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by drdrek 2y ago
"Companies that think they’ve won the battle" What kind of garbage attitude is that? are you at war with your employer?
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by drdrek 2y ago
It happened in a more toxic form in the crypto hype cycle
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by drdrek 2y ago
This article is the usual case of decide on a conclusion then build the data sources. It's probably the norm now. How many are going to click and share: "Popular belief inconclusive, meta research suggests" vs "A resear
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by drdrek 2y ago
If you can't pass the most basic of filters like relevant education and work experience than what will you be offering them after you pass the AI system? If the position is in so much demand that they need automation to filter resumes,
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by drdrek 2y ago
This is like changing your profile picture to a model in a dating app, you are going to get responses but what are you going to do with them if there is no real match? When looking for a job don't stress about gaming the system, look f
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by drdrek 2y ago
https://bdtechtalks.com/2023/10/09/llm-self-correction-reaso...
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by drdrek 2y ago
I love how many people add variations of "And be Correct" or "If you make a mistake correct yourself" as if that does anything. It is as likely to make a mistake the first time as it is the second time. People imagine th
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by drdrek 2y ago
Absolutely, so many people don't understand that a great deck and a tech demo is in 99.9% of the time not enough. You need a strong signal that you are on the right track: user engagement, LOIS, actual sales. The more you can show the
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by drdrek 2y ago
My career is focused on B2B so I don't know a lot about communities, but the sentiment is the same. You have an edge if you know a lot about a subject and have good connections with professionals in the field that are willing to talk t
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by drdrek 2y ago
Not exactly correct, you are now partners. You own X% of the company and they own Y%. If you want to continue raising you better not be that guy that is constantly fighting with their partners... but your partners are definitely not your bo
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by drdrek 2y ago
Bankers with good PR. But for the first time founders out there please don't sweat it if you can't get funded for a long time, you may just be early. I gave up on a great idea (that my partner later worked into a great product wit
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by drdrek 2y ago
When this specter is common in mainstream media will be a great point to buy Apple stock. Oh no my 3T money printer takes time to get to 10T :O Sell!!
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by drdrek 2y ago
Its a mix of "Easy" things to fix: Streamline tax code, build desirable office centers, Have good internet infrastructure and "Hard" Things: The work culture, Cost of living
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by drdrek 2y ago
How have you heard more about TikTok and Israel than TikTok and china? How is that possible?? India banned TikTok in 2020 accusing Chinese influence, are they time travelers? Did israel convince all of these countries to ban TikTok? https:
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by drdrek 2y ago
The moral high ground is for the rich and safe. Both Israel and the Palestinians are under real threats and thus do not care much for morality that is disconnected from PR. Terror is an extremely good tool to dispose of foreign power that t
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by drdrek 2y ago
I don't get the Capitalism bashing aspect of the article. You can find reinforced glassware, its just more expensive so you don't hear a lot about it. It's not planed obsolescence, its customer preference.
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by drdrek 2y ago
I don't get it, what are they trying to say?
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by drdrek 2y ago
Not only this but the author lacks enough empathy and imagination to understand how most people are wildly different than him and would not want any of this complexity in the slightest.
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by drdrek 3y ago
Years ago I backed two computer games. They both took about 5 years to be made and by the time they were ready I have already forgotten buying them. (They were good tho) Never felt the need to do that again. Its a niche idea, unsuitable for
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by drdrek 3y ago
This feels like it was written in 1993
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by drdrek 3y ago
Not saying anything about LLM But in CS in general many issues "cannot be solved" or "Cannot be solved in reasonable time (NP)" but approximations upper bound by some value are solvable in reasonable time (P). And in the
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by drdrek 3y ago
If only some kind of institution that can hold coins safely existed. Some kind of central place with all the security measures. They can also offer you interest if you let them lend the coins to other people. We can call it a bank.
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by drdrek 3y ago
Most of these seem aspirational for YC to produce them and less of something that they can offer value to the entrepreneur. They can offer very little outside of SAAS style company that is tech for enterprise or tech for consumer. If you ar
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by drdrek 3y ago
Who wants to hire the most adversarial person alive? yeah a company is not your friend and you should get as much as possible there is a point that you make yourself unhireble by showing that you are so mercenary that you'll be out the
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by drdrek 3y ago
Bad org culture will be bad no matter the mechanisms. You can use OKRs to be toxic and you can use Agile to be toxic and you can use your own bespoke bullshit to be toxic. There is no management framework that can fix bad culture because it
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by drdrek 3y ago
LOL, LMAO
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by drdrek 3y ago
Iv'e seen the negative effects of WFH with my own eyes. Is it anecdotal? yes. Is the positive impacts anecdotal? also yes. Will people be biased to what is comfortable in the here and now? the exercise is left to the reader.
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by drdrek 3y ago
Nice catch, I adopted your sugggested improvement: )
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by drdrek 3y ago
When I want to be random enough I pick a large number than mod by another random number that is bigger then the max option. (mod again in the max number if needed) This seems unpredictable enough I've been unable to see any patterns in
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by drdrek 3y ago
It mixes good criticism with nostalgia to a past that never was. Don't idolize past successful business people... they are the same in every generation. Don't confuse good communities that you may or may not have been part of in t

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