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by vonnik 3y ago
I grew up in the nearest large town to Ted’s Montana hideout, Helena. A friend’s father was his early defense attorney. We shopped at the same used book store, borrowed from the same town library. I just want to say here that lots of smart
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by vonnik 3y ago
Profit is a very clear feedback loop. You go broke or you don’t. In that sense, it keeps you honest. There are pathologies of profit, such as building something people want, which is bad for them. Hello Big Food and Addictive social media.
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by vonnik 3y ago
Best exploration of this motif that I have read: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NqnCjljUcMacGpX4dFmz9iV9bu4...
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by vonnik 3y ago
Looking at the demo through the link, the next step here is to translate whatever the dog is thinking into natural language. Would much rather get enriched reality than a 3D theater for my 2D screens. I'm sure that's coming eventu
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by vonnik 3y ago
It’s not email, it’s anything you do on a small screen: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-05605-0
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by vonnik 3y ago
I learned French in large part by listening to the radio. Highly recommend France Culture when you are ready for it. It’s the radio 4 of France: https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture
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by vonnik 3y ago
There are three ways I know to bring down a drone with electronic warfare: - jam the operator's signal (RF) - jam or spoof GPS/GLONASS (RF) - fry the electronics There are degrees of autonomy. Some autonomous vehicles do not rely
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by vonnik 3y ago
Fwiw, large-scale jammer systems using radio frequencies are already deployed and quite effective in Ukraine. Curious what the advantage is here.
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by vonnik 3y ago
A major problem with data in the job market is that there are bad actors on both sides, employer and employee, with incentives to lie about themselves; ie companies with toxic cultures won't reveal that, nor will malicious or incompete
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by vonnik 3y ago
I meant dopamine, but I'm happy to throw seratonin in there, too, since it seems so related to depression. Fwiw, MDMA affects 3 neurotransmitters: serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine. Having a low dopamine baseline can also be real
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by vonnik 3y ago
Contrary data point to encourage caution with MDMA: MDMA can reset your dopamine baseline much lower. That is, after you come down, you may feel depressed, and it may be hard to climb out of that depression for a while. Use caution please.
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by vonnik 4y ago
She's great! I totally should have mentioned her. Stanford magazine covered her work last year: https://stanfordmag.org/contents/better-believe-it I first encountered her work through Andrey Huberman's podcas
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by vonnik 4y ago
The key thing we should update on, as a society, is that placebo effects are huge (often as large as the treatment effects established for drugs in RCTs), and through specific actions, the placebo effect can be maximized. In fact, it used t
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by vonnik 4y ago
There is an infinite market for posts with that title, varying only in the final noun. That is, in fact, the nature of the news business. When MSM does it, we shout at them. When writers on Substack do it...
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by vonnik 4y ago
Anyone interested in Italo Calvino's work with a pre-modern cast should read "Italian Folktales". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Folktales He spent many years recording the oral traditions of seve
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by vonnik 4y ago
startups are like fentanyl -- the gap between the lethal and the effective dose is v small.
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by vonnik 4y ago
This is one of the stupidest articles ever written. One of big assumptions is that walkers eat more than non-walkers. Walking to work will make many of the people who do it healthier. And that health will have many knock-on effects in a soc
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by vonnik 4y ago
SVB is an institution that has supported a lot of businesses in tech. There are a lot of harmful clowns out there fearmongering. They should stop. The failure of a bank like this, if it occurs, would be bad for a lot of people.
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by vonnik 4y ago
It's not a whole lot more complex. In the last few years, the city government could have adopted very different policies toward policing, homelessness, COVID, housing and education, all of which would have made it more competitive than
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by vonnik 4y ago
This piece is an op-ed, not straight reporting. Tyler Cowen, its author, is a noted economist (with libertarian leanings), and he favors competition in many forms. Anyone curious about him and his views should read his blog Marginal Revolut
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by vonnik 4y ago
What the leading indicators of a good manager? How would you recognize one in a hiring process?
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by vonnik 4y ago
Agree with this post. Big data was vendor generated hype that convinced many engineers to confuse the size of their dataset with their, ahem, shoe size. They didn’t do their employers any favors.
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by vonnik 4y ago
Co-existing is doing a lot of work there.
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by vonnik 4y ago
It depends on how you define decision tree. We all gather information in order to recognize complex patterns and make decisions. Some of those decision flows are extremely deep, with complex inputs to determine the ultimate decision. Skille
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by vonnik 4y ago
This is a limiting perspective inherently pessimistic about LLMs. The best NLP interfaces will be asking questions to the users, in order to figure out what their real problem is. This is similar to what teachers and therapists do. It is no
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by vonnik 4y ago
Great interview between Tyler Cowen and the book’s author here! https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/katherine-rundel...
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by vonnik 4y ago
Again, that a lot of extra work, and the automatic reverse links are v tooling dependent. You don't get them with Confluence or gDocs, fwiw. Nor do these suggestions solve the problem of doc creation. What many people ignore in these d
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by vonnik 4y ago
One of the guys who created this also created Pluribus, the AI that learned to bluff to win poker games. That's Noam Brown. https://www.cmu.edu/ambassadors/october-2019/artificial-inte... High-level, you need
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by vonnik 4y ago
I've worked at high-documentation companies and low-documentation companies. Documentation is hard to create and hard to maintain. It is essentially a simulation of an underlying reality, and that underlying reality *always* changes fa
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by vonnik 4y ago
Just like nobody can get sober for you, everybody must stumble upon problem discovery and the mom test for themselves. It’s hard to be lost. But less hard than wasting years of your life on a bad idea. https://vonnik.substack.com

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