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came across a related article recently that explored the economics and physics of airships [1]. seems like a monumental undertaking to actually bring to market but the principles s…

Agreed, "real pain" is a subjective/vague term and even crypto is a broad term. My intended use here is to describe solutions that are more grounded/integrated into reality vs. mor…

Agreed, but IMO it's their job to do stuff like this (and prob unrealistic to expect a world where it doesn't exist). I'd rather see a higher percentage of marketing for things tha…

Of course - there will always be investors/influencers pushing narratives to hype their bets. IMO everyone is better off when the hype is grounded in solving real pain points, whic…

Congrats to the folks involved. Even knowing this is partly motivated by branding/marketing, it's great to see a16z getting more aligned with solving real pain points (vs crypto an…

> You will not use the Llama Materials or any output or results of the Llama Materials to improve any other large language model (excluding Llama 2 or derivative works thereof). [0…

I assume comments like these, "GPT-4: 8 x 220B experts trained with different data/task distributions and 16-iter inference." https://twitter.com/soumithchintala/status/16712671501…

With regards to The Scientific Method (and other ideas mentioned), I found some of David Deutsch's work thought-provoking. Namely, the idea that deductive reasoning is more effecti…

Related thread "OpenAI's plans according to Sam Altman removed at OpenAI's request": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36177895

As a recent addition, I've been impressed with Kevin P. Murphy's Probabilistic Machine Learning: An Introduction (2022)[1] and Advanced Topics (2023)[2]. [1] https://probml.github.…

Thanks for the response. I do recall hitting some product limitations (a webhooks "beta" that we tried to use but hit a blocker). Reflecting more, I don't recall the supporting det…

Also reminds me of this Martin Fowler post [0]: "The situation becomes interesting when the vast majority of your data sits in a single logical database. In this case you have two …

(Significantly edited after discussion) I also had a tough time working w/ an app someone else built on Supabase. We kept bumping up against what felt like "I know feature X exists…

nifty. neat linked astrophotography blog: http://wondroussky.blogspot.com/

obligatory Steve Mann reference: http://wearcam.org/myviews4.html "WearCam has been an experiment in connectivity, starting early 1994, running on and off until September 15, 1996 …

Open communication is great when there are incidents, but even better is having no incidents. (of course there are nuances depending on specific context)

> It’s simply not economically viable to continue adding functionality to a product that does not generate any revenue. I'd gently push back on this. If the primary purpose of the …

> Ship daily This is great advice, but when it's not possible to ship daily, I find that even just committing once a day is a good micro-goal to keep projects moving. The GitHub st…