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Please call me when Yann is right about literally anything. No one has been more wrong and for longer about anything than Yann on LLMs.

in the first few years of any new technology only highly innovative companies (startups) use it. people still were using punch cards when tape was invented, and still using tape wh…

You know i used to think Ray Dalio was really smart, but literally every single article he writes is exactly the same “this argument is laid out in my book” blah blah blah This guy…

this. it’s genuinely shocking how much time is spent coming up with ideas like this, implementing them and making everyone report on it - for no outcome whatsoever

Doing hard things has always been, and always will be, hard. Building a static HTML page was “hard” in the 90’s. It took actual skills. Any piece that gets easier automatically ope…

This view is now consensus, which is highly comforting as consensus is always wrong.

when every car around you is even bigger than this, you’ll appreciate not driving a minuscule car in america. it is terrifying

Hiring illegal immigrants is risky and hurts businesses that choose not to cheat. This article makes it out like neither the immigrants or the businesses that hire them have broken…

The flip side is: efficient capital allocation is better for our economy as a whole than trying to save certain jobs for emotional reasons. Struggling businesses that can’t operate…

for an incredibly long article on a niche topic readers are unlikely to be familiar with, astonishingly the author never bothers to describe what ABA actually is or provide more th…

this is a cool idea. tried a few searches that were not confidence inspiring: missing prices, blurry, weird photos. the searches in case you want to take a look: “dog collar” and “…

“the cave paintings of nudes are corrupting the neanderthal youth” and yet - somehow we always survive.

If I am in a city (sf, ny) I am putting in my AirPods and booking it. Why? The only people that try to interact with you are either homeless, trying to sell you something, or tryin…

LeCun has been saying basically this same thing since 2021-22. It’s a lot easier to say what something is not than what it is. His comments now are really sounding a lot more like …

Hey this is cool - our application helps real estate investors select locations. Our users would get a lot of value from this. Be happy to feature you!

This is totally unsurprising, but an interesting example of how people are expected to conform to “normal” behaviors. People that fall outside this narrow definition of what’s acce…

China's strategy has now changed: they used exports to build massive growth in their economy, but they are now using their exports as a kind of economic weapon that can be used in …

Netlify for the front-end, google cloud for extended storage and Akamai for hosting. Akamai is great as they are less customizable than AWS (which is a good thing if you don’t need…

I can relate to this, especially on a side project where there is no one looking over your shoulder or holding you to a deadline, it’s very easy to spend too much time on the wrong…

This is something I would use - not to steal but so I could listen to certain podcasts for sleep. The host intros and ads for this certain podcast are terribly distracting from wha…

My experience as a bootstrapped saas founder: -at the early stages, usage models didn’t work for us because it attracted customers who were uncommitted to using the product -the ad…

Tinfoil hat time. The recent gpt2 chatbot that everyone thought was a new open ai product - could it be? “ You start with the gpt2.c pure CPU implementation, and see how fast you c…

It does seem like this is a possible method to test if an LLM has your data in it. People have found other ways to do that of course, but this is pretty clever.

This is an interesting analysis but it ignores the fact that although a cheap drone can destroy an $11MM tank, 2, 000 cheap drones do not give the possessor of the drones the same …