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by bfeynman 4y ago
Eery if you replace "SPACs" here with Startups and VCs... isn't that how YC works as well? They buy revenue for all their startups and then offload it on new investors they bring in....
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by bfeynman 4y ago
Waiting until the economy hemorrhaged and adding means testing on loan forgiveness was the equivalent of shooting yourself in the foot at the starting line. If they did this early pandemic no one would've batted an eye as govt was pri
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by bfeynman 4y ago
Does anyone use Quora anymore? The website is just filled with trash and ads literally everywhere. It's unreadable.
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by bfeynman 4y ago
Very familiar with region. Even during summer its large group of kids that trade on and off for a few hours at a time.
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by bfeynman 4y ago
This is embarrassing for the economist. The premise here is based on laughable stat they make hundreds per day, which is definitely not true. It's also just illegal, so any valid replacement of time is a worthy gain, but you can&#x27
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by bfeynman 4y ago
SPACs have been cooked since last year. The fact people are still doing it now during the worst time to make any public offering shows that they are completely out of options and need to cash out.
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by bfeynman 4y ago
Always knew Scale AI was complete BS and overvalued, the lack of controls and oversight is embarrassing, I can't believe they have govt contracts.
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by bfeynman 4y ago
If you're deploying XGboost and small classifiers, or even now on larger models but just using high level interface like just hugging face I would say monorepo makes sense. With considerably large custom models with experimentation and
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by bfeynman 4y ago
The latter part is exactly what this is going to be doing. Same way that in AWS CDK you can get higher level constructs that can vend more secure resources. The goal is to make that even more fluent, across different infra deployment arch
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by bfeynman 4y ago
That is some next level tin foil hat wearing
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by bfeynman 4y ago
these fail for a variety of reasons. The dead simple answer is that people who are trying to sell these are doing it off of a gimmick because to truly do this as the commenter suggested is nearly impossible if you are trying to offer an ac
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by bfeynman 4y ago
not that long ago there was a trending article on HN about how abstraction was expensive. It is exceedingly difficult to determine and offer the right interfaces for these that can have many different downstream implementations. Definitel
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by bfeynman 4y ago
Something that's a common trope in intelligence/security industries - If you know a vulnerability, you're only going to be able to execute it publicly once. This will be denylisted shortly, not to mention that it costs like
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by bfeynman 4y ago
I have stopped reading HN as much now due to how much spam is on it about twitter. It's mind boggling and almost funny how egotistical and sycophantic all these silicon valley people think that: 1. People care about twitter. Too many
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by bfeynman 4y ago
Seems like there should be a product that just lets you generate your own website experience for exposing a dumb prompt engineering of a open sourced model. This literally just takes input and prompts "what is this text about".
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by bfeynman 4y ago
This news didn't surprise me at all. Academics and research scientists on teams like this are very far removed from driving revenue and understanding the value you provide. It's just as likely that the teams they saved costs for
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by bfeynman 4y ago
I too found it surprising. DoorDash has always been _fundamentally_ unprofitable with their business model. The fact they are doing layoffs rather late into the first layoff cycle seems like it's completely on a whim. Not much of th
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by bfeynman 4y ago
This is one of the most hilarious comments I've ever read. Please, tell me what you think of Theranos
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by bfeynman 4y ago
Is it a joke that there is genuine interest in giving them billions of dollars to revive FTX, let alone see any returns on that investment? It's a genuine question seeing as crypto space has all this MAD going around that needs to pro
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The article doesn't divulge actual usage details, but Alexa does have incredible market share given that both google and apple probably are counting android/ios users as users. I have never seen anyone use google voice assistant
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by bfeynman 4y ago
My 2 cents - Home flipping is fundamentally unscalable due to how convoluted and complex residential markets are. These companies need to scale in order for it be profitable. However you can't apply a logistic regression equation t