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by edouard-harris 4y ago
This might make sense as a response solely to the title of the article, but I have to admit I find it puzzling as a reaction to its content. Notwithstanding the title, the article mentions a model called Minerva that scored fully 50% on the
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by edouard-harris 4y ago
> Fun fact: the newly anointed YC president Garry Tan automatically blocks anyone on Twitter who follows anyone who advocates for housing reform or even likes any tweets from such [1]. While the article you cited talks about Garry blocki
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by edouard-harris 4y ago
Yes, the combined valuation number you cited is the one I was referring to. You're right that it's not correct to call this "portfolio value"; thanks for pointing out the mistake. (But it is still the correct number to c
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by edouard-harris 4y ago
SendGrid (acquired by Twilio for $2B [1]) famously had their application rejected, and their later success caused YC to update its selection process. From this Quora answer [2]: > Apparently, only one partner, Robert Morris, reviewed the
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by edouard-harris 4y ago
Unfortunately a speaker's content can also be auto-generated now, at least for brief enough snippets. And that means the content can (and will) be optimized to appeal to a target segment much more than has ever been previously possible
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SharpestMinds (YC W18) Is Hiring a Software Developer(public.3.basecamp.com)
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by edouard-harris 4y ago
Sure, that seems like sensible advice for the median case. All I'm saying is that these risk baskets are qualitatively different, and therefore the correct allocation between custody strategies might be very different across different
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by edouard-harris 4y ago
It does matter: FDIC insurance protects you as a depositor specifically from counterparty risk , i.e., the risk that your bank may become insolvent and fail to honor your withdrawals. But in the crypto world, if you move your crypto off an
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by edouard-harris 4y ago
Note that the complete, non-truncated quote [1] says: "Ultimately, placing this bet was my call to make and I got this wrong. Now, we have to adjust. As a consequence, we have to say goodbye to some of you today and I’m deeply sorry f
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DeepNash: Mastering the Game of Stratego with Model-Free Multiagent RL(arxiv.org)
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by edouard-harris 4y ago
That's a very reasonable question, though in cases like these it seems prudent to err on the side of being too paranoid rather than the opposite.
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Most startups don't have significant sums to spend to convince consumers that they want or need a product. Unless yours does, there's no way to succeed other than to make something people want today .
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These are great questions to ask any early-stage startup you're considering working for. The reason they're great is that they're almost exactly what an investor would ask. And that makes sense: a startup's earliest empl
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by edouard-harris 4y ago
Interesting point. For whatever it may be worth, I live in Canada, though I don't believe dental school here is especially less expensive than it is in (say) the US.
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by edouard-harris 4y ago
Yup. In fact, a great hack is to go to an inexperienced dentist instead of an experienced one for routine work. The reason is that dentists who are fresh out of school are competent enough to do basic cleanings and checkups. But they haven&
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by edouard-harris 4y ago
If you prime a model to behave as though it's sentient, and it displays a facsimile of sentience that's realistic enough to fool a reasonably bright human being, shouldn't the burden of proof be on anyone who claims the model
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by edouard-harris 4y ago
That Tim Urban piece is great. It's also an interesting time capsule in terms of which AI problems were and were not considered hard in 2015 (when the post was written). From the post: > Build a computer that can multiply two ten-di
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by edouard-harris 4y ago
Assuming Twitter is serious about publishing their feed algorithm [1], it's possible they're merely anticipating the EU's upcoming Digital Services Act which was finalized over the weekend. Among other things, the Act will co
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by edouard-harris 5y ago
This is going to depend a lot on location. Coffee chains are able to support this sort of behavior because the many customers that drop $4 in one minute on their morning commute, are subsidizing the few customers that pay $4 for six hours o
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by edouard-harris 5y ago
> However, Coinbase, Instagram, Zapier etc came out of that batch. (By Instagram, I imagine you meant Instacart?)
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by edouard-harris 5y ago
> There are several proven strategies to monetise your content (and Substack isn't one of them). Surely Substack is no less proven than any other content monetization strategy for individual authors. Most people simply can't ma
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by edouard-harris 5y ago
This already exists: Google's recently-published LaMDA dialogue model [1] is trained to consult a calculator for arithmetic questions and consistently succeeds at it. [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.08239v2
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by edouard-harris 5y ago
Sincere question: what would one use to measure success in such a world?
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by edouard-harris 5y ago
I agree these capabilities can't really be suppressed in the long term. But, as with nuclear nonproliferation, there is safety value in lowering the diffusion coefficient of their spread to the point where policy and countermeasures ma
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by edouard-harris 5y ago
(AI safety researcher here.) GPT-3's current level of accessibility is already dangerous, and quite broadly so. To focus on just one documented example, the model can out-of-the-box (i.e., without any fine tuning) be used for persuas
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by edouard-harris 5y ago
> First full flow staged combustion engine that actually flies Indeed, and I'll observe that the significance of this one is often lost on more casual observers.
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by edouard-harris 5y ago
> SpaceX didn't develop ground-breaking firsts like Sputnik and the moon landings; they took something we've done for 50 years and do it more efficiently. Efficiency gains and ground-breaking firsts aren't mutually exclusi
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by edouard-harris 5y ago
It's easy to forget this in our era, but the reason the nation-state exists in the first place is that it's the most effective means we know of to defeat an external adversary in a contest of organized violence. The nation-state&#
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by edouard-harris 5y ago
While that's certainly a long list of things, I'd be surprised if they added up to the six-orders-of-magnitude difference one would need to make these two costs remotely close to one another on a per-transaction basis. Bitcoin has
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by edouard-harris 5y ago
Most startups aren't valued at $1.5 billion, which GitLab was at the time this article was written. Once a startup reaches that valuation, it's already been mostly de-risked.

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