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by carlossouza 3y ago
And what’s more data to a model if not patches that inflate performance? The more data we use to train a model (or as you said, the more patches we use), the better it’s performance will be.
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by carlossouza 3y ago
Yes, probably. But isn’t GitHub Copilot, Jasper, Perplexity and other great apps as well? Judging from the engagement in their slack channel, it looks like they are onto something.
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by carlossouza 3y ago
As a digital art piece, it’s amazing! (As a practical tool, not so much…)
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by carlossouza 3y ago
> Third, book recommendation systems based on your reading history can be helpful, but only so much. Book recommendation systems should be a hybrid system with content-based filtering and collaborative filtering systems. Reading history
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by carlossouza 3y ago
I don’t think it’s that simple. Kahneman and Tversky identified several cognitive shortcuts (heuristics) that people use to make judgments and decisions, which can lead to systematic errors (biases)... often leading to irrational decision-m
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by carlossouza 3y ago
Do you guys think the non-commercial web will ever achieve critical mass to tilt the scale in its favor and spark a chain reaction to drive flocks of people out of the commercial web? A refreshing thing about the non-commercial web is the f
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by carlossouza 3y ago
Isn’t Copilot a killer app?!
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by carlossouza 3y ago
Oh, one-time-fee products are so much better for users!
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by carlossouza 3y ago
I'll update my beliefs after your data point :) Congrats on EmailOctopus; it looks like a nice product!
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by carlossouza 3y ago
I think there are some good ideas here, but the target audience imho is not clear. Email marketing cheaper is a great attention grabber: kudos for the good copywriting. Step 1: Link to AWS SES... humm, for that your target audience must be
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by carlossouza 3y ago
Clickbait article. Implying that project-based learning fails is like saying the practice of learning to play whole pieces of music on piano fails (to use the same comparison the author has used.) Staying on the author's comparison: to
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by carlossouza 3y ago
Yes
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by carlossouza 3y ago
Wait until 40. It hits harder.
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by carlossouza 3y ago
> I became a dev when everyone was hiring for React, so React is what I taught myself immediately after bootcamp in the scramble for a job A better education path (in a bootcamp, university, book, youtube, whatever) would start with th
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by carlossouza 3y ago
I disagree... there are more ways you can use this matrix to creatively extract information out of it. For instance, you can normalize along the columns, and build a "recommender system" using matrix factorization. With that, when
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by carlossouza 3y ago
Imagine you are a screenwriter, and you are writing a fiction script, reimagining events in the past (e.g. Inglorious Bastards).. I wonder what this product would answer when asked how the WW2 ended. How would this source-grounding mechanis
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by carlossouza 3y ago
“Don’t be evil” + “Move fast and break things” culture at its finest… What the heck did these companies become!?
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by carlossouza 3y ago
A) Our human brains are hardwired to trust others[1]. We are not programmed to question, probe, or doubt. We want to believe. B) Moreover, our brains are also hardwired to storytelling[2][3]. When presented with a nice narrative, we feel re
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by carlossouza 3y ago
Curiously, Facebook announced buying Instagram a few weeks after this email. And Instagram, under Facebook's leadership, apparently adopted Renren's "strong culture of cloning things" to the letter: first targeting Snapc
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by carlossouza 3y ago
I can only imagine 2 use cases right now: 1. You are a celebrity or influencer and you are trying to “colonize” the place 2. You have a business that sells products or services to this people: celebs and influencers are your primary target
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by carlossouza 3y ago
Makes you wonder about Jack’s luck/skill ratio in Twitter launch. After seeing Bluesky so far, it may be higher than what most thought…
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by carlossouza 3y ago
Sure! One of the hottest ones is called Zak. They just received a $15 million check from Tiger Global and other top VC funds in Latin America. Here are some news articles in English: https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/
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by carlossouza 3y ago
If the restaurant's idea is your idea, it is a good business. But the real money is not on the monthly fee you will charge restaurants to update their menus. That you can give for free. The money is in automating their purchases and de
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by carlossouza 3y ago
Advertisers are persuaded by underpriced attention. In the beginning, every social network tends to offer that. (Some call it attention arbitrage.) To drive a critical mass of users, social networks offer incentives to content creators so t
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by carlossouza 3y ago
Although I enjoy reading his essays, yes, they tend to be longer than usual. I wonder whether he uses an editor to provide constructive feedback before publishing it or just writes and clicks "publish." Interestingly, I found that
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by carlossouza 3y ago
Remember that the most downloaded app in Apple Store’s first year was this infantile thing called iBeer… it actually hit the mark of $20k of sales/day This was an extreme bizarre example, but most mobile apps from the first wave were
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by carlossouza 3y ago
This is one of the best ChatGPT use cases: creating regex complex patterns
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by carlossouza 3y ago
Sure: one was a head trader for a specific prop trading desk, and the other was an executive director. The GTM: the end customers are hedge funds/institutional investors, which are pretty hard to approach directly. So, we developed a B
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by carlossouza 3y ago
Exactly. I started one. 2 of my cofounders had 15+ years (each) of experience in Credit Suisse and Santander. They knew everything and everyone. Without them, it would be pretty hard to validate the idea (and basically impossible to sell).
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by carlossouza 3y ago
Metadata is necessary but not sufficient. Imho there aren't enough tools to discover scientific data.

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