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by bricemo 5y ago
There was a startup called ChaCha that was a real live human answering every query in real time. They would chat with you and find you exactly what you were looking for. In the beginning it was amazing, but then they couldn’t figure out how
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by bricemo 5y ago
Time to build.
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by bricemo 5y ago
Some side by side comparisons just now: "pizza near me" - Google suggested a well rated place within 5 miles. DuckDuckGo suggested a pizza place 91 miles away?? "busted kids lip" - Google says gauze and a cold pack. Duck
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by bricemo 5y ago
thanks for engaging, I'm trying to understand. can you give a specific example of a search query, and the ideal URL you think you should get as a result (that google is missing)? what is one query<->result example of a gap these
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by bricemo 5y ago
Agreed. When people say they Google is returning poor results, I can never get an answer of what specific URL people actually want. Just general unhappiness and some mythical, vague, ideal result.
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by bricemo 5y ago
I searched for "pizza near me". Google shows me several pizza places within a 2 mile distance. Alexandria gave me the link to papajohns.com.
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by bricemo 5y ago
You can just append “Reddit” or “stackoverflow”, you don’t need to write “site:Reddit.com”
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by bricemo 5y ago
I’ve always wanted the mechanical keyboard crowd to stretch further. Where is the keyboard made of pipes and water? Made of plants? The air keyboard that uses LED sensors and light to type? Keyboard gloves? An old typewriter turned into a m
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by bricemo 5y ago
“Prices could reach $240/barrel” Eyeballing the historical relationship between Brent crude and gas pump prices, that would mean $9.00/gallon: https://www.macrotrends.net/2501/crude-oil-vs-gasoline-price...
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by bricemo 5y ago
This opinion seems uninformed about a great body of research that has been done around standards-based grading. Stanford has led a lot of this and a family member of mine has collaborated with them on successful field studies in school dist
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by bricemo 5y ago
27% of the universe is totally unknown (dark matter) and another 68% is totally unknown (dark energy), leaving only 5% of our universe that is explained by the standard model. Feels very epicycle-ish and ripe for a major shift.
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by bricemo 5y ago
Since Stephen Hawking’s movement was limited for much of his life, he claimed that he had learned to do more math quickly in his head via visualizing geometry. Seems similar.
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by bricemo 5y ago
I have started saying aloud “Someone on the internet is saying something I disagree with, and it’s making me upset”. I say this whenever I notice it happening. It immediately makes me realize how silly it is for this to take up my time, and
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by bricemo 5y ago
My personal pet theory for this has always been that the United States was founded by lawyers. Thomas Jefferson, John Jay, John Adams, and Alexander Hamilton were all attorneys. Of course this doesn’t speak to the rise of lawsuits as an ind
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by bricemo 5y ago
Help me out: I have such a hard time understanding this line of argument. What search result do people want when they look for a recipe? A site without ads? You can pay for that, there are lots of premium great sites. News without ads? Buy
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by bricemo 5y ago
I think the point is that the nature of software is that these nonsensical questions are “asked” by the code all the time. Data migration, different teams using different formats, user interfaces with imperfect translations, and other scena
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by bricemo 5y ago
What do you think then is the difference between going from 50th to 99.9th percentile in their other domains? Is there something materially different between ago, protein folding, or coding? (I don’t know the answer, just curious if anyone
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by bricemo 5y ago
Agree. If an AI could code within the top 1%, every single person whose career touches code would have their lives completely upended. If that’s only 5 years out…ooof.
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by bricemo 5y ago
I’m more impressed that James was able to just write up an excerpt from someone else’s podcast and make it to the top of hacker news
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by bricemo 5y ago
The Information is the best long form content on tech news and analysis that I believe exists. Pricey but worth it. Surprised no one else has mentioned it.
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Working with Zuck (2010)(m.facebook.com)
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by bricemo 5y ago
I’m hoping that the success of the “Ask Iwata” book leads to someone writing a Miyamoto book. That tiny team at Nintendo basically invented the modern games industry after it had crashed from Atari. It’s always great to hear details of what
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by bricemo 5y ago
His example of his NFT that gets shut down is showing that because of this layer of centralization, anything that can happen to normal assets can happen to blockchain. Governments can force OpenSea to take your NFTs, OpenSea can delete your
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by bricemo 5y ago
But then it’s just back to trust based web2, you’re trusting internet archive. That’s his point: this isn’t leading to trust less decentralization in practice. To do that, you’d have to store the NFT data on chain, which is prohibitively ex
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by bricemo 5y ago
The line “if you can meet with triumph and disaster, and treat those two imposters just the same” is above the door entering Centre Court at Wimbledon. When I was younger I didn’t understand it, but with the context of the rest of the poem
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by bricemo 5y ago
The Long Now Foundation has spent a lot of time thinking about this. They have designed and implemented clocks built to last 10,000 years. I doubt anyone else has spent as much time and effort solving this problem, so I’d suggest something
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by bricemo 5y ago
Except increase in supply in chips takes 3-5 years
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by bricemo 5y ago
What are some things you saw that made you feel it wasn’t improving or less healthy?
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by bricemo 5y ago
This is the opposite of what the article is saying. The economy was getting scary so people headed out on their own. Did you mean to say “when people have nothing to fall back on”?
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by bricemo 5y ago
I’ll just assume everyone here is a fan and share some great playlists: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0wIjGv5BH8dRETiikmormc?si=... https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2ALbeqn1aDPutYOozVRres?si=.

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