maxlamb

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by maxlamb 3y ago
How?
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by maxlamb 3y ago
So because someone seems sincere and charming we must automatically assume he/she has bad intentions even with no evidence? I get that we must remain skeptical but to be “scared” of anyone especially charming seems ridiculous IMHO.
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by maxlamb 3y ago
To be fair, the US also spends $0 on most students going to Stanford and Harvard as well :)
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by maxlamb 3y ago
Apple was very far from running laps around its competition when Jobs was fired
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by maxlamb 3y ago
Because the other performing arts don’t require a deep understanding of (some aspects of) human psychology to be good.
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by maxlamb 3y ago
Weird coincidence that it’s the exact same amount that Research In Motion paid to poach top engineers from Google / Microsoft back in the 2000’s to help grow their Blackberry network capacity (assuming the Blackberry movie is accurate)
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by maxlamb 3y ago
Airbnb is considered a Web 2.0 company
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by maxlamb 3y ago
"Learning games", games that teach you something as you play. The best kind of learning games nudge you towards an answer so that you can win without ever having heard of the answer, and without Googling it. One example: https:&#
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by maxlamb 3y ago
Still better than the UK where it gets dark hours before you finish work
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by maxlamb 3y ago
The point of these dating apps is to make it much quicker to meet a potential long-term match, and thousands of people then end up marrying that someone after putting in the effort. I think as person who's used these apps can attest, f
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by maxlamb 3y ago
Considering the lockdowns made dating app usage surge in 2020, a more meaningful figure would be a comparison between 2019 and 2021. The fact that it dropped 5% from 2020 to 2021 given the lockdowns in 2020 makes that figure meaningless.
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by maxlamb 3y ago
If you don’t have time for dating you probably won’t have the time for a meaningful relationship. Maybe once you get the job offer you want and are done with grad school you will have the time?
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by maxlamb 3y ago
People have been speaking with AI chatbot daily for years now, with AI chatbot apps like Replika, so it definitely predates ChatGPT. Here's a pretty good short documentary on it from 6 years ago: https://www.youtube.com&#x2
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by maxlamb 3y ago
Is Snapchat using variable interest loans to finance its operations? If not, I’m not sure how this is true…
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by maxlamb 3y ago
| on the verge of misinformation/pseudoscience. Can you cite an example?
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by maxlamb 3y ago
Which city? I’m just curious how hot we’re talking about, without AC.
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by maxlamb 3y ago
What do you mean you lost your job over it? All because GPT4 was too slow for your project?
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by maxlamb 3y ago
709 is the average increase, not the spend
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by maxlamb 3y ago
Just saw an article about that a few days ago: https://fortune.com/2023/08/09/401k-hardship-distribution-bo...
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by maxlamb 3y ago
actually since a pound is around 450 grams, that would be 3 grams per seed, not 0.3 grams. So the 50 milligrams is off by almost 2 orders of magnitude.
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by maxlamb 3y ago
What exactly is prompt discovery?
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by maxlamb 3y ago
Maybe they were referring to antisocial personality disorder, which is very different from anti-social behavior. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisocial_personality_disorde... https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by maxlamb 3y ago
I think you meant it has been shown to raise blood LDL cholesterol. But coffee itself doesn’t have cholesterol.
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by maxlamb 3y ago
| I can represent time/space in a computer program. Nothing would feel that it exists there. That's why I said real-time and continuous. All digital systems, at the lowest level of computations are discrete, not continuous (i.e. a
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by maxlamb 3y ago
By continuous I also meant analog. No digital system is continuous at the lowest level of computation.
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by maxlamb 3y ago
MBTI is an attempt at classification of people's personalities at a high level from a series of questions. That just seems fundamentally different than "I will predict your future based on what day you are born".
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by maxlamb 3y ago
consciousness is just a real-time continuous representation of time/space, i.e. of the parts of the universe in front of us (and some of it already within us, i.e. memory and imagination).
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by maxlamb 3y ago
why would then want to lease land for infrastructure right next to an air force base when there is lots of land further out?
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by maxlamb 3y ago
I guess the word "monopoly" is not super precise but the gist of the definition seem to imply otherwise. "a single seller or producer that excludes competition from providing the same product". If any competition can pr
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by maxlamb 3y ago
I don't see that quote anywhere. Did Thiel actually say that? I thought the main gist of his book Zero to One is you want to create a monopoly but inventing something new doesn't necessarily lead to monopoly. You need the other m

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