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by andyxor 5y ago
also I think there is great B2B opportunity is providing PM as a service in post-COVID world. Now tech companies hire a legion of PMs with no particular domain or tech skills just to repeat the same standup/sprint routine on daily&#x2F
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by andyxor 5y ago
I like it! may be add an option for users to group themselves by the type of work, i.e. coders with coders, writers with writers, let them optionally choose the kind of co-workers they want (or default to a random mix of strangers in "
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by andyxor 5y ago
not everything you disagree with is a "conspiracy" these corrupt to the bone government vendors deserve some disruption, great opportunity for startups to enter the space.
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by andyxor 5y ago
I hope they succeed
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by andyxor 5y ago
is there a good way to "short" this industry of bullshit artists, via options or something
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by andyxor 5y ago
the author is "buzzfeed tech reporter"
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by andyxor 5y ago
it's buzzfeed clickbait, they know their audience
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Hiding books, buying burqas: Kandahar prepares for Taliban rule(archive.ph)
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by andyxor 5y ago
the only thing worse than working for an "A+ on a hard problem" is competing on a hard problem in a crowded space. Mandatory "You and Your Research" by Richard Hamming: https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robin
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by andyxor 5y ago
how much would it cost to terraform Mars
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by andyxor 5y ago
i've rented model X with the latest FSD a few weeks ago and even simple things like lane detection are very inconsistent and unpredictable. I don't know if this "AI" has any sort of quality control, but how difficult is
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by andyxor 5y ago
isn't it the same story repeating over and over, such as previous withdrawals from Afghanistan, not just by the US but Soviet Union as well, and going back all the way to the Anglo-Afghan Wars. I mean, the way it was (mis-)managed tac
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Some of the best weightlifting advice from Olympic medalist Dmitry Klokov(youtube.com)
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by andyxor 5y ago
yes, that project was so influential in developing computer science, it determined almost all subsequent AI efforts from symbolic AI to the recent revival of ANNs. Those influential 1950s seminars contributed to the current treatment of AI
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by andyxor 5y ago
> 3. how can a set of (hypothetical) neurons be arranged so as to form concepts. > 6. machine methods of forming abstractions from sensory and other data. Still unsolved after 66 years, the problem indeed "needs more theoretical
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by andyxor 5y ago
this could've been the source of the biblical flood story inherited from ancient Mesopotamian legends https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_myth Sumerian is a language isolate unlike any other neighbor languages an
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by andyxor 5y ago
not really, just falling into wikipedia & youtube rabbit hole, just found out that the biblical 'Cain & Abel' story could be an echo of earlier Sumerian myth of the Courtship of Inanna and Dumuzid, or even earlier one of t
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by andyxor 5y ago
this is just 30km from Ur, I thought Akkad capital was more to the north , in the traditionally Akkadian territory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akkadian_Empire#/media/File:Em... btw this is great series on t
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Archaeologists discover 4k-year-old ancient city in Iraqi desert(theartnewspaper.com)
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Aliens Will Be Bear-Size, According to Math(livescience.com)
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The Structure of Systematicity in the Brain(arxiv.org)
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Did archaeologists find the Trojan Horse?(jpost.com)
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by andyxor 5y ago
assemble it in space, on low earth orbit (LEO) with many trips of e.g. SpaceX Starship, kind of like the international space station was assembled piece by piece over time.
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by andyxor 5y ago
exactly, all these old estimates need to be revised in SpaceX era. We are living in unprecedented times when a private company does something that was previously only possible with global superpower resources.
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by andyxor 5y ago
when Kissinger writes books on AI and Uber driver asks for AI stock recommendations it's time to go short on AI
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by andyxor 5y ago
also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propuls...
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by andyxor 5y ago
that's not the future, these large language models have no understanding of language, they repeat the most frequently occurring patterns like parrots. They miss this whole thing called semantics.
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by andyxor 5y ago
nuclear pulse propulsion such as in the 1950s project Orion designs was estimated to be around 6000sec (theoretically up to 100k sec) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_pulse_propulsion
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US job openings soar to 10M for first time as companies struggle to hire(nypost.com)
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by andyxor 5y ago
why would someone decide for others what they want or don't want? you can get a paying gig with apps even if you don't have a stable job record, prior convictions, bad credit, history of addiction or mental health issues or whatno

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