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ThomPete
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About ThomPete
Former
CEO Faktory.com
Co-Founder Hello Group (Acquired in 2017 by www.thenorthalliance.com)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thompete/
Square, 80/20, HelloGroup, MetaDesign alumni
Essays: http://www.000fff.org
meet.hn/city/us-New-York
Socials: - x.com/hello_world
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Comment #48345170
Network effect is the moat not domain expertise. Domain expertise build on network effect (for instance the knowledge of the network) yes, but just simple domain expertise is only …
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Comment #48298905
That will fall again and everyone will be back to google
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Comment #48011880
This is just flat out wrong. Making it removable means making it less effective, meaning using more materials etc. What is much more concerning is that you seem to be totally fine …
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Comment #48011847
So now the EU want to design phones too. What could possible go wrong.
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Comment #47303647
same
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Comment #46717898
Since it's inception in 1993, not a single global top 100 company have been created by any of the EU countries so the struggle is real. However I would strongly caution against thi…
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Comment #45313504
What revenue is that welfare state based on?
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Comment #44934078
Looks like it can
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Comment #44933011
Would it be possible to write a script for CAD that could do measurements
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Comment #44922298
It's really very simple. We used to have deterministic systems that required humans either through code, terminals or interfaces (ex GUI's) to change what they were capable of. If …
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Comment #44009686
My way out of this was to start thinking about what can't the LLMs of the world do and my realization was actually quite simple and quite satisfying. What LLMs can't replace is net…
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Comment #42920327
Science do in fact rely on philosophy that's how we got the scientific method.
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Antelope AI | https://www.getantelope.com | Senior Python / Full stack developers | FULLTIME | ONSITE - HYBRID - REMOTE (US Only) | New York Antelope is the worlds first synthetic …
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Comment #42919356
No the sun either is or isn't powered by nuclear fusion. There is no way of knowing whether that's the case until you can come up with a good explanation (hard to vary) everything …
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Comment #42917470
Not from a non-bayesian perspective. It's what Deutsch would call a "bad explanation" i.e. it's easy to vary and thus doesn't tell us about how the sun is powered.
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Comment #42300196
Faktory | Full Time | Remote/On-site (New York, US) | https://www.faktory.com Faktory is building the worlds biggest, smartest and most reliable AI workforce. Your objective is to …
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Comment #42261572
funny i get that too on twitter what you get on bluesky. if you seek out debate you will get it, has nothing to do with twitter. Bluesky will be very boring once upu realize that t…
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Comment #42222408
This is crypto scare all over again. My answer is still the same you always have to do a cost benefit analysis. AI is many times more valuable than the energy it consumes and thus:…
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Comment #42130533
Yes.