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by hooande 6y ago
"Better yet, if you happen to know a miner (we didn’t), you could have them include the transaction directly in a block, skipping the mempool—and the monsters—entirely." ugh. It's not what you know, it's who you know Tha
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by hooande 6y ago
This would be a large inconvenience and a disruption, but that doesn't justify one private company being considered critical infrastructure. This view is generally antithetical to innovation. Even if everyone already knows how to use M
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by hooande 6y ago
His point was that it's cheaper for big companies to innovate by buying startups than it is for them to do that research and testing in house
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by hooande 6y ago
*Envious Developer (envy is when you desire something that someone else has. jealousy is when you're afraid you'll lose something you have to someone else)
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by hooande 6y ago
"It's a place where most people are exposed to new ideas, new types of people. It's a place where lasting friendships and relationships are formed." This is also a description of summer camp.
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by hooande 6y ago
Google is easy to query in plain English. ask "how many miles from London to Paris?" and you'll get a concrete, factual answer. Same as gpt-3
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by hooande 6y ago
Your source of motivation is arbitrary. The point is that you had the talent and ability to achieve things, and this or that narrative inspired you to use it. fwiw, I'd imagine you also benefitted from the kindness of strangers and bli
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by hooande 6y ago
I think the example of an auto repair manual is illustrative. But because it's trained on real internet data, GPT-3 is actually quite good at "How-to". For example, ask it a practical how to question like "how do I make
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by hooande 6y ago
I keep thinking...what is GPT-5 going to look like? It might be a lot like the movie "Her". And that's what, maybe five years away? Obviously they can't just keep scaling up the number of parameters or working memory siz
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by hooande 6y ago
this seems amazing. someone do that thing where they point out how a new technology isn't actually world changing in the top comment
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by hooande 6y ago
yes it was a man named "ie". perhaps you've heard of him?
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by hooande 6y ago
some ideas are dangerous to society, flat out. ie, "the institution of slavery was good because it's part of my cultural heritage". University admissions are not just an issue of personal merit. It isn't something that y
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by hooande 6y ago
very few people wish to subsist. most humans want a lifestyle that is similar to or better than that of the people that they socialize with
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by hooande 7y ago
This is like saying "buying a tool set doesn't make you a handyman, you need years of experience" Duh. You DO need tools at some point though. You can, in theory, build all of your tools from scratch. Assuming you're alr
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by hooande 7y ago
This is true, but the big incumbents will benefit from being able to buy up swaths of local business at a discount. Their advantages of scale will only increase
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XABY: Functional Machine Learning(github.com)
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by hooande 7y ago
Paul usually doesn't do this many interviews. is he about to publish another book or something?
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by hooande 7y ago
is there a way to explain these losses other than "I had a bad experience at an AirBnB"?
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by hooande 7y ago
There are a lot of companies in the cross-device graph space. As I said, they do not have nearly the level of integration described in the great-grand parent comment. If I'm wrong, sign up with Liveramp and use my phone number to tell
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by hooande 7y ago
This is completely unreasonable. There is no network for uploading and matching customer phone numbers across businesses. Who owns this company, in your mind? They must have tens of thousands of customers and be making billions in revenue t
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by hooande 7y ago
No person who was born rich has to learn skills to avoid destitution. And poverty isn't the natural condition for humans any more than it is for cats, or any other animal.
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by hooande 7y ago
I kind of agree with this, but only kind of. If you went back to say the 1600s and could build a working steam engine, whoever was in charge would quickly over come the market factors. They had steel hundreds of years ago and there would be
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by hooande 7y ago
AI != gold. The market for selling tools to people who are essentially chasing buzz words is much smaller than that of selling tools to people extracting scarce metals from the ground. Ultimately the value of selling tools is dependent on t
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by hooande 7y ago
I really, really need to be able to interact with one of these to evaluate it. like, demo right on the homepage without having to sign up or anything. Right now I have no idea what it is, and no incentive to invest any amount of time findin
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by hooande 7y ago
The topic of useful writing is important. The ideas in this essay may not be surprising or unexpected, but the author does lay out a clear formula (importance + novelty + correctness + strength) that probably isn't obvious to most. It
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by hooande 7y ago
in fairness, there are two billionaires running on one side and a near billionaire (trump) on the other side. at least one (Ross Perot) has run in the past. having a lot of money makes it easier to run, but there's no guarantee of succ
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by hooande 7y ago
Another cause could be increased capital investment in existing systems due to larger populations. The author brings up a good point that a lot of common products and experiences haven't changed much in the last 50 years. But think abo
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by hooande 7y ago
The phonograph. The idea of "record something and play it again later" has significantly impacted all of our lives, and was barely even imagined prior to invention
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by hooande 7y ago
seconding this. Connections is an amazing series about this topic
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by hooande 7y ago
I respectfully disagree. 3D printing has not lived up to its hype or potential. The process is slow and sensitive to conditions. The commercial applications are relatively limited. It has radically transformed rapid prototyping, which is ve

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