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This seems like an extremely petty fight

“Taste” is something that’s developed through repetitive exposure to differentiated items in a particular set, combined with extremely high abstract analytical abilities, and that’…

I think wrapper companies could do very well if AI does end up becoming having an impact near on the order of the internet or smartphones, which it may never. A product that incorp…

Acting like Elon Musk is cringe for a lot of reasons but I don’t think it’s that out of pocket for a startup founder to admire him, even if all he did was SpaceX he would have an i…

I switched to concerta and it works much better. Lowering my dose of adderall just made it less effective.

Adderall is great at making me produce, but horrible at true “focus.” It makes everything other than pure output feel like a waste of time. In the long run, I found this to be a pr…

Diminishing returns on that though, and it comes at a cost to your physical and emotional health.

The mountains are awesome but idk how many people are moving to Seattle for the weather haha

Yeah UW is great but one university isn’t enough to sustain a world class talent pipeline

Seattle/Washington has no elite or quasi-elite universities. That’s probably the #1 reason. Compare it to Boston which is a similarly sized city. Boston/New England has Harvard, MI…

I can’t imagine that DC is a better place to have a startup than Seattle

Even if credentials matter more than ideas there’s more than enough credentialed people to go around and soak up funding Plus, tech isn’t the only startup dimension. Boston has a t…

Being outside for an hour during sunset is the best sleep medicine. Don’t even have to go camping.

General knowledge is 90% from interests and consumption outside of school

“Solving for colour constancy using a constrained dichromatic reflection model” is a good one to check out

Wow, your second paragraph hit the nail on the head about the effect that any sort of ML/AI work has on me. Tweaking hyperparameters/prompts/features and running it “one more time”…

How does an iPhone contribute to censorship?

I think this is a really underexplored use case for LLMs. LLM embeddings are really good at encoding rich semantic information that’s easy to query and hack around with in a variet…

I had a similar experience where I gained a strong sense of how ancient humans and modern humans are one and the same. It was individualistic in that the sense came from my own emb…

That’s not why. Credit scores don’t discourage competition. Competition can still exist within brackets. The reason rates don’t differ much is because most of the rate is determine…

I still use Reddit in the way you’re suggesting, which is when I occasionally have a specific use. What I meant was that I don’t visit Reddit by instinct anymore when I’m bored - e…

A farmers market has a narrower selection than a supermarket, but you’d be healthier in the long run only shopping at the farmers market than going to the grocery store and being b…

I “de-reddited” with HN.

The philosophy students were right, some of the highest mid career earnings of any major. It’s harder to get your foot in the door without specialized knowledge - but careers arent…

I’ve seen boards hinder nonprofits from executing on the mission plenty of times, usually out of ego or general fecklessness. I wouldn’t assume that boards care about the mission m…