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by ttul 2y ago
I should clarify: The IFRS statements do not break out the discount in this manner. In accordance with IFRS/GAAP, revenue should be reduced by the amount of the discount, not treated as a financing item. However, for internal reporting
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by ttul 2y ago
This works until it doesn’t. I have seen many startups raise a ton of cash from pre-payments, burn it on marketing and R&D, and then find that the cashflow isn’t forthcoming as expected. I force my companies to clearly show prepaid reve
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by ttul 2y ago
Close colleagues of mine run a video game development company (I worked for a time in that industry). They were doing contract development for one of the huge publishers and were prohibited from doing WFH. During the pandemic, they toughed
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by ttul 2y ago
Yes indeed. Us greybeards were tunneling ssh through DNS using a Perl-based hacking tool thrown together by Dan Kaminsky in 2004 called “OzymanDNS”. DNS tunneling is now ubiquitously used for data exfiltration and consequently all major DNS
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by ttul 2y ago
Vancouver’s office sector has a higher fraction of occupants who cannot work from home, such as digital animation and effects companies and video game developers, who have special on-site tech and extreme confidentiality requirements that p
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by ttul 2y ago
Tokenization is a statistical technique that greatly compresses the input while providing some semantic hints to the underlying model. Tokenization is not the big thing holding back generative models. There are so many other challenges bein
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by ttul 2y ago
Note that this failure didn’t prevent Rogers from buying Shaw and securing an even larger position in the national telecom system. In BC, for instance, there are only two mobile networks now (Telus and Rogers). That places an extremely high
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by ttul 2y ago
When I first got a RAV-4 hybrid, I had no idea that this sound was being pumped out of a speaker. I thought it was an artifact of the electric motor. As it happens, companies spend a lot of time designing their unique electronic sound as a
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by ttul 2y ago
TLDR: this vulnerability does appear to allow an attacker to potentially gain remote root access on vulnerable Linux systems running OpenSSH, with some important caveats: 1. It affects OpenSSH versions 8.5p1 to 9.7p1 on glibc-based Linux sy
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by ttul 2y ago
Examples like this make me think, “maybe the S&P 500 will be at 15,000 by 2030.” I mean, in my own job, Claude is making me substantially better in a wide range of areas, from sales negotiation to managing my team. Add that up across mi
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by ttul 2y ago
I’d say it’s far more useful than a junior engineer. A junior might know one or two areas well, but Claude 3.5 knows literally every steep learning curve across all engineering professions. Claude may not yet be able to orchestrate a large
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by ttul 2y ago
Claude helped me code up a quick webhook handler for a silly side project. Being a side project, I asked it to put the code into a Docker container, which is did flawlessly. It also gave me a Makefile with sensible targets for building, reb
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by ttul 2y ago
Does anyone else look forward to a game that lets you transform your house or neighbor into a playable level with destructible objects? How far are we from recognizing the “car” and making it drivable, or the “tree” and making it choppable?
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by ttul 2y ago
We are used to a western perspective on marriage, where the playing field is generally level between partners. In Africa, there is often a huge power imbalance between men and women in marriage. A woman particularly might want to keep her p
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by ttul 2y ago
So that their partner doesn’t think they are cheating.
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by ttul 2y ago
LangChain got its start before LLMs had robust conversational abilities and before the LLM providers had developer decent native APIs (heck, there was basically only OpenAI at that time). It was a bit DOA as a result. Even by last spring, I
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by ttul 2y ago
I’m not shoe-horning. The Conservative Party of Canada is leveraging the same right-wing populist rhetoric as Trump’s Republican Party. By contrast, perhaps Trudeau’s failing is that he isn’t playing the same game, preferring to continue wi
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by ttul 2y ago
The reason the identities of the MPs remain confidential is the same reason the identity of any suspect in a criminal investigation remains anonymous. Until prosecutors have developed a case that they feel is ready to bring to trial, the in
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by ttul 2y ago
By creating the best chat interface for its own models - presumably using capabilities that may not be shared with others via APIs - OpenAI ensures that their world class model is harder to replace.
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by ttul 2y ago
And the remaining 20%… total mystery.
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by ttul 2y ago
If they haven’t already, I won’t be surprised if Apple creates a reasonable password app for Android and Windows specifically to address this concern. Fanning out to other platforms to enable customers to continue using Apple products is a
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by ttul 2y ago
Apple would not be releasing iPhone mirroring if the latency were terrible. If they had a low bar for latency, they’d have released iPhone mirroring ten years ago. Apple's Human Interface Guidelines do not specify an exact maximum numb
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by ttul 2y ago
AirDrop is great in theory, but in practice 80% of the time I try to send a photo to my partner using AirDrop, it simply fails to bring up a notification on her devices. In my experience, Apple often delivers well much of the time, but will
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by ttul 2y ago
I’m a passionate student of Prof. David Yoffie at HBS. His many case studies on the tech industry are worth buying, as is his book on platforms referred to in my previous comment.
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by ttul 2y ago
In my opinion, OpenAI is building a platform business [1]. OpenAI is primarily an innovation platform. It provides tools, models, and APIs that enable developers and businesses to create new applications and services, fostering a wide ecosy
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by ttul 2y ago
Hey there, you should start a blocklist!
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by ttul 2y ago
Running a DNSBL is/was hardly a glamorous job. It takes a peculiar character to withstand the endless onslaught of complaints from unscrupulous marketers, clueless sysadmins inadvertently running a spam cannon, and end-users feeling th
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by ttul 2y ago
A few years ago, I would have said that the challenge-response approach was doomed to failure, but in light of the concentration of spam and phishing emanating from Gmail accounts, Gmail addresses are the new IP addresses. How long before s
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by ttul 2y ago
These short analyses are always in the form of ultra-dense slides. It’s something of an art form.
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by ttul 2y ago
You caught me in a senior’s moment. Whoops.

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