NtochkaNzvanova

7 ms·

31.
by NtochkaNzvanova 3y ago
Is there really a shortage of companies that are trying to do foundational AI research, and also build the results of that research into end-user products? Off the top of my head, the list of such companies would include... you know, litera
32.
Ask HN: Is there a better alternative Twitter interface than Nitter?
2 points by NtochkaNzvanova 3y ago|0 comments
33.
by NtochkaNzvanova 3y ago
That does sound great other than the lack of social interaction, so I would not be in a hurry to leave if I were you. There are other ways to find / generate social interaction, inside or outside work. At work, you can always find reas
34.
by NtochkaNzvanova 3y ago
Corporations were on the Internet before the 90s, so I'm going to assume by "commercial Internet" he means "consumer Internet" (e.g., AOL). I doubt the consumer Internet could have happened before PCs became widespr
35.
by NtochkaNzvanova 3y ago
You're welcome! > found the projects troublesome or management unwilling to listen, or sometimes people taking advantage You have two options: reject those projects, and prefer to work with people you've worked with in the pa
36.
by NtochkaNzvanova 3y ago
^ Unironically the best answer.
37.
by NtochkaNzvanova 3y ago
There have been a lot of "how do I become a contractor/consultant" threads on HN in the past. Most of the advice isn't specific to infra, so searching for those will be a good starting point. To summarize: the best way t
38.
by NtochkaNzvanova 3y ago
Engineered microbes are almost always far less fit than wild-type. They will survive best in a monoculture, and if they are forced to compete with less hobbled strains they will usually find a way to get rid of the engineered modifications
39.
by NtochkaNzvanova 3y ago
It's important that students and teachers become educated, even just slightly, about what ChatGPT is really doing and how it works. Fundamentally, ChatGPT operates by predicting the most likely word to follow previous words. By doing s
40.
by NtochkaNzvanova 3y ago
In terms of raw impact, probably smartphones and social media. (No, these aren't strictly new within the last 20 years, but approximately so, and most of their impact came from their widespread adoption within the past 20 years -- roug
41.
by NtochkaNzvanova 3y ago
Representation in the Ivy League compared to the US population is irrelevant. What matters is representation relative to the standard for admission into whatever elite institution. E.g. it's well documented that an Asian applicant must
42.
by NtochkaNzvanova 3y ago
This is magical thinking. Those things will never happen. Your suggestions are at best incompatible with our current political ideals (restricting PACs and private campaign financing) and at worst utterly nonsensical. For example: "v
43.
by NtochkaNzvanova 3y ago
Emacs
44.
by NtochkaNzvanova 3y ago
And do they think that this: https://www.carscoops.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/2023-Me... is a good-looking car? I'm not car guy, but the first thing that popped to mind when I saw it was a sligh
45.
by NtochkaNzvanova 3y ago
California and other states already showed with marijuana that if you have enough local popular support, you can legalize drugs and the feds will do nothing. This is especially true right now with Democrats in control of the DoJ. In fact, i
46.
by NtochkaNzvanova 3y ago
Throw it in the trash.
47.
by NtochkaNzvanova 3y ago
Correct, since the median value of a chunk of founder equity in the long term is probably 0.
48.
by NtochkaNzvanova 3y ago
First of all, disabuse yourself of the notion that people whose official title is "product manager" are any better than you are at "product thinking". I've worked in companies from startup to FAANG, and maybe it&#x2
49.
by NtochkaNzvanova 3y ago
> Ex-head of Google X warns about AI He was not the head of Google X, and he isn't all that knowledgeable about AI tbh.
50.
by NtochkaNzvanova 3y ago
Think about how binomial coefficients arise. Suppose you want to expand out the product (a+b)^n = (a+b)(a+b)...(a+b) into a polynomial. If you just expanded it out, without grouping terms, there would be 2^n terms. Each of these term
51.
UC Berkeley Failed to Disclose $220M Tech Deal with China to US Government(thedailybeast.com)
15 points by NtochkaNzvanova 3y ago|0 comments
52.
by NtochkaNzvanova 3y ago
Do you think the one doesn't influence the other?
53.
by NtochkaNzvanova 3y ago
If this is true, it's extremely shocking... Musk put in all that time, effort, and money to wrest control of Twitter away from woke liberals, and now he's going to hand it over to... an ad exec from NBC?! If this does turn out t
54.
by NtochkaNzvanova 3y ago
> Tan was Palantir's tenth employee, and his relationship with Thiel dates back to their college days at Stanford. Wat? According to Wikipedia, Thiel was born in 1967, Tan in 1981. How could they have shared "college days at
55.
by NtochkaNzvanova 3y ago
Only you can answer that. Depending on how risk-averse you are, you would look at the worst case scenario where you quit your day job, all of your consulting firm income dries up the next day, and you get hit by a bus, survive, but can no l
56.
by NtochkaNzvanova 3y ago
I'll assume you're mainly interested in tech skills. Soft skills obviously aren't specific to AI, although as the other commenters humorously point out, there are certainly differences between startups and big companies that
57.
by NtochkaNzvanova 3y ago
Is that a real answer from ChatGPT? I wouldn't consider that totally correct; it's possible that some Smerps are Merps, but it's also possible that no Smerps are Merps.
58.
by NtochkaNzvanova 3y ago
Clearly the author means "revived in modern intellectual discourse in the English language". And some of them already have, e.g. eudaimonia as described by the ancient Greeks is brought up all the time in the literature on "p
59.
by NtochkaNzvanova 3y ago
Did you miss the part in the original article about "an additional 0.3 percent each year after that until the loan is fully repaid"? Do you have a source that rebuts that, or are you just conveniently omitting that because you wan
60.
by NtochkaNzvanova 3y ago
> WHY was so much fraud possible during the pandemic (and possibly other times) in the first place. Is it possible this is because the departments responsible are normally understaffed and when handling a pandemic surge had zero ability

More ›