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by utdiscant 2mo ago
I am working on a company-brain type product (agentwork.com) that attempts a solution to the "meaning is usually buried in email or slack threads" problem. Ingests data and builds a memory, but then also reaches out (when given pe
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The company that doesn't exist(agentwork.com)
5 points by utdiscant 3mo ago|0 comments
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by utdiscant 2y ago
A lot of tech people seems to have changed their mind on this. Some ways to reason about that are: 1) They are doing it for opportunistic reasons. They can't afford to be enemies with Trump. 2) They legitimately changed their opinion a
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by utdiscant 2y ago
"We picked the latter, which also gave us our performance metric - percentage of generated comments that the author actually addresses." This metric would go up if you leave almost no comments. Would it not be better to find a met
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by utdiscant 2y ago
Here is what I got from o1: To find two prime numbers that sum to 123, let’s consider the properties of prime numbers and the nature of their sums: 1. Prime Numbers Greater Than 2 Are Odd: Except for 2, all prime numbers are odd. 2. Sum o
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by utdiscant 2y ago
I found the ratio of rice and water to be the main issue - and the rice cooker didn't fix that. I stumbled upon a recipe with a different approach that I use now. Take plenty of water and get it to a boil. Add any amount of rice to the
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by utdiscant 2y ago
"I’ve keep taking screenshots of everyone who’s asked about acquiring my account. One interesting pattern: the majority of these requests come from profiles without any photos. I find it so weird that people are so eager to get a usern
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by utdiscant 2y ago
Feels like a lot of commenters here miss the difference between just doing chain-of-thought prompting, and what is happening here, which is learning a good chain of thought strategy using reinforcement learning. "Through reinforcement
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by utdiscant 2y ago
Back in my early university days I did a short project ( https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ch33p2xaq7xavgu9uk0qv/index.p... ) on how to generate "hard" mazes. While there are many algorithms to create ma
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by utdiscant 3y ago
But humans have already trained on an incredible number of games (including reality) when they play No Man's Sky for the first time. What they say here is that training on N-1 games makes you better at the Nth game. So you just continu
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by utdiscant 3y ago
Definitely feels like we are advancing towards AGI quite rapidly. As another commenter mentioned ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39693035 ), the OpenAI DotA game was a big milestone for me. If you think about it abstra
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by utdiscant 3y ago
Having a simple clear focus is hard to undervalue. Since doing YC 6 years ago there has never been a second of doubt about the priorities (imo). YC is there to make money for its investors. And the way to do that is to invest in the best st
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by utdiscant 3y ago
I agree about the standup, but not sure about the podcast interview (did not listen to that specific interview). I have never heard an interview with Tony Robbins, so when I do, I would actually love to hear the best stories according to Sh
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by utdiscant 3y ago
I am currently reading "What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions?" by Vinciane Despret, which is full of interesting stories like this and questions how we perceive the intelligence (and other aspects) of animals. Mi
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by utdiscant 3y ago
For the interested, this is the response by GPT4 given that prompt: --- As an AI language model, I'm unable to write full code examples, but I can provide you a high-level overview of how to implement a horizontally scalable, probabili
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by utdiscant 4y ago
This is quite interesting to me, because I don't really have a good understanding of why my job is satisfying. I am the CEO of a small profitable SaaS startup. I find almost all of my day-to-day tasks quite boring (answer sales emails,
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by utdiscant 4y ago
Wish the data was available in a downloadable form. Would be interesting to see which combinations of passports gives you the best access together. For example, if you could hold two arbitrary passports at the same time, which two would giv
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by utdiscant 4y ago
I find the re-naming of this post quite weird. The original title "A patient without cavities visits 180 dentists" was informative, and made me click. The paper is about that exact thing, and I enjoyed it. On the other hand, I hav
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by utdiscant 4y ago
Incredible research! I have had this intuitive feeling for a long time, that the more I go to the dentist, the more issues appear. And when I recently shopped around for different dentists, they all had completely different recommendations
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by utdiscant 4y ago
I am like you, but most of our customers seems to have different preferences than me and you.
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by utdiscant 4y ago
I disagree. There are entire companies built around making it simpler to implement and manage SSO (like https://workos.com/ which we use) - it is time consuming to support. Enterprise pricing will always be about finding so
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Paddle Acquires Profitwell(profitwell.com)
2 points by utdiscant 4y ago|0 comments
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by utdiscant 4y ago
In our company we tend to swing between "big important projects" and "tiny wins" quite a lot. The big important projects are the ones that unblock sales and that move the product forward a lot. The tiny wins are small th
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The darkpattern of downgrading a Vimeo plan(twitter.com)
2 points by utdiscant 5y ago|0 comments
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by utdiscant 5y ago
The pricing seems weird. Why is there a limit of 10 documents on the pro plan? Even as a small team we have 50+ bases in Airtable.
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by utdiscant 5y ago
Is this just trolling, or is there a reason to believe he could/could not be Satoshi?
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Companies that hit scale with small teams(twitter.com)
2 points by utdiscant 5y ago|0 comments
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by utdiscant 5y ago
Correct, we are not open source (I am the CEO). But if that is not a hard requirement, then I do actually think we offer a lot of the things mentioned in the post.
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by utdiscant 5y ago
I have been looking at Plausible and competitors like Fathom and others. It seems like there is limited room for innovation and differentiation when you almost can't store/track any data. How can you stay competitive long-term?
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by utdiscant 5y ago
Reach out to me on david@eduflow.com and we can talk about it :)

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