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gcheong

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    Comment #49135647

    Focus learning well the fundamentals of the field as they will underpin everything else. Try to keep your finger on the pulse of industry in some way beyond whatever they are teach…

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    Comment #48832372

    I think it just means they had been partnering in the past and now they're expanding it with more investment.

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    Comment #48603850

    It does exist: https://www.slooh.com

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    Comment #48518319

    Clarify? I don't understand how whether or not I pay someone to manage my money makes a difference as to whether what they did was commit fraud. People paid Bernie Madoff to manage…

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    Comment #48478903

    Wrong Eric Ries? The writer of that blog claims to be a 65 yo Baby Boomer (would be 67 today), the one here is much younger than that iirc.

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    Comment #48478046

    "1. a long-term commitment to maximize some aspect of human flourishing (in the book I explain how this is the true definition of what it means to create a for-profit venture" How …

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    Comment #48464027

    Interesting that the guy who rightly criticizes billionaires for not paying their fair share of taxes thinks those same billionaires are going to use AI for maximizing the common g…

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    Comment #48402836

    I got my hunter's safety card back just before covid. Prior to the actual course starting, our instructors spent a good 15 minutes "encouraging" us to join the NRA because "they're…

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    Comment #48052487

    Sometimes you just have to trust your Coscto instincts.

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    Comment #48012415

    I would hypothesize that this is strongly correlated to where a person's sense of purpose comes from. If someone gets most of their sense of purpose from their job then you would e…

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    Comment #47988895

    Didn't they need the data from the 200 million miles or so from actual driving before they could get to the generative model though? Data isn't everything, as you point out with Te…

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    Comment #47938927

    From the article it doesn't sound like it was physically stuck as much as it's maps might not have been updated with the latest addition of that light rail and/or it was confused b…

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    Comment #47758079

    "Make something people want" seems so quaint now.

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    Comment #47723290

    Minor typo: assming -> assuming :)

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    Comment #47709248

    If there is anything left to come back to.

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    Comment #47556518

    I have an EV and am on a Time of Use rate plane here in SF. My lowest rates are between 12am and 3pm every day. I charge the car and run everything I can in terms of major applianc…

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    Comment #47327858

    Maybe not our careers, but probably our souls.

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    Comment #47196451

    Can you take advantage of the Portuguese educational system to train for a professional career while you are living and working there? If so, I think that might tilt things in favo…

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    Comment #46889881

    I don't know if even they know that they're looking for with the question as they marked it as experimental and optional but the explanation perhaps gives some hint: "Optional: att…

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    Comment #46734616

    Sometimes the why is discovered when you try to change the code to what you think it should be and see it fall down in some cases you didn't anticipate or some other system is affe…

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    Comment #46695333

    Maybe something more akin to the Alaska Permanent Fund - just replace oil revenue with AI? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Permanent_Fund

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    Comment #46693084

    https://archive.is/R2K77

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    Comment #46296789

    Unless you have a paying customer willing to pay you with just a promise of something to be delivered (see kickstarter et al, Steve Blanks's customer discovery, etc.), you don't. I…