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by HillRat 4y ago
It's inevitable, though. Eventually the butcher's bill comes due; irrational valuations based on user growth or revenue alone always had a fuse attached to them, because they required a greater fool to come along and pick up the
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by HillRat 4y ago
One thing my old BigCo does right is put a solution level between sales and execution that has veto authority on any project -- our job was to manage everything from scope to risk to staffing and timelines going into the deal, just to ensur
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by HillRat 4y ago
Designers should have enough time up front to interview users, define the product and services, build a business plan, and design the application; just as architects need enough time to plan the project, analyze risk, and determine the sy
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by HillRat 4y ago
Yeah, we also went HipChat + Skype -> Teams, and once one gets used to it, it's fine (and certainly better than XMPP hell). Teams' search was always problematic, but for our organizational use case (moderately long-lived chat r
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by HillRat 4y ago
One of my mantras to my associates and consultants was that our job was to be one part therapist, one part sociologist, and one part accountant. As you say, if the client could fix their own problem, they wouldn't have called in a cons
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by HillRat 4y ago
Yeah, he’s … a little excitable. Dude runs Air Mobility Command, he could stand to remember he’s not running ACC, he’s FedEx for things what go bang.
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Meta OPT-175B LLM training logbook [pdf](github.com)
1 points by HillRat 4y ago|0 comments
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by HillRat 4y ago
Both are equally true: big tech companies have big tech problems and big company problems, both of which tend to require big expenditures to deal with. And let’s not forget all the folks you need for sales, marketing, finance/account
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by HillRat 4y ago
Well, they hired a university president out of Goldman Sachs and consulting, who wrote a book that basically argues that universities need to base their curriculum on what corporations tell them to do, so I'm not terribly surprised a
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by HillRat 4y ago
To be honest, I think your question is the other side of the conceptual coin here -- either the article is wrong and GPT3 isn't "sentient," or the article is right and we need to radically upend our concept of sentience, prob
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by HillRat 4y ago
There's something about language generation that triggers the anthropomorphic fallacy in people. While it's impressive that GPT3 can generate language that mimics ToM-based reasoning in people, this paper doesn't get close to
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by HillRat 4y ago
Yep! Basically, you'd point out that it's not economically-viable for you to provide a small number of high-value, low-revenue on-call hours on demand, so they'll need to reserve some time each month to make sure you're
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by HillRat 4y ago
And one should be skeptical of a single source who somehow knows the entire story, from White House deliberations to technical details; all the more so when it's a supposed secret squirrel story that allegedly was hidden from Congressi
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by HillRat 4y ago
Something like this is a good fit for a retainer basis -- e.g., $250/hr for a minimum of 10 hours/month, paid regardless of whether they consume those hours or not, with additional hours at fee. Just make sure that your SOW is exp
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by HillRat 4y ago
Advertising used to be treated as a Retail line item, but Bezos deliberately broke it out to put profitability pressure on Retail by not giving them a way to hide their losses in the bottom line.
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by HillRat 4y ago
The 2017 TCJA was passed on pure party line votes (in the House, all Democrats and 12 Republicans opposed the bill), so it definitely wasn't bipartisan. More generally, big tax cut (the top 0.1% saw about $250K in lower taxes under the
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by HillRat 4y ago
>All slack conversations should be considered ephemeral from a documentation and records keeping perspective. Unfortunately, from a SOX, HIPAA, or sunshine/FOIA perspective it's not. As you say, you're always on the record
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by HillRat 4y ago
> An AI is not a person, and therefore can't be sanctioned for practicing law - my take anyway. "Personhood" in a legal sense doesn't necessarily mean a natural person. In this case, the company behind it is a person
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by HillRat 4y ago
They haven't said so yet -- perhaps they'll clarify on the call tomorrow -- but they'll probably take down new debt to make this happen; it's a good time to go to the markets, and a lot of their cash is parked overseas.
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by HillRat 4y ago
If you want to create a legal precedent, you go after the player where you have the better case and they have fewer resources. Get the law on your side and then you can go after the bigger players. Curious to see where this goes; I feel lik
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by HillRat 4y ago
Buying a rural hospital is like buying a money pit, if the money pit had another money pit inside it that was constantly generating new money pits. Judging from this guy's state filings, he's pretty much getting the right to lease
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by HillRat 4y ago
Without reading the article (because, well, paywall), I'll take a moment and instead mention a favorite amateur musician, Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-George: a Black, formerly enslaved Frenchman who was the greatest (later secon
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by HillRat 4y ago
I just don’t see this flying in any venue. Either DoNotPay is practicing law without a license, or they have an attorney of record who would be violating his or her duties as an overseeing attorney (an AI can’t be considered a competent sub
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by HillRat 4y ago
At my old firm, our federal project profit margin was a bit lower than median, though once you factor in the sales, contracting, and leg overhead the bottom line was somewhat worse than the project actuals made them look. Since our side of
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by HillRat 4y ago
Yeah, I think it depends on whether you consider it a prediction if the recession occurs during the inversion (Harvey's thesis, IIRC, considers it a prediction if a recession occurs within 1-4 quarters after the inversion, regardless o
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by HillRat 4y ago
The Treasury yield curve has been inverted -- that is, long-term bond rates are lower than short-term -- for the last few months, which has traditionally (n=8) been a reliable indicator of an upcoming recession. The market mechanism leading
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FTC Head: Noncompetes Depress Wages and Kill Innovation(nytimes.com)
4 points by HillRat 4y ago|1 comments
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by HillRat 4y ago
I think a good place to start is through the service design lens — “This is Service Design Thinking/Doing,” Jon Kolko’s books, and IDEO’s handbook (all available on Amazon). These are all practical, business-oriented works, and will gi
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by HillRat 4y ago
The situation seems to be that they thought the total order over time would be 6,000 "units" (and I've always seen "unit" as equivalent to "retail item," not case or casepack), not that the orders weren&#x
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by HillRat 4y ago
One thing that I came back to time and time again while consulting is that most operational problems are, in whole or in part, language problems, in the Wittgenstein sense. I worked with a lot of clients to define and document “linguistic

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