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Here’s something I sometimes do to avoid boring content when using LLMs: I type out what it gives me and tweak it as I go instead of copy/pasting directly. It helps me spot the bit…

Life expectancy was probably in the late 30s to early 40s during this time so you’re basically working for the rest of your life.

I think the impact of AI is not between good jobs va bad jobs but between good workers and bad workers. For a given field, AI is making good workers more efficient and eliminating …

Why should people who don’t own cars pay for highways? Why should cyclist have to pay for public transportation? Also children now will be your future doctor, nurse, bus driver, sc…

Great work! I work in financial services and built a similar tool for sentiment analysis and topic modelling on transcribed earnings calls. The idea was to identify topics at a spe…

Something I’ve always wondered about the programming / software development profession: do people buy insurance for their hands? My sister is a denturists and she has insurance for…

My wife is a nurse. She became one because she needed something that would help her make money quickly to help her family. If she did not face this constraint, she could have taken…

How much harder would it be to build an ebook reader?

Current company knows his worth. New company doesn’t so your teammate has informational advantage and can negotiate a higher salary.

Why not repurpose the rigs for residential use?

Life, by default, is suffering. The surprise is not the fact that there is suffering around the world, but how we managed to achieve the level of prolonged peaceful co-existence th…

> Social scientists don't really analyze images much, but that might be the next big thing. Satellite images have been used in research in economics to estimate poverty and defores…

1. is an issue with external validity (i.e. does the findings generalize to other groups). But the comparison being made in the study is within a given group with similar socioecon…

Note that what they reportedly found is a stronger positive correlation between relationships and happiness than between money and fame and happiness (just based on the article): "…

Thanks! Noted.

Okay! Let's do it! I want to start a start-up. What do I do?