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by blueyes 2y ago
Old news, damaging and speculative. MSFT will never let them go down.
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by blueyes 2y ago
Two other relevant links for aspiring business side founders: https://sive.rs/prog https://sive.rs/how2hire
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by blueyes 2y ago
The irony here is that business co-founders actually have at their disposal more and better tools to test a business idea without need of a technical co-founder than ever before in history. The smart ones always sold before they built, mayb
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by blueyes 2y ago
Another Luddite take from someone who clearly doesn't engage the technology directly either as a builder or a seller. It takes years to decades for new technologies to achieve their full effect. Factories based on steam had to be rebui
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by blueyes 2y ago
The real trick would be for LLMs, which currently do math very poorly, to simply send "math to be done" into a spreadsheet, and retrieve the results... (If anyone is aware of an LLM that's great at math and physics, pls lmk!!
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by blueyes 2y ago
This take is incredibly cynical and naive. It takes tremendous effort to change the basic technologies of society, and the arrival of those technologies can be accelerated or delayed by decades. To encourage a sense of complacence in the te
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by blueyes 2y ago
A Pyrrhic tradeoff.
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by blueyes 2y ago
Notable example now destroyed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhas_of_Bamiyan
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by blueyes 2y ago
I speak native English, fluent German and beginning Dutch. A few years ago I picked up a Yiddish primer. In my layman's eyes, Yiddish is indisputably a Germanic language. Learning it was like learning to read German backwards in Hebrew
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by blueyes 2y ago
See Quilter: https://www.quilter.ai
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by blueyes 2y ago
You might even call this moment in AI the Twingularity.
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by blueyes 2y ago
One of problems with trying to discuss a word like anger, which has lots of meanings, is that people talk past each other, as many are doing in this discussion. There are different kinds of anger. I have not doubt that some are useful, some
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by blueyes 2y ago
For people who like sloths, I highly recommend the Pygmy Slow Loris: https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/pygmy-slow-loris In America, you can find them at the DC zoo in a shadowed alcove under red light to simulate nigh
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by blueyes 2y ago
You don't understand. A lot of the time, founder CEOs decide their own salary, as well as that of their employees. Why would a founding CEO want to shorten their runway by paying MAANG salaries to themselves an others? It decreases the
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by blueyes 2y ago
Cyc is one of those bad ideas that won't die, and which keeps getting rediscovered on HN. Lenat wasted decades of his life on it. Knowledge graphs like Cyc are labor intensive to build and difficult to maintain. They are brittle in the
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by blueyes 3y ago
I didn't find this piece particularly compelling. As opposed to a thought piece, this is more like a feels piece with the usual gestures at how "technology is changing us", without hard numbers or proof. Not impressed!
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by blueyes 3y ago
Can someone tell me how giving government officials the right to control how AI models are trained would produce less political LLMs? What wouldn't they skew toward supporting the current regime whatever it may be? And why would it n
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by blueyes 3y ago
I like the idea of finding micro-habits, activities and relationships that are fulfilling. While Ikigai may have been repurposed by the West, its new incarnation and Venn diagram seems like a pretty valuable tool for young people to navigat
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by blueyes 3y ago
People may, but I am not. Back then, we gave them equipment for free to beat the Nazis. Today, Russia buys western equipment at a 10% markup after sanctions. As Lenin said: 'The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang
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by blueyes 3y ago
This is part of a trend. Sanctions are easy to get around. The Russian war machine runs on Western parts, much as it did in th WWII. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-got-components-w... More recently, S
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by blueyes 3y ago
Too great resources on the value of hardship: Michael Easter's The Comfort Crisis https://www.amazon.com/Comfort-Crisis-Embrace-Discomfort-Rec... A Boy Named Sue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOHPuY88
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by blueyes 3y ago
Doesn't go far enough upstream, in my opinion. There are so many things people can do to increase their neurological energy to affect things like motivation and focus. Much higher leverage than an assessment that will lead to the plabl
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by blueyes 3y ago
These are great. BJ Fogg's Tiny Habits book shows how to design behaviors using prompts like "when i enter the office, i do five pushups," or whatever makes you more productive...
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by blueyes 3y ago
typo in headline "windfallf" @dang
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by blueyes 3y ago
It's would be trivially easy to scan these streams of messages through some kind of ML classifier and identify cases of extortion before they result in suicide. Once the platforms identify the perps, they can block them from the platfo
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by blueyes 3y ago
When large groups of assets and securities go to zero, it always has a a ripple effect on markets across many other assets. That was the story of Bear and Lehman in 2008-9.
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by blueyes 3y ago
I don't think it does. I think it simply poses an analogy between religious activity and the other belief-driven activities that people constantly engage in, even when they are not actively attaching themself to a metaphysics and an af
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by blueyes 3y ago
The things people worship now, they don't call God. That doesn't always make them irreligious. I can think of more than one popular modern movement that is deistic, in that it fashions a god-like power out of some idea, a soul-lik
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by blueyes 3y ago
GenAI means we can all consume media that basically never existed before. The long tail just got about a million times longer.
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by blueyes 3y ago
She talked about physical reads as an edge and gave two aspects of finding the edge. a) she put herself in a room with her adversaries, the other poker players, and paid attention to how their behavior correlated with their hands b) she bro

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