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I Quit Google to Work for Myself (2018)(mtlynch.io)
4 points by samspenc 3y ago|0 comments
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by samspenc 3y ago
As they say in investing: "past performance is no guarantee of future results"
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by samspenc 3y ago
My experiences are similar, but I think we are talking about the Gemini free model, available on the Google Gemini website. I think the rest of the comments are saying the paid versions (Pro / Ultra) are significantly better, though I
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by samspenc 3y ago
> Youtube seems to come the closest, but Youtube educators also show how much time you have to spend attracting views instead of teaching expertise. Actually for all the attention that the top Youtubers get (in terms of revenue), the rea
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by samspenc 3y ago
I've noticed that typically Gemini seems to fail on longer Youtube videos, I think I've had trouble for anything longer than 30 mins or so. Shorter videos (which have captions) seem fine. Are you seeing this as well?
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by samspenc 3y ago
Yeah, from the article it seems they're not losing money, and made back the original $4000 investment they put in, but highly unclear if they're paying themselves livable salaries or just a split of the revenue (which could be sig
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by samspenc 3y ago
> The four cofounders each own 25% of the company, and at launch each put in $1,000 to cover initial costs. That's not much at all, are the founders the only employees, and the other expenses are all hosting costs? >
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ChatGPT users are generating 100B words per day: Sam Altman(independent.co.uk)
3 points by samspenc 3y ago|1 comments
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Microsoft Shares Lessons Learned on Building AI Copilots(infoq.com)
3 points by samspenc 3y ago|0 comments
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Divorce hits men harder financially than women: economists(msn.com)
28 points by samspenc 3y ago|18 comments
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by samspenc 3y ago
Likely CapEx spend on GPU for AI training, similar to what all other FAANG companies are doing now (esp Microsoft and Google, along with Meta). Mark did announce a few weeks ago they would be buying 600K worth of H100-equivalent GPUs, that&
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Meta is paying first-ever dividend, authorizes $50B buyback(cnbc.com)
3 points by samspenc 3y ago|0 comments
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by samspenc 3y ago
From the report, for Q4: • Net sales increased 14% to $170.0 billion in the fourth quarter, compared with $149.2 billion in fourth quarter 2022. • Operating income increased to $13.2 billion in the fourth quarter, compared with $2.7 b
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Amazon announces Q4 2023 results [pdf](ir.aboutamazon.com)
13 points by samspenc 3y ago|2 comments
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by samspenc 3y ago
Just to add some context, Matt (who posted this on his ma.tt website) is the creator of the popular and open-source / free WordPress CMS.
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by samspenc 3y ago
Yeah, NVidia could lose market share (likely slowly), but the data center GPU TAM is growing significantly, so it's likely lifting all boats, but NVidia faster than its competitors.
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by samspenc 3y ago
I think this is the right answer, NVidia struck a gold mine with CUDA. It's powerful enough not only for games, graphics and creatives; but could somehow also be easily retrofitted to work in other scenarios such as data center and AI
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Disney Loses Florida Lawsuit(wsj.com)
4 points by samspenc 3y ago|1 comments
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by samspenc 3y ago
From the release: - Revenue was $62.0 billion and increased 18% (up 16% in constant currency) - Operating income was $27.0 billion and increased 33%, and increased 25% non-GAAP (up 23% in constant currency) - Net income was $21.9 bi
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by samspenc 3y ago
Summary from the release for Q4: - Revenue increased from $76B to $86B (13% increase) - Operating income increased $18.1B to $23.7B - Net income increased $13.6B to $20.7B - Diluted EPS increased $1.05 to $1.64
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Google Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2023 Results [pdf](abc.xyz)
132 points by samspenc 3y ago|182 comments
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Fidelity increases X (Twitter) valuation by 11%(axios.com)
2 points by samspenc 3y ago|2 comments
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Evergrande, once China's biggest property developer, ordered to liquidate(wsj.com)
127 points by samspenc 3y ago|2 comments
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by samspenc 3y ago
My thoughts and experience with this. Business side: for stuff like graphics design, research and data entry, building simple websites or apps, video editing or creatives, I've had good luck finding talent on freelance sites. Finance:
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Netflix adds 13.1M subscribers, tops revenue estimates(cnbc.com)
40 points by samspenc 3y ago|44 comments
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Hiring ONLY seniors is the worst policy in the software industry(zaidesanton.substack.com)
40 points by samspenc 3y ago|29 comments
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by samspenc 3y ago
A crypto / Web3 company, not to be confused with Hashicorp, makers of the Terraform product.
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Sports Illustrated lays off entire staff(deadline.com)
35 points by samspenc 3y ago|5 comments
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by samspenc 3y ago
I'm hoping that NVidia doesn't give up on the consumer market and keeps producing low cost (and by that I mean $500-1500) GPUs that we can use for hobbyist AI / ML / LLM. Right now, only the 3090 and 4090 have enough VRA
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by samspenc 3y ago
$7 billion is a lot, but not comparable to the GDPs of countries which are in the trillions (unless you compare to the smallest of the long-tail). Meta's annual revenues alone exceed $100B+ at this point, assuming these purchases are s

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