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1,819karma·417submissions·March 30, 2011
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I hear you, but I don't understand the logic. If you were wealthy enough to have an executive assistant or a chief of staff who handled most of your email and admin on your behalf, is your instin…
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Isn't this the whole premise of existing companies like SF Compute? [0] [0] https://sfcompute.com/
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Someone should make something like this for the wider world outside of just HN. Go through all my publications through gScholar or elsewhere, and scour and parse anything I wrote publicly pre-11/…
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Theoretically they can just flip a switch and double or triple the price of their paid products, and/or start charging a substantial portion of free users, and no longer lose money. We don't…
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> “As long as we’re on this very distinct curve of the model getting better and better, I think the rational thing to do is to just be willing to run the loss for quite a while,” Altman [said] It’s…
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Calculators are a very narrow form of intelligence as compared to the general-purpose intelligence that LLMs are. The muscle/steroid analogy from this same discussion thread is apt here. Calculat…
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In some narrow sense, this headline reminds me of this Alex Murrell blog post from 2023 called "The Age of Average": https://www.alexmurrell.co.uk/articles/the-age-of-av…
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Sort of, but not quite. There's some actionable takeaways here IF you're not betting on an intelligence explosion / software singularity. If that happens, everything in this blog post g…
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Then perhaps my friend has remained a skeptic for so long that he's atrophied in this regard (which OP's post touches on). Either way, most of his day job is as a CTO/manager at a start…
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I was recently "pair-vibe-coding" with someone who's much 'smarter' than I am, certainly when it comes to coding, especially Python. He's always been in the LLM skeptic c…
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They're back, but at the speed of mid-2020s tech progress. I remember the CPU MHz wars being a far slower process, or maybe my processing of time as a child was slower in the 90s? Not sure. But I…
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Remarkable to see this blog post, just a few days after I'd seen the HEY Calendar [0] for the first time, and asked an LLM about how I could recreate its unique features within my macOS calendar …
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I genuinely love that 'rent just a room' (or even just a bed!) function of Airbnb, and continue to use it till this day. Have met many interesting people (or as I heard another comment on he…
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