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by akavi 4y ago
I've got to wonder, how does a second player in the LLM space even get on the board? Like, this feels a lot like when the iPhone jumped out to grab the lion share of mobile. But the switching costs was much smaller (end users could jus
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by akavi 4y ago
Both "smart people have smart children" and 90% of this forum being smarter than their parents could be true if "being on this forum" was selected on intelligence. I don't have the time to work through the math conc
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by akavi 4y ago
Sorry, that was rude of me. I know it's a ton of work, and am endlessly appreciative of the work you (I assume?) and others have been doing to push this forward.
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by akavi 4y ago
Now even Java has pattern matching, what's Javascript's excuse? Literally the only feature preventing Typescript from being my perfect language.
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by akavi 4y ago
I don't know if you need to invoke ulterior motives to explain startups jumping on the biggest change to the tech landscape since the iPhone.
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by akavi 4y ago
The danger is that the opportunity academia is giving you is something more like "you’ll be given the chance to try to understand what they were doing 5 years ago".
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by akavi 4y ago
48% discount from peak valuation (95 G$ in Mar 2021). Ouch.
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by akavi 4y ago
I disagree that Spanish's /o̞/ is closer to General American's /ɔ/ than to its /ou/. But that's fundamentally a question of perception that people are going to disagree about
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by akavi 4y ago
My reading is that the "assessment" (tax) will be borne by all banks, not just the bank that fails. My gut says that the incidence will fall primarily on deposit holders (likely in the form of marginally lower interest rates), a
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by akavi 4y ago
Because if there was a run on JP Morgan, the US government would absolutely "bail out" depositors. Consolidating increases the risk of a bank run, decreases the risk to the individual depositor.
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by akavi 4y ago
To save people the math, that's 260 k$ in cash compensation (or ~mid FAANG L6 tier). I am confident in saying there were not many making more than that.
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by akavi 4y ago
You can get loans backed by the shares themselves. Ie, the lender gets x% of the shares, rather than being paid back a specific dollar amount at a later time.
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by akavi 4y ago
You're right, it's not necessarily true relative to past levels of consumption. But there's a limit to economic growth, and the choice of "paygo" vs "investment" probably only has marginal effects on the r
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by akavi 4y ago
PAYGO vs investment earnings is purely a financial construct. The central issue is that physical goods and services need to be produced around the time that they're consumed, and at a given point in time, an economy has a fixed capacit
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by akavi 4y ago
Sounds like most cholinergics then? How does it differ from racetams/uridine/huperzine in your experience, if you've tried any of those?
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by akavi 4y ago
Wikipedia suggests that "ευ" was pronounced /eu̯/ in ancient greek[0]. My suspicion is that "ευ ζην" is an Ancient Greek "fixed phrase" which is pronounced with Modern Greek phonology. [0] https:&#x2F
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by akavi 4y ago
Where are you getting an /f/ sound from? Edit: Ah, it seems the digraph "ευ" is pronounced /ef/ in Modern Greek, despite (by convention) being transliterated "eu".
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by akavi 4y ago
Naively, the category seems to be "high growth tech". So that includes both the SV megacorps and startups (which are also concentrated in the Bay Area).
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by akavi 4y ago
Are companies not allowed to stop paying wages to striking employees? Or is it that tuition remission is viewed as distinct from wages legally?
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by akavi 4y ago
Is Dan Price associated with effective altruism?
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by akavi 4y ago
Dustin Moskovitz's Good Ventures also seems to focus on more "prosaic" issues like medical research/direct cash transfers/animal welfare.
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by akavi 4y ago
I'm not sure I'd expect people with a real need for a medication to address executive dysfunction to be the set of people who persist in acquiring something when it becomes difficult to do.
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by akavi 4y ago
Freight forwarders merely subcontract to the underlying carriers, who, theoretically, are pretty commoditized. In this model, the differentiating costs for a freight forwarder is in the labor required to organize the various subcontracts, w
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by akavi 4y ago
G => SI prefix for 10^9
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by akavi 4y ago
YC-funded freight forwarding company. Basic thesis is by using tech, you can dramatically lower the labor costs of forwarding, and since freight forwarding has huge returns to scale, the benefits compound. They raised 2 G$ from 2019-2022, a
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by akavi 4y ago
Depends on the reason you need to request gender, but for in-app pronoun purposes, I'd do: [ ] male [ ] female [ ] non-binary [text box for other] And use "they" pronouns for the last two options. (Ideally you&#x
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by akavi 4y ago
I’d amend that to “whichever of python or typescript you’re most comfortable in”, but otherwise agree
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by akavi 4y ago
I don't know about SF in particular, but nationwide, yes, renters turn out to vote at a far lower rate than homeowners[0] (67% vs 49%) [0] https://www.apartmentlist.com/research/renter-voting-prefere...
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by akavi 4y ago
Will that happen faster than the shift of AI into knowledge work? Because the current trajectory has robots taking our "manipulate bits" jobs far faster than our "move atoms" ones.
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by akavi 4y ago
In my experience, there’s no such thing as too many questions, so long as they’re of good quality. The best intern I’ve ever had was would hit me every single morning with a laundry list of questions, but, crucially they were almost 100% th

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