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by __loam 1y ago
There is a distinction between usability and reliability lol. If AWS reliability trends down then it's an industry wide problem.
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by __loam 1y ago
Amazon is supposed to have the best infrastructure in the business because everyone else runs on it. They should have access to the sre talent that can quickly mitigate this kind of issue
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by __loam 1y ago
How many examples did each system need to get good at the task too? It's currently a lot less for humans and we don't know why.
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by __loam 1y ago
There is no evidence that neurons have remotely the same computational mechanism as a transistor. Memorizing billions of answers from the training set also isn't that impressive.
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by __loam 1y ago
Computational neurons were developed with the express intent of studying models of the brain based on the contemporary understanding of neuroscience. That understanding has evolved massively over the last 7 decades and meanwhile the concept
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by __loam 1y ago
How else do we invite ludicrous amounts of malinvestment from wall street than to evoke fields of biology we know literally nothing about?
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by __loam 1y ago
Langchain was the original sin of thin framework bullshit
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by __loam 1y ago
I heard it from the Verge podcast several months ago but someone has shared another source.
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by __loam 1y ago
I'm happy they ate shit here because I like my mac not getting co-pilot bullshit forced into it, but apparently Apple had two separate teams competing against each other on this topic. Supposedly a lot of politics got in the way of del
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by __loam 1y ago
Relational databases are from the 70's
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by __loam 1y ago
Fortran has been a research language used by people like physicists and mathematicians that know what they're doing and have been developing that tool for decades and Python is perfect for people who have no idea what they're doin
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by __loam 1y ago
You mean like the president trying to send the military into our cities?
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by __loam 1y ago
They're being pushed by world powers to provide aid for civilians that have been caught up in a war zone and who are being systematically starved to death, according to a lot of reputable organizations including Israeli human rights or
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by __loam 1y ago
Good luck convincing American tech to take on a liability like this. There's a reason big tech is moving to e2e encryption like Signal and it isn't user privacy. Telling governments to fuck off because you don't have the data
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by __loam 1y ago
Okay so are they going to block foreign github repos? This seems totally unenforceable.
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by __loam 1y ago
Good luck having a bank account
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by __loam 1y ago
Yes we know execs are going to drink as much kool-aid as they need to to join this group of people and they'll probably love the process, especially when they're getting sweetheart liquidity deals earlier than everyone else at the
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by __loam 1y ago
Don't forget the actual rate of return vs time spent working too. As a founder you're probably working at least 50% more time than the average faang dev, plus the added stress of being in a high impact, high consequence role.
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by __loam 1y ago
Just 7% ownership while being one of the most important pipelines for early investment opportunities in the valley, which has extensive relationships with the people who will be on the boards. Additionally, YC might not take board seats, bu
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by __loam 1y ago
There's an entire generation of FAANG millionaires that just spent a decade out of school working at one of those places and got fabulously wealthy off of it. In fact, it's probably the most likely career to get you rich instead o
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by __loam 1y ago
Putting inexperienced kids with good credentials who are amenable to listening to a board in charge of these things is part of the yc business model.
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by __loam 1y ago
> If you want to get rich by 30, you basically have to start a startup or get into a top small hedge fund out of undergrad. Many will enter, few will win lmao
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by __loam 1y ago
It's astoundingly beautiful.
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by __loam 1y ago
This is one of the most magnificent buildings I've seen in my life and everyone should go see it even if you're not religious. It's incredible the vision the architect had over 100 years ago.
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by __loam 1y ago
Or McCarthy's America.
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by __loam 1y ago
I think bsky is a good platform in part because people like you just bounce off lol
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by __loam 1y ago
It's over twice as popular as it was a year ago.
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by __loam 1y ago
Hey good for you man. It's still one of the most popular drawing tablets on the market.
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by __loam 1y ago
It's great for watching shows on a stationary bike, reading manga, and as a drawing tablet. There's a bunch of artists that only use procreate.
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by __loam 1y ago
I'm glad Tim is the CEO instead of you.

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