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Subscribed! As a layperson, I find this an approachable way to get an overview of a topic. However, I am only interested in a few select topics, and I was not able to find a way to…

Location: Europe Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No (travel up to 2x/month) Technologies: Jira, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, OpenAI/Anthropic/Google LLM…

Could someone please help me understand how a multi-modal RAG does not already solve this issue?[1] What am I missing? Flash 2.5, Sonnet 3.7, etc. always provided me with very sati…

Well, you seem crazy enough to, possibly, find some sort of enjoyment from this book: The Romance of Reality by Bobby Azarian The author explores an philosophical framework to expl…

Hey, sorry cannot be an intelectual sparing partner to you in any way. However, I think your sleepless days/nights were very well spent, thank you! I am out of depth when it comes …

You are correct, it was just a random example. And I share your observation, if there is no clear answer to your question, the idea must be disregarded.

Here is the perspective of a serial founder, exploring fields which I might be able to disrupt: - The regulatory moat is immediately intimidating. - The data moat, often, is quite …

As being part of a software development team working on RPS (runway performance) I can tell you, it is stories like this which keep us up at night. The amount of business logic inv…

My absolutely new favorite heuristic for decision making comes from Mr. Bezos: Is the decision costly to reverse (costly as in time / money)? No → Make a decision fast. Yes → Take …

What an excellent point. If it is addressed in the book, I don't remember. If we actually accept that expansion increase in entropy, I do not know what could possibly compete with …

To anyone curious about the intimated interplay of entropy and life, I want to highly recommend the book: The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, …

For anyone interested in this topic, I can wholeheartedly recommend the book: "The WEIRDest People in the World" by Joseph Henrich. The book provieds a beautifully constructed fram…

This is why I love HN, you gave me a surprising, but after evaluating your links trustworthy explanation. Thank you! If anyone else is wondering Exodus Cry is an organization which…

I am asking this question out of true intellectual curiosity: Could someone please link me a study which shows strong evidence for micro-plastics being harmful to health, that goes…

This is a wonderful tool, I am very much looking forward to seeing further development & countries Thank you very much! One observation I had while playing with the numbers was: Th…

My 9 years old son has refused to go to his public Tokyo school for two years now. I am from a German speaking country and the idea of a child not to attend school is absolutely un…

This is amazing, it took me some time to understand it, but now I am blown away by the simplicity of the tool and the possibilities it holds. I already started gaining insights in …

As a non-American I am less than qualified to provide an answer, but one possible hypothesis is Race and ethnicity. The midwest has according to Wikipedia with 79% the highest Non-…

I can anecdotally confirm and at the same time fail to confirm these findings. Since recently I am awoken about 1—2 times per night. Yet, the noise is only disturbing enough to awa…

Oh, I am Austrian (culturally very close to Germany) and I worked in a German company in Tokyo. I am not alone with my opinion, that Japanese are taking perfectionism to a whole ne…

Thank you for your advice, I fully agree. I cannot edit my comment anymore, so I actually think about just deleting it. Edit: I am surprised to find; I mistakenly assumed I have th…

Yes you are right, this is massive over generalization, and I am rather unhappy with my wording, unfortunately I can not edit my comment anymore. In my culture these almost „polemi…

My wife is Japanese and through her I cam to a realization about this very topic. My hypothesis is: Japanese do not accept anything less than perfection. The accompanying motto see…