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by richardw 2y ago
Management consultants. Main attributes are confidence and ability to generate content. No need to stick around to see it through.
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“ More than 99% of my wealth will go to philanthropy during my lifetime or at death.” https://givingpledge.org/pledger?pledgerId=177 I think he’s already given away more than 50% of his Berkshire holdings.
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Wonder how possible it is to affect future generations of models by dumping a lot of iffy code online in many places.
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This. Enterprise knows the fully baked cost of adding thousands of technologies. My last gig turned a $5k/year payment into about $100k just to avoid learning about MongoDB and the default Azure firewall. Used the same firewall as on p
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by richardw 2y ago
I tried a new agent library with a model a few weeks ago. Just pasted the relevant api docs in and it worked fine. However, while I’m proud of the outcomes, I’m not proud of the code. I’m not releasing anything open source until I feel it’s
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Once you start this, every country will want the backdoor. The mere presence of it guarantees continued hacking attempts.
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They’re very exposed and the only way Taiwan independence survives is by keeping IP and skills locked up on the island. What you can bet on is if Intel had the goods, Trump would say “meh, let’s deal” to China. Compared to that, what cost i
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by richardw 2y ago
Ok go ahead and impose the tariffs. That will be the shortest, sharpest lesson in economics and leverage, transferring tech profits to government and forcing allies to realign. TSMC is not TikTok.
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No. There are many things that are path dependent and much harder to fix if you do it wrong the first time. People resign and move on, and it can take decades to build up the skills again. For example: if Trump breaks Ukraine, how do you fi
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by richardw 2y ago
I would guess Replit-like (or Vercel-like) automation of aspects that are RN-specific. Eg typical mobile integrations, databases, more focus on UI (design screens with drag and drop + LLM chat), secrets. Focusing means they’re able to make
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Imagine how much your customers have to hate you to do this.
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I think it impacts others more. Tesla has already built the experience and scale to beat other US manufacturers at EV’s. It’s harder to follow without subsidies.
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Works for Sydney, well done! I previously used Mapnificent to choose a house location, and found that many geographically closer properties were often much further in terms of time. Very useful. I like that it starts off with the map view,
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Durably reducing conspiracy beliefs through dialogues with AI(science.org)
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Give Google their due. It’s infinitely easier and risk free to just bury and ignore. Thank you, Google!
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I think there’s a real chance of changes in soft-power dynamics given recent events. When allies feel their partner and neighbour is behaving solely in its own interests, it changes trust relationships. Trump, tech, US-first focus with less
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PatientSeek, the First Open-Source Med-Legal DeepSeek Reasoning Model(medium.com)
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That applies to many roles. Lawyer AI can’t actually lawyer because someone needs to be accountable. War fighting AI needs to know where to kill. Doctor AI needs handholding. If we can find a legal construct for an AI surgeon operating on y
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A man who revealed Auschwitz's atrocities to the world(bbc.com)
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I had the impression that TikTok must be pre-loading videos. I would keep 1-n ready to go for startup (depending on storage) and then load whatever is optimal at runtime. Optimise for no wait times, control the selection and distribution. I
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by richardw 2y ago
By all accounts they’re making decisions based on their experiences on each platform, not maximum reach. This doesn’t happen in a vacuum: decisions are made by the executive and those decisions have consequences. If X wants scientists, make
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From the article: “Bluesky is much better for science. There is much less toxicity, misinformation, and distractions,” wrote one respondent. “My feed is almost entirely scientists and I actually get updates on research that is relevant and
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Others: don’t downvote this, it seems legit. See their other comments.
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Wow! I used you back in the day. Good work, Paras.
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While not world class, both of those are instantly better than the bag ‘o tokens served by the LLM. Honestly it’s a bit like the porn definition. We know intelligence when we see it, even if it’s hard to define. Adding more tokens doesn’t m
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by richardw 2y ago
Is the US dollar going to survive this presidency? Honest question. I can easily see a path to replacing it with enough political/VC will.
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He’s also the guy that triggered all of this by signing a presidential order to change TikTok ownership during his first run. Does he have a coherent position on this that these actions support?
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1 technology has moved on significantly. There are new options, and increased focus will deliver more. 2 if a few hundred million people burn coal while we move up the tech tree it’s not a huge deal. If 7 billion people do, it really is. Th
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China is not just foreign, it’s a rising superpower who has demonstrated ongoing information and cyber attacks against the US, and who has a stated goal of invading Taiwan. It attempts to dislodge the US or West influence wherever possible.
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Not exclusively cars but Hyundai got into the game early, buying pure car carriers in the 80’s: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMM_(company)

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