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Given the sheer number of “universities” that have sprung up, in practical terms he is almost certainly right.

This reminds me of another blog I enjoyed -- there's a link shortener called https://y.gy , and .gy is the Guayanese TLD. Venezuela was invading Guyana, so the y.gy owner wrote a w…

I was shocked that even with the free tier gone, there's still some level of abuse. Even the paywall doesn't totally cure the problem.

Hilarious read. Wasn’t sure where this was going at first, but the stuff about the ICANN policies and domain continuity were really interesting.

There was a good article from John Loeber a few months back about browser extensions: https://loeber.substack.com/p/9-15-years-of-market-gaps-for-... He had the same point, where i…

The article suggests heavily that, the way things are going, that's not going to be the case in the future. Right now, Europeans are still living off past prosperity, but if they d…

Yeah that's right. There's a blogger in another post on HN that makes the same point at the very end: https://loeber.substack.com/p/a-timeline-of-the-openai-board

No, you are totally wrong. You should not comment on things that you have no understanding of. A non-resident alien is any person in the US who is not a citizen, green card holder,…

Very interesting. Thanks for posting. Didn't know about all the B&N litigation. In some sense it's a big landmark against software patents. Huge amount of blowback, and now it's mu…

Did anyone do worse than me? I got 11/24 :S

Besides the point, but why would you abbreviate "Downloadable" as "D/loadable"? The confusion vs. two extra letters trade-off doesn't seem worth it at all to me.

I've got a big corpus of textual data (10M+ tokens) from our corporate Wiki that I'd like to plug into an LLM that our customers can use. The trouble is, I don't know how best to d…

Can confirm. We were spending $1000/mo on Twitter up until earlier this year, when we realized that the ad impression quality had become total garbage. We were still getting clicks…

They're often -- but not always -- touched on in advanced undergraduate classes, e.g. after real analysis and abstract algebra. Not every math undergraduate takes number theory the…

This is neat. I hadn't seen it before. I'm still convinced that the internet -- and young, first-time programmers -- lost a really valuable tool with Flash. It's a shame they could…

Postal mail isn't encrypted because it's not viable for ordinary citizens to encrypt physical mail. However, tampering with mail, or opening someone else's, is a federal crime with…