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by davedx 2y ago
Freelancers.
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by davedx 2y ago
What, how do you know all this?
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by davedx 2y ago
Ha for important meetings I look into the camera for this reason
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by davedx 2y ago
$5M/year? In the US maybe. A team of 5 senior freelancers in Europe will cost about 150-200k per person.
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by davedx 2y ago
It depends! I've probably stuck around longer term more often than not. You can also write contracts that enforce the term if you want. Agree on things like this up front.
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by davedx 2y ago
Not my experience: freelancers have often built the initial versions of a product that have then become the permanent version. Even products that start as prototypes, if not total trash, often end up evolving into real software projects. Wh
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by davedx 2y ago
The same way as with permanent employees. Agree on technical standards and documentation policies from the start. Build a good engineering culture.
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by davedx 2y ago
I've worked as a freelancer for a while, and have often worked with mixes of freelancers, permanent employees and everything in between. I think there's a big difference between bringing on a boutique consulting shop and hiring fr
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by davedx 2y ago
That's the whole point - at this point they don't know if they want to build out a full team. Start small and measure progress, you can always add permanent employees along the way. (We did this too)
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by davedx 2y ago
Yes! This also happened in the team I mentioned. Sometimes during design/architecture meetings we'd run into the "too many chiefs" problem. That's why I think it's also important to make clear who the lead is f
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by davedx 2y ago
IME what works best getting new projects kick started is hiring a very small team of senior freelancers, making one of them lead, and letting them loose. I worked on such a team once and it was really excellent. The advantage of this strate
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Tsutomu Yamaguchi(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by davedx 2y ago|0 comments
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by davedx 2y ago
"Skill issue"
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by davedx 2y ago
Sent this to a friend who's a realtor. Good luck!
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by davedx 2y ago
It really depends on who is in charge. I'm reading Kissinger's "On China" at the moment, and Mao, who led the most populous country on Earth for a significant time, was way more motivated by ideology and the notion that
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by davedx 2y ago
I'm pretty interested in the theorem proving/scientific research aspect of this. Do you think it's possible that some version of LLM technology could discover new physical theories (that are experimentally verifiable), like f
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by davedx 2y ago
Yeah we parked across from the Exploratorium near there for several hours and it was fine, I didn’t think to consult crime heat maps before visiting, just followed standard common sense of not leaving visible ipads etc in the car. What is t
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by davedx 2y ago
As a tourist in SF recently I was interested in seeing the whole city, warts and all, and I did. I don't really understand why as a tourist you'd want to use this map for a short trip, unless you were going somewhere that's a
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by davedx 2y ago
Llms are indeed non deterministic
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by davedx 2y ago
Freakonomics have done some interesting coverage of the opioid epidemic and how spending more money on it doesn't necessarily lead to better outcomes. Having listened to what different people say about it, I'm not so sure that &qu
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by davedx 2y ago
Because commercial real estate is just booming right now, right? People are fighting for that office space!
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by davedx 2y ago
I'm not a fan, I don't follow him, I just have my timeline on "Following" and almost never see any Elon content unless I look for it. I follow a small carefully curated list of people and still get value from the site.
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by davedx 2y ago
What do you think the city should do with the tent communities?
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Extropic thermodynamic computing substrate reveal(twitter.com)
3 points by davedx 2y ago|0 comments
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by davedx 2y ago
Isn’t this an issue with the spam filter more than the AI? Why should the AI be doing spam filtering? They’re two different things (The spam filter might use statistical or ML methods of course but it’s a different software?)
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by davedx 2y ago
Clickbait title, IMO
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by davedx 2y ago
Ha, you might enjoy The Drowned World
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by davedx 2y ago
Maybe they should have installed CrowdStrike
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by davedx 2y ago
Yup. Fascinating stuff really. Kind of like mnemonics for LLM's, if you squint a bit.
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by davedx 2y ago
This seems highly relevant: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.01506 > In this paper, we study the two foundational questions in this area. First, how are categorical concepts, such as {'mammal', 'bird',

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