kiernanmcgowan

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by kiernanmcgowan 3y ago
Holy See (Vatican City) Population growth rate 0% (2014 est.) Turns out having a nearly all male population sworn to celibacy doesn't increase the population much. https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries&#
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by kiernanmcgowan 3y ago
Update the page to have some sort of free demo or example and then repost :) Requiring a login (or god forbid a credit card) to is a huge amount of friction that gets in the way of people playing with your product and getting excited about
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by kiernanmcgowan 3y ago
This ad block debate makes me think about patio11’s post “The optimal amount of fraud is non zero”. Essentially in trying to make a system as fraud-free as possible you make it too difficult to work with / the cost of fighting fraud is
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by kiernanmcgowan 3y ago
Ha, it’s a bug that reared its head in topic detection that’s an annoying fix. It’s a slug to a wikidata page that’s not properly formatted
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by kiernanmcgowan 3y ago
We’re going to see a click of pols try to replace speechwriting or social media management with ChatGPT and it’s going to have hilariously bad results. The Waluigi effect is going to make for some interesting policy arguments.
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by kiernanmcgowan 3y ago
Having energy and money go to something that is not crypto is so refreshing. I’m having conversations about how to use technology to make things cheaper and easier again!
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by kiernanmcgowan 3y ago
Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish https://wholeearth.info/p/whole-earth-epilog-october-1974?fo...
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by kiernanmcgowan 3y ago
For context, REI employs 15,000 people at ~175 locations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REI
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by kiernanmcgowan 3y ago
Podcast Content Intelligence - https://siev.io/ I've been working on building a content intelligence dataset on podcast data. Using new LLMs I'm able to transcribe, speaker detect, and topic extract anything in th
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by kiernanmcgowan 3y ago
> As you probably know, Debian releases are named after characters in Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story franchise… Huh, TIL this convention. https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ftparchives.en...
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by kiernanmcgowan 3y ago
Anything that can lead to flame wars is frowned upon and gets pruned in a number of ways. Political topics tend not to lead to useful, sober discussions.
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by kiernanmcgowan 3y ago
Without naming the company, I have seen specific examples of blog posts being written by AI, hallucinating a "fact", and then that "fact" re-surfacing inside of Bard. Its xkcd's Citogenesis automated and at internet
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Lenin was a mushroom (1991) [video](youtube.com)
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by kiernanmcgowan 3y ago
Valencia (the Main Street of the mission) has had a recent redesign to have a protected bicycle lane down the middle of the road. Think a road with a median, but with only rubber bumpers separating the car and bike lanes. A few weeks ago a
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by kiernanmcgowan 3y ago
Real engineers force push to production at 4pm on a Friday because they don’t write bugs
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by kiernanmcgowan 3y ago
I finished his fourth book Twilight of the Bombs earlier this year - a great look at nuclear proliferation at the fall of the Cold War and how it shaped many US foreign policy decisions.
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by kiernanmcgowan 3y ago
Snowcrash - a really fun high concept sci-fi that’s plays around with some heady concepts. It breaks down if you think about it too hard, but hey, enjoy it while you can.
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by kiernanmcgowan 3y ago
Half Life 2 I played the demo level "We don't go to Ravenholm" probably 50 times before I bought the game and was blown away. Everything about the game was so far ahead of where the industry was at the time and I still have n
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by kiernanmcgowan 3y ago
Divorce was invented by the wedding industry in ‘96 to sell more weddings
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by kiernanmcgowan 3y ago
Another tool like this is Marvin. My experience this that these work pretty well, but the world of prompt “engineering” is a very squishy one and getting the exact output format you want is not guaranteed. https://www.askmarvin.a
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by kiernanmcgowan 3y ago
Agreed - and if you wanted to be cute about names you'd go with .files - dotfiles ;)
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by kiernanmcgowan 3y ago
Exactly! I’ve lost 10lb just by replacing breakfast with coffee. The key is to make sure that you don’t over eat at lunch, so I tend to have two smaller lunches at noon and 2pm.
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by kiernanmcgowan 3y ago
Caffeine is an appetite suppressant, which makes a pot of coffee a quick and easy low cal breakfast.
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by kiernanmcgowan 3y ago
Congrats on having a side project that is popular enough to break the bank - it's stressful to be sure, but you're a cut above the rest. > I've already optimised the prompt and reduced the number of tokens I'm sending
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My God, It's Full of Stars(kiernan.substack.com)
2 points by kiernanmcgowan 3y ago|0 comments
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by kiernanmcgowan 3y ago
Having used postgres for the past decade, I tried MySQL for a side project to see whats changed with it. The sad answer is that it feels like nothing has changed - Oracle seems to have let what used to be a core technology of the industry l
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by kiernanmcgowan 4y ago
> Salesforce is ditching the last of its remaining office space at 350 Mission St., listing 104,051 square feet for sublease at the tower known as Salesforce East. SFDC is moving out of a smaller building, but not the Salesforce Tower wh
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by kiernanmcgowan 4y ago
I'll give you two sheep for the stone I need to build his mausoleum.
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by kiernanmcgowan 4y ago
That was fast. Looking forward to the future where I ask for travel tips in a city and being told that I should stop by a McDonalds to have enough energy to explore said city - I'm loving it!
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by kiernanmcgowan 4y ago
In the same way that you should take a software engineer's take on why a a SQL query is slow. They're probably the most knowledgeable person in the room but that doesn't always mean that they're right.

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