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by gfourfour 2y ago
This seems like an extremely petty fight
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by gfourfour 2y ago
“Taste” is something that’s developed through repetitive exposure to differentiated items in a particular set, combined with extremely high abstract analytical abilities, and that’s something completely different from having marketing or pe
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by gfourfour 2y ago
I think wrapper companies could do very well if AI does end up becoming having an impact near on the order of the internet or smartphones, which it may never. A product that incorporates a foundation model could still require solving a hard
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by gfourfour 2y ago
Acting like Elon Musk is cringe for a lot of reasons but I don’t think it’s that out of pocket for a startup founder to admire him, even if all he did was SpaceX he would have an incredible legacy and story
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by gfourfour 2y ago
I switched to concerta and it works much better. Lowering my dose of adderall just made it less effective.
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by gfourfour 2y ago
Adderall is great at making me produce, but horrible at true “focus.” It makes everything other than pure output feel like a waste of time. In the long run, I found this to be a pretty detrimental way to operate. Good for getting something
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by gfourfour 2y ago
Diminishing returns on that though, and it comes at a cost to your physical and emotional health.
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by gfourfour 2y ago
The mountains are awesome but idk how many people are moving to Seattle for the weather haha
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by gfourfour 2y ago
Yeah UW is great but one university isn’t enough to sustain a world class talent pipeline
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by gfourfour 2y ago
Seattle/Washington has no elite or quasi-elite universities. That’s probably the #1 reason. Compare it to Boston which is a similarly sized city. Boston/New England has Harvard, MIT, BC, Tufts, Dartmouth, Amherst, Williams, Middle
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by gfourfour 2y ago
I can’t imagine that DC is a better place to have a startup than Seattle
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by gfourfour 2y ago
Even if credentials matter more than ideas there’s more than enough credentialed people to go around and soak up funding Plus, tech isn’t the only startup dimension. Boston has a ton of medical stuff too.
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by gfourfour 2y ago
Being outside for an hour during sunset is the best sleep medicine. Don’t even have to go camping.
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by gfourfour 2y ago
General knowledge is 90% from interests and consumption outside of school
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by gfourfour 2y ago
“Solving for colour constancy using a constrained dichromatic reflection model” is a good one to check out
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by gfourfour 2y ago
Wow, your second paragraph hit the nail on the head about the effect that any sort of ML/AI work has on me. Tweaking hyperparameters/prompts/features and running it “one more time” is like sitting down at a slot machine for m
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by gfourfour 2y ago
How does an iPhone contribute to censorship?
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by gfourfour 2y ago
I think this is a really underexplored use case for LLMs. LLM embeddings are really good at encoding rich semantic information that’s easy to query and hack around with in a variety of ways. Retrieving primary sources that correspond to one
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by gfourfour 2y ago
I had a similar experience where I gained a strong sense of how ancient humans and modern humans are one and the same. It was individualistic in that the sense came from my own embodied experience of being in the world, and I was thinking a
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by gfourfour 2y ago
That’s not why. Credit scores don’t discourage competition. Competition can still exist within brackets. The reason rates don’t differ much is because most of the rate is determined by factors outside of the lenders control. There’s a prett
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by gfourfour 2y ago
I still use Reddit in the way you’re suggesting, which is when I occasionally have a specific use. What I meant was that I don’t visit Reddit by instinct anymore when I’m bored - even “good” subreddits. The general user base is not high qua
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by gfourfour 2y ago
A farmers market has a narrower selection than a supermarket, but you’d be healthier in the long run only shopping at the farmers market than going to the grocery store and being bombarded by processed garbage, even if you try to stick to t
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by gfourfour 2y ago
I “de-reddited” with HN.
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by gfourfour 2y ago
The philosophy students were right, some of the highest mid career earnings of any major. It’s harder to get your foot in the door without specialized knowledge - but careers arent determined by your first entry level job.
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by gfourfour 2y ago
I’ve seen boards hinder nonprofits from executing on the mission plenty of times, usually out of ego or general fecklessness. I wouldn’t assume that boards care about the mission more than the employees. Employees are the ones signing up to
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by gfourfour 2y ago
I was going to use ec2 and s3, should I look at digital ocean or hetzner instead?
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by gfourfour 2y ago
To be honest, my bias is against boards, especially non-profit boards who have no skin in the game and often an idealistic view that clashes with operational realities. The case of Altman seems to be a “where there’s smoke” thing to an exte
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by gfourfour 2y ago
No haha just a rats nest of a bunch of notebooks
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by gfourfour 2y ago
mwparserfromhell can parse the text content without including tables
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by gfourfour 2y ago
Still, $5000 is kind of insane. That makes no sense to me.

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