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by JCM9 3y ago
So the board fired the CEO and appointed a new one. The new CEO now wants to hire the old CEO back but now the board doesn’t want either of them to be CEO and is trying to find a totally new CEO. What a friggin’ mess.
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by JCM9 3y ago
For the hard sciences things lab lab equipment can matter even for undergrad. The ironic thing here is that in the US large public universities often have far better labs and equipment that the Ivies. A few are decent at science but many ot
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by JCM9 3y ago
Because most users don’t switch the default search settings on their phone and Google’s search revenue would plummet if they lost iPhone traffic. Basically Google depends on paying another company to make sure a bunch of people accidentally
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by JCM9 3y ago
There are potential arguments to say one should be able to use copyrighted material to train a model, but it’s a very slippery slope that leads to logic that also says the resulting models shouldn’t be protectable intellectual property. Thu
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by JCM9 3y ago
If by “decided” you mean you were forced to because your tech was a hot mess
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by JCM9 3y ago
The headline and article are unnecessarily hyperbolic. It’s not “over” but yes if you’re trying to found a startup with a high burn rate and little prospects to be unit economics positive it’s going to be a rough ride. For new startups the
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by JCM9 3y ago
My high school used to track attendance on if we showed up every day or not. Was I supposed think this was odd? People can debate endlessly over the benefits, or not, of working in an office but it’s a perfectly reasonable thing for a compa
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by JCM9 3y ago
Having a plaintext file with “notes” containing the login credentials for a database containing actual customer data with PII is borderline criminal negligence. What a friggin disgrace.
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by JCM9 3y ago
Air Canada is on my “do not fly” list after a number of mind boggling terrible customer experiences with them… coupled with a could-not-care-less attitude from their staff. Given that I’m not surprised by this story. Avoid them at all costs
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by JCM9 3y ago
Interesting story that’s sadly too representative of the gross incompetence and negligence of some companies. In scenarios like this absolutely do sue them and then deny every settlement offer their corporate lawyers throw at you, continual
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by JCM9 3y ago
Super impressive. Being able to beat a mega closed source model with an open source LLM and some fine tuning really calls into question the financial viability of these big proprietary LLMs. OpenSource models have been creeping up various l
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by JCM9 3y ago
The human brain is still very good at sensing something is not right and these photos all still look fake. Like bad movie CGI. It’s impressive stuff but if anyone is thinking they could replace a real photo with this and pass it off as real
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by JCM9 3y ago
There are some real life “George” figures that I pay attention to. If they think something is a great idea and that’s in line with something I’m thinking about doing, I’ll take a hard look at what I might be missing since X’s judgment is us
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by JCM9 3y ago
GPS signals are much higher frequency and very low power and thus don’t work indoors. These HF time signals are way more powerful and can be detected inside buildings.
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by JCM9 3y ago
The PFAS situation is at an annoying crossroads of 1) we have tests that can detect it at super low levels, so we’re finding it everywhere. 2) We don’t have great ways to clean it up, and 3) We don’t really know what concentration of this s
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by JCM9 3y ago
A commercial flop, but an amazing airplane.
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by JCM9 3y ago
When the peak of the hype cycle starts to fall (and there are signs of that now) it’s going to be a very hard road for the vast majority of these startups. 85% is probably optimistic. Few have done anything that has defensible IP, there are
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by JCM9 3y ago
So headline then basically “People on Internet freak out about a topic before they had all the facts.” Shocking.
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by JCM9 3y ago
These are folks that were trying to avoid US regulations and taxes via offshore accounts. But if you do that you also don’t get the protections that come with having a US bank account… like not losing your money. They got burned and are now
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by JCM9 3y ago
Title is misleading. The company failed because it was bought by private equity firm with leaders that loaded the company with debt and then ran it into the ground. A fate unfortunately too common for companies that dance with PE.
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by JCM9 3y ago
These are different and called “preventative screening” and usually not done at a physical. Your GP isn’t going to do a colonoscopy or do a skin check. The article is taking issue with the standard physical, which for heathy people is mostl
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by JCM9 3y ago
People bought them in droves, and those that did broadly seem to enjoy it. I certainly have a few mega fans in my circle. The execution though was just terrible. They just kept pumping the things out after it was clear they saturated the ma
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by JCM9 3y ago
The tombstone for Peloton will read “A great idea terribly executed by a poor management team”
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by JCM9 3y ago
Corporate security will be all over this when they realize that all it takes to get really bad malware or vulnerabilities inserted into your codebase is to have some “AI” that got trained nasty stuff insert something really bad into a criti
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by JCM9 3y ago
Not an ounce of sympathy for Elizabeth Holmes. She needs to go to prison. Now.
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by JCM9 3y ago
Google’s ad business is looking not so great these days as they increasingly lose out to the walled off app gardens they can’t get into. It’s generally not a great sign for a business when the focus of your innovations turns into increasing
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by JCM9 3y ago
IBM is known for its marketing BS over “AI” (see the previous fiasco surrounding the trail of unfulfilled hype with Watson) but this one really takes the cake. IBM has long been struggling. They could release a press release saying they’re
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by JCM9 3y ago
Yeah, you’re not getting what people are saying. AWS’s AZs are much more separated than GCPs. Your recommendation that one could build across regions isn’t what folks are talking about here since there is a big benefit to having geographica
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by JCM9 3y ago
Yes. Azure and GCPs numbers on the size of their AZs and such are more marketing spin than hard engineering. AWS keeps these in separate physical locations to provide true separation. While there have been tech related regional incidents at
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by JCM9 3y ago
There are some good folks on these lists too but yes they do seem to attract a concentration of the narcissistic self-promotional hussle-culture types that are all hype and no substance. Folks more concerned with the appearance of doing som

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