mitko

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by mitko 1y ago
Loved that puzzle, thanks for sharing it. I’ve solved a lot of math problems in the past but this one had a unique flavor of interleaving logical reasoning, partial information and a little bit of arithmetic.
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by mitko 2y ago
Defensibility re: companies is well studied, by Hamilton Helmer who and his grad student did case studies of several hundred "defensible" companies and identified 7 "powers" that help companies defend against specific co
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by mitko 2y ago
Pioneer | Senior Software Engineer | Climate Tech and LLMs | Seed stage | Remote within USA-48 USA only | $150K+, equity Apply here: https://pioneerclimate.com/careers About: Pioneer's mission is to coordinate the
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by mitko 2y ago
Yeah! That's the danger with any kind of "model" whether it is CoT, CrewAI, or other ways to outsmart it. It is betting that a programmer/operator can break a large tasks up in a better way than an LLM can keep attention
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by mitko 2y ago
This is so uncannily close to the problems we're encountering at Pioneer, trying to make human+LLM workflows in high stakes / high complexity situations. Humans are so smart and do so many decisions and calculations on the subcons
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by mitko 2y ago
Maybe one way to think of it is fractal management where a manager would have deep read-write interactions with few skip levels. HBR style says read everywhere, write only direct reports. And it makes for a good software design except tha
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by mitko 2y ago
Tony Fadell’s idea of a Parent CEO vs Babysitter CEO in Build comes close to this founded mode concept but I am so glad PG memed the founder mode concept into existence, and talk about the gaslighting. And I bet he is right about there are
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by mitko 3y ago
As someone who currently runs on decreased sleep, I can relate to a bunch of these. But in my case, the root cause seems to be stress from increased load, and the higher cortisol levels it creates
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by mitko 3y ago
We are hiring more!
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by mitko 3y ago
Pioneer | Founding Senior Software Engineer | Climate Tech and LLMs | Seed stage | SF Bay Area, DC or remote in USA only | $150K+, equity Apply here: https://usepioneer.com/careers About: Pioneer's mission is to co
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by mitko 3y ago
Good to know, but when I applied in 2005/6 iirc they did have as a part of the application a question about anyone in my family being from MIT. But I didn’t meet many students whose parents were also MIT grads there, which suggests tha
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by mitko 3y ago
https://d13v.com More than 100 essays on various timeless topics. Most recently I wrote a series called “how to be a game changer” which focused on creating win win situations in all aspects of life. One of the essays “Opt out o
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by mitko 3y ago
Hi Josh - I got your email at join@pioneerclimate.com and replied back. The other two bounced :)
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by mitko 3y ago
Pioneer | Founding Senior Software Engineer | Climate Tech and LLMs | Seed stage | SF Bay Area, DC, NY, remote, USA only | $140K+, equity Apply here: https://usepioneer.com/careers About: Pioneer takes the pain out of t
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by mitko 3y ago
Any folks from Convex, do you have plans on adding vector indexes to Convex databases?
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by mitko 3y ago
It is not that the commit was wrong. It was the right commit, in the sense that it did expose and trigger the bug. OP is being too modest :) But the root cause of the bug was in another earlier commit. In a complex system such as the linux
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by mitko 3y ago
This is the type of content that fills me with awe after a long day of meetings. Thank you OP! It is not clear from the article if you booted linux 290K more times _after_ the bisect, or during the bisect.
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by mitko 3y ago
Another example of how real world data is always messier than a neat model: Vatican is entirely encircled in Rome, therefore any area outside Vatican is closer to Rome than the Vatican, yet if we look at them as point sources, as this map d
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by mitko 3y ago
I am reminded of one of Matt Mochary’s teaching: when you have to do a task, which takes away your energy, and cannot be delegated to someone else, them make it “exquisite”. Next time I have to “pick up trash”, I will try to think “what wou
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by mitko 3y ago
This. Most of the value of the company is to be created in the future, and you'll likely pivot (based on statistics, your specific idea may turn out to be spot on).
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by mitko 3y ago
The VP of Sales is interesting. I would imagine that agents wouldn't look like the traditional human roles, but would stack fractally under each other, like functions in code do.
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by mitko 4y ago
Why not a mixture of both? We all have insecurities- I’m sure even Mr Wolfram. But success also leads to confidence. An entrepreneur has to pitch his brand and “wolfram” is his strongest brand. Would love if someone massively successful exp
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by mitko 4y ago
Probably he comes off as big ego, which we are hardwired to resist. However I think a lot of that narcissism is confidence justified by his successes and track record, he’s created a lot of value for the world.
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Escaping Obstacles with Arbitrage(dimitarsimeonov.com)
1 points by mitko 5y ago|0 comments
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by mitko 5y ago
I went through an active search two years ago, and what I learned is that cofounder fit is super hard to find, and probably impossible to timebox. But I thought that similar to how zettelkasten allows your ideas to grow into essays, I could
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by mitko 5y ago
Hey, OP here, thanks for the question - yes, and I also discuss to what degree I'm not doing them. And with scrolling addiction - I haven't been able to stop it yet, but I am trying.
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Self arrest on the slippery slope of addiction(dimitarsimeonov.com)
57 points by mitko 5y ago|71 comments
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by mitko 5y ago
Interesting point about nihilism, appreciate your discussion. I still identify as cynical in many domains, though I don't think of myself as nihilistic as the latter seems more absolute. Re: things that really don't change, I&#x27
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by mitko 5y ago
OP here, thanks a lot for sharing this enlightening story. Your last paragraph remind me also of the Viktor Frankl's "Man Search For Meaning" where the change in outlook was a difference between persevering and perishing in t
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by mitko 5y ago
Thanks for sharing. I briefly mentioned that "never changing" world in the article but didn't expand on it there. But it was a super strong emotion which motivated this essay and shift in outlook.

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