kippinitreal

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by kippinitreal 9mo ago
Wrote up some thoughts on what their financials may look like. Quick take is that they probably need cash fast! https://kippinitreal.substack.com/p/manus-acquisition-though...
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Manus Is a Tough Business(kippinitreal.substack.com)
3 points by kippinitreal 9mo ago|1 comments
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by kippinitreal 9mo ago
Dug into the available information about Manus's business. I imagine this is pretty reflective of the new class of $100m ARR AI companies. High CAC, high costs, high competition and no real clue where things will land long term.
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by kippinitreal 1y ago
Their new SF campus charges $75k/yr!
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Bot Hop – Get a Random LLM(meta.ai)
2 points by kippinitreal 1y ago|2 comments
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by kippinitreal 1y ago
Routes you to a random LLM - just a fun way to force yourself to try new things not just rely on muscle memory. Currently only has 5-10 and roughly weights the routing by popularity (ChatGPT -> Gemini -> Claude .... Copilot). Have bee
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Ask HN: Is OpenAI's Operator a Bust?
2 points by kippinitreal 1y ago|1 comments
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by kippinitreal 2y ago
Amazing name for this tool.
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by kippinitreal 2y ago
I believe it's not strictly more decks, but also how often they shuffle. If they add 7 decks but don't shuffle until near the bottom, it's actually advantageous as the count can get very skewed (e.g. 50 cards left and 30 face
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by kippinitreal 2y ago
I wonder if in an application you could branch on something more abstract than tokens. While there might by 50k token branches and 1k of reasonable likelihood, those actually probably cluster into a few themes you could branch off of. For e
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by kippinitreal 3y ago
My amateur understanding is that the benefits are: A) H2 is exceptionally difficult to store at scale. Salt caverns are an option, but that is limited B) methanol can be used off the shelf by existing generators so the prices are much more
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by kippinitreal 3y ago
I mean, it's totally fine for a non-profit to "wallow in irrelevance"? I think the fundamental issue here is that a tax-exempt non-profit organization like these board members are leading _shouldn't_ necessarily be chasi
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by kippinitreal 3y ago
True - but Richard Rhodes (author of Hedys Folley) was an advisor to Nolan for the film and I imagine his books on atomic history were very helpful.
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by kippinitreal 3y ago
Totally agree that this is under appreciated. Between open source modeling tools being incredible, transfer learning allowing dirt cheap fine-tuning and now mega-models being able to instantly give you a "mostly right" data set, t
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by kippinitreal 3y ago
Clever idea. I think you would have to recompute the context (ie embed the prior tokens) every time you swapped models because the weight distributions would be different for each model. Going from big->small might make this overhead wor
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by kippinitreal 3y ago
Cool stuff! But it’s criminal to not call attention to JQ’s elder sibling CSVKit. It’s invaluable for playing with csvs. Much easier to parse out columns, allows you to generate new csvs and even merge them. More importantly, it allows SQL
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by kippinitreal 4y ago
That video did the same for me. I also like the reducible video for Fast Fourier Transforms as well as the Veratasium piece that shares some fun history. Reducible - FFTs the most ingenious algorithm ever https://youtu.be/h7
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by kippinitreal 4y ago
I too have always been blown away by Shazam and pondered how it could possible index so much content for fast lookups. A few years ago this article was super helpful in helping me understand and learn a lot. Fun read which required a lot of
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by kippinitreal 4y ago
Could you share any links that break down the cost structure you described for solar farms? I’d love to understand that more
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by kippinitreal 5y ago
I’ll second “Making of the Atomic Bomb” as an excellent history of modern physics tied to a great narrative. For Biology I really enjoyed “A Brief History of Creation”, high level overview of all of the advances to understand what we are ma
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by kippinitreal 5y ago
The sequel “Dark Sun” is also quite good. Continues the story into the making of the hyrogen bomb, the Teller-Ulam design, and the USSR’s efforts. Much shorter too :)
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by kippinitreal 5y ago
Yes, with SharesPost, equityzen and Forge. Company had a pretty standard policy so approval was straightforward but took a few months and required some legal opinions (costing $,$$$). In my case the deal was for the shares directly. Biggest
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by kippinitreal 5y ago
This is what I’m here for! Awesome work, super cool to see and read how you did it.
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by kippinitreal 5y ago
The Goal is one of my favorite “business” book (it’s written as a novel). it addresses all of the wasted energy when you target efficiency at the expense of hitting your true goals. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_G
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by kippinitreal 6y ago
Great interview with Larry King focused on his interview style: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/larry-king/id124844662... Some great stories in there including one about how in his early days he would p
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by kippinitreal 6y ago
The difference is that Bell scientists were always focused on core business problems and not just chasing fantasies. OK sure, Shannon was doing whatever with mice and unicycles...but he earned it! All of Bells big accomplishments were tight
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by kippinitreal 6y ago
Can't speak to this specific case, but often this is done to help founders exercise shares/pay taxes on gains. Still a kind favor, but it's usually not a Nuemann-esque private jet purchase.
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by kippinitreal 6y ago
Great book! Super interesting analogy to Nantucket being the Silicon Valley of the era, pulling in top young talent from the whole east coast. Avoid the movie at all costs.
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by kippinitreal 6y ago
First deep dive into the business model I’d heard - really fascinating
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by kippinitreal 6y ago
IMO the best reason for this isn’t even to raise funds, but rather because the rich/connected are going to do this anyways (and get away with it) so we might as well decrimalize it and make a dollar off of them in the process. I’d rath

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