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A petabyte of health insurance prices per month(blog.turquoise.health)
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Threads isn't ever going to connect to Mastodon, so stop pretending that it is(knollslaw.substack.com)
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by ageitgey 3y ago
He was heavily involved in the design and development of Deepsea Challenger (along with Ron Allum, the lead engineer).
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by ageitgey 3y ago
There is a lot more backstory here. When James Cameron designed Deepsea Challenger with Ron Allum (his sub designed to go to the deepest known point on earth) he was competing against another team. For structural integrity under repeated co
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by ageitgey 3y ago
Would be really cool in Spanish!
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by ageitgey 3y ago
Here's my take on launching a business like this. Feel free to ignore it if you disagree because I could very well be wrong: These kinds of tools are potentially very useful and the underlying tech is pretty neat, but they are marketed
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by ageitgey 3y ago
Presumably because OpenAI charges per-request fees. These services aren't training an in-house model, but are leveraging an LLM via an API and they have to pay those fees. (I'm not saying this to imply that building a service like
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Cardiff flat owner gets tax bills for 11,000 Chinese firms(bbc.co.uk)
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by ageitgey 4y ago
I'm a cofounder of a Series A start-up, so work hours are hard to define. You are sort of always working or thinking about work and it is hard to put away. But within the company, we've found lots of uses for LLMs to save time. On
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Lindsay Lohan and Jake Paul hit with SEC charges over crypto scheme(bbc.co.uk)
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by ageitgey 4y ago
We have that feature at our company through an employee review SaaS we use called Lattice. Our #praise channel works the same way and it has definitely been a nice surprise. It is really nice to be reminded of all the feedback at review tim
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by ageitgey 4y ago
Typically you have (1) an ML model to generate embeddings from the items in your db and (2) vector support in the db to order/compare those rows by similarity (i.e. cosine distance between embeddings). So this just gives you the second
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by ageitgey 4y ago
Exactly. Or literally ban any comment saying you won something. The fraud spam is totally out of control.
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by ageitgey 4y ago
> "the only" group that needs a car as a necessity and not luxury are parents. I'm as pro-public-transit, pro-cycling as they come. But yes, there are plenty of reasons cars are needed: - Parents (like you said) - People w
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by ageitgey 4y ago
When you re-write a SNES assembly game in C, you are only rewriting the code of the game itself. To make it run, you also have to provide an implementation of the CPU, Video chips, RAM layout, etc, of the SNES as a software library for the
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by ageitgey 4y ago
If you like this sort of thing, a similar exact C reimplementation of the original Super Mario Bros. exists here: https://github.com/MitchellSternke/SuperMarioBros-C
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by ageitgey 4y ago
I put solar panels on my house in London this past year. I would have been happy to have hidden them in the roof. Lots of my neighbors are also investigating or getting solar due to the cost of electricity rising and the low cost of panels.
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by ageitgey 4y ago
If a company over-hired in non-core areas during the last two years because valuations were high, they might want to shed non-core workers that they feel that they don't really "need". But they definitely don't want to l
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by ageitgey 4y ago
I'd guess your 1080p plasma also weighed 50+ pounds and consumed a few hundred watts of electricity vs. new TVs that are super light and much more energy efficient. So that's another big reason to consider upgrading from a plasma
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by ageitgey 4y ago
OpenAI just has the word "Open" in the name as a branding trick. They are not particularly more open than anyone else. They are just a company. Remember, they are the ones that didn't publish GPT-2 because it was "too da
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by ageitgey 4y ago
I can tell you from experience that VCs think of "front page of hacker news" as a positive signal for a prospective investment. There probably isn't much product recommendation comment spam here (reddit has more reach), but I
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by ageitgey 4y ago
What kind of tasks have you accomplished with ChatGPT? I'm curious because the obvious things I can think of (like scheduling a meeting) would require it to talk to other APIs. I'd love to hear what worked for you.
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by ageitgey 4y ago
In the 1920s, Ronald Knox came up with a list of "Ten Commandments" of Detective Fiction listing what wasn't fair cheating [1], getting at this exact point. So codifying what is and isn't fair cheating in detective stori
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by ageitgey 4y ago
Glass Onion takes the well-worn detective genre and creates some genuinely surprising moments by "cheating" a little with what it shows the audience. This article says it should have played it straight. I think that would have mad
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- heavier - higher torque - tire noise more noticable without engine nose - want lower rolling resistance for efficiency
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by ageitgey 4y ago
I agree that people will get used to text generation existing and it won't be as exciting. But I think people are already finding lots of use cases for it. For example, we had a case where we had thousands of technical medical descript
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by ageitgey 4y ago
Another problem with code generation is that maybe you want React code, I want static html, someone else wants Vue.js code, etc. There isn't a single standard target that everyone agrees on and the frontend landscape change so frequent
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by ageitgey 4y ago
I'm a cofounder of a start-up that is all remote but does quarterly get togethers (though attendance isn't required). I think that the software development team in general is ambivalent about them and happy to just work from home.
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by ageitgey 4y ago
There are two big markets for hydrogen: 1. It is needed to make fertilizer and in other industrial processes. This need is constant, more or less, and is not going away. We need plants to eat. 2. It can be used as a fuel (for motors, heatin
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by ageitgey 4y ago
They still just don't work very well unless you memorize very specific exact commands. The other day, we had to remember to book a school thing for the kid. I said "Hey Google, set a reminder for 9pm to [book the thing]". Goo

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