism report into Boeing by Al Jazeera in 2014: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/investigations/2014/7/20/t...
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by davidhunter 3y ago
The people who are said it wouldn't work lost credibility as these startups raised rounds at progressively higher valuations. After all, money talks, so clearly the naysayers were missing something...
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by davidhunter 3y ago
After the later rounds closed at insane valuations, the early VC investors in infarm were seen as legends. This created jealously amongst other VC investors who felt they had 'missed out' which resulted in more money being investe
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by davidhunter 3y ago
Would be interested to chat and hear your views on the viability of the greenhouse industry in the US if you're up for it? david [at] optimal.ag
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by davidhunter 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt_(poker)
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by davidhunter 3y ago
Yes. I am like you in that I cannot actually see anything visual in my minds eye but I can still 'visualise' it. For example, I can rotate a die in my minds eye without actually seeing it. It's hard to explain. It was a revel
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AI powered greenhouse outperforms Dutch growers(hortidaily.com)
7 points by davidhunter 3y ago|0 comments
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by davidhunter 3y ago
Yes, predicting the stock market does involve predicting what other market participants (and hedge fund bros) are going to do. But, to predict what other market participants (and hedge fund bros) are going to do, you need to predict any wor

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