ethbr1

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by ethbr1 4mo ago
Intuition + obsessive detail-oriented execution = results
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The H is silent in Austrian-Spanish.
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> I think we should also invest more in better diagnostics and early cancer detection. The issue with non-imaging early cancer detection seems to be false positives. Afaik, medical regulatory agencies have been... resistant... to allow
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> Xiaomi or someone else goes all in on “privacy focused android” in absence of pixel+graphene combo Xiaomi? Privacy?
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No, there are a huge number of companies that are valued reasonably for their revenue / profitability / growth. There's basically two stock markets: things valued on fundamentals and things valued on vibes. And I don't t
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> We are basically saying we have Trillions to spend over the next 5 years. Give me everything you have got. We are saying AI companies have trillions to spend over the next 5 years on infrastructure, based on servicing a hypothetical
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by ethbr1 4mo ago
You're missing the forest, because Jessup and the entire enlisted structure would have been rotated to their next posting in 2-3 years max. And since Jessup seems to have been base commander for a while already, likely less than that.
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by ethbr1 4mo ago
I'm not sure a growth-obsessed Facebook could have done anything other than destroy social media, in the same way that a growth-obsessed Google couldn't have done anything other than destroy the web. The only plausible alternate r
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> From the article, it seems to me they've been "relegated" to coming up with Leetcode problems for AI. Which, let's face it, a bunch of them probably already did before for their SWE interview circus. It is a grim
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It feels like Facebook will be written as a warning business case in allowing a single person to retain too much decision making control. Zuckerberg had 2.5 good ideas: Facebook (shared), prioritizing mobile early, and buying competing soci
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by ethbr1 4mo ago
You're missing the forest for the trees. The scene between Colonel Jessup, Lt Jg Kaffee, and Lance Corporal Dawson and PFC Downey is about the nature of contradictory duties. Everyone in that scene has a sworn duty to the United States
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> expect PHD level experience but expect pay like peanuts Thought this was par for the course in closer-to-hardware engineering. Never understood why the objectively way harder jobs pay so much worse as an industry.
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> virtually every aspect of this would be caught on probably a dozen cameras If only there were a widely available technology to conceal ones face...
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> I don’t fully understand why OpenAI lacks this focus, as clearly identifying a target market is one of the first things you do with a business strategy Resource curse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse
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It's both. Medical fraud is like retail stock shrinkage or fraudulent credit card charges -- no one on the customer side is aware of it, because it's handled on the other side and baked into pricing. But there are substantial amou
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Funding can be illiquid for limited spans of time: i.e. pre-IPO. Anthropic / OpenAI / SpaceX going public makes it easier for capital to both flow to and away from them.
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by ethbr1 4mo ago
Repeating back what someone said (specifically: trying to mirror their exact words as best you can remember them) also has proven psychological effects: increased empathy and calming of your own emotional response and theirs. It's a
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by ethbr1 4mo ago
There are probably better ways to communicate across a wire than having an LLM voltage-bang, but it's certainly an interesting use case.
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by ethbr1 4mo ago
It's highly unlikely AI inference doesn't follow the same path as general purpose computing: variety and innovations in software lead to standardization on highest performance approaches. As that transition happens, hardware evolv
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That's not at all how university works. You are explained things (least important part) and then you invest substantial amounts of time in practicing and exercising those new skills. Then, in your junior level jobs, the same cycle re
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And, you know, regular use of ketamine. Just to add that to the crazy pile.
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by ethbr1 4mo ago
Yes, heaven forbid governments impose any constraints on Microsoft, Apple, Google, or Facebook, because they've been handling things so well on their own.
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by ethbr1 4mo ago
HR works for leadership. Everything is consistent from that starting point.
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There's a big difference between having something explained to you and developing expertise in it. I don't see an AI-as-explainer future where expertise isn't sacrificed en masse. Capitalism rarely supports a currently econom
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For those who don't live adjacent to rednecks: https://m.youtube.com/results?search_query=rolling+coal
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by ethbr1 4mo ago
Data can. Data centers at scale, less so. But I suppose that's why Altman and Musk have been cozying up to autocratic Middle Eastern regimes and dreaming about AI in space...
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> the fact that 7/8ths of people who now dig with their hands will starve because shovels have been introduced is a choice that we are making. We are choosing not to feed them The unfortunate truth of western economic history is t
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Yes. My point is that Google had a temporary search quality advantage… then AdSense-fueled revenue allowed them to convert that to a durable moat by outspending their competitors. That didn't happen because they were magically amazing
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Neuromancer was edgy and serious... in 1984. And as Gibson later said ~00s, cyberpunk's moment is past and now it's boring. (At least according to him, but that counts for something)
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> All the techbros love them some Lord of the Rings. While being completely oblivious to the literary themes. But as the meme goes, tech bro philosophy is just sophomore know-it-all-shallowly-ism. Because reading deeply would require s

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