sawyers

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by sawyers 2mo ago
I should start a power company?
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by sawyers 2mo ago
I understand what you're saying. I think it's less about this: You know about quizlet and choose to use it at $5/mo And more about this: The average person doesn't know about quizlet and asks chatgpt to build them a flas
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by sawyers 2mo ago
That tiny slice is gigantic.
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by sawyers 2mo ago
Interesting. You don't have to give away any secrets, but when you're talking about tiny details/sub features, what sorts of issues are you describing?
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by sawyers 2mo ago
I agree. I think people generally want a mix of good enough, easy, and something they already know. The competition I see is from two separate directions, 1) AI companies training on the prompts you send them 2) users building their own a l
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by sawyers 2mo ago
Yes. The point isn't whether it's true. It's currently the reality that's being sold by most large AI firms.
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Ask HN: What's the Point of Your Startup?
9 points by sawyers 2mo ago|18 comments
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by sawyers 2mo ago
Xerox Parc is one of my favorite anecdotes. However it's not for UI, it's for how major companies like Xerox kill innovation by trying to make it fit to the form factor of their business. A mouse and screen with a folder system wa
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by sawyers 2mo ago
What embedded fitness fuctions are you thinking of?
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by sawyers 2mo ago
Right. The joke with shakespeares monkeys or borjes library is that you just do that and then filter out the books that match shakespeares works. If you already know what you want in an infinite library, it is there. If you don't know
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by sawyers 2mo ago
People often think of tech/business as bottleneck issues ie whats my limiting factor. That's relevant to pre-ai business as humans are relatively self organizing. The issue with AI is it has no real memory, context, long term reas
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by sawyers 2mo ago
It shouldn't be prohibitively expensive because the more you break the work into smaller parts, theoretically the smaller a model can be that completes it. Therefore your agent swarms don't have to be cutting edge API calls, they
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by sawyers 3mo ago
What do you mean by tyranny of the specific?
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by sawyers 3mo ago
Agreed. Land coverage from space is going to have a larger line of site. I'm wondering more about unit economics. 10k units for global coverage with ongoing maintenance cost. Or earth bound construction that costs significantly less th
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Why is Starlink so big?(fool.com)
3 points by sawyers 3mo ago|8 comments
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by sawyers 3mo ago
You should be able to do the same thing by pointing dishes at each other long distance and having local nodes broadcast 5g. It would be a hell of a lot cheaper than rocket launches and most telecom companies already do it. It seems like sta
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by sawyers 3mo ago
They were bought out by a unilever subsidiary. Most of their ingredients were replaced with cheaper, less healthy, less flavorful additives. It's funny to say the ice cream got less healthy, but it's true.
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by sawyers 3mo ago
Any interesting reading on the second paragraph?