Closi

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by Closi 3y ago
"I don't think it worked in the past, therefore it can't work in the future" isn't a particularly compelling argument considering the number of breakthroughs in the last 3-5 years.
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by Closi 3y ago
What was the basic program you asked for? Hard to evaluate if this is a fair test without knowing what you asked of it.
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by Closi 3y ago
> AI is and always will be supremely confident at being supremely wrong. Its the nature of the beast. Some things are just best left to real-life humans. Sounds like you are also supremely confident at making predictions! AI's are a
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by Closi 3y ago
> The quality of roads is relevant, but not really the answer. Bicycles can be ridden on dirt roads or sidewalks. I mean this is true with a modern bike, but a primitive bike with wooden wheels, no spokes, no gears, no suspension and que
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by Closi 3y ago
Assume it’s different riding a modern bike with good bearings, brakes, spokes and inflated tires to a wooden-wheel peg bike.
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by Closi 3y ago
> Now what am I supposed to do? I don’t know, maybe just live with your existing screen? It’s not like it’s mandatory to have the latest version of something, and it’s pretty common for companies to iterate new versions with improvements
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by Closi 3y ago
Tend to agree with this - I think the way you win CRM is to build something that helps customers sell better (and in the background, base it on a technology platform which is extensible so you can take over the world) . CRM space is very r
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by Closi 3y ago
Well Spanner has it's own disadvantages, like having your entire stack tightly coupled to a google cloud product (i.e. you have to sacrifice being cloud agnostic).
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by Closi 3y ago
While I sort-of-love-it, it does seem very complicated for new starters. I'm sure this system is great once you know it, but it is a high learning curve and I do struggle to imagine a world where ePOS with a ticket system doesn't
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by Closi 3y ago
Agreed - also prompt engineering encourages LLM's to do this too (i.e. asking the LLM to explain the steps it will take to solve an answer, prior to answering - e.g. Zero-Shot CoT 'Let's think step by step')
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by Closi 3y ago
I don't think these were mature products when Figma started to be developed in 2012.
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by Closi 3y ago
This assumes that using a distributed database from the start doesn't offer it's own penalties/drawbacks (particularly in 2016). Particularly considering as per the figma note, they consider their data highly relational (i.e.
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by Closi 3y ago
To clarify, I mainly meant the major animation feature that let you do more complex animations compared to this tool.
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by Closi 3y ago
Totally agree! The major feature missing compared to Flash would be library and component support - i.e. the ability to create reusable animated graphics that you can drag onto the canvas (with infinite nesting). i.e. you can animate a bird
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by Closi 3y ago
The other thing to mention is that the Microsoft products are really pretty good and for most businesses really pretty cheap . You can get a 365 licence (Teams, OneDrive/Sharepoint, Powerpoint, Excel, Word, Outlook & hosted exch
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by Closi 3y ago
I think we should aim to do better than fixing it across a 200-300 year timeline. It’s not particularly ambitious.
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by Closi 3y ago
I’m not ruminating on if it’s a good idea to pay people more or not, I’m just saying that there is an impact of wage increases on inflation. Besides - if the cookies are still 99 cents after all these years then they actually are cheaper
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by Closi 3y ago
If Walmart is broken up and Jim Walton is forced to divest, he will invest his money elsewhere and still own the means of production (capital) just in other companies. It doesn’t solve the underlying issue of wealth distribution.
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by Closi 3y ago
That's true at a microeconomic level (i.e. single company), but at the macroeconomic level we are talking about aggregate wages as a percentage of all company costs. As an aside, I think you might be underestimating the percentage of c
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by Closi 3y ago
I mean it seems fairly econ 101 in some respects: * Companies have normal profitability in the long run in a competitive market. * If costs go up, companies must raise prices to maintain normal profitability. * If wages increase, costs go u
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by Closi 3y ago
This is a false dichotomy - It's not one or the other, it's both and more. It's the right question about Jim Walton, and there is a question about breaking up Walmart on top of that. Walmart can still be broken up in a worl
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by Closi 3y ago
Alternatively/in addition, significant inheritance taxes for the ultra-rich. A lot of wealth is multi-generational and nepotistic (i.e. do we really think Jim Walton would have got the job if he wasn't the son of the founder, and
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by Closi 3y ago
> Google did exactly what prevailing cultural attitudes demanded it do Google did exactly what their own perception of cultural attitudes led them to do. This model clearly isn’t exactly in tune with the actual cultural zeitgeist, othe
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by Closi 3y ago
Not always - volume is often better than margin if you are in a competitive market and have enough access to capital (other things being equal). Particularly if you are taking market share from your (higher margin) competitor. If you can se
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by Closi 3y ago
Yes, it was never really free shipping, it was built into the price... ... much like a retail store, where their overheads (e.g. the rent of the store) are also built into the price.
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by Closi 3y ago
Create a Wiki :)
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by Closi 3y ago
> Since we already have the users' legal documents available to us as a result of our core business, we are perfectly positioned to build supplementary AI chat features related to legal documents. Uhh... What are the privacy implica
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by Closi 3y ago
As someone who works with lots of analysts, I can guarantee that they also don't make the correct interpretations all the time, and that you have to sense-check the results back against reality. In either case, validation is the key st
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by Closi 3y ago
> What kind of applications would this be useful for? What can you build with an AI data science intern that's right 75% of the time? The kind of stuff that it is very easy to validate if it works or not :) I am building a warehouse
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by Closi 3y ago
Agree! By the time there were c380 Max's built, two of them had already fallen out of the sky (despite operating for only a year). That's c0.5% of the fleet falling out of the sky every 12 months! Still not too risky on an individ

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