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by abakker 8y ago
Thats just Robotic Process Automation. If you haven't seen it, google it :)
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by abakker 8y ago
I don't know...I think it raises an interesting distinction between "What planet is the closest to us right now ?" and "what planet gets the closest to us?" and "what planet is the closest to us most of the ti
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by abakker 8y ago
The problem is that Alexa is just a consumer voice command line. UI discoverability is impossible, and everything that you can do is just a utility that does something else. There are no native apps because everything that it can do is just
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by abakker 8y ago
That's kind of what I was going for, but I guess the bay area has become the same as SV for most people.
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by abakker 8y ago
In the article about Sam Altman stepping down, it mentioned that YC was moving to the city as well. I guess the center of the universe is less and less actually SV.
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by abakker 8y ago
I think of survey responses as being low-magnitude, high signal sometimes. Take a list of 100 questions all answered between 1-5 (disagree -agree). Sometimes, PCA can help you group these statements into like concepts. Which means instead o
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by abakker 8y ago
Right, so this is like having autocorrelation, right? Or at least having a confounding variable correlated to your error term?
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by abakker 8y ago
This is true - you get easy leverage, and your gains apply to this larger principal, however, if your gains average out to be less than your cost of capital then leverage doesn't matter. Additionally, over the infinite timeline these c
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by abakker 8y ago
I think two books on this subject are extremely informative. One is _Stress Test_ by Timothy Geithner, the other is _The end of Alchemy_ by Mervyn King. Both have to do with the policies discussed in this article and the Lender of Last Reso
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by abakker 8y ago
I mean, I guess it would be cool to know what kind of operations people are doing most often? Maybe you send different ads to people who only use addition/subtraction than people who use sin / cos?
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by abakker 8y ago
Getting paid is a pretty powerful motivator. Maybe you can afford not to, maybe others don’t want to afford not to. Salaries are good, the experience is good, job hunting sucks.
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by abakker 8y ago
It's a good thought. And contractors are virtually all commuters. There's a lot more driving than in most professions I can think of. In cities with awful traffic, going and buying more screws or plywood might be a day-ending prob
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by abakker 8y ago
Regulatory burden - building code, permitting, etc make it relatively better and less risky to build bigger, nice homes. It gives you padding if it takes a while to sell, has extra change order, or gets stuck in permit/planning and zon
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by abakker 8y ago
I put off starting college for a semester because I had just lost my father to cancer. I just couldn’t face starting class a week after that. I did end up starting in January, and on the first day of orientation, 25 hours after arriving the
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by abakker 8y ago
https://www.taxnotes.com/editors-pick/google-seeks-20-years-... that seems to be a much better article, but still doesn't elaborate on that "shortfall". The Taxnotes article makes this seem like a much b
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by abakker 8y ago
>Google is promising to bring 50 full-time positions to the area. The company also projects that it will create 2,300 jobs during the 18–24 month construction window—a far shorter period than the 20 years of tax relief they're reque
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by abakker 8y ago
If corporations are people, then laws are corporation's moral compass. The solution would likely be to produce regulations to provide a moral compass to corporations so that they are required to exhibit the behavior we would like them
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by abakker 8y ago
This is a very good discussion, back and forth. I think it is worth asking who should be capturing the economic benefit here. A tax break for google in this case is allowing google to capture the economic benefit it creates for the public.
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by abakker 8y ago
Entitled is not the same as just getting what you want. If you can afford it, great. If you can’t afford it, nothing else entitles you to have it.
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by abakker 8y ago
Self reply with more questions/thoughts. based on what I know, it seems like the problem could break down as: 1. we have a lot of training data for the voices of white men reading stuff. 2. We have good models that already exist for r
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by abakker 8y ago
But, if I understand correctly, systems can be trained separately on "this is background noise" and then apply those filters first, and then work with cleaned audio, right? I've been using krisp.ai for a few weeks and it has
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by abakker 8y ago
I have a (probably dumb) question: why don't we just use audiobooks for this? There are thousands and thousands of hours where the transcripts were written, and then read aloud. Some of them are now public domain. I'm sure some va
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by abakker 8y ago
Sure, but, most employees would not prefer that...its a Market for labor. You are buying, Labor is selling. If what you are buying is an employment contract with a penalty-free terminate-for-convenience clause, expect that you are buying th
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by abakker 8y ago
yeah, I hear that, and I also know in my heart that it's right, but I have no business running access control/distributing my code/or hosting it for public consumption. Mostly a "hey, look at this data analysis" or
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by abakker 8y ago
As one of those hobbyists, I can say that the thing I wish most for was an easier way of "getting started". I mostly hack around in python, or arduino c, but I really wish that it was easier to write a script and actually give it
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by abakker 8y ago
Yes, that is true, but, remember that financial/profit incentives are not the same as economic incentives. Profit incentives tend to be necessary when the work needs to be done, but the utility of doing that work is not symmetric. I.e.
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by abakker 8y ago
Ok - that makes some sense. In that context, can you answer the question about why, as a developer I would use your platform/tech instead of creating my own, then? If I read it correctly in your response and your about page, this allow
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by abakker 8y ago
First pass at website: 1. the main paragraph on the first page "what if anyone in the world..." describes a problem that not many people have, and I suspect fewer have identified. You're targeting content creators, but, it is
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by abakker 8y ago
Well, I feel like it is also worth pointing out that all money starts to be a lot more persuasive when your business model is "lose other people's money until a miracle occurs". Honestly, if we have a system which permits&#x2
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by abakker 8y ago
This makes me think that some time in the distant future, when we're really great a terraforming, we could influence the weather of the planet specifically to create functional jet streams that we could use to make travel faster, and t

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