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Real-World Gen AI Use Cases(cloud.google.com)
2 points by drc500free 2y ago|0 comments
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by drc500free 2y ago
I agree with a lot of this, but disagree with the final conclusion that Product shouldn't define what is going to be built. Everything listed in TFA is something a good PM and a product-minded engineer collaborate and iterate on. At th
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How the Product Bubble Burst(coldwaters.substack.com)
20 points by drc500free 2y ago|0 comments
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by drc500free 2y ago
Almost 10 years ago, I ran a media sentiment analytics product that worked on hand coding. Everything automated that we tested - and that our competitors tried to launch - output garbage. The status quo for media analysis was either averagi
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by drc500free 3y ago
Absolutely. It's become almost trite at this point to note that "all models are wrong; some models are useful," but it's true and the MVP is one of the better ones. The difficulty is the same one Agile has - the model ha
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by drc500free 3y ago
It can be a mixed bag, and I personally don't take stims anymore. But avoidance of medication just makes me thinks of the deaf people who oppose treatment because they worry they wouldn't be culturally deaf anymore.
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by drc500free 3y ago
This is why the conversation is nearly impossible, even on hn. It's hard to find enough people who agree on which facts are objectively true in order to have the discussion. Things end up stuck in endless loops of the loudest voices cl
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by drc500free 3y ago
There is an interesting and delicate conversation about how a twenty-something engineer in the military ends up frequenting anti-military and anti-democracy subreddits. I think that fits in with hn. There is another interesting and delicate
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by drc500free 3y ago
My understanding is that the real driver is in being able to decouple the design of the controls from the rest of the interior design. I read somewhere that being able to design those in parallel with fewer dependencies makes a significant
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by drc500free 3y ago
I first learned about shutter angle when reading about its use in Saving Private Ryan; the narrow 45 and 90 degree shutters made the opening scenes much more visceral with so much flying through the air. https://cinemashock.org&#
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by drc500free 3y ago
Love that the Integration Bee is still going!
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by drc500free 3y ago
I don't think the upper-middle class self-identifying as equity holders was an explicit goal, but I agree that it has been probably the most impactful outcome. Much more so than the direct tax impact.
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by drc500free 3y ago
I'd imagine some sort of hyperbolic discounting on importance, plus the perception that you can still do something about it. Great question to ponder.
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by drc500free 3y ago
Medical ethics really should preclude what these insurance company physicians are doing, which is sometimes rubber-stamping 5000 denials a day. Maybe an organized campaign of board complaints is in order. Propublica has done an excellent sl
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by drc500free 3y ago
I wish I could find it, but I read a study recently about participation in the social contract that used a question like "would you run a rural red light with no one around?" as their metric. A lot more people say yes now than bef
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by drc500free 3y ago
> I understand you work in the insurance Industry, but I worked in the auto Industry before and after COVID and just went through 2 total loss claims with my insurance and handled a lot of these third party warranty policies for my custo
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by drc500free 3y ago
This has become a significant political issue in most states, and auto insurance is regulated at the state level. Many insurance commissioners are elected positions, and if not they are closely tied to the governor. No one wants premiums to
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by drc500free 3y ago
I worked in the industry recently, with most leading carriers on how they generate LTVs for potential customers from expected frequency, severity, and lifetime. During COVID shutdowns, there was a massive drop in frequency (obviously, hardl
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by drc500free 3y ago
I think more specifically, they were going for "any point since the advent of modern democracy." And obviously before that, but the assumption of who government was responsible to underwent a massive paradigm shift. "Gee, Cha
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by drc500free 3y ago
I agree that the actions in the occupied territories are oppressive and terrible. I was referring to the actions within Israel itself, towards Israeli Arab Citizens. Which shows that the oppressive actions is not based on ethnicity or relig
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by drc500free 3y ago
It's worth noting that system does not apply to 2 million Israeli Arabs (nearly all of whom self-identify as "Palestinian" from an ethnic/national perspective) of the exact same race as the Palestinians in the occupied t
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by drc500free 3y ago
I'm so sorry to hear that. It took about a year to get back in the saddle. Unfortunately any harm from the vaccine became so political at that time, so it was hard to talk about with people (we couldn't even convince doctors to su
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by drc500free 3y ago
Didn't know that about famotidine, that's very interesting. My wife has HaT (she was in the NIH study) and MCAS, and got absolutely wiped out by her reaction to the first vaccine. One of her specialists told her she's seen th
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by drc500free 3y ago
Thanks for the resource, how have you found working with chatGPT for this sort of thing? If you have some sort of mast cell disease, did you happen to get the covid vaccine? Any issues?
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by drc500free 3y ago
> I took off the training wheel (to bikers, if they seem smarmy) This is a fantastic retort.
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by drc500free 3y ago
See also - vending machines kill more people than sharks do.
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by drc500free 3y ago
The criticism of Oxman's research jives with general skepticism I remember towards the Media Lab. Very prestigious, selective, and status driven. Based on making deep science accessible to the outside world in a way that the rest of th
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by drc500free 3y ago
I've found "Programming Sucks"[1] is a good way to explain to non-programmers what a shit-show it is. > Imagine joining an engineering team. You’re excited and full of ideas, probably just out of school and a world of clea
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by drc500free 3y ago
> On top of all that, high volume customers would move directly to these consolidators. This is pretty key to understanding Twilio's prospects as a business. In my experience, they are fantastically easy to integrate at first. But t
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by drc500free 3y ago
For me, the excessive spacing makes this pretty painful. If we need a whitespace buffer inside every set of parentheses, I'd expect the IDE to do it for me.

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