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ML is known to be good at interpolating between points in the training set, but does much worse at extrapolating. Both can produce innovation when applied to science. For example, …

One possible explanation: business owners have more skin in the game and care the most, so they are the most demanding and can’t tolerate waste. So they are the hardest to satisfy.…

According to NYT it seems like there were 2 controllers and “2 more in the building”. They also wrote that 2 seems normal for the late slower time of the night. Not saying this is …

I know about 2 big discontinuities in group dynamics, which are based on the limits of human cognition at specific sizes: 1) ~7 people. This is when each member cannot participate …

For those interested in going deeper on this topic, I recommend C. Thi Nguyen’s excellent book “The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else’s Game”.

Beyond the common narrative on this topic, a factor to consider is that people might be more interested in hearing about death causes, which are not considered their own “fault”. T…

Why do you think Glean and other top company GPT startups who are doing this for longer and have more resources cannot get this level of performance (helpful and accurate)? What ma…

Very cool. Curious: what is the minimum and maximum weight MacBook's trackpad can reliably measure this way?

My colleague and I tried posting LinkedIn links and while we could see our own posts, we couldn't see each others and we couldn't see them in the incognito mode. Can't find rules a…

Malloy is great. Why do you think it is not taking off if it is a clear significant improvement on SQL and even compiles to it?

Here is a trailer: https://youtu.be/EzuI5S-hTc4

I believe by “general-purpose AI” the report doesn’t mean AGI.

https://archive.ph/cdyCT

How do you verify accuracy of contributions? What stops somebody from submitting fake (overpriced) numbers for companies they don’t like (competitors)?

Unfortunately, the type of people who take personal responsibility for failures in organizations don’t end up climbing corporate ladders high enough to be considered for CEO positi…

Looks like Arica is over 500km north of Atacama desert described in the article.