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by creer 11mo ago
"Inspiration is for amateurs—the rest of us just show up and get to work." (see interesting shared history of the quote here https://quoteinvestigator.com/2022/08/28/inspiration/ ). Yeah, that
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by creer 11mo ago
> Draw 50 For me, "draw 50" series is about letting loose, NOT about skill. On the contrary, it's about exploring the space of all the different ways a prompt can be worked with in an UN-literal manner. Overall drawing fac
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by creer 11mo ago
Technical aspects to the trade are a different issue, I feel. "Wood moves, design for it" is a technical aspect of woodworking which comes up frequently. You learn about the medium (same for 3D printing, welding, electronics), and
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by creer 11mo ago
Isn't there simply a human tendency to try and find a magic formula in what is simply survivor bias? As creative projects (software, painting...) we finish or satisfactorily achieve relatively few items. And except for the most repetit
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by creer 11mo ago
Regarding "IP lawyers", patent filing and univerity IP licensing are rather different domains of activity. Find relevant laywers.
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by creer 11mo ago
Besides talking to a relevant lawyer and finishing your PhD... 1) Talk to other people who have gone through the adventure and get some idea of how it went for them. Both before they finished the PhD and after they started their business. C
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by creer 11mo ago
Palantir is an AI stock?
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by creer 11mo ago
I don't know that most people think about that at all. For me, I have learned not to dismiss the remuninating, reordering, reframing that my brain performs without me deliberately reasoning line by line about it. Limiting my brain to d
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by creer 11mo ago
Interesting, you think the associations your brain comes up with during sleep are NOT thinking?
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by creer 11mo ago
That might be the case if nvidia commonly invested in its customers - if they suddenly stopped doing that - but I don't think that was the case. On the contrary, these investments surprised because they were NOT the usual.
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by creer 11mo ago
> Given how much click fraud there is [etc] It's easy for the techies to see the problems. But advertising results have been very measurable for a very long time by now. Larger advertisers can leave the details to their techies and
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by creer 11mo ago
> They know this madness can't go on forever. If they thought that, would they invest massively in the companies that own all these GPUs? They would not. They would invest in anything ELSE they could think of.
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by creer 11mo ago
> - Nvidia also benefits from growth due to the equity they own. aka this might be nvidia's next pivot. Contrary to gaming cards, the AI GPUs are productive assets. If nvidia feels that they will be very productive, then it makes se
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by creer 11mo ago
> How about positive mindshare? Does anyone who can afford an nvidia card actually buy something else? Yes some people hate nvidia, but it's not like they have a hard time selling cards.
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by creer 1y ago
Except "taste before skill" is a well known issue and source of frustration for starting artists: They can already see what's good and they know what they want to do, but they don't yet have skill in measure with their t
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by creer 1y ago
Either somebody somewhere screens for competence, education, skill, talent, even bare willingness to do the work - or the project will suffer. Adding a level of indirection doesn't wolve that.
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by creer 1y ago
> At the Shreveport facility, more than 160 people work as robotics technicians, and they make at least $24.45 an hour. Most of Shreveport’s 2,000 employees are regular hourly workers, whose pay starts at $19.50. And this is for a protot
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by creer 1y ago
> Battery status 44% down from 63% yesterday but yeah, really good!
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by creer 1y ago
At the bottom of the page: Battery status 63%, not charging Power used 2.69W Uptime 5 weeks, 11 hours, 36 minutes Traffic from HN may be a problem today...
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by creer 1y ago
Even in San Francisco, it has everything to do with artificial goofy zoning. It's not like the city lacks the space to spread out. (NYC also - but less so.)
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by creer 1y ago
> What will happen to democracy in a world where 100% of the population are 27/7 consumers? What does the one have to do with the other? But even then, currently plenty of people find their fun in creating - when it's not their
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by creer 1y ago
I would hope mostly what doesn't do well is useless titles - like one word, or a pithy joke that makes sense only in retrospect. Unfortunately there is also that guidelines which discourages doing better.
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Board game design diary: The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship(leacock.com)
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by creer 1y ago
> couldn’t the companies with excess profits just pay they employees more Would that improve productivity (for that company)? Do most people refuse to work for Apple because it doesn't pay enough? Is apple limited by lack of product
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by creer 1y ago
> Jobs was always thinking Apple could do better with the money in R&D > Jobs wasn’t one to listen to anybody, so it did not matter. It did matter. Jobs was wrong. Apple indeed couldn't do better. It's not even that Appl
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by creer 1y ago
> how far behind they are. If anything, I would still count this one in the "refreshing" column. SpaceX has been having difficulties with several launches and with permitting - and yet, construction continues; Launches continue
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by creer 1y ago
This launch got a massive amount of ad time for starlink. But as advertising goes, I'm not complaining about that one - just that saying that the PR was pretty thick there.
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by creer 1y ago
I feel both Airbnb and hotels.com and such took off because they offer discovery. It was always possible for individuals to offer rooms. And they did. And it was hard to find them.
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by creer 1y ago
That's confusing things. There are bad, good and great hotels. There are bad, good and great airbnbs. The problem is what will the management of that place do or try to get away with; what can the client do; what can the intermediary &
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by creer 1y ago
More usefully, constantly looking at "forever" while living at human life time scales and engineering and scientific progress time scales - is absurd.

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