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by sama 4y ago
we make a little money on it!
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Helion raises $500M for net electricity from fusion(helionenergy.com)
1 points by sama 5y ago|0 comments
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by sama 5y ago
AI FTW! (dang please don't ban me for a low-quality comment :) i couldn't resist but will not make it a habit!)
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Clip: Connecting Text and Images(openai.com)
119 points by sama 6y ago|10 comments
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by sama 6y ago
That was the specific inspiration, yes.
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by sama 6y ago
"Understand" is up for debate, but it's clearly learning something. The fact that it's possible to learn general structure as well as we can from unlabeled data does seem like a significant development.
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by sama 6y ago
I think people should be impressed, but also recognize the distance from here to AGI. It clearly has some capabilities that are quite surprising, and is also clearly missing something fundamental relative to human understanding. It is diffi
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by sama 6y ago
Thanks, but it's Sam McCandlish doing the demo (and the project).
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The Wolfram Physics Project(wolframphysics.org)
121 points by sama 6y ago|5 comments
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How I Became a Machine Learning Practitioner(blog.gregbrockman.com)
290 points by sama 7y ago|47 comments
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OpenAI Five Finals Livestream(twitch.tv)
4 points by sama 7y ago|0 comments
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by sama 8y ago
The entire partnership is incredible and does a huge amount of valuable work, and startup advising, that they don't get nearly enough credit for. I'll still be involved (and will ensure we continue to take risks and grow!), and ob
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by sama 8y ago
added as a footnote
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by sama 8y ago
I also wrote this, which I think counting reprints is my most-read blog post ever: https://blog.samaltman.com/the-days-are-long-but-the-decades...
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by sama 8y ago
The biggest reason I'm excited about basic income is the amount of human potential it will unleash by freeing more people to take risks. Until then, if you aren't born lucky, you have to claw your way up for awhile before you can
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How to Be Successful(blog.samaltman.com)
894 points by sama 8y ago|299 comments
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by sama 8y ago
I just re-read this for the first time in years--it needs a re-write. I will try! But first this has inspired me to get to work on the forgotten Part II.
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Thank you to dang and sctb
950 points by sama 8y ago|123 comments
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Carbon Removal Technologies(carbon.ycombinator.com)
1187 points by sama 8y ago|660 comments
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by sama 8y ago
rigged IMO
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by sama 8y ago
We are playing with regular couriers for the first time! And against a pro team.
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by sama 8y ago
You are comparing startups at the end of 3 months of intensive work to ones at the beginning. They're totally different. It never stops being amazing to watch a team go from an idea to a profitable, fast-growing business in 3 months.
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by sama 8y ago
Update: we will have something to share tonight, and I think people will be pretty happy :)
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by sama 8y ago
We feel awful about this and we're working on a solution. We'll have more to share in the next 24 hours, hopefully sooner. Edit: ok, here's what we've got: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17806459 .
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by sama 8y ago
It's definitely an area where we will have to tread carefully, and the concerns are for sure real. It was important to us to find an extremely ethically aligned leader. However, I think it's easy to fall into a trap of assuming t
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by sama 8y ago
We fund startups all around the world! In the rare cases where a founder is unable to get a US visa for the duration of our program, we are open to doing something remote. We offer a lot of help figuring out the US visa system, which is i
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YC China and Qi Lu(blog.ycombinator.com)
351 points by sama 8y ago|345 comments
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by sama 9y ago
I am interested in trying some version of this! Have been thinking about all the edge cases.
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Machine Learning for At-Home Immune Monitoring from Athelas(medium.com)
6 points by sama 9y ago|0 comments
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Startup School 18: How to Raise Money and How to Succeed Long-Term [video](startupschool.org)
3 points by sama 9y ago|0 comments

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