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by nsedlet 19d ago
As the author says himself, he hasn’t attended in 30 years. I understand some of the things he’s complaining about, but I don’t think that is the dominant experience of being there.
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by nsedlet 23d ago
Credit cards also transfer wealth from people who pay interest to people who don’t. It’s a silly system, where everyone has to invest their time (optimizing for rewards, avoiding interest) in an ultimately negative sum game. I hate it so mu
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by nsedlet 5mo ago
I also attempted to do real-time audio visualizations with LED strips. What was unsatisfying is that the net effect always seemed to be: the thing would light up with heavy beats and general volume. But otherwise the visual didn't FEEL
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by nsedlet 7mo ago
Yes, exactly. Not only can you not run CLIs in Chat interfaces, the services that non devs use often don’t even have CLIs to begin with. Developers have a rich set of CLIs because they live in the terminal and built those tools for themselv
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OpenClaw bot writes blog post shaming maintainer after rejected PR(twitter.com)
2 points by nsedlet 7mo ago|1 comments
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The Resonant Computing Manifesto(resonantcomputing.org)
10 points by nsedlet 9mo ago|2 comments
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by nsedlet 1y ago
Agreed. As engineers we build context every time we interact with the codebase. LLMs don't do that. A good senior engineer has a ton in their head after 6+ months in a codebase. You can spend a lot of time trying to equip Claude Code w
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by nsedlet 1y ago
Another factor with the vibes being off (at least in the US): mass outsourcing of jobs thanks to remote work. You used to have to be a multinational company with global entities and offices. Now you can be a 10-person startup with half your
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Class-action suit claims Otter AI records private work conversations(npr.org)
144 points by nsedlet 1y ago|48 comments
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by nsedlet 1y ago
I believe an important reason for why there are no LLM breakthroughs is that humans make progress in their thinking through experimentation, i.e. collecting targeted data, which requires exerting agency on the real world. This isn't ju
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by nsedlet 2y ago
Data labeling has been moving to onshore / higher paid work. There's still a lot offshore, but for LLMs in particular and various specialized models, there's a massive trend toward hiring highly educated, highly paid speciali
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by nsedlet 2y ago
This 1967 poem is often mentioned in the context of Solarpunk as having a similar vision https://allpoetry.com/All-Watched-Over-By-Machines-Of-Loving...
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by nsedlet 2y ago
I do agree. But the thing I would add though is that at least when I was there (W2012 - we were in the same batch!) YC and PG in particular were vocal about principles they believed in, especially the idea that naive young founders get kick
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by nsedlet 2y ago
Maybe this is a dumb question but I thought valuations had fallen a bunch since mid 2022 and now lots of VC firms are struggling with companies (especially mid-to-late stage) who raised at much higher valuations than they can now get in the
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by nsedlet 2y ago
I was part of the W12 batch of YC (which was a lot smaller, ~60 companies, back when Paul Graham was still leading YC). YC funds a lot of companies and has always had super high variance in the companies it funds. Entrepreneurs are a wild b
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by nsedlet 2y ago
It takes time to build a company to significant revenue. I'd be curious to rule that out as the primary explanation before reading too much else into this.
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Man Called Fran(harpers.org)
1 points by nsedlet 2y ago|0 comments
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by nsedlet 2y ago
I've been curious what a version of this based on general relativity would be like and whether that would be interesting.
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A Zero-Gravity Omega Watch Repair Revolutionized NASA’s Space Station Fixes(wired.com)
1 points by nsedlet 3y ago|0 comments
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by nsedlet 3y ago
This is great. This is mentioned in the discussion topics section ("modeling randomness in gathering belongings"). But I wonder what the distribution of baggage-gathering time looks like? I'd guess pretty positively skewed, i
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by nsedlet 3y ago
Yeah it feels like there should be a legally enforceable ai.txt
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by nsedlet 3y ago
I do think there will/should be a reckoning about the how training data is acquired and attributed. For example, LLMs could attempt to cite sources, or share ad revenue fractionally with all the sources of that inform the response they
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Tyler Cowen’s Existential risk, AI, and the inevitable turn in human history(thezvi.wordpress.com)
1 points by nsedlet 3y ago|0 comments
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by nsedlet 4y ago
Second this. The 32x64 version is what I used to make this digital tide clock as a project with my nephew https://www.filepicker.io/api/file/UzFNawTTWq4h5h6YF9Im . It fetches tide data from NOAA to tell you next hi
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by nsedlet 4y ago
The score for Dunkirk includes a piece by Hans Zimmer that adapts one of the Enigma Variations: https://open.spotify.com/track/5eeBoptaR9wfFe5csGjIMP?si=3b5... One of the most beautiful uses of music in a movie in rece
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by nsedlet 4y ago
By the way, the best New York secret is "Fish Friday", when the Acme factory in Williamsburg sells its stuff directly to the public for pickup, including various experimental things they've come up with. It's easily the
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by nsedlet 4y ago
This guy has a great set of examples of rules in English that started as bastardizations, fabrications, arbitrary preferences of some particular writer, etc.: https://youtu.be/JTslqcXsFd4?t=444 .
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HireArt (YC W12) is hiring a senior front-end engineer(hireart.com)
1 points by nsedlet 4y ago
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HireArt (YC W12) Is Hiring a Product Designer(hireart.com)
1 points by nsedlet 4y ago
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HireArt (YC W12) is Hiring an Engineering Manager(hireart.com)
1 points by nsedlet 4y ago

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