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The next sentence after your quoted section: “Even then, AI output is never treated as an authoritative source. Everything must be verified.”

I work at Featurespace - we stop fraud, scams, money laundering and other financial crimes. We build software that runs real-time machine learning models at scale, deep in the fina…

'permissible' isn't quite the point ... if it makes the jury think you're lying, maybe it isn't the best strategy.

The laws of physics permit (physically allow) me to punch someone in the face. The laws of my country say if I do that, there will be consequences. This is all about the level of a…

That does seem the better outcome - there’s no downside in being lenient here. > I did a quick scan of the Alexa Top 1 Million list. Currently around 0,06 % are affected Only affec…

I have, it's worth getting, it definitely scratches the same 'must ... optimise ... better ...' itches. It's early access but very playable and feature complete, but it does feel l…

> in an enclosure of chrome steel uprights, mounted on a wooden base, with a handle at each end That sounds so much better than “built on an upturned coffee table” ;-) But I jest -…

> what is the best calculation to make when trading off code quality vs features? > do most YC startups write tests and try to write cleanish code in V1 or does none of this matter…

a few principles I've found helpful: There are no coincidences, unless proven otherwise. If something smells wrong, it probably is. Trust your gut. Make sure you're building the ri…

I've been through deals with large financial institutions that have taken 2-3 years from an initial incredibly positive demo and PoC and strong buying signals, through to a signed …

Yes, I'd be interested. We're evaluating Slack, MS Teams and Mattermost as a successor to Hipchat. Something to move the needle commercially in favour of on-premise would be helpfu…

For some reason, in the UK at least, desks do seem to be measured in mm, yes. It's not a particularly common unit for measuring other large items though, more generally we'll use m…

> As long as you keep within the boundaries of reasonable law that's pretty subjective.

I wonder how long until we have that kind of computing power on our phones and look back with a wry smile ... or - how long ago would $173M have bought you the kind of power we car…

Understood - I appreciate why light, or any unaccelerated object, cannot leave a black hole. But does that same restriction prevent a rocket which wants to coast at 1m/s - under co…

yes - my question is whether escape velocity is necessary to leave a gravity well. and if it's not, taking that to its logical conclusion - why do we NEED to go faster than the spe…

"Do you believe in God?" "I believe in one fewer than you"

this one always bugged me a little a rocket takes off. let's say it's going upwards at 1 m/s at some short time after takeoff. why can't it then reduce (not to zero) acceleration s…

There is only one currency: time. You can trade this for everything else - the exchange rate is up to you.

There's a phrase I'm fond of: The man who says it can't be done needs to get out of the way of the man who's doing it.

I hire plenty of data scientists - if I had to give a single piece of advice: gain a deep understanding of the techniques you're using. it's not sufficient to say "oh, we used a su…

The value I get from ORM isn't the sql generation, it's in the removal of tedious boilerplate to map between a single row of a query result and an object.

Passion. Engagement. Curiosity. Being the absolute best possible at something - I don't really care what, but being mediocre at lots of things is a turnoff. Ability to learn new st…

> INTERVIEWER: Mr. Dalla, do you have a few minutes to share your opinions with us?” > ME: “Sure, why not? Go ahead.”

love the design, shall be recommending it to my gliding club. RASP is the gold standard of guessing in which direction you're going to land out today, but my god it is ugly. yes pl…