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A good idea is an idea that possible to turn into reality, else it is just an idea.
by bestham 1y ago
A good idea is an idea that possible to turn into reality, else it is just an idea.
- riffraff 1y agoBut that's what venture capital and research should be about, financing ideas to see if they can be realized. I mean, the people who put money into Theranos later should have done better due diligence, but I don't fault the initial investment.
- marcus_holmes 1y agoHow do you know if you can or cannot turn the idea into reality without trying?
- pona-a 1y agoBy conducting a throughout literature review over possible methods, consulting the experts, and checking if your proposed method is within laws of physics?
- fallingknife 1y agoI agree. If Albert Einstein had gone with your sensible approach he could have quickly ruled out his silly idea of relativity as impossible and gone back to his more important work of approving patent applications.
- n4r9 1y agoVenture capital is not a good way to fund theoretical work. And Einstein didn't lie about his achievements.
- mensetmanusman 1y agoThat there could be useful LLMs was theoretically argued about; essentially VC funding answered what wasn’t happening in academia.
- n4r9 1y agoIn the case of LLMs I would say that VC funding made the engineering possible. The theoretical breakthroughs were largely made in IBM and Google. OpenAI certainly made some improvements to architecture and training, but ultimately they implemented a refined version of a transformer-based LLM.