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colinplamondon

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About colinplamondon

Previous co-founder of Spreadsong (15m+ downloads, made 2 of the Top 5 book iOS book apps, sold in 2013), Happier, and Checkraise.

email: colin.plamondon@gmail.com twitter: http://twitter.com/colinplamondon

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    Comment #47077235

    Ironically... ChatGPT having such a positive attractor basin for DEI probably widened the net here tremendously.

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    Comment #46784253

    I think investors like Amazon taking shots like this? It was never a broad roll-out, 43 stores is micro-scale for Amazon. Still, would love to see a breakdown of why it didn't impr…

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    Comment #46782656

    Why would they face consequences? Every store has video surveillance that can be reviewed. They trusted their tech enough to accept the false-positive rate, then worked to determin…

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    Comment #46709971

    It's a human-readable behavioral specification-as-prose. If the foundational behavioral document is conversational, as this is, then the output from the model mirrors that conversa…

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    Depends on worldview. If you believe in God, amazing has many dimensions for evaluations. What teaches us more about the the world He created, things that create beauty by expressi…

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    Comment #46208372

    Sure - and the people responsible for a new freaking era of computing are the ones who asked "given how incredible it is that this works at all at 0.5b params, let's scale it up*. …

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    Comment #46207770

    - A queryable semantic network of all human thought, navigable in pure language, capable of inhabiting any persona constructible from in-distribution concepts, generating high qual…

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    Comment #46207606

    It wasn't sycophantic at all? OP had a cool idea no one else had done, that was a one-shot just sitting there. Having Gemini search for the HN thread leads the model to "see" its o…

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    Comment #45421200

    Super well said - right. “Try again with quick feedback” vs “try again with significant feedback” vs “try again, but only a subset of the original task” vs “let’s have someone else…

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    Comment #45419760

    That code taste of yours, your ability to understand the minutiae, makes you superhuman at managing agents. Comments, docstrings, naming, patterns - by defining better approaches a…

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    Comment #44618913

    Honest question - how is that not true of those past researchers? IE, they... - Start with the context window of prior researchers. - Set a goal or research direction. - Engage in …

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    Comment #43304557

    - Google pays Firefox ~$500M/year for 2.5% market share, 65% market share should get a healthy annual payout for default search status. - A pure focus on web browser monetization c…

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    - Google pays Firefox ~$500M/year for 2.5% market share, 65% market share should get a healthy annual payout for default search status. - A pure focus on web browser monetization c…

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    - Google pays Firefox ~$500M/year for 2.5% market share, 65% market share should get a healthy annual payout for default search status. - A pure focus on web browser monetization c…

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    Comment #39775320

    Church Members have a somatic sense mapped to the Holy Spirit, and regularly experience symbolic & somatic injections. When those occur, the somatic sense of the Spirit is used to …

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    Comment #36673507

    Allowing porn monetizes and aids a probabilistic percentage of revenge porn, child porn, deepfake porn, and human trafficking. Even if a waiver is signed, there's significant dures…

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    Comment #36274138

    I would expect extracting out more of the meta-logic via GPT, and showing relevant panes dynamically. If you get an error, automatically search for the answer and propose the chang…

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    Comment #36178855

    OpenAI seems to be prioritizing the mobile experience over web. Their mobile app is extremely fast with GPT-4, faster than web. I’d imagine once mobile is well-established, they’ll…

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    (Fwiw, I think most of the feedback in this thread is thoughtful and encouraging - speaking more generally below.) I think the gap is the difference between giving feedback to a pe…

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    Comment #31696165

    This might be what that looks like. (1) Kill the subscription (2) Immediate Priority: Biz-dev deals, make sure every major release's early demo is available on Stadia. Expose peopl…