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by sabj 2y ago
If you research the ways data can be leaked out of an LLM interaction you can see some more subtle cases. What if I ask it to replace every vowel in the secret code with an emoji from a library? Or translate it into binary? Etc. Whether or
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by sabj 5y ago
Points not covered in this piece, but worth noting: (1) If a counterparty is interested in you, it can help accelerate valuable partnerships you care about (2) You may want someone to invest in you, not to buy you; or you may want them to i
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by sabj 8y ago
It took a long time. I was there.
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by sabj 11y ago
One reason for these tough requirements is that a very large portion of U.S. passenger rail routes go over track owned (and used) by freight rail companies. Therefore, passenger train collisions and other such risks are weighed not only aga
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by sabj 14y ago
Have enjoyed watching Adioso develop and evolve over time, continuing to improve. Good job team. But, for me, the lack of additional airline data renders it completely unusable still, to have so many missing - I just can't get the whole pic
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by sabj 14y ago
Obviously you're going to see a gradient, but I don't think most would contend human action isn't shaped at all by technologies in ways that are often unexpected. Plus, you get a sort of chicken-and-egg problem at some levels... But people
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by sabj 14y ago
A fun article whose real value will likely be missed by many here who will be rushing, misguided, to defend their ideas of 'technology' or 'progress' from attack. The points that Taleb is making here are best discussed, not by considering t
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by sabj 14y ago
The market problems faced by a phone and a tablet can be pretty distinct. If Microsoft is making a Windows Phone, I hope it serves to drive innovation and platform success, instead of just scaring away OEMs and cannibalizing what nascent pl
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by sabj 14y ago
As lionhearted said, a mix of good points and bitterness, but 甜 and 酸 always go well together, don't they? I think the most poignant section was this: >A deal had been struck. Deng had promised the Chinese people material wealth they ha
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by sabj 14y ago
It's an interesting proposition, but my intention has always been to find where I can be of greatest leverage. SpaceX is at a place in time / life / hiring that I think I wouldn't really be able to contribute to its mission (and mine) as mu
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by sabj 14y ago
I am tremendously excited to hear about this project; it's exactly what I want(ed) to do, these billionaires have just gotten the jump on me by a few (dozen) zeroes of net worth. If any of them are reading, or anyone here knows them, I woul
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by sabj 15y ago
60-65 hrs a week isn't so many :)
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by sabj 15y ago
Certainly a very interesting program - many props to the Living Social team for setting this up. I'm curious about the logistics involved - both the questions about the commitment / expectation piece, and the actual program itself. Would be
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by sabj 15y ago
Here's a question to PG: I can imagine many reasons, but I'd be interested to hear from you why you chose to share these numbers at this time?
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by sabj 15y ago
The difference is that startups have a much shorter time horizon on which you can measure success, and their success is measured in different ways. While notoriously difficult to precisely compute, because of the length of time necessary to
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by sabj 15y ago
Knowing some of the person(s) on here, I'm really excited to see what will come out of their fellowships. While I remain a little skeptical of the project as a whole, for these promising individuals it's really not an end-of-the-world decis
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by sabj 16y ago
Just today I was thinking again about how I wanted to find a watch that would make me happy. I have felt all my life that watches are unfortunate devices which shackle us to schedules, Time, work, etc. But since I'll be graduating and start
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by sabj 16y ago
I think that there is a very strong appeal in the high-tech, vanguard crowd of HN and the like for mechanical things of this nature - this is echoed in the fanbase for steampunk, for example. Personally, if I were to get a new watch (I have
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by sabj 16y ago
That sounds pretty unprofessional, but is surprising to me. When I was applying for full-time positions this past fall (for post-graduation) I ended up having a lot of places to reject - no problems getting reimbursed from any of them. Acce
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by sabj 16y ago
In my experience, those fields are often quite extraneous - not too relevant for interns, since many internships aren't really negotiable. This being said, the high end of your range is the low end of what I know internships pay on an hourl
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by sabj 16y ago
This title is a little bit misleading... A more relevant question is not whether graduates of certain school do or do not make more, but rather, what causes them to do so. And analysis of students who were admitted to such elite schools, bu
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by sabj 16y ago
I think that a large part of your reaction may be that since you are away from home, you only have exposure to the more sensational / noteworthy news, which will tend to not reflect great things about what's going on. I also found that when
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by sabj 16y ago
"There isn't a right or a wrong way of doing things... there isn't always a correct answer." True, but I think there is a strong consensus that giant Toblerone bars may not offer the best ergonomics :) This snark aside, there are some inter
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by sabj 16y ago
Since you said "All I want to do is focus on building stuff," you should definitely try to find a local-to-you accountant or tax lawyer to help you work through the process. Your overall arrangement doesn't sound too convoluted, but you cou
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by sabj 16y ago
Furthermore, the fact that a resume is written in LaTeX doesn't mean you publish it that way. If you have really great-looking PDFs that you send out, who's to care? When I send out my resume, I only send PDFs etc anyway, unless explicitly
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by sabj 16y ago
I have an online version of my resume which is precisely this, though not as custom-done as the rest of my homepage. But I used this lovely template: http://sampleresumetemplate.net/ and edited as necessary. I would love to put my resume
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by sabj 16y ago
Android in the works?
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by sabj 16y ago
I'm a fan of this book, but not of Nathan Myhrvold's business practices. Conflict! More importantly, I have neither the funds nor the space for such a magnificent work. Myhrvold + Company: please disregard my above comments about Intellectu
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by sabj 16y ago
Agreed. While it is true that this kind of retirement savings is to some extent dependent upon good timing, what is clear is that if you have any ability to put compound interest to work - and I think that is relatively fair - it is much be
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by sabj 16y ago
I'm more confused than when I started. I understand the concept, but not the ecosystem or money supply... or exchange rate.

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