kippinitreal

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by kippinitreal 6y ago
“When Genius Failed” is really good. Lot of parallels to tech where folks are visionaries right up until the day that they’re not and how things that we don’t truly understand can go haywire
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by kippinitreal 6y ago
Seems like a smart decision by those businesses to team up (collude?) here both for business and public health reasons. If they all agree to wait post election there will be a higher rate of vaccinations which will benefit everyone (sales a
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by kippinitreal 6y ago
> In the age of COVID, they [local retail] are also emerging as the most convenient option with delivery and pickup turnarounds in under an hour. What?!? Local retail is being absolutely decimated right now. If anything, big box stores h
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by kippinitreal 6y ago
Maybe an alternative model would be too charge the drivers a subscription fee. Could be a typical SAAS model where first 10 rides/month are free and the ability to work unlimited hours costs ~$1k. I don't think you could do this
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by kippinitreal 6y ago
Not true if there’s enough competition that you need more resources for a bigger model in 2-3 years. Anecdotally, it seems like SOTA model training costs are rising much faster than computer cost is falling.
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by kippinitreal 6y ago
I’m pretty bullish on this concept finding market fit, probably less confident about the business model being great. The super interesting feature IMO is how much this lowers the cost to enter the market. I imagine this are super short term
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by kippinitreal 6y ago
Sure, but point still applies for things like plagiarism which aren’t enforced legally.
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Ask HN: GPT-3 and Copyright
3 points by kippinitreal 6y ago|3 comments
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by kippinitreal 6y ago
Isn’t “percentage of occupied beds w/ covid” a terrible metric? As states open up and elective surgeries, car accidents etc increase the denominator will inevitably increase and this will appear to go down regardless of any positive ch
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by kippinitreal 6y ago
Is that $4 billion in bookings or only their take? If it's the latter, then their "real" revenue per employee is much lower. For marketplaces it seems disingenuous when they use the top-line number for revenue given that they
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by kippinitreal 7y ago
DM me if interested - we are doubling our engineering intern class this summer, I believe 50-75 more seats, to try and help out folks who've had their summer plans canceled. This would be at least partially remote, but we are consideri
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by kippinitreal 7y ago
Not to support a dataless claim...but...isn't the fact that ~90% of tests come back negative (and tests are hard to get) indicative of their point that the vast majority of people who think they have the disease, do not? AFAIK the test
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by kippinitreal 7y ago
They had them for wildfire smoke, which seems pretty reasonable. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-23/zuckerber...
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by kippinitreal 7y ago
The trick (at least on a kindle) is that a book loan doesn’t get marked as closed until you go to the homescreen. Just have to be very careful to avoid that button!
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by kippinitreal 7y ago
Ha - the anniversary must be why this was available on my flight the other day. While rewatching for the first time in a decade I found the “human battery” idea pretty silly/lazy and thought that through the modern lens there would be
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by kippinitreal 7y ago
It doesn’t seem fair to assume the international ARPU is maxed out just because the US ARPU is. I imagine the lose markets are just less mature and are more focused on growth at this point than monetization (as they should be!). What’s the
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by kippinitreal 8y ago
Now I’m just imagining a bunch of NLP models subtly learning large scale fraud.
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by kippinitreal 8y ago
FWIW the Chase Center is 100% privately financed. SF is actually benefitting from private investment into public transportation to/from the arena. Public housing is great, but it’s not like the city chose this instead of that.
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by kippinitreal 8y ago
I appreciate that this route can help counteract the self-selection bias for narcissists in higher level roles. Most managers/directors/VPs/CEOs etc only become such because they think they belong there. We probably want more