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by emmett 7mo ago
Softmax | softmax.com | San Francisco (onsite) | Full-time THE MOST IMPORTANT UNSOLVED PROBLEM IN AI IS THE MOST POWERFUL OF ALL CAPABILITIES: ALIGNMENT. Hi, I'm Emmett. You may know me as the founder of Twitch (YC S05), and as the (ex
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by emmett 3y ago
Active Inference is kinda "a joint learning of the state representation with the search algorithm"...or at least, related to the idea. I like framing it as a joint learning problem.
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by emmett 3y ago
Everything old is new again (FoxPro says hi https://www.altap.cz/images/salamander/features/database-vie... )
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by emmett 3y ago
I can’t quite reconcile this article with what I’ve seen before like this below…the methodology in the OP seems pretty questionable, so I trust this other article more. https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/fortune-500-firms-1
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by emmett 3y ago
Safeway seems to be run pretty well, after being taken private by PE in the 80s. Warren Buffet runs Berkshire Hathaway which is acts as a PE firm. Here's a list of everything they own and have owned for decades: https://finm
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by emmett 4y ago
Practicing gratitude for what you have is of course wise, and there are techniques that are helpful...gratitude journals, meditation, etc can be helpful. However when I read your post it sounds to me like perhaps the issue is not a failure
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by emmett 5y ago
That's not what the SAFE says. It's only on subsequent securities, not prior ones. "If the Company issues any Subsequent Convertible Securities with terms more favorable than those of this Safe (including, without limitation,
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by emmett 5y ago
It may “seem” like that to you, but YC publishes actual stats… https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-summer-2021-batch-stats/ * 50% are based outside the US * 70% are not B2B/Enterprise * 43% of the batch is white (less
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by emmett 5y ago
Do you even know what the Thiel Fellowships are? Whatever you think of his politics, he literally gives away money to promising young people to help them realize their dreams...in exchange for no equity. Are you really saying that, because
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by emmett 5y ago
Come on...before you post complaints about how someone else is literally giving away millions of dollars to the wrong promising young people, maybe actually read the list of projects? "Zeno Power is developing small-scale nuclear power
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by emmett 5y ago
This is silly. An investment is an expenditure of resources today, which pays off down the line. Dinner at a restaurant? Not an investment (unless you believe in investing in memories, which I believe stretches the metaphor slightly). An Xb
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by emmett 5y ago
For any given atomic “skill” you can learn in the body of knowledge: Watch one, do one, teach one.
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by emmett 5y ago
I enable it on purpose. I like having more relevant ads, why would I want them to show me crappy untargeted ads instead?
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by emmett 5y ago
It's obvious that there is some upper limit of companies per batch, past which it will be impossible for YC to source quality companies and advisors for batches. But why should we believe we've hit the point where the quality of a
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by emmett 6y ago
That's not perfectly parallel as a belief. The parallel statement would be "If you believe that flat-Earth advocates don't actually care about whether the Earth is flat or not, they just want to prevent space exploration to k
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by emmett 6y ago
That quote is NOT Scott saying that pro-life advocates are right about abortion or wrong about abortion. That quote is Scott saying that once you start to believe that "the enemy" is a cackling evil villain, who is lying about the
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by emmett 8y ago
Paul doesn’t seem to have gotten in any trouble for saying it. What makes you think that someone else would? The problem only comes up when you start trying to label other people’s beliefs as dogma. This is about examining your own beliefs
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by emmett 8y ago
I’m not enough of an astrophysicist to do this math myself, but what would this kind of burst look like from Earth? Observable w a telescope? W the naked eye? Enter a bomb shelter and save yourself?
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by emmett 8y ago
If you could really start the company for $10k, I'd recommend self-funding out of savings. Save up $25k working (to give yourself a cushion) and give it a shot. If you have the skills to start a technology business, you definitely have
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by emmett 8y ago
You don't think a city supervisor should be able to support a family of 4 without being classified as low income?
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by emmett 8y ago
This blogger, 8 years ago, wrote an excellent blog post detailing his method for improving his English: http://askakorean.blogspot.com/2010/01/koreans-english-acqui... Warning: it’s not an easy solution, just an e
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by emmett 8y ago
What do you call "the thing that produces results that surprise you because it wasn't what your model predicted"? I think of that thing as "reality"...not sure how you can coherently talk about a model without talki
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by emmett 9y ago
Sorry, but do you think Google (prior to turning on AdWords) was a ponzi scheme?
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by emmett 9y ago
Correlation is not causation! This article says, very high IQ is anti-correlated with perception of effectiveness. That might be because having a high IQ causes people to perceive you as less effective. It also might be because having reall
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by emmett 9y ago
The Facebook newsfeed.
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by emmett 9y ago
"I am upset because someone working at a company wrote a blog post to share their design work on a new bottle." What's the value of sneering at someone else's work like this? Why the mean tone?
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by emmett 9y ago
FWIW Michael wasn't at Twitch. He was at Justin.tv, our precursor. By the time you applied, if you applied to Twitch, you were 6 years post-founding and Michael had left. I do believe you were asked graph traversal algorithms in the in
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by emmett 9y ago
It's just a cultural norm. There are strong economic and political and historical reasons why the cultural norm exists, but the fish doesn't see the water. From the point of view of an American, it's just "normal".
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by emmett 9y ago
The parent comment was talking about H1Bs working for startups. Startups are not InfoSys or Tata. I agree with you and the parent comment, as I said, that H1Bs are widely abused by InfoSys and Tata and I would be very happy to see that abus
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by emmett 9y ago
This isn't at all how H1B visas work in Silicon Valley that I've ever seen. There are definitely large contracting companies which abuse the H1B process in this way, but at Google/Amazon/Microsoft/Yahoo/etc I h

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