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by Finbarr 11mo ago
I'm tempted to!
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by Finbarr 11mo ago
I found it thought provoking and interesting. Thanks for sharing.
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by Finbarr 11mo ago
If you added a few more tools that let the LLM modify code files that would directly serve requests, that would significantly speed up future responses and also ensure consistency. Code would act like memory. A direct HTTP request to the LL
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Genie, Take the Wheel(kuril.in)
2 points by Finbarr 1y ago|1 comments
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The Brain as RAG: How We Think, Decide, and Learn(govindchavada.substack.com)
1 points by Finbarr 1y ago|1 comments
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by Finbarr 1y ago
The statement goes beyond currency. In a connected world with infinite storage, why do you need that usb stick? What are you hiding on there?
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by Finbarr 1y ago
On a long enough timeline, having anything stored in local hardware is going to be suspicious. Not surprised to see government embrace of crypto lead to increased scrutiny.
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by Finbarr 1y ago
We're all going to end up with free open source/weight models, running locally, with no usage limits. This is temporary.
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by Finbarr 1y ago
It feels like you could embed lots of stories of rogue AI agents across the internet and impact the behavior of newly trained agents.
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by Finbarr 1y ago
Totally agree. By the same logic, we shouldn't release a billionaire murderer just because they can afford it. Being rich doesn't always correlate with risk.
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by Finbarr 1y ago
Slavery was also abolished in the UK in 1833. Cash bail is an anachronism that makes a bunch of money at the expense of society's undesirables, so little progress is made on fixing it. See also the private prison system.
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by Finbarr 1y ago
Yes, I agree. Bail is quite punitive in the USA.
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How Bail Bonds Work(finbarr.site)
31 points by Finbarr 1y ago|8 comments
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by Finbarr 2y ago
This is a beautiful API. Thanks for the work. Here's hoping for a nice ruby agent framework in the near future too!
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by Finbarr 2y ago
I've been using Codebuff (formerly manicode) for a few weeks. I think they have nailed the editing paradigm and I'm using it multiple times a day. If you want to make a multi-file edit in cursor, you open composer, probably have t
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Building Circuit Abominations in Factorio [video](youtube.com)
1 points by Finbarr 2y ago|0 comments
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by Finbarr 2y ago
I don’t think it’s a typo. There’s an emergent usage of “cracked” meaning “awesome”.
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by Finbarr 2y ago
Yes, it is. It’s a game most news-reading-age adults will have played when they were at school as children.
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by Finbarr 2y ago
Yes and optimism bias leads people to believe they won’t experience those negative events. Everyone must believe they are going to do better than the median outcome when they start a company.
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by Finbarr 2y ago
Not necessarily true. Most control is exerted at the board level through board director seats. You can have a low % and a majority of board director seats, depending on the leverage you had in each round raised.
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by Finbarr 2y ago
At an early startup, your execution has a meaningful impact on the outcome. This isn’t true for craps. It may be for poker, though.
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by Finbarr 2y ago
> some evidently better than yours as they don’t require this intervention. I’m not sure where that’s coming from. Also plenty of companies out there have control past the A.
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by Finbarr 2y ago
The 90 day exercise window is the most obviously broken thing about startup equity in my opinion. We changed this to 5 years at Shogun.
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by Finbarr 2y ago
First of all, we're on the same page about the risk profile of working for larger companies being better for employees. But the reality is there aren't enough of those jobs for every single startup employee out there to get one. S
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by Finbarr 2y ago
Your daily reminder of the importance of maintaining board control.
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by Finbarr 2y ago
Many huge private companies, like Stripe, have found ways to provide liquidity to their employees without going public, e.g., through tender offers. Some more recent examples of companies where early employees did very well would be AirBnB,
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by Finbarr 2y ago
Let's not forget that FAANG companies were all startups at one point. Early employees at those companies experienced significant upside. Startups can be very high risk, and in rare cases, extreme upside.
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by Finbarr 2y ago
That very much depends on the stage of the company and how much control has been given up at different points. Do you think the management team of a public company could just decide to shut it down? As you raise consecutive rounds, your con
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by Finbarr 2y ago
It is very common and usually a condition of closing. Investors know that preferred is way better than common. They are buying highly speculative assets and want strong downside protection.
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by Finbarr 2y ago
Nobody is forced to become a founder. A lot of people are naive to the sheer level of stress involved, and think it’s going to be easier than it actually is. You don’t find out just how stressful it is until you’re already super committed,

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