jelpern

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by jelpern 8mo ago
I am evaluating AI tools. How should I use this research to interpret a tool's vulnerability profile as part of the selection process? Using LangFuse as an example, since that is one of the tools I'm considering: this project has
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by jelpern 8y ago
Technically "microblogging" is the generic term for Twitter's service, as I'm sure you know, but given how quickly they dominated the space it's a bit obscure (like saying "ice pop" for a Popsicle). I&#x27
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The Data Network Effect of Transit Navigation Apps(medium.com)
1 points by jelpern 9y ago|0 comments
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by jelpern 9y ago
Jon - really enjoyed failing to stump you the other day at the Urban.Us dinner and love what you are doing. Question: "The target tenant earns between $50,000 and $100,000 — the teachers, restaurant servers, police officers and entry-l
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Ask HN: What is a YC Research interview like?
9 points by jelpern 10y ago|2 comments
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by jelpern 14y ago
Spam does not mean unsolicited marketing. Door-to-door sales, direct mail, telemarketing, billboards - even the guy who in every tourist trap in the world who begs you to come eat at his restaurant - are all unsolicited marketing, but not s
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by jelpern 14y ago
I've worked with teams at Lean Startup Machine who have done this, but you have to be careful not to get shut down by Twitter as a spammer. I like how dools did it: only targeting people with the hashtag, and writing personalized messages.
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by jelpern 14y ago
I agree that this was egregious. I wonder if they wrote this headline as linkbait despite knowing that they didn't have the guy's name.
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by jelpern 14y ago
It's very hard for media - even specialist media - to be as well versed in the technical knowledge of the practitioner. You see it all the time in financial journalism as well where people through around large numbers that are grossly disto
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by jelpern 14y ago
If I recall correctly from my AP Journalism class a billion years ago, mainstream journalists - we didn't have such a distinction then but I'm imagining that would be the equivalent - are taught to write at a 6th or 7th grade level. Of cour
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by jelpern 14y ago
The founders in YC are hardly naive innocents who are undervaluing their startups. A) the empirical evidence shows that they get the highest valuations for their seed rounds; and b) the current conversation explicitly addresses the case whe
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by jelpern 14y ago
Etsy is considered to have one of the top engineering teams in NY - their CEO was originally brought in as CTO to solve what was at the time a technology mess - and they have a strong engineering culture. Dwolla is hungry to get developers