mikeortman

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by mikeortman 3y ago
The fact there is an internet monopoly barring residents to use other internet providers is sad, especially given the impact on the GDP of the island if proper high speed internet and technological resources are available. I have a feeling
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by mikeortman 3y ago
"We include an extensive legal and ethical discussion to address the potentially sensitive nature of this material. As a consequence, the corpus will only be released for research purposes under certain restrictions." So no, you w
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by mikeortman 3y ago
"Finally, we will use the additional funds to accelerate go-to-market initiatives and customer support in selected areas." Anytime I see the business speak 'accelerate go-to-market initiatives', the company is at its end
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by mikeortman 3y ago
Some of these are clearly typos in the job listing. For instance 125k to 1.75M? I bet they meant 125k-175k... would be good for the site to filter on variance and hide jobs that have very large ranges
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by mikeortman 3y ago
Its like 40% there. I recognize that LLM is very impressive alone, but Bard's competition is significantly better. I worry that Google isn't being as safe as other competitors to get stuff out around regressions and ethical delimm
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by mikeortman 3y ago
That’s probably a fair statement, but I highly doubt there is a substantial audience of families that want to watch four separate shows at the same time in the same house for them to justify the research and marketing to implement.
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by mikeortman 3y ago
This isn’t about keeping Netflix in business, they are doing just fine. This is about squeezing out every last drop of exponential growth expected by shareholders.
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by mikeortman 3y ago
On a side note, I don't think anything screams big company enterprise more than contracts being announced with a horizontal bar between logos
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by mikeortman 3y ago
I bet the SEO, dark patterns, and advertisement bullshit by Intuit et al. is going to be ridiculous if this releases to the masses. I bet they can get the IRS tool on page 3 of Google/Bing with enough effort
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by mikeortman 3y ago
Your Apple ID country has a lot of implications if changed (certain app access will be available/restricted, payment methods, etc). You aren't going to be able to identify a user specifically, but you could detect if a user is cur
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by mikeortman 4y ago
This must be how early chemists felt trying to figure out what helps and what hurts, and everyone calling them witches
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by mikeortman 4y ago
On a related note for anyone interested in this and want better performance today: I messed with a combo of Whisper and ChatGPT. I took a whisper transcript and asked chatgpt to fix mistranscriptions using the context of the transcript and
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by mikeortman 4y ago
I really wish Amazon would flag products who using images very similar to other listings. I'm tired of seeing dropshippers putting a random company logo on an alibaba listing. Leads to crap products and a poor experience.
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by mikeortman 4y ago
Pinecone is closed-source AND hosted-infra only... which is a non-starter for many companies.
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by mikeortman 4y ago
Depends on where you live. That may not be enough to subsidize your time and money with a commute to get there and back... or cost savings from not needing childcare or petcare
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by mikeortman 4y ago
Spent 1 paragraph telling people they are doing layoffs, immediately followed by a long bullet-point list saying that almost every leader is keeping their jobs or getting more responsibility. Who reviewed this?
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by mikeortman 4y ago
> JUST STOP MASS BLOCKING. You literally have no reason to. As someone who has dealt with massive influx of requests caused by bad actors who use everything in their arsenal to mask their behavior, yes they do. It may not be ideal by any
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by mikeortman 4y ago
Filmora now claiming that they just weren't clear enough on the old version 9 license page and sorry for not coming off that lifetime != lifetime, so they are "generously" offering one more upgrade. Also claiming lots of soci
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by mikeortman 4y ago
Very specific one: the use of Gartner Magic Quadrants in marketing materials or presentations.
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by mikeortman 4y ago
Of course it could... but will it? Depends on Peloton, but they would most certainly issue a C&D first.
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by mikeortman 4y ago
Lifer until the benefits that matter to me disappear. I can't stress how much #6 impacts what makes someone a 'lifer'. By the time you are in 35+ and you've been in tech your entire career, you lean a few important life
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by mikeortman 4y ago
Well... not really. The no-logs policy is a bit misleading: “We are 100% committed to our zero-logs policy – to ensure users’ ultimate privacy and security, we never log their activity unless ordered by a court in an appropriate, legal way.
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by mikeortman 4y ago
"soon" in Elon time is 3-5 years.
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by mikeortman 4y ago
I sold my Tesla 3 weeks ago, primarily because I couldn't get condensation in my taillight fixed after 4 cancelled appointments and a no-show. I was getting tired of things breaking, and the no-show put me over the edge. I'll let
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by mikeortman 4y ago
A trick I've used to get certain robocalls to stop: once you get someone on the line, especially after they say the call is recorded. Offer them X amount of bitcoin, in escrow, if they callback to your number at later time and share de
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by mikeortman 5y ago
How to burnout 101. Setting an unrealistic performance expectation by doing what you love is fine, but that expectation won’t cease once you are asked to do something uninteresting or frustrating.
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Robots.txt for the NYT has a specific exclusion for an 1996 news article(twitter.com)
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by mikeortman 7y ago
What till you find out about the Google / Ascension partnership. I trust seasoned talent being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in partnership with equally well paid healthcare professionals over PhD students scraping by on
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by mikeortman 7y ago
Please don’t make sweeping, generalizing opinions on the implications of the work. It’s a subjective problem to solve, so if are not a radiologist who has first-hand experience with this issue, stop. Here are the results from the paper: Th
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by mikeortman 7y ago
Mirror of tweet. Account permissions changed: https://web.archive.org/web/20200204054257/https:/twitter.co...

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