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dgellow
20,440karma·5,792submissions·March 22, 2013
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Located in Hamburg, Germany.
1st Stainless engineer, 2022-26 (bought by Anthropic).
My main interest on this website is reading about VC investing, privacy related topics, and indie businesses.
https://sam.elborai.me
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recent activity (5,792 total)
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Obviously to me, I express things from my point of view. Raising too much from debt is a bit dangerous if you plan to go public relatively soon and don’t have a good story for it (I don’t believe they…
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Their position makes no sense to me. I don’t see how you can be a mainstream company selling your services worldwide (almost) if you also believe that you’re building an extremely dangerous AGI (suppo…
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This is really cool, please more of this from the AI folks! That’s way more impactful and interesting than another coding agent
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I don’t believe they meant surreal in a negative way
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Really nice collection! Seeing Adium makes me nostalgic
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Cuteness, sometimes a small trans identifier, sometimes an in-community joke or reference. Here I’m not exactly sure. But it’s not too far from UwU and similar
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You’re right, very confusing thread
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Try, maybe. I don’t know how successful that can be. Will definitely be interesting to follow! Exciting times we are going through
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It’s unclear where American labs future capital will come from. They pretty much exhausted private options at that point and it’s not clear how successful an ipo would be at the current time
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No need to brainwash, they did it willingly and with a smile, tweeting about how they are part of the revolution while telling us all how we will be left behind
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What I take from this is that models are already commoditized, and it’s pretty clear nobody has a moat: routing for the models, they can be swapped whenever new models are released, AI labs will have …
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It’s crazy how we are like ~2y in this AI revolution and still do not have an answer to this question: can you show us the ROI? Where is the revolutionary software your team of agents created?
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They may have forked something
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You grandma can keep the „restricted“ flag on then. I will be happy to disable it on my device
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The guideline: (b) Don’t submit apps that are indistinguishable from what's already widely available. Opportunistically creating variants of existing app categories or popular apps degrades App S…
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Given how much of the industry is SaaS that would be such a self own! Wow, fantastic, you can build all your software in house, zero dependencies. Wait, your users can do the same? And they don’t need…
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yeah, oracle is literally betting the future of the company on OpenAI owning the majority of the AI market, so it's pretty strange to see such a ban. Their debt is already pretty much junk (and I…
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Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/605/
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Where I am in Germany 1kg of popcorn bags goes ~4.5€-13€ , and I see 1kg of popcorn corn for ~3.5€. If you consume a lot of it it's worth it! (and healthier if you don't use oil/butter)
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Ban new ones and that will naturally go extinct
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Fair. Though that’s likely a reflection of the general population
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You can buy the corn by the kilo instead of buying small bags of microwave popcorn every time. It’s way cheaper after a few batches, and you can add whatever you want. It’s also neat because you don’t…
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Get yourself one of those popcorn microwave bowls: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71mA19sd51L.jpg You get hot popcorn in ~2min without the need for a whole machine you …
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That has been the case for most of the year IIRC
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dup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49209546
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how about just letting us behind? You go on your AI futuristic trip, don't force it on others, and you can then come back and tell us how fantastic your life is while we all missed the boat. That…
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Interesting, I'm wondering if that varies depending on the hiring team? Or maybe my experience wasn't standard as it was part of an acquisition process, though I'm pretty sure I did all…
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What you describe is the definition of reactionary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactionary …