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by choxi 4y ago
I think maybe the fundamental hard thing about startups is that you can’t ignore the problem space or the solution space. It’s not like Bezos was passionate about selling cheap books for years before Amazon, he saw that this new Internet th
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by choxi 4y ago
Are there better channels/forums?
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by choxi 4y ago
https://archive.ph/2022.09.01-120641/https://www.economist.c...
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by choxi 4y ago
Did you set up your own infrastructure? I’ve been looking for a Heroku-like service to deploy some of these GPU intensive models
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by choxi 4y ago
I think the overpolished and analytics-driven media personalities left a vacuum for an authentic voice to fill. Someone would have filled it, and it happened to be Joe. It’s not like someone sufficiently motivated could repeat his success t
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by choxi 4y ago
I love this, there are so many interesting questions and challenges in the area of how humans will interact with AI. To me the correct model is to think of intelligence as a resource like compute as opposed to a personified computer, which
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by choxi 4y ago
You can integrate UIKit into SwiftUI, I always found that to be a pretty general purpose fallback on any missing functionality in SwiftUI.
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by choxi 4y ago
Are the claims about the shortest distance, maximum force, and shortest instant of time all undisputed? Makes the universe seem really discrete and simulation-y.
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by choxi 4y ago
How does that square with this Nature paper claiming the tree coverage is increasing globally? https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0411-9
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by choxi 4y ago
Apple didn’t end up rolling out the CSAM scanning, but a new EU law might require them to: https://9to5mac.com/2022/05/11/apples-csam-troubles-may-be-b...
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by choxi 4y ago
It looks like this email is to the executive staff, not the entire company.
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by choxi 4y ago
Does Apple count as a nanotech company?
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by choxi 4y ago
But as long as it’s a percentage it shouldn’t matter if it’s a micro or macro transaction Edit: my mistake was assuming any taxes are simple, see here for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31389210
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by choxi 4y ago
Art imitates nature. All ideas are remixes of previous ideas, and ideas are ultimately rooted in observations from nature. A human mind in a vacuum wouldn’t be able to create anything.
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by choxi 4y ago
Any idea how this compares to the nano-hydroxyapatite that’s used in some non-US toothpastes?
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by choxi 4y ago
I recently learned that everything we know about Alexander the Great comes from ~5 accounts written by people who lived hundreds of years after Alexander died: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historiography_of_Alexander_t
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by choxi 4y ago
I used to think the cliche of the “sensitive artist” meant that artists were more emotional or dramatic. I see it now as they’re literally more sensitive, as in the mental experience of their senses is higher resolution or prone to intense
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by choxi 5y ago
Could I get a link/invite to the Chicago one? Email is in my bio
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by choxi 5y ago
Does all the 1.7GB of the decoded video get copied to the GPU? Or is there some playback controller that knows how to read the “delta format” from the codecs and only copies deltas to the framebuffer? It still blows my mind that we can stre
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by choxi 5y ago
This is a large part of the plot in The Three Body Problem
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A Search for Analogs of Boyajian's Star: A Second List of Candidates(arxiv.org)
57 points by choxi 5y ago|16 comments
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DARPA Funded Researchers Accidentally Create the World’s First Warp Bubble(thedebrief.org)
56 points by choxi 5y ago|10 comments
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by choxi 5y ago
I had mild to medium sleep apnea where for a couple years I was probably only sleeping 4-6 hours a night. One day I separated my shoulder playing football and the only way I could sleep was on my back, but this made the sleep apnea much wor
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by choxi 5y ago
The followup is very much worth the read
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by choxi 5y ago
I tried email signup and got stuck on the signup page as well
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by choxi 5y ago
Is there any good research to support "introvert vs extrovert is more determined by where you get your energy from" or is it just one of those folk wisdoms like power posing and ego depletion?
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by choxi 5y ago
This would be cool if they added a prediction market on top of this. It doesn't necessarily need to be a market, but I would love to track falsifiable predictions that journalists make so I know which ones have a track record of being
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by choxi 5y ago
That might be a factor, but given that they all failed at about the same time I think there's a good chance that timing is just as important. Adding billions of people to the internet and mass adoption of smartphones may have been nece
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by choxi 5y ago
A lot of the famous dot com busts were basically just ahead of their time: https://money.cnn.com/galleries/2010/technology/1003/gallery... To me these all sound like predecessors to Facebook, Amazon, and
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by choxi 5y ago
I wrote a blog post about the same idea just last week, hope it’s ok to share here: https://choxi.github.io/three-body-problems The Grand Problem of Complexity is a good name for it.

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