pboutros

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by pboutros 2y ago
If you're reading this... yes, I posted about this a second time, because I did a horrible job of describing it the first time.
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Show HN: Compass Pro: AI trained on expert interviews
3 points by pboutros 2y ago|0 comments
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by pboutros 2y ago
You either need: - distribution: have some community effect, where the more users you have, the more valuable the product is (and the harder it is to replicate) - a proprietary dataset: so that it can't be replicated - a cost model oth
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Compass: AI (RAG+customer interviews) that answers difficult software questions(getwhys.io)
1 points by pboutros 2y ago|2 comments
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by pboutros 2y ago
I figure that I should (finally) post about the thing that we built / launched. Compass is an AI product trained to give you specific answers to challenging questions about software vendors. Marketing, Product, and Ops teams use Compas
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Transform and Dbt Labs: Better Together(blog.transform.co)
1 points by pboutros 4y ago|0 comments
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The Other Bird App Is in Trouble(blog.transform.co)
1 points by pboutros 4y ago|0 comments
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by pboutros 4y ago
Importantly... the behavior is self-reported (by dog owners), who almost certainly have some bias about their dogs. I know I do. :)
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by pboutros 5y ago
Haha. Assuming this isn't sarcastic—I would assume that (1) sentiments on the last day are probably similar to many of the days before it, and (2) you should weight the wisdom of those days higher than days early in life, because they
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by pboutros 5y ago
Nobody in these threads is saying that housing them is the silver bullet. But shelter is part of the foundation of a human's hierarchy of needs, and being anything but single-minded about people's right to shelter distracts from h
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by pboutros 5y ago
_What if they want to sleep on the street?_ Let's start by sheltering as many people as we can, and when our problem becomes "too many empty beds", then we can move on to that problem. _Where do we build them?_ I bet there ar
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by pboutros 5y ago
Yeah, that was fantastic
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by pboutros 5y ago
I think you're right -- if only because it's probably the most viable path to growth. If your value prop is 'we're stable and you can trust us', and your buyers are 'large enterprises that don't like to ta
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by pboutros 6y ago
I think blackmailing someone in the closet is almost always wrong -- I'm sure there's some contrived edge case that could be thought of, but as a whole, it's never okay. Just because most / all intelligence agencies do s
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by pboutros 6y ago
This is a really smart acquisition for Twitter to make. I'm subscribed to a number of substacks (and Patreons) that I only discovered through creators on Twitter. Job #1 for twitter should be making it easy to subscribe to Revue newsle
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by pboutros 6y ago
My read is that they're spinning off the professional services wing.
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by pboutros 6y ago
I never thought I'd do sales. For B2B, read: - The Challenger Sale - Value Based Fees - Pitch Anything
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by pboutros 6y ago
Think of how much worse tight connections are when your connection leaves earlier than it was supposed to!
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by pboutros 7y ago
Red notice is different from an arrest warrant.
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by pboutros 7y ago
Good question. I'm certain it isn't, but also, you can't give all things for all people. These thought experiments are useful, interesting, and appealing to certain segments of people. There should be different ways to transm
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by pboutros 7y ago
Honestly, even if it was 10% less efficient, I'd be on board with that just to spectate. I'd also invest heavily in barf-bag stocks and neck pillows.
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by pboutros 7y ago
Ebola is really small too! More seriously, to your point about historical growth + pollution -- (1) this stuff is cumulative and (2) the world is polluting more now than it ever has. Here's an article on how small pieces of plastic is
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by pboutros 7y ago
Ah, the rare exception to Betteridge's Law ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline... )!
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by pboutros 8y ago
To add to this -- even when it was a secret, they were still protesting the idea of providing those incentives.
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by pboutros 8y ago
They're noting that the way that West Antartica is laid out encourages a powerful feedback loop with negative effects. The more it melts, the more it gets into warmer water, which accelerates the melting.
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by pboutros 8y ago
I agree with the back of the napkin math -- but remember, it isn't 1.3% added to the city's population, it's 1.3% added to the part of the city's population that is looking to move, mostly in the past decade, with a focu
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by pboutros 8y ago
Amazon isn't solely responsible for Seattle's poor city planning (rather, Seattle, Kirkland, Bellevue, Redmond, Tacoma, etc.), but they're certainly responsible for ~50% of the influx of high-paid workers, which has increased
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by pboutros 8y ago
What? The FDA openly publishes stuff. From long before GitHub was around. Here's a good overview of how they go about making sure that approved drugs are GRASE (Generally Recognized As Safe and Effective): https://www.fda.go
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by pboutros 8y ago
Offer all you want, but remember that if you're doing something, you aren't shadowing. Offer to take notes in meetings for them -- that's probably the most useful thing you could do. Also, not to doubt your skills, but someon
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by pboutros 8y ago
What do you think about Thalidomide then? http://broughttolife.sciencemuseum.org.uk/broughttolife/them...

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