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by hejja 6y ago
makes sense. thanks. models I have used seem to have their usefulness greatly outweighed by performance demands. scaling and economics are another question entirely. Perhaps we were spoiled with democratized web tech and it's wishful t
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by hejja 6y ago
so what you're saying is... you either swallow the CRUD app red pill, or you live long enough to become the "AI a la carte" manager
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by hejja 6y ago
genuine question here: why is using deep learning to do something useful impossible? I can think of a bunch of potential use cases for gpt 3 alone. or do you mean its impossible to build useful models from scratch because all the "easy
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by hejja 6y ago
a lot of people see being "a founder" as a goal because it gives you complete agency in your work. you could in theory define it as having a sole-proprietorship type lifestyle business. it's poignant in this thread because ma
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by hejja 6y ago
this. even sans integrations, video conferencing is far too commoditized for zoom to be in a defensible position.
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by hejja 6y ago
because basecamp has a cult following
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by hejja 6y ago
thanks for the recc
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by hejja 6y ago
Not to mention Harvard has a $40 billion endowment on top of that. At the end of the day, it's a way to not pay taxes. Stakeholders are still getting paid in different ways: high salaries and job security, "administrator" job
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by hejja 6y ago
the best performers at school often become career academics -- a few research discoveries aside, you could say this is a pretty low-leverage position. In other words, as you said, doing well in school means little outside of school. So if y
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by hejja 6y ago
harvard has the right to implement its own standards, to be sure. but who is implementing this, exactly, and on what agenda? it's "harvard" the institution, the non-profit business. instead of having a clear motive: making mo
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by hejja 6y ago
Statistically, Asians have higher than average SAT, ACT scores, this is not contested. In 1996 California passed prop 209 which banned affirmative action on the state level. All top UC schools have become majority asian despite California b
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by hejja 6y ago
that plus the industry pulling in a lot of smart people who could have spent their time elsewhere
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by hejja 6y ago
I'm aware options are complicated, but is someone able to expand on how this is possible? I guess if you short calls you have unlimited downside, no? but it was my understanding that the entire point of options was to cap downside (don
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by hejja 6y ago
I don't know too much about Stockholm - although I loved Helsinki. Do those have solid startup / tech communities in your experience? Any more details you can share?
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by hejja 6y ago
thanks for your honest take.
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Ask HN: How's Berlin as a start up / tech hub?
6 points by hejja 6y ago|6 comments
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by hejja 6y ago
in the vein of the others you posted, "psycho cybernetics" is another good one I'd group with that genre
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by hejja 6y ago
https://teachyourselfcs.com
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by hejja 6y ago
this is a solid, structured course I recently took, but it is paid https://interviewespresso.com/p/python
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by hejja 6y ago
felt like a generic article when I started reading, but turned out to be incredible. thanks so much for writing.
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by hejja 6y ago
to answer this question we have to ask what smart even means. if it means you can "figure stuff out at work" congrats, you can follow instructions in a structured, specialist environment. to become legitimately "rich", h
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by hejja 6y ago
agree with all of this, libertarianism all the way
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by hejja 6y ago
words are never exact and therefore the message is always subjective. censorship is bad.
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by hejja 6y ago
this is the very problem with censorship. messages aren't exact so on some level you have to be subjective. the very fact that twitter interpreted it as bigoted enough to sensor, and you didn't points a red arrow to why any censor
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by hejja 6y ago
they will acquire, or deploy capital to make a better clone. example a: instagram stories after snapchat declined an offer. the only competition its had in the last 10 years is chinese state funded tik tok
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by hejja 6y ago
no. if you're doing it for selfish reasons or jumping on some moral bandwagon it's virtue signaling. mlk existed when civil rights were not trendy as it now is, therefore he was surely glad free speech existed.
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by hejja 6y ago
maybe the network effect on a billion-person scale? the fact that they are monopolies with billions at their disposal to acquire or crush any competition? I can keep going
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by hejja 6y ago
nicely reasoned perspective. language is important, we must take care of our words, certainly, but they can fail us too. if there is 1 looter and 99 peaceful protestors, is it a peaceful protest or a riot? no doubt this is delicate so it sc
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by hejja 6y ago
I really appreciate your response. It was thought provoking. in fact it all makes sense. but does rationality matter? in the context of society.. i think it has to. because what does its absence imply? chaos? blind idealism? aka radicalism.
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Ask HN: What am I missing about the protests?
3 points by hejja 6y ago|7 comments

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