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darwinwhy

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About darwinwhy

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    Using LLM embedding cosine similarity to classify products into larger categories (bricks) wasn’t something I would’ve thought of. Last I heard of word vectors was back when word2v…

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    Comment #45451917

    Sparse Post-Quantum Ratchet, or SPQR. Someone at Signal is a Roman history enjoyer.

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    Comment #41460256

    I believe it does unless you're another tech giant with billions of users / revenue.

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    Comment #41076065

    I couldn't tell -- does this editor work with Remote ssh?

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    Comment #40922023

    How much AAPL do you own?

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    Comment #39619193

    Direct link to the article: https://web.archive.org/web/20240301170542/https://www.roada...

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    Comment #37112505

    I somehow doubt they're going to destroy Amazon anytime soon. The market they're in reminds me more of Blue Apron/Hellofresh than Uber/Lyft. May as well take advantage their funder…

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    Comment #36767407

    Have you looked up small, light items on Amazon and seen that they pack them up packs of large N? They do that to hide the fact that delivery is actually a very large fraction of c…

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    Comment #36767293

    I wonder whether they've considered the possibility of open-sourcing their apps and backend. Perhaps this is just Pollyannaism, but I tend to believe that workers' rights and open-…

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    Comment #36052988

    > That means this thing won't be going to Hawaii any time soon. They claim Mokulele as one of their customers so presumably they can travel between some of the islands.

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    Comment #35478176

    Is that a reasonable assumption to make? I don't think we have any evidence of other places we look being "largely the same" with respect to life conduciveness. It took billions of…

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    Comment #35476986

    The first link in the article [1], to a blogpost about the etymology of the definition of "shard" that we now think of as the primary meaning of the word, is super interesting. The…

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    Comment #35336370

    When I think of an investor, I think of someone who picks and choses specific companies or sectors of the market to invest in. I'm curious what the Fed's tools allow it to invest i…

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    Comment #33940965

    this took two prompts:

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    Comment #33940961

    https://labs.openai.com/e/xsEDWhMgal51T9cpiEHdx08Y

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    Comment #33940947

    https://labs.openai.com/e/xsEDWhMgal51T9cpiEHdx08Y

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    Comment #31037663

    Is it too much to hope the addition of this Reddit feature can help the Google algorithm improve?

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    Comment #30497342

    That's really interesting. If they had waited for the value of the investment to plummet, would they get less of a write-off on their accounting?