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by vipshek 3y ago
From the article: > Radia estimates the larger turbines could reduce the cost of energy by up to 35% and increase the consistency of power generation by 20% compared with today’s onshore turbines. Not sure what that translates to in term
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by vipshek 3y ago
I have no idea about the merits of this approach, but I found this interview with the founders a lot more sensical than the linked article: https://twitter.com/Extropic_AI/status/1767203839818781085
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The "Product Engineer"(vipshek.com)
10 points by vipshek 3y ago|2 comments
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by vipshek 3y ago
Completely agree there are many other reasons people don't join large, established bureaucratic organizations. My career has involved building software within well-established industries, but not necessarily within the large bureaucrac
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by vipshek 3y ago
This discussion and the points being made are totally valid and reasonable. But I think there's one thing they completely miss, which is the cultural impact of VC. Given the massive success of software companies over the past decade
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The MTA's bus metrics data pipeline(new.mta.info)
3 points by vipshek 3y ago|0 comments
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Reflections on a Sabbatical(vipshek.com)
5 points by vipshek 3y ago|0 comments
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by vipshek 3y ago
"Stronger" is ambiguous. If you interpret it as "resilience" then I agree having a single point of failure is usually more brittle. But if you interpret it as "focused", then having a single charismatic leader
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by vipshek 3y ago
This is super cool! I particularly like that you render the route along transit lines to reach each destination, which is differentiated from other isochrone maps I've seen. I would love to use this while hunting for apartments in a la
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by vipshek 3y ago
I did briefly discuss this idea of interactions "draining energy" in the post here: https://www.vipshek.com/blog/interaction#balance-not-batteri... . I understand that the idea of draining vs. charging works f
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Beyond introvert vs. extrovert(vipshek.com)
219 points by vipshek 3y ago|185 comments
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by vipshek 3y ago
For what it’s worth, the transcript I posted is 100% of the conversation I had with GPT-4. “How do LEDs work?” was the only thing I wrote in the initial question. I did try Googling “how do LEDs work” for comparison, but it yielded the same
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by vipshek 3y ago
OP here. I think learning exists on a broad spectrum. On one end, you're just indulging curiosity ("I wonder how...?"). On the other, you're trying to build deep understanding and expertise. I completely agree that for t
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GPT makes learning fun again(vipshek.com)
225 points by vipshek 3y ago|237 comments
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Square Outage(issquareup.com)
4 points by vipshek 4y ago|0 comments
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by vipshek 6y ago
Seems like a typo: https://outschool.com/
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by vipshek 6y ago
This strikes me a similar to a dynamic at the level of entire corporations and industries—commodification/modularization on one end, wholeness/integration on the other: https://stratechery.com/2015/netflix-and
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Where Online Services Go When They Die(theatlantic.com)
104 points by vipshek 12y ago|16 comments