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by jppope 2y ago
I was pretty impressed with AlphaFold by DeepMind. The James P. Allison work was a big deal - they literally are curing cancer but it seems to not have penetrated popular culture for some reason. In comp sci everything is LLMs right now, wh
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Switch from Sales & Sales Management to Software. First couple years were painful. To answer your questions: > How did you pinpoint new directions that matched your skills and interests? I fell into it. I tried to start a business th
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False dichotomy, and not a great analogy. I see what the author is going for but they could have used to stress test their ideas before clicking "publish." Just for fun let me pose: Where would a Michelin star chef perform better?
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I think the article is a false dichotomy but to answer your question: Most 3rd party dependencies can be accomplished easily if you know how to program (things like crypography or well defined algorithms aside). Frameworks and libraries are
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Underrated comment here
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I find the opposite. People frequently show up to meetings in person unprepared. They are also way less likely to document the discussion - which can now be done with AI transcribing the discussion... which is even more productive. There is
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Were there people that didn't know this was happening? I thought it was a forgone conclusion.
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Ask HN: Does Attention (from LLMs) work well on any other data types?
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I always get a kick out of articles like this. We know precisely why there is a housing shortage and why fewer and fewer houses are being built. Even knowing why won't change the situation.
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Mckinsey is the Jim Cramer of technology. If they say something has poor efficiency it likely has way way better efficiency than they are capable of understanding.
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Theres a ton of ethical wealthy people, you just have no clue who they are because they are playing a different game and don't want the spotlight. Whats the shady ruthless stuff from Google? They've obviously started running thei
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Pretty sure this is what Redwood does: https://www.redwoodmaterials.com/
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Hydrogen is actually a really good solution for shipping and long haul trucking. Conceptually, it really could have worked for cars but Tesla did a really good job of making BEVs sexy, when consumers looked at the market they decided to hea
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Different take here - In my career it hasn't mattered if I'm cleaning bathrooms or building Software used by millions of people IF I'm doing it with people I enjoy being around. The people you work with will make or break you
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theres going to be a lot more of small business stealing big business cookies than people are currently thinking
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Brave (browser) has features for most of the things you are asking about. they have bookmarks and read later. they also have great a great reader mode for speeding up your reading sessions. They have a mobile and desktop versions, just gues
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thats crazy.
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yea, yeah, everything sucks now... we know.
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ScriptyJava?
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Pro-tip: go through your connections, see who knows someone at a company you would like to work at have them recommend you for the job. Don't spend your time sending cold emails or applying to bs job postings.
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> We are now confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it. Yes. Its just going to be another marketing term.
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on this topic what I really wish was that there was something that would actually stop me from spending when I'm over the budget. Attribution is nice, but organizing accounts or money folders that could just stop categorical spending w
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this is what I'm using as well and I agree with the sentiment
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> I don’t know an easy way to send texts Most of the major telcomms have an email to text setup. Verizon is {phone_number}@vtext.com, AT&T is {phone_number}@txt.att.net
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I wasn't a fan. tried it for a couple of months and I kept felt like it didn't have features I was looking for. Currently using Monarch which is pretty good, not perfect. I wish I could have done my own thing with plaid but sadly
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thats a really cool project. I would love to see how different dimensionality in that data (time, geographic, plus genetics) was related to big historical events maybe even events we didn't know about
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this is hacker news. Its coin toss for every person reading this that they have a $5K computer lying around
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yeah but in business there are really only 2 skills right? Convincing people to give you money and giving them something back to them thats worth more than the money they gave you.
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completely agree with this. The problem I'm starting to run into is that I do a lot of things that have been done before so I get really efficient at doing that stuff with LLMs... and now I'm slow to solve the stuff I used to be r
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Just slightly confused on who got 6B here... "xAi" does that mean the company formerly known as twitter has an Ai group or is this a separate company "xAi" or is this x (the company) Ai division (separate but owned by x)

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