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by avinium 8y ago
Interesting article, but it's not really clear to me what the actual application is (and this is coming from someone who started my career in law, and was recently working on using ML for contract review automation). As far as I can te
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by avinium 8y ago
I'm generally in the same boat as you (I even read my Kindle as I walk to work), with one exception - cleaning the house. My hands are occupied so I can't hold anything, and it's completely brainless work so I'm free to
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by avinium 8y ago
It’s interesting you use unit tests as an example. That’s something on which I have never actually settled my opinion. One month I conclude “nope, unit testing takes too long and offers no net benefit”. The next, I switch - “unit testing is
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by avinium 8y ago
I think this is candidate for laziest Hacker News submission ever, but I will always upvote Dune.
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The Anatomy of Zapier's Email Outreach Funnel(sweephq.com)
2 points by avinium 8y ago|0 comments
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by avinium 8y ago
I'll be honest, my brain switches off every time I read an Agile article. There's so much obfuscatory terminology - methodology, sprint, scrum master - I always feel like it's all designed to confuse middle managers into buyi
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by avinium 8y ago
I think HN might have killed it - I've been sitting at "waiting" for at least 10 minutes now :(
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by avinium 8y ago
> Is this standard in the software world? This is standard in every world. Corporate credit cards are usually reserved for senior executives or people who travel/entertain a lot (e.g. sales reps). Cash advances aren't a thing
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Will AI Achieve Consciousness? Wrong Question(wired.com)
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Choosing a Web Framework for F# in 2019(sweephq.com)
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by avinium 8y ago
The OpenAI samples are leaps and bounds ahead of traditional Markov-chain generated text. I don't think you can compare the two. It's the fluency and plausibility that gives pause around a public release. I agree with your last p
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by avinium 8y ago
> Guys, Chinese real-estate can't not implode. And badly. Having lived in China for almost 5 years (and working in property), I too held this view. The whole system defies logic. There is one key difference from the West - capital c
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by avinium 8y ago
> I do find GANs brittle. I use them for generating numeric/categorical spreadsheet data, not for images I’m interested to hear more about this. Care to elaborate?
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by avinium 8y ago
This is something I too have learned. Just because some product/feature sucks/is missing, doesn't mean it's commercially viable to address. Sometimes the market is too small or costs too much to reach. Users might legi
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by avinium 8y ago
I’ve actually been talking to a lot of people recently about these kind of concepts - figuring out what kind of problems people are having that could be solved with current levels of AI speech/language understanding. Would I be able to
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by avinium 8y ago
Out of curiosity, if you were a foreign (but remote) startup looking to set up an office in the USA - would you recommend Boston? From the perspective of sales/finance, rather than technical, if that's important.
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by avinium 8y ago
https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/07/22/
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by avinium 8y ago
“It actually takes more work to metabolize lean protein than you get back.” Is this correct? I've never heard this position before.
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by avinium 8y ago
I wouldn't call the earlier article ( https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/05/this-amazing... ) a puff piece, but it was very much banging the drum on the agricultural benefits of oat milk. This on
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by avinium 8y ago
It's incredibly easy to overlook the calorific content in fruit - I was recently taking in at least 1000 calories per day from bananas/stone fruits/etc. My rule of thumb is for vegetables to form the bulk of my intake (in ter
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by avinium 8y ago
It's not that "networking" as a concept is useless - building solid relationships helps you spread the word when you need talent, capital and opportunities, or anything really. I think the point is that "shallow networki
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by avinium 8y ago
I'm dieting at the moment (mainly trimming down after Christmas, and making some room for a winter bulk routine). Quite a few times, I've been so hungry that it interfered with my thinking. I had to eat something to get my focus
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by avinium 8y ago
"Many publishers and authors now hire “sensitivity readers” who vet books and identify harmful stereotypes." Dystopia, thy name is political correctness.
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by avinium 8y ago
If you look back now at the comments you received about limited growth potential/competition/etc, do you agree in hindsight?
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by avinium 8y ago
I disagree - your “90%/7%/3%” seems completely arbitrary. It might be appropriate for some projects but I think it’s wrong to adopt as a hard and fast rule. IMO, the correct amount of testing is the amount that lets you refactor q
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by avinium 8y ago
> It's almost as if the "largeness" of a company allows the non productive people to hide within it, all while successfully siphoning off their sustenance. Bang. You're spot on. From what I've seen, it's an
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by avinium 8y ago
> How did "having a think about things" get its own proper noun? I thought that was called "Philosophy" :)
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A quick analysis of “question time” in Australian Parliament in 2018(lexico.io)
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by avinium 8y ago
Great explanation, appreciate the effort. Will dig deeper into the provided links.
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by avinium 8y ago
My $0.02c - I opened your website and didn't immediately understand your product. It wasn't until I read the guts of your HN post that I figured it out. Maybe invest a couple of days into researching/testing different (above

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