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by yowlingcat 1y ago
He has a PhD in /physics/ from Caltech, and that was before he became an extremely successful investor. If I had the platform Maguire had, I'd likely it in a different direction. But I'm not him so who cares? He has achi
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by yowlingcat 1y ago
That's a very good point, and there is probably enough appetite in the endowments (nevermind the other large LP archetypes such as pension funds, hospital systems, family offices, etc) to make up for any pullout. To go one step further
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by yowlingcat 1y ago
After the sentence you quoted, what does the very next sentence say?
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by yowlingcat 1y ago
I'm not sure this direct departure matters that much to Sequoia. The COO Balbale was an operating partner who was CMO of Sequoia for 2 years and then COO for another 2 years and to my understanding did not write checks. The real elepha
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by yowlingcat 1y ago
You're getting answers in child responses that while accurate are not necessarily answering the spirit of your question. In my personal opinion, you'll find what you're looking for by searching for a high growth Series A - B
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by yowlingcat 1y ago
Qwen3 Next and Qwen3-30b-a3b are pretty decent proxies for GPT-OSS 120B and 20B respectively (and in fact are both MoEs with 3B active rather than 8B active parameters), and they lap GPT-OSS pretty hard in this specific benchmark, getting t
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by yowlingcat 1y ago
I really want to like Mojo but you nailed what gives me pause. Not to take an anecdotal example of Polars too far beyond, but I get the sense the current gravity in Python for net new stuff that needs to be written outside Python (obviously
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by yowlingcat 1y ago
I know this is such a controversial livewire of a topic and borderline taboo, but the evidence is pretty substantial. That being said, the intra-group variation is also extremely substantial (IE the variation between genius/median in a
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by yowlingcat 1y ago
This is not a great "study" if you can call it that. Let me be specific by pointing a passage that's doing a lot of the heavy lifting: ``` After controlling HDL and LDL cholesterol, uncontrolled high blood pressure, atheroscl
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by yowlingcat 1y ago
This isn't a great answer to the overall issue (which I agree is a ridiculous dark pattern), but I've used Privacy.com cards for personal projects to hard spend at a card level so it just declines if it passes some threshold on a
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by yowlingcat 1y ago
I don't get how interest rates is given at best a cursory phrase when ZIRP regime ending is one of the biggest macro events of the past several decades. Seems like it would deserve more of a spotlight.
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by yowlingcat 1y ago
It's quite a stretch to go from "Gandi is holding my domain hostage" to "my password wasn't great" -- while my heart goes out to you (I personally don't like that we live in a world where just because peop
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by yowlingcat 1y ago
Agree with your broader point but have the stupidest point to persecute (arabic vs roman numerals) -- anecdotally seeing a lot of our investor base raise their next funds (all VCs) they have all been roman numeral named for some reason. Is
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by yowlingcat 1y ago
A commercial transatlantic flight costs $0.50 per person?
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Anthropic faces potential business-ending liability in statutory damages(chatgptiseatingtheworld.com)
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by yowlingcat 1y ago
I think that the only reason guess-and-check fails is when you don't know enough to actually check. Maybe this is why we disagreed on a previous comment. I think guess and check is generally the best way to solve problems, so long as y
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by yowlingcat 1y ago
My goals are outcomes on the key metrics of the business I run (such as opex, funnel pull-through, time to resolution) that translate the human effort and inputs into significantly more output than previous approaches we were using. That pa
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by yowlingcat 1y ago
I would caution against thinking it's impossible even if it's not something you've personally experienced. Prompt engineering is necessary (but not sufficient) to creating high leverage outcomes from LLMs when solving complex
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by yowlingcat 1y ago
Any reason to not just use Pandoc? It's been 15 years since I ran into this problem, but even at that point Pandoc made it pretty easy to go from Markdown -> Latex and then render from Latex -> PDF. The benefit of this pipeline i
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by yowlingcat 1y ago
> but in practice that gets abused to put python in the hot path But if that's an abuse of the tools (which I agree with) how does that make it the fault of the language rather than the user or package author? Isn't the languag
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by yowlingcat 1y ago
Nice writeup -- had been wondering about how it compares to Git (and any killer features) from the perspective of someone who has used it for a while. Conflict markers seems like the biggest one to me -- rebase workflows between superficial
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by yowlingcat 1y ago
You can make a critique of the flimsier parts of anti-DEI fashions with substance but I don't think this is one of them. There are so many questionable assumptions and strawmen layered into the end conclusion that it's hard to tel
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by yowlingcat 1y ago
Putting aside the conclusions about alternatives (which I can't say are necessarily persuasive given externalities they would cause), I think the methodology could be improved here. In particular, why choose 36 million as the divisor?
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by yowlingcat 2y ago
There's an old Joel Spolsky post that's evergreen about this strategy -- "commoditize your complement" [1]. I think it's done for the same reason Meta has made llama reasonably open -- making it open ensures that a
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by yowlingcat 2y ago
I don't think Hacker News is trying to be Reddit.
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by yowlingcat 2y ago
My POV comes from someone who's indexed on what works for gauging technical signal at startups, so take it for what it's worth. But a lot of what I gauge for is a blend of not just technical capability, but the ability to translat
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by yowlingcat 2y ago
I think GP's point is that this says as much about the interview design and interviewer skill as it does about the candidate's tools. If you do a rote interview that's easy to game with AI, it will certainly be harder to dete
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by yowlingcat 2y ago
I think it's lazy and superstitious to make an analogy between practices in hygiene in medicine and software engineering. But if you want to draw your analogy to its absurd conclusion, I think a lot of people would hate the idea of nee
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by yowlingcat 2y ago
I think SOM is more of a narrative tool that helps you explain part of your market approach rather than a binary classifier that either leads to or away from fundability. Specifically in healthcare, there's a great passage [1] in an ar
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by yowlingcat 2y ago
DX7 will always have a special place in my heart being the spiritual predecessor to my favorite soft synth, FM8. If you want a modern FM synthesis experience, FM8 has been that for over a decade. Low CPU usage, incredibly versatile, really

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