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by kozikow 3y ago
I think many founders have some buried deep worry like this. You end up fundraising, preparing forecasts and budgets for investors for the next X years, attending conferences, working with marketing on PR, dealing with unglamorous problems
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by kozikow 3y ago
I'm more interested how those geospatial visualization were done. Do you know a probable library used for it?
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by kozikow 3y ago
I think what should be mentioned in the article is bridge rounds. I know various startups that have done it. In my feeling, at least half of the 38% would be explained by VCs raising bridge rounds for their existing portfolio companies. Rat
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by kozikow 3y ago
Just because the acquired company falls into the "can't justify higher rev multiple thanks to synergies with the acquiring company" and "not successful enough for the IPO". If there was no options in that niche, the
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by kozikow 3y ago
There's also always a private equity market that is often a middle ground between IPO and acquisition. And in my feeling, I've seen PE getting more active in tech last year (maybe just because valuations went down).
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by kozikow 3y ago
My view is to focus on doing stuff. That's what I did. Pick up some task you want the model to do, try finetuning llama, playing with APIs from OpenAI, etc. Googling and asking GPT along the way. Foundational model training got so expe
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by kozikow 3y ago
Those systems when they work are OK. But connectivity is so annoying. 1/4 times Android Auto fails to connect. I have to restart the phone, restart the car and it connects. And I'm not surprised it's all ducktape security.
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by kozikow 3y ago
Or another way to put it - if you are an enterprise based in Europe that needs to stay compliant, future regulation will make it very hard to not use Mistral :P.
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by kozikow 3y ago
Not OP, but For me: - Writing: emails, documentation, marketing - Write a bunch of unstructured skeleton of information. Add a prompt about the intended audience and a purpose. Possibly ask it to add some detail. - Coding: Especially things
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by kozikow 3y ago
It's funny because now the OpenAI keynote feels like it's emulating the Google keynotes from 5 years ago. Google Keynote feels like it's emulating the Apple keynote from 5 years ago. And the Apple keynote looks like robots ju
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by kozikow 3y ago
It's the least defined role. Currently, I am in a funny situation when all teams agree we need an additional data engineer. But basically: - Sales and finance want more of business intelligence analyst - Devs want more of a backend eng
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by kozikow 3y ago
> how they only want the best candidates and how hard their interviewing process is I sometimes feel like those algorithmic challenges at interviews are more for making developers feel they work at the "top team" than filterin
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by kozikow 3y ago
I don't think it's too far-fetched. To see where it's going look at social score in China. You say something wrong about a party, suddenly you can't board a plane, take a mortgage, enter some buildings, ... Your credit s
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by kozikow 3y ago
Surprised it's just 18%. 2021 was a height of "more money on the market than productive things to do with it". Startups are expected to operate in 2-year fundraising cycles - VCs used to push you to increase burn rate if you
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by kozikow 3y ago
That " unfortunate " probably has been deliberately put there by Sam, possibly for the reason you said.
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by kozikow 3y ago
To be honest I extracted only one useful piece of information here. "No particular comment on that unfortunate leak" The word unfortunate for me sounds significant. If it was random noise as so much we heard recently, such a w
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by kozikow 3y ago
The progress from GPT3 to GPT4 has been so substantial that many might argue it signifies the advent of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). The capabilities of GPT4 often elicit a sense of disbelief, making it hard to accept that it&#x27
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by kozikow 3y ago
Everyone is still left guessing what have happened. At least my speculative view (rewritten by chatgpt ofc): There's speculation that OpenAI's newly developed Q* algorithm marks a substantial advancement over earlier models, demon
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by kozikow 3y ago
I read the news, make a picture of what is likely happening in my head, and every few hours new news comes up that makes me go: "Wait, WTF?".
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by kozikow 3y ago
We don't know the structure of their new unit, do we? Sometimes "startup in a big corp" may really bring the best of both worlds (although in reality, 90% of such initiatives bring the worst of the two worlds). For many years
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by kozikow 3y ago
I know Jakub Pachocki and in my feeling, Jakub leaving is worse for gpt than Greg or Sam. Im not claiming to know more than everyone else, but Sam was IMO just a face. Greg is backend engineer - that's less important than actual resear
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by kozikow 3y ago
My prediction : Sam agrees to some business deal the rest of the board found unethical. Something of magnitude "chatgpt used by the NSA". Other predictions I've read here sound unconvincing to me. Already developed AGI, spend
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by kozikow 3y ago
That's not just external facing problem. Even when internally you want to figure out something - e.g. get a quota for something it's very hard to locate who could get things done for you. There is this attitude that humans shouldn
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by kozikow 3y ago
That would be very easy to circumvent. You can describe effectively the same software engineering job in a way that sounds completely different. "close a project" of the old team, etc.
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by kozikow 3y ago
If you go to any startup founders gathering, I typically wonder "I am usually the biggest weirdo in the room. But in this crowd I feel among the most normal people ". And it's still true for the later stage startups as well,
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by kozikow 3y ago
Tech saying "I'll become farmer" to escape tech is very amusing, especially how data-driven the large scale farming is, and how small scale farming is getting priced out by large scale farming. I'm not a farmer, but I di
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by kozikow 3y ago
I tried it on my landing page and a few others. It's clearly hallucinating a lot. It's referencing text, images are not there and never have been there. Just saying that if you think it was "on-point" just might have bee
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by kozikow 3y ago
I feel that really there are no more place for "AI startup" as there is for "database startup" - there are some exceptions, but it's hard to compete with open source and large corporations treating AI tech as loss l
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by kozikow 3y ago
Stable diffusion most likely don't do it, but even static model that as an input takes embedding of all your historic prompts + current prompt would get progressively give you better inputs as you use it.
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by kozikow 3y ago
My "dual booting for occasional games" Windows for some reason stopped working, and it was quicker to figure out gaming on Linux. With Lutris Diablo 4 worked perfectly, Baldur's Gate 3 has some issues (very rare error, Direct

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