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Show HN: Prxmpt – A JSX Framework for Prompt Engineering(github.com)
1 points by bconnorwhite 3y ago|0 comments
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by bconnorwhite 4y ago
Thanks!
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I Quit My Job as Principal Engineer to Build Online(connorwhite.dev)
3 points by bconnorwhite 4y ago|2 comments
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by bconnorwhite 5y ago
"...banks issued their own currencies, which they sometimes refused to redeem for their purported value in gold or silver." Fortunately the government stepped in with its own currency to refuse to redeem for gold
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by bconnorwhite 5y ago
https://twitter.com/sama/status/1404100794245214215
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by bconnorwhite 6y ago
The economic stimulus has certainly been a success for asset prices, in dollars...
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by bconnorwhite 6y ago
know something we don't = difference in how you price risk of various outcomes. Not necessarily new information
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by bconnorwhite 6y ago
Uber without drivers is a very different business. You get clown numbers if you try to model the profits if Tesla can make 20M cars / year
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by bconnorwhite 6y ago
Tesla's rise this year is obviously extreme, but it also traded sideways from 2013-2018. Over a decade AMZN is up 25x, TSLA 150x
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by bconnorwhite 6y ago
The problem with Tesla is that the opportunity for FSD is insane. Either the market is mispricing the risk or the shorts are, but the asymmetric upside if Tesla succeeds makes it a risky short. Asymmetric downside.
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by bconnorwhite 6y ago
The market is usually right, but the market doesn't have all the information either.
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by bconnorwhite 6y ago
"Why would one person want to reduce the ability to apply economic policy in their country?" What do you think happens to your currency when they print more of it? One problem with gold though is that we know where plenty of gold
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by bconnorwhite 6y ago
Price action would seem to agree with your typo
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by bconnorwhite 6y ago
I can't tell if you're agreeing by saying "its only been 12 years," or if you're disappointed by a 10 million % appreciation in 12 years
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by bconnorwhite 6y ago
I think the difference is that currencies fluctuate against each other, whereas if everything is priced in Bitcoin, its whatever you're pairing it against that's fluctuating. Goods (ex: loaf of bread for 200 satoshis for example)
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by bconnorwhite 6y ago
Most of the criticisms in this thread seem to be missing that Bitcoin is only layer 1. Bitcoin isn't Visa or cash - its gold. Rather than shipping gold across the Atlantic, large institutions will settle in a few minutes in Bitcoin. L2
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by bconnorwhite 6y ago
This is super common on HN. Just look at threads on Tesla. Fortunately betting against someone with a closed mind is super profitable, because they'll always mis-price the risk/reward.
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by bconnorwhite 6y ago
ML is intuition. Consider the difference between an expert system solution to chess and an ML solution to go. Go is all intuition.
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by bconnorwhite 6y ago
Would be surprised if autopilot isn't already superior to humans at avoiding cyclists. This seems like mostly an attention problem, and humans are more susceptible to not noticing the cyclist in their blind spot going into a right turn
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by bconnorwhite 6y ago
We are far too stupid to not fall for scams. It's better that the government "protects" us. /s Seriously though, this is messed up. Crypto is similar - CoinMarketCap has a program where you can earn tokens by watching a
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by bconnorwhite 6y ago
https://blog.ted.com/what-will-the-future-look-like-elon-mus... @34:15
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by bconnorwhite 6y ago
The crazy part is that Elon has said this will look like a rowboat compared to their future rockets
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by bconnorwhite 6y ago
True, but I'm not sure difficulty is as relevant if the motivation is there. You can't terraform the South Pole. Mars reopens the frontier whereas the South Pole is a dead end
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by bconnorwhite 6y ago
The other factor is that Musk has nothing better to spend his money on. With Tesla + SpaceX + Boring + Neuralink he'll likely be a trillionaire by the time Mars colonization is full swing. Even if the price was $2T instead of $200B, Mu
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by bconnorwhite 6y ago
True, but even after narrowing this, you usually end up with 3/4 of these companies in competition. Messaging? FB vs Apple vs Google Ads? FB vs Google vs Amazon Video? FB vs Google (YouTube) vs Amazon (Twitch) Especially re: Google lin
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by bconnorwhite 6y ago
The best thing about "tech monopolies" is that there are so many of them
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by bconnorwhite 6y ago
I don't think DDG is quite as simple as a wrapper on Bing, just open both in private windows. Same search => different results. The reason to use DDG isn't that its results are superior to Google/Bing (although imo this is
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by bconnorwhite 6y ago
Motivation = what you think about in the shower http://paulgraham.com/top.html The question seems to be how to keep your project top of mind. Once you're forced to stop working on your project, the context file this po
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by bconnorwhite 6y ago
Does this count as a text-only website? https://masciintosh.com/
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by bconnorwhite 6y ago
Engagement rate is measurable. The average time it takes for users to complete the action they're looking for is also measurable. Companies test this stuff, Apple isn't spending millions of dollars to redesign MacOS because Tim Co

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