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A good analogy is lifting. We lift to build strength, not because we need that extra strength to lift things in real life. There are plenty machinery to do that for us. But we do s…

The part on stories reminded me of Neil Postman's arguments in Amusing Ourselves to Death . > Being told a story is to be infantilised, somewhat: to suspend one’s critical facultie…

Absolutely. However, as OpenAI forms partnerships and begins to offer ChatGPT as a plugin across various platforms, many of those niche applications would be replaced.

I think it will be less of a replacement and more like a partnership, per se. It will be hard for OpenAI to challenge services like Gmail due to the network effect. Same with Micro…

Part of Tumblr's downfall also comes from their change of stance on NSFW contents.

It starts to feel like a trend where OpenAI is integrating features that were previously implemented by GPT-wrapper startups into ChatGPT. While these startups have added value by …

My experience using GPT4-Turbo on math problems can be divided into three cases in terms of the prompt I use: 1. Text only prompt 2. Text + Image with supplemental data 3. Text + I…

Time series data are inherently context sensitive, unlike natural languages which follow predictable grammar patterns. The patterns in time series data vary based on context. For e…

On a related note, Amazon also had a model for time series forecasting called Chronos. https://github.com/amazon-science/chronos-forecasting

This tool reminds me that the human body functions much like a black box. While physics can be modeled with equations and constraints, biology is inherently probabilistic and unpre…

Here is an article from Phoenix Business Journal: https://archive.ph/dYCAF > With Taiwanese transplants moving to north Phoenix in droves, Arizona officials — and a local baker — a…

All contact forms should have a feature similar to Google Form's "Send me a copy of my response" for recordkeeping.

That moment when you want to read a tweet just to be prompted to login.

Greenhouse and Lever have the most convenient job application interface IMO. The application area is one page, which means you can navigate using tab. There's also no need to creat…

TSMC has moved many engineers from Taiwan to Phoenix. Entire towns were built with accomodation, schools, ethnic grocery stores from scratch. It would be interesting to see this in…

I agree with the emphasis on high-level thinking and problem decomposition in current curriculum. The real craft of writing a program is abstracting components to interface with ea…

Cool concept, but quite limiting if you are selling a mass-market product.

Aren't those needs already served by private groupchats on Twitter/Facebook, et al.?

...hence why its becoming a habit for me to add a "reddit" after anything I'm searching on Google now.

How does it differ from an AI search engine like perplexity? For simple topics like brewing coffee, a quick search on Perplexity would get me all the information I need. I don't ne…

Rentech uses this model too. The equity-to-salary ratio of an employee increases the longer they remain at the firm. It's for incentivizing employees to stick with the firm in the …

Good intuition in probabilities is a must.

Yeah, quants firms are great at PR and marketing. They give out free merch, sponsor hackathons, and organize in-person events with all expenses paid. I study at Berkeley and so man…

I was surprised the article didn't mention Reddit. The issue with platforms lies in how quality contents are rewarded. Social media algorithms can be "hacked" to distribute unhelpf…