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by DesaiAshu 7mo ago
Could also price in negative externalities of short term trading with higher taxes for that behavior, nudging the markets to focus on value driving investments rather than speculation
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by DesaiAshu 7mo ago
You could report every month and audit every 6 months
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by DesaiAshu 7mo ago
Technology is at the mercy of our social and financial systems, it rarely leads social advancement. As with other tools, it can be used in many ways In surveying my friends in Silicon Valley, it seems that most VCs/techies know that: 1
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Show HN: An open-source DAW plugin built on JUCE, React, and Lyria RealTime(github.com)
2 points by DesaiAshu 7mo ago|0 comments
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by DesaiAshu 7mo ago
The Department of Defense was named as such after the detonations of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki We - as a humanity - collectively recognized the weight of our creation, and decided to walk back Discussing “AI alignment” in th
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by DesaiAshu 7mo ago
It's not "just" a $200m contract, it's the start of a lucrative relationship 1. Stargate seemed to require a dedicated press conference by the President to achieve funding targets. Why risk that level of politicization i
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by DesaiAshu 8mo ago
Basically all competitive sports in the US work like this If you win the championship, you get the worst draft picks for next season Do you believe they discriminate against winning teams and reduced the quality of the sport? The Yankees de
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by DesaiAshu 8mo ago
Spending money to give scholarships to people who are coming out of 300 years of tariff imposed poverty to access the same education as those who can easily afford to pay their food/housing costs in college is "the dumbest idea we
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by DesaiAshu 8mo ago
You're not able to publish cutting edge research in an era where you have LLMs and Arxiv? Academia seems more open and competitive today than ever before, with more weight and influence given to more universities around the world
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by DesaiAshu 8mo ago
Adjacent medicines have seen major improvements: eg Ketamine was a significant improvement from PCP (notably, less psychosis and safe enough to use off the battlefield / with children) “Removing the worst and most fatal danger” is a la
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by DesaiAshu 8mo ago
It is generally understood in the industry that around half of universities are in significant debt / financial distress (started prior to Covid // the demographic peak // recent DoE cuts). Graduate underemployment
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by DesaiAshu 8mo ago
It would require building public transit and higher density residential housing over the next two boom/bust cycles
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by DesaiAshu 8mo ago
Stanford has a $40 billion endowment for 8k undergrads. UCLA has a $10 billion endowment for 34k undergrads. Naturally, the class sizes will be much larger. The UC system does not put 100% of students at UC Berkeley and UCLA, they distribut
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by DesaiAshu 8mo ago
Having personally run a college P&L, this dodges the bigger sunk costs of higher education: 1. Old and expensive to maintain land 2. High cost of living for all staff (weighted heaviest towards faculty) 3. Ancillaries that are revenue n
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by DesaiAshu 8mo ago
In India (among others), honking is essential to reducing crashes We often greatly underestimate / undervalue the role of our ears relative to vision. As my film director friend says, 80% of the impact in a movie is in the sound
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by DesaiAshu 8mo ago
The biggest surprise I had in attempting to distribute my first Android app is how difficult it is to get beta-testers through the "standard" channels. It requires a 1 week review and 25 beta-users invited by email addresses In co
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by DesaiAshu 8mo ago
India and Africa are significantly more optimistic about AI than US and EU There exists great promise in AI to be an equalizing force, if implemented well The future is yet to be written
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by DesaiAshu 8mo ago
"Swarm of autonomous drones kills 3 buildings of civilians, Silicon Valley is shocked, CEO's offer condolences" is a byline waiting to happen[1] The administration and the executives will make justifications like: - "We
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Zed now supports next edit prediction models Zeta, Mercury Coder, Sweep and more(zed.dev)
2 points by DesaiAshu 8mo ago|0 comments
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by DesaiAshu 9mo ago
This feels like a fair question (perhaps not perfect wording, but no adhominem or disingenuity) More broadly, we are overbuilding infra on highly inefficient silicon (at a time when designing silicon is easier than ever) and energy stacks _
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by DesaiAshu 9mo ago
On device models (deepseek-coder, etc) are very good // better than the old way of using stack overflow on the internet. I have been quite productive on long haul flights without internet! You're an engineer, your goal is to
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by DesaiAshu 9mo ago
More entrepreneurs will help with youth unemployment
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by DesaiAshu 9mo ago
Welcome to the world by population that speaks English
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Show HN: A generative audio VST plugin using Gemini API, JUCE, and React
5 points by DesaiAshu 1y ago|1 comments
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by DesaiAshu 1y ago
Developer here. This was a blast to work on over the past few months in collaboration with the Magenta team. Built using a C++/JUCE foundation and a React frontend Bridging generative music tools and music studios has been a long runni
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by DesaiAshu 1y ago
We could also just stop breeding genetically modified sentient animals for protein and directly synthesize protein...
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Lyria RealTime music generation model(deepmind.google)
3 points by DesaiAshu 1y ago|0 comments
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by DesaiAshu 1y ago
My websites have this too with MDX, it's awesome. Reminds me of the old Bret Victor interactive tutorials back around when YC Research was funding HCI experiments
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The AI magic behind Sphere's upcoming 'The Wizard of Oz' experience(blog.google)
3 points by DesaiAshu 2y ago|0 comments
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CoreWeave IPO: S1 Breakdown(mostlymetrics.com)
1 points by DesaiAshu 2y ago|0 comments

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