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by m_ke 5y ago
As an Eastern European I can guarantee you it will be way worse for them than Afghanistan. There are no good endings for Russia here.
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by m_ke 5y ago
Yes I'm suggesting mass protests against the invasion and demand for his resignation.
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by m_ke 5y ago
With all due respect Russian people are the only ones who can stop Putin.
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by m_ke 5y ago
I hate it and only use it because it's where the machine learning community migrated to. The signal to noise ratio is super low but it's currently the best way to keep track of the latest developments in the field. I'm hoping
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by m_ke 5y ago
That's not true, if you have spacers behind the wood it should dry properly and last a long time. See https://www.buildingscience.com/documents/insights/bsi-001-t...
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by m_ke 5y ago
Try to have a routine. I try to wake up, have a large glass of water, put on some energizing music and exercise for 2-3 songs, then try to get a quick easy task completed as soon as possible to get the ball rolling.
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by m_ke 5y ago
In this case it sounds like the business is failing and they want to write off their losses. My comment was a broader critique of the venture model, which leads to business churn that nobody other than the VCs need.
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by m_ke 5y ago
Maybe this whole VC fund cycle driven model of pumping and dumping/exiting companies is not ideal after all.
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by m_ke 5y ago
It's clearly much better to have the populace gamble their money away on sports, penny stocks, lotteries and crypto scams.
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OpenAI Embeddings: 8K–600k times more expensive than open models(twitter.com)
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by m_ke 5y ago
> The real issue is that good startup teams don’t have any problem raising normal investment capital right now. I know plenty of founders of companies that raised huge rounds from top VCs and most of them would have preferred to avoid de
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by m_ke 5y ago
Only way we'll ever get rid of Pelosi.
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by m_ke 5y ago
Childhood obesity also jumped from 19% to 22% from 2020 to 2021 ( https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/0... )
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by m_ke 5y ago
Yes but VC funds have a fixed window, their goal is to deploy their money in the first 3-5 years and show returns in under 10.
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by m_ke 5y ago
Growing a sales and marketing team can translate to a lot of revenue growth.
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by m_ke 5y ago
Public markets have the same incentives, as long as there's growth stonks go up. Late stage firms have relationships with banks and the return of SPACs made dumping roided up donkeys easier than ever.
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by m_ke 5y ago
If your goal is to maximize the rate of return you pump a lot of cash into a startup, force them to spend it on heads and marketing then ask your friend to 10x the valuation in 12 months.
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by m_ke 5y ago
VCs buy growth, headcount signals growth
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by m_ke 5y ago
Pave ( https://www.pave.com/ ) is another startup doing this
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by m_ke 5y ago
They don't have a cloud computing business to put a walled garden around (yet). Also see their post about it https://blog.cloudflare.com/aws-egregious-egress/
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by m_ke 5y ago
For people interested in construction I really recommend checking out Passive House Accelerator on youtube ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFsq1de6hTZOuwQd46pRUQg ). Building energy efficient homes from regenerative a
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by m_ke 5y ago
It is
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by m_ke 5y ago
Np, the hide button should work this way by default.
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by m_ke 5y ago
Image embeddings, NN on raw images would scale horribly and not return anything relevant.
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by m_ke 5y ago
Using external memory instead of encoding all of the knowledge in the model will take over all branches of applied ML. A recognition model should use a similar mechanism to store short term context in a memory buffer from previous frames an
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by m_ke 5y ago
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by m_ke 5y ago
When we got our seed round check in 2016 my cofounder joked that we should put it in bitcoin, would have worked out way better for everyone involved if we did...
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by m_ke 5y ago
1. No name investors 2. Executive churn 3. Down rounds 4. Shifting from product focused to "consulting" or building solutions for 1 large customer 5. Focus on marketing / sales with no mention of retention or churn
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by m_ke 5y ago
It's VC culture, doing what VCs need and want, which is looking for outliers and expecting 1 or 2 bets to return the fund. "Founders" and engineers should really understand what the incentives are and how the math in this mod
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by m_ke 5y ago
Browser with some custom CSS and a JS script that filters blacklisted keywords and doesn't load new stories when I hide one, so most of the day there's only a story or two visible on the main page.

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