dpflan

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   by dpflan 3y ago

   I too would like to know, not entirely discount it like some are.
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   by dpflan 3y ago

   I mean, wasn't there an "Inflation Reduction Act" passed ~1 year ago...seems pretty correlated? and no mention in the article?
3. 453.▲
   by dpflan 3y ago

   Yes, commoditize the competition.
4. 454.▲
   by dpflan 3y ago

   I don’t know, maybe they don’t need to monetize their model? I don’t know if they have to, they need their models to be the best and to support their core business of ads, anything that keeps users on their platform for any reason is their
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   The Pulse: VanMoof (ebike company) files for bankruptcy protection(newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)

   1 points by dpflan 3y ago|0 comments
6. 456.▲
   by dpflan 3y ago

   So a derivatives market for betting an investment's success? Would that be effectively, a market for the (private) investment's stock?
7. 457.▲
   by dpflan 3y ago

   Thank you. Now do CSI. There must be some aggregate of this type of stuff (tumblr RIP)?
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   by dpflan 3y ago

   Yes, that's the point now for competing AI research-for-profit companies, whatever metric is technical and sounds important, is going to be used in marketing and valuation determinations. It will be explored for research I'm sure,
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   by dpflan 3y ago

   The lead author of the paper, Sven Dorkenwald, shared more resources on Twitter. Here are excerpts: """ We are releasing a whole-brain connectome of the fruit fly, including ~130k annotated neurons and tens of millions of typ
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    Comedy of the Commons: Nomadic Spirituality and the Burning Man Festival [pdf](www3.nd.edu)

    2 points by dpflan 3y ago|1 comments
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    by dpflan 3y ago

    Isn’t a requirement to have not taken the substance prior to the experiment? Hence placebo effect is possible.
12. 462.▲
    by dpflan 3y ago

    Devil's Advocate: what are the counter examples for her x-ray vision for character?
13. 463.▲
    by dpflan 3y ago

    "RHEL", Is it pronounced something like "R-Hail"?
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    by dpflan 3y ago

    Paywalled. Here is another related article: https://cryptoslate.com/edx-markets-the-institutional-crypto... """ EDX Markets, a non-custodial cryptocurrency exchange backed by Citadel Securities, Fidelity Inve
15. 465.▲
    by dpflan 3y ago

    It is certainly strategic to make their AI the most accessible platform for building with AI. Plus the reach of their social networks can put AI improvements that are made elsewhere into their own models and then into their software and to
16. 466.▲
    by dpflan 3y ago

    $113M seed at $260M valuation -- a seed round that values the company at ~2x, is that conservative or expected?
17. 467.▲
    by dpflan 3y ago

    Thanks for the article.
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    by dpflan 3y ago

    Sure, PE is bigger than this. But isn’t the issue people are having is that this “failure” isn’t a failure (PE gains something)…it’s part of doing business as a PE firm?
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    by dpflan 3y ago

    Hm, sure, yes "labels" is better. But labels are just a way to group birthdates which then can be mapped backed to generational labels. So, oligarchs made in 1989-1994, when were they born? They seem to be older than the generatio
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    by dpflan 3y ago

    A basic HN Search yields some interesting top articles: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... The Atlantic: When Private Equity Firms Bankrupt Their Own Companies https://
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    by dpflan 3y ago

    How does PE survive? If these companies become instruments and now forced into bankruptcy, the PE must write off the bankruptcy (some economic advantage must exist for this path). But then the PE has to move on and find another company to p
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    by dpflan 3y ago

    Here is the paper: Self-Supervised Learning from Images with a Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture ( https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.08243 )
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    by dpflan 3y ago

    What generational label are the oligarchs? Wealth compounds, does it not take timing and opportunity to achieve elite/oligarchic power?
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    by dpflan 3y ago

    Timing is a big deal; the economic system favored those of earlier generations (also when fewer people lived), and now I think we basically have to wait for Boomer generation to cede influence -- they were dealt a nice economic hand and cap
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    by dpflan 3y ago

    From the Article: Top open-source alternatives to GPT models 1. LLaMa 2. OPT 3. MPT-7B 4. GPT-J & GPT-NeoX 5. Dolly Top open-source alternatives to ChatGPT 1. Alpaca 2. Vicuna 3. GPT4All 4. OpenAssistant Or go look at HuggingFace’s Open
26. 476.▲
    by dpflan 3y ago

    This Netflix documentary on the Unabomber was pretty interesting; there are other sources I'm sure, but this seemed good. His participation in a multi-year Harvard psychology study was a fascinating facet to the story and his developme
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    by dpflan 3y ago

    Is the SPAC exit still a relevant strategy these days?
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    by dpflan 3y ago

    Maybe grad students...
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    by dpflan 3y ago

    Here are more related HN posts 1. Banking on the Seaweed Rush - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35322725 2. Ocean Farming: Seaweed is having its moment in the sun - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=
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    by dpflan 3y ago

    "But if they can stick with it for long enough for the price to come down" -- Right, probably depends upon demand initially, they are determining demand for this kind of thing. At different scales, supply chain prices change.