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by aabhay 7y ago
A colleague of mine in chemistry gave his thoughts on AI for protein folding recently: “things keep getting better, but they’re nowhere close to being good”. I think part of the issue at play here is the cost of confirming success, not simp
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by aabhay 7y ago
> Goddamn it Quora, why can’t you see the dark? FTFY
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by aabhay 7y ago
Google pays very dearly for that, btw
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by aabhay 7y ago
Just like on Facebook, the ads are doing much more than ‘paying to run’ the platform. And moreover, why would YouTube do anything but continue to increase the amount of ad content? It directly translates to more cash and profit. Same goes f
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by aabhay 7y ago
I totally agree with you, but I also notice the slow but steady increase in ad content before, between, below all YouTube videos, that also seem to call back to my preferences, feelings, tastes, past interactions, etc. The question I always
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by aabhay 7y ago
From all visible metrics, sex and social activity are plummeting precipitously across the developed world——lower rates of sex, lower sales of condoms, higher marriage age, lower birth rate, more suicide, higher rates of antisocial mental di
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by aabhay 7y ago
Great article, all your contributions seem pretty solid. Are you a hobbyist or professional in the post structuralism world?
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by aabhay 7y ago
Agreed. This seems like a true ‘first world problem’.
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by aabhay 7y ago
The fact that it’s a smaller territory means that effects that would even out in larger territories don’t apply. I.e. it’s a relative effect. Here’s an example: suppose a large retirement community of Chinese immigrants exists in Hong Kong,
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by aabhay 7y ago
But isn’t that the irony that we’ve been reading news stories about lab grown meat for 20 years, while the real breakthrough product (Beyond Meat) is basically a souped up veggie patty? I feel that when we assume technology as the root of p
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by aabhay 7y ago
This is going to be a really fun read in ten years when none of it comes true. And I really mean none — it’s like he tried specifically to make sure that not a single of his predictions is a serious idea. Is this a red herring play to his V
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by aabhay 7y ago
Interesting comment! I’m not the author of the article, but I know them. I think her perspective is that we are free to imagine arcades within the web construct, flaneuring through the images and ideas in an ambulatory way, trying to grasp
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by aabhay 7y ago
I don’t understand — what’s the control variable here? How can they claim the algorithm has a deradicalizing effect without showing that people became less radical? Also, the raw number of recommendations is misleading — as long as 1 in 100
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Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project as a blueprint for living online(reallifemag.com)
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by aabhay 7y ago
Don’t tell me what’s in your model, just show me what’s in your portfolio..
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by aabhay 7y ago
This is almost hilariously bad thinking. It’s the VC filter bubble turned into a kooky VC marketing buzz phrase designed to continue the VC filter bubble. Meanwhile, A16Z’s numerous investments in ‘zeitgeist’ fitting blockchain technologies
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by aabhay 7y ago
In a bubble, your terms and leverage as a founder are better, including self-comp, voting shares, and funding runway. Raising money is always risky (hence the barbell), but you have unlimited optionality compared to a desk jockey.
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by aabhay 7y ago
This. Clearly this has to be the stable state for these services. A taxi is naturally free to operate in a way they see fit (finding narrow strategies and routes) while an Uber is constrained by a routing system. If you find a taxi, you can
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by aabhay 7y ago
Take the barbell strategy — make sure to exit any less liquid investments (e.g. stock), and then extract capital from the bubble by raising money. When the market crashes, use your cash to purchase cheap assets and/or failing companies
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by aabhay 7y ago
Google doesn’t lose from this (other than brand value), since Google just arbitrages between advertisers and webadmins. Unfortunately, the ‘solution’ to this cat-and-mouse game is increased targeting and surveillance, allowing advertisers t
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by aabhay 7y ago
It says something that one of the most well known and highly-praised media lab projects is basically a sham. What does that say about the other 99% of projects that aren’t even worth mentioning?
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by aabhay 8y ago
The title of this article is misleading. I thought it was a discussion of the "Cold Start Problem" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_start_(computing) ), which is a common technical challenge. Instead, it is
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by aabhay 12y ago
Mesosphere's DNS implementation ( https://github.com/mesosphere/mesos-dns ) helps address that problem. You can use dns routing to create an internal storage or implement a cache that routes cache misses to an exter