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diego

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About diego

Founder of IndexTank (acquired by LinkedIn), as well as Flaptor (a consulting company that spawned IndexTank). You can follow me on Twitter: @dbasch. My email is the same as my Twitter handle, at gmail.

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/dbasch; my proof: https://keybase.io/dbasch/sigs/IzO64_np6HgSMCxjwdY9EqLq0knH9Uc8JNDgF2mhe7I ]

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    Meta has extremely opaque account policies. For example, I bought the Meta Raybans a month ago. It kept telling me the AI features were not available in my region, even though I am…

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    Comment #36882246

    I think the title just resonates. Older folks like me must reflexively upvote this stuff. I admit I do sometimes.

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    Comment #36881867

    correct link, @dang please fix https://iamnotarobot.substack.com/p/why-i-am-starting-a-hard...

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    Comment #36594678

    https://iamnotarobot.substack.com/ Lately I've been writing about AI because it's impossible not to. But I generally write shower thoughts about tech and my experiences in the indu…

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    Comment #36441316

    No complaint. It's more of a warning about how the main players (OpenAI, LangChain) share notebooks and cookbooks that illustrate how to make the LLMs "query" the databases. At the…

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    Comment #36089495

    tl;dr: nothing we didn't know. Since the beginning of times, startups with lots of funding have failed for a number of reasons. AI is no different in that regard.

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    Comment #35545806

    Seconded. Start here, and pause whenever you realize there is something that you need to learn in order to follow. Learn that and keep going.

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    Comment #35486219

    I had not seen that article. I'm not surprised someone had a similar idea before.

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    Comment #35474432

    If you try Bard or Claude or character.ai they are not far behind GPT4. They might even be on par in terms of raw LLM capabilities. ChatGPT has better marketing and in some cases b…

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    Comment #35378831

    That's exactly what I did here. https://github.com/dbasch/semantic-search-tweets

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    Comment #34889609

    Apparently it's simply a writer's website. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Ives

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    Comment #34121622

    I mostly agree. The way I would face this decision is like this: 1) Do I enjoy the coffee business? Would I have bought that plantation if the opportunity had arisen? If the answer…

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