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botacode
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About botacode
Please reach out: [gabriel (at) coveragecat (dot) com] if you want to talk, have any questions or feedback, would like to work with us. Owe my startup career to HN in a way so always happy to help out.
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Comment #49106319
There was a good paper documenting this in broader industry, and highlighting how it may account for previous research suggesting good ideas have been getting harder to find. Here'…
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Comment #48916570
Fascinating, had not seen this research thank you for sharing.
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Comment #48913829
This will save a lot of lives! Hope it passes. The shift is a relic of an older economy and damages folks' lives through worse mental health and driving outcomes [0]. [0]: https://…
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Comment #48887032
My understanding is that this remains unsettled law. We've added a disclaimer after seeing the big players (OAI, Ant) do the same and focus on ensuring LLMs get things right / outp…
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Comment #48873663
It is a commodity product but, again, the regulatory and capital hurdles to get started are significant. As you scale you need more and the exact reserve requirements are often at …
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Comment #48872927
The capital requirements and regulatory barriers to start an insurer are extremely high.
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Comment #48872916
A touch of nuance from someone in the industry (CTO at a startup that sells home and umbrella insurance): Most of the issues here stem from problem the sales as opposed to the clai…
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Comment #48528324
There is significant value to reducing pollution (in human health and flourishing). That said, GP comment is intellectually dishonest. It doesn't account for the negative externali…
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Comment #48026617
Great to see more insurance hype! We've been working on AI to solve the consumer search problem in the industry for the past 3 (almost 4) years and it's great to see the big labs g…
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Comment #47578332
Agreed. Discussions like these always remind me of some great research on how the destruction of the old, more averaged, and less targeted infosphere used to support significantly …
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Comment #47577825
The advice here is good, and I'm a big believer that the cream (e.g., sincerity and real opinions) rises to the top for writing. Still, think folks dunk on these types of writing a…
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Comment #46832715
What other habits besides flossing are shown to reduce the microbiome diversity?
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Comment #46819681
"In further analyses, the researchers found that, for cancer patients, whether their HDHP had a health savings accounts (HSAs) did not make a difference."
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Comment #46812641
Load just makes LLMs behave less deterministically and likely degrade. See: https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/defeating-nondeterminism-in... They don't have to be malicious operator…
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Comment #46809077
Excellent, level headed, read that appropriately acknowledges that we live in a world ultimately bounded by physics that (at some point) no amount of money or human attention can o…
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Comment #46794698
It is very unclear if fusses are real at this stage of the AI hype cycle or just driven by increasing Twitter group think. Give it a few weeks.
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Comment #46763815
This is a great perspective, and one that I've come around to after years of being anxious about being perceived online. The shift has been very rewarding and has opened up tons of…
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Comment #46763256
Two good ones my gf took here: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gb-cc_my-desperate-attempt-to... The second one is from the inside of the observatory (89th floor). Folks with media p…
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Comment #46763235
Wonder if you could reconstruct synthetic versions of Gsearch with archive pages. I'd guess SEO/SEM companies have the data to build a small version of this and track the changes o…