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Any (non?)digital media? I would be surprised not to see this exact dynamic on BJJ Fanatics. So easy to pick up instructionals with the constant stream of sales and discounts. Not …

Commercial libraries = private library where you pay a membership fee? I’ve not really heard of that here outside of arguably university libraries and similar. But SF public librar…

> (as an aside: bland food won't work well on someone who lost their sense of smell from long covid, and prison populations were heavily affected) The consistent texture of the Nut…

IDK when I hire, the first list (as might be directly relevant to the job) is checking a box, but the second list is what catches my attention.

Agreed there is a semantic argument here. I don’t think anyone is anthropomorphizing LLMs. I’ve had to adopt “objective” with one customer instead of “task” (my preferred default t…

My elderly father still uses this as his primary gateway to the internet and email. For all intents and purposes, this is the internet to him.

Looks like Scholar Turbo has GPT-4 and Chatpdf is still on the waitlist. But yeah, these chat-with-your-doc webapps are popping up out of the woodwork.

My long-horizon strategy has been the kinds of roles I take on. A product-focused role lets you go deep into a narrow problem area, whereas a customer-facing consulting/services ro…

Indeed! I built a system just last year with - count em - three parsers to deal with PDF table extraction, including one built on TableTransformer. And then when GPT4 came out I ju…

> it’s 30+ minute charge time. As great as electric is, an extra hour in the car on a road-trip with 3 kids is a tough sell. I dissent! Just did a 2-day (each way) road trip with y…

IDK I’d say high school. I took a semester welding class at community college and we only spent 3 sessions on MIG (what this appears to be) before moving on to other processes. Mos…

You can choose to program functionally in Java or Python! I do this enough that seeing object oriented Python irritates me. I see this as more of a stylistic choice than forcing ne…

Cost differential is an interesting thing to consider if this were done at scale. That single missile cost ~$500K (plus flight time for the F22 isn't cheap). How much would each ba…

Funny thing is I’d bet the small amount trickling in to the long tail charities is more impactful to them than a larger amount to the big mega-charities. I run one of those long ta…

Make It Clear by Patrick Henry Winston has a permanent place on my bookshelf. He breaks communication down into a structured system and applies it to a variety of forms including (…

I'll raise my hand as a data point. MIT, about 20 years out. It still seems to carry significant weight. I don't even work in the field I studied, so it's definitely not about any …

Not in the Kessel Sector.

That’s a feature! That 90yo probably has rather more worth sharing than the 18yo.

Like what? Serious question, not trying to be snarky. My understanding of these “nature vs nurture” discussions is that environment commonly refers to anything other than genetics …

Yeah my first thought was “if only...”. Sadly, it’s still working just fine for me.

I did this but honestly in hindsight it didn’t tell me a lot. Two reasons come to mind: 1. Watching other peoples’ kids is a time-limited exercise. A major challenge with your own …

This reminds me of Snorkel (though unclear from the article if they’re using Snorkel’s trick of aggregating many weak heuristics). It can be made to work even in the real world. Th…

Who controls pictures of the grandkids, controls the eyeballs.

It’s percent of revenue over whatever period of time you care to measure it.

I founded, grew, and sold a boutique software services co. Here's the skinny: * The core revenue model is charge customers a certain amount for doing work, and to have a lower inte…