nateburke

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by nateburke 4y ago
>> It is impressive. But not trustworthy. Post should be titled "Using ChatGPT as a post-A-round, board-hired COO."
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by nateburke 4y ago
Remember when we tried? https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/19/world/asia/mark-zuckerber...
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by nateburke 4y ago
Macoun NOT LISTED. Makes me suspicious of the author. A fresh macoun will make you question everything you know about apples.
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by nateburke 4y ago
> They regularly contradict themselves and spout unlikely narratives. Asking relatively simple questions often show a lack of understanding. Maybe not AGI, but perhaps we have already attained AGP (artificial general politician)
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by nateburke 4y ago
+1 on Halliday/Resnick physics. This book changed my life--it was only after reading it that I started to trust my own ability to learn directly from textbooks.
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by nateburke 4y ago
Yes. I was surprised to find out during open enrollment this year that my premium costs would stay FLAT! First time in years this has been the case.
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by nateburke 4y ago
I'm 6-5, really long femurs. This happened to me one time as well. I told the flight attendant to move my already spread and jammed knees for me. She quickly realized that there was no orientation of my femurs that would make everyone
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by nateburke 4y ago
Perhaps it's a good thing for the government to reincentivize R&D inside of large tech firms by blocking deals like this? In my opinion, there is a huge incentive for large firms to buy rather than build right now, given the go-to-
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by nateburke 4y ago
> or start _gasp_ targeting less talented people. I have seen this work in the B2B startup world. Hire ambitious ppl with some dev experience, but definitely not from top CS programs, and have them grind to implement custom solutions tha
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by nateburke 4y ago
I grew up with a 1943 edition of encyclopedia Britannica in the house. I can remember looking at the maps volume and seeing no highways in the United States, only railroads. It also included an EXHAUSTIVE article about Mormons that I used f
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by nateburke 4y ago
In music: One note can show good sound. Two notes can show good intonation. 3 notes can show a sense of rhythm.
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by nateburke 4y ago
> So no, in my opinion 20x EV/sales isn't that crazy for a good SaaS company. I agree but with the specification that the only way to get that "good SaaS company" multiple now from an acquisition is with the stick rat
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by nateburke 4y ago
There is no feeling better than seeing that green diagonal stripe of a safety flash in your hand when you pick a card...it's electric!
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by nateburke 4y ago
Yes
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by nateburke 4y ago
Sorry, I should have said that I think the auto industry and national highway system in America were put in place in the 40s and 50s to create a strategic economic flow of petroleum consumption. I.e. should there be another big global land
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by nateburke 4y ago
Petroleum is a critical ingredient to land war supply lines. We won't have mass adoption of EVs until this fact changes or becomes irrelevant (eg if land wars become irrelevant).
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by nateburke 4y ago
What would the AI's reward function be?
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by nateburke 4y ago
Wood is technically "renewable", correct, as it is non-fossil? Are there ballpark numbers available for forested acreage per thousand square feet of home living in, say, Maine, in order for the heating needs to be completely satis
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by nateburke 4y ago
Do not forget that Bach's music needed to feed 20 of his children over the course of his life. (10 survived) I have a hard time believing that he was intentionally carving out the rules of eg _Gradus ad Parnassum_ rather than consisten
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by nateburke 4y ago
It's impressive that the search result has didactic steps towards a solution though....
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by nateburke 4y ago
Eyes don't play string instruments, hands and arms and backs do. In a string quartet, with the exception of a nice shared smile before everything starts, eyes should be taking in hand and limb movement information. But really, why isn&
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by nateburke 4y ago
Or word embeddings
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by nateburke 4y ago
This article circles around the most common situation where "wanting to hire a person who has done 'it' before but it's hard to find that person" arises: hiring for startup leadership. Acme Startup needs to hire i
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by nateburke 4y ago
FWIW, Nathan Dunfield's hand drawings are typically very difficult to improve upon. This is an impressive paper. Thank you for sharing!
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by nateburke 5y ago
Doesn't a form of mag amp figure prominently in Gravity's Rainbow? https://niklasriewald.com/2020/01/02/the-math-behind-gravity...
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by nateburke 5y ago
His best album.
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by nateburke 5y ago
Great post! This definitely has me thinking more about the extent to which the strength of a particular identity representation is determined by our willingness to bind artifacts of value to it.
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by nateburke 5y ago
I feel like the young, single person's American dream is still alive and well in SF. If you're willing and able to bend your life around work, there are few better places to do it. And for those with families, especially those wit
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by nateburke 5y ago
While very much different in terms of the number and financial size of directly-applicable job prospects, American pre-collegiate math and musical training share a very important thing in common -- there is a step-function proficiency gain
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by nateburke 5y ago
Yes but their big idea is that pizza is a fundamentally underpriced item relative to the value it brings a group of people... sitting in front of laptops...

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