julianeon

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by julianeon 2mo ago
I agree about the writing. As for the cover art though: I'm indifferent. It's not an important part of the book. In the literary world, I would call using AI sentences in your novel a felony, but I'm not sure using it in a co
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by julianeon 2mo ago
Is the bar really higher? Those math PhD's can use GPT too; they benefit equally from AI assistance.
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by julianeon 2mo ago
I could probably spend a whole month eating fresh bread there every day and enjoy it more than a Michelin starred restaurant.
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by julianeon 2mo ago
So how would I use these Chinese models by API? I assume I'll pay by API call.
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by julianeon 2mo ago
Since I think people are getting this confused: He's saying that a full body MRI is so valuable, that if you got one and then smoked for a year, you'd be in the same place as you were before you started, health wise. No loss. Obvi
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by julianeon 2mo ago
You know what's going to happen is some budding CEO will come along and read this and conclude, "I know the solution: my company won't give to charity." It will become enshrined as this principle in their company lore, t
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by julianeon 2mo ago
To a physio therapist (the article example) that is a business meeting. That's what's strange here. That person isn't there because their you're friend: they're getting paid to be there, which makes it a business me
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by julianeon 2mo ago
I've noticed that many famous billionaires want to be viewed as philosophers: Thiel obviously, Musk arguably. For this they do need ideological coherency and the ability to order their arguments logically, ideally as part of a larger p
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by julianeon 3mo ago
That's the job: experiment until you find product-market fit... or die trying.
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by julianeon 3mo ago
This will work for a little while but this can't go on indefinitely: no one is going to want to stick to 30+ year old books. We should probably work on developing standards for what we want in a book instead of clinging to a losing pos
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by julianeon 3mo ago
I'll contest a few of these, which I thought were good. Breviary: this was, to me, known and not uncommon. It's widely known to Catholics, but also, if you have an interest in medieval art or books, you'd likely know it too.
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by julianeon 3mo ago
I don't think Spotify should be used for music discovery. I know it has that feature and I know the app wants you to embrace it, but I would say: don't use it. Use YouTube for this. You can find experts, fans, all kinds there who
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by julianeon 3mo ago
There are some fields where there are a real measurable advantages of physical books, essentially as an archive. I can name two: 1) Chemical Engineering 2) Classics In both cases the physical book may be the only place to find certain kinds
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by julianeon 3mo ago
If Claude is actually good enough to commit to rsync, of course I'm going to look at that and think "it's good enough for my side project too." And (benefit to companies aside) that is info it is useful to know, if it&#x
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by julianeon 3mo ago
Warfare, or more plainly the deaths of many, seems like a pretty decisive tiebreaker: whatever the flip side of the option that involves the death of thousands is, I will choose that. Of course, without this example, most people would say s
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by julianeon 4mo ago
That looks good - nice to have an alternative too.
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by julianeon 4mo ago
> Personally, I think all funding in California education (other than terminal levels like 4 year bachelors and up) should be a function of the percentage of students that succeed at the next step. This has the unintended consequence of
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by julianeon 4mo ago
He makes good points: I probably would have skated over this if not for the line-by-line reading. After examining it more closely, I think the "population increased by a lot" line seems especially unnecessary.
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by julianeon 4mo ago
Sure, but from the perspective of the individual renter (who arguably doesn't have the power to change rent control law anyway), their point stands.
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by julianeon 4mo ago
I think they will eventually get to the point of technological differentiation but they've got to start somewhere: they must first have an electric car on the market before they can start experimenting with it to improve the performanc
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by julianeon 4mo ago
Would it though? It seems like it could work, even if people opt to "not comply" aka pay the fine. Charge $1,000 fee per acre (eyeballing it, that seems reasonable). There are people who will clean an acre to be spotless for $500:
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by julianeon 4mo ago
Great idea. I starred this on GitHub, where by the way for those are interested, your star will be statistically significant (only about 100 now). https://github.com/templatical/sdk
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by julianeon 5mo ago
He means "careful that the 9k of revenue doesn't come from ads that the scamming owner placed so that the site could show higher traffic => ad revenue." In other words, paying $2 for ads to send people to your website, to
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by julianeon 5mo ago
In the US and Germany, economists say that war and defense companies have to pay a "social stigma premium" since average people don't really like to work there given equal wages. The premium is a revealed preference: even peo
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by julianeon 5mo ago
True, but if the guy contacting you is the actual owner of the website you use to buy domains, his credibility increases enormously. He said this person was a customer on his platform. When that guy says "I have a website which is maki
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by julianeon 5mo ago
I see it more as 20-40 on Flippa. Where are you seeing 12x monthly revenue sales?
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by julianeon 5mo ago
This was common in America once. Around the 1900's, in "wild" places like Texas, you'll see references to clouds of butterflies, in memoirs and such.
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by julianeon 5mo ago
You are absolutely right and that jumped out at me. I should also point out the obvious: if people were selling online assets making $9k/year for $9k, there would be a line out the door of people lining up to buy them. If anyone here i
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by julianeon 5mo ago
Houston has a good collection too. https://www.hmns.org/exhibits/cullen-hall-of-gems-and-minera...
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by julianeon 5mo ago
If fear is the mind-killer, then sexy chatbots are the libido-killer, for me. Hard no.

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