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by peterlk 1y ago
Hijacking this comment because it seems to be the most recent. I’d love to start a private email thread with you if you’re willing to do so. After the previous election, I felt wildly out of touch, and I’ve been trying to find people who I
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by peterlk 1y ago
Answer: it would most likely burn up Original paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009457652...
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by peterlk 1y ago
Creating stem cells from blood samples is a well-established industry practice now. I don’t think limiting embryonic stem cells research is significantly hindering stem cells research, is it?
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by peterlk 1y ago
I think there are maybe 5 business books out there. I’m not sure how exactly I’d define the 5 different business books, but I think of you read 10-15 business books you’ve pretty much read them all. After a while, they all start boiling dow
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by peterlk 1y ago
I sent outputs to experts (friends )in those fields who provided me with some specific topic that is common to their niche. In general their feedback all aligned with: “yeah, this is pretty decent, but anyone who was a professional would kn
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by peterlk 1y ago
I think you’re fixating on the specific example that I cited rather than imagining the possibilities of the technology. We now have: zero-shot classification capabilities for basically any task, performance that is consistent enough for ind
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by peterlk 1y ago
I am surprised at the negativity and cynicism in this thread. I suppose the pendulum of hype has high amplitude. Just because AI isn’t going to be some kind of all-knowing sci-fi AGI doesn’t make it all a sham. The recent research models ar
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by peterlk 1y ago
I think we are saying slightly different things. COGS are composed of many smaller capital allocations. According to this untested, pet thesis, putting on a report that $250M was spent on capex is just fine; but if you go to a single vendor
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by peterlk 1y ago
Yes; you will burn through all the capital you raise in ~18 months. It is _extremely_ difficult to efficiently allocate large raises (100M+) in 18 months. In fact, I’m developing a pet thesis that no single human or business can efficiently
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by peterlk 2y ago
I have no kids, but perhaps positive role models can be found in more specific categories like music. For example, I think Jacob Collier sets a great example. And I think my parents had similar concerns. I was raised on gangster rap and Emi
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by peterlk 2y ago
I disagree. I think Anthropic, like the other big players, is trying to get some of that government money. Releasing policy-adjacent papers seems like a way to alert government officials that Anthropic ought to be in the room when the money
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by peterlk 2y ago
I think it’s worth accompanying this study with the Simpson’s Paradox [0]. I don’t want to dismiss the conclusions of the paper, but temper expectations for individuals considering lifestyle changes. [0] - https://en.m.wikipedia.
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by peterlk 2y ago
Totally unrelated… I’m really excited to see VR46 as a username, especially since the championship was today
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by peterlk 2y ago
This seems intuitively true to me. The more I run, the quicker my heart rare matches whatever I’m doing. Resting - low heart rate; running - high heart rate. If you watch elite runners, they can go from 2+ hours of sprinting (elite marathon
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by peterlk 2y ago
I went to Thailand shortly after the covid lockdowns ended, and the corals were all coming back. I talked to a boat captain about it and his comment was: “yeah, there were no tourists to abuse them”. I can’t help but wonder what effect tour
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by peterlk 2y ago
A recent technique that I’ve been using is to listen to Spotify radio of my own music. Nobody listens to my music, so I end up finding other music that no one listens to - it’s refreshing. I’m sure you can find a friend who has a garage ban
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by peterlk 2y ago
The article addresses this point with the following: > It would of course be possible to sic Chatty-Jeeps on the raw markup and have it extract all of this stuff automatically. But there are some good reasons why not. > > The firs
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by peterlk 2y ago
Based on what I've read in the past, I believe the secret is simplicity. Simplicity scales
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by peterlk 2y ago
Can't wait for the writeup! So many services down at once... Something very interesting must have happened
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by peterlk 2y ago
The largest issue with the fediverse is that so few people seem to understand what it actually is. Even this paper talks about Bluesky, Mastodon, and Threads as if they’re mutually independent. They kind of are, but that misses the point of
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by peterlk 2y ago
When we stayed in Bologna for a month, we were told that it was used defensively. You can see a very long ways from the top of the central tower (I think it’s closed at the moment). It would have been nearly impossible for an army to approa
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by peterlk 2y ago
Note that this follows on the heels of the recent (near?) death of California Senate Bill 829 [0] - which is taking aim at the vertical integration of live performance by Live Nation. If you’re in CA, call your representatives! With this in
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by peterlk 2y ago
The mismanagement at Dish and DirecTV is staggering. The pendulum has now swung so far in the fragmentation direction that there is real value in bundling disparate content in a restricted fashion, and charging people for it - like cable&#x
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by peterlk 2y ago
The quoted section of the article is pretty out of touch with modern music. Many (most?) genres of EDM place the importance of timbre and texture above harmony and melody
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by peterlk 3y ago
This is the problem with terms like this. There are definitions in academia/industry that differentiate between awareness, consciousness, qualia, intelligence, sentience, and more. But these distinctions require some pondering to under
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by peterlk 3y ago
There is nothing in the world that is as good as soundcloud was in 2012. It wasn’t scalable at that time, but it was an incredible melting pot of discoverability. I used to spend a lot of time on a site called CitySounds (it no longer exist
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by peterlk 3y ago
Tables are tough. Thinking through the desired outcome of keyboard actions is a lot, and then implementing it takes a lot of work. As a simple example, if I have list inside a nested table, I highlight the list, and hit tab, what is suppose
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by peterlk 3y ago
Can this community tell me what alternatives exist? What I really want is for a business to let me pay an amount of my choosing, and send my money to artists based on my engagement.
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by peterlk 3y ago
Sounds like a kind of software engineering license. If you have one, you can make big money, but you’re also on the hook for failures. Really increases the incentive to not fuck up these systems. If there was a business decision that caused
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by peterlk 3y ago
Hear! hear! Why don’t we just start rolling back truck subsidies? If that’s not enough, maybe start incentivizing cars that aren’t tanks. The world is not more safe when everyone drives a tank. This is a tragedy of the commons

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