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Ok!
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ok I’ll bite what’s a Navier stoke
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OK Gemini it’s now or never
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i wish i could gift people the feeling of deep okayness with not having a plan
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okay I love this, but it's missing the entire 👉 point 👈 of the original video
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Dünyanın en guzel duygusu: Sabah herkesten önce uyanmıș, kahve içip bir şeyler okurken, kızınızın gelip size sarılması.
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…/Applications/Blender to render a scene of a pelican riding a bicycle > OK add a background and a lot of flair > OK make it a whole lot…
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Two days left to comment on HHS's vaccine category proposal
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Some recent mystery and puzzle games. (Okay, _This Bed We Made_ is from a couple years back.) - The Mermaid Mask - This Bed We Made - Cognition Method - He Who Watches
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Hallelujah!! Cuban’s Ro argument was painful legitimizing of a corrupt socialist policy. Govt seizure isnt ever ok.
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Ok clock solid advice but look we’re all just trying to get through the day here
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The Happiness Track: How to Apply the Science of Happiness to Accelerate Your Success — Emma Seppälä
It’s… okay.
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Startups and serious tech companies use Slack or Google Chat rather than Microsoft Teams.
I don't know a single startup or serious tech company using Teams sorry they are all on Slack OK, Cloudflare is on GChat
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OK, DANG! mostly sucked, as expected -- >70% of the jokes didn't land and the characters were bitter unsympathetic parodies of 2010s-era NYC 30-somethings. But the final episode, where they visit their conservative…
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ok great now I have 3 messy inboxes I have to check: - stuff my agents have done on scheduled loop that I need to review - bookmarked slack messages off Google Docs and slides to review - my actual email inbox lol
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Anthropic Just Threatened to Kill Billions of People. This Is Not Okay.
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…when they request colors too out of whack from your theme, apply some Oklab magic and hue rotation to match your theme. Harmonious themes, everywhere,…
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How to Produce a Pangram 4 False Positive
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…forget that Vandad Nahavandipoor (@VandadNP) is a guy who thought it was OK to assure me that I would suck Trump's…
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This book is hugely popular for the reasons I can’t really understand. It’s… okay, I guess. But I don’t really think it is "for beginners".
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OK, here’s a statistics problem for you, ripped directly from the headlines!
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Mainstream software will largely continue to be created by big tech companies, and that is acceptable.
We acknowledge that mainstream software will largely be the creation of big tech companies, and that's ok.
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Okay design improves what is put in front of it; excellent design changes what is possible.
Okay design improves what is put in front of it. Excellent design changes what is possible.
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Microsoft Copilot is adequate for office document work but significantly behind in agentic capability
Copilot, which uses a mix of AI models and is okay for working with office documents but lags badly in terms of its agentic abilities.
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something I wish I knew earlier in my life: it is okay to take a really long time to do something if you are making slow progress the whole time. do a bit every day, even take breaks if you need. it’s tempting to think…
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A young engineer may attempt what nobody has ever done, but if somebody has already done it they are obliged to call that person and hear their advice.
It is totally okay for a young engineer to do something they've never done before just the way it's okay for them to do something that nobody has ever done before. But uh but if somebody has done it before in the world,…
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Nature gave eyes to animals and not to trees because eyes are only worth having if you move, and moving is what produces a new viewpoint.
So okay, so to take a evolutionary view, right? That new viewpoint prediction is exactly evolution had to solve by making animals move. You you nature give animals eyes. But nature didn't give trees eye. Eyes. Why?…
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If you are not going to read the generated code, what you need is conformance testing: proof that it performs within the boundaries of the code it replaced.
Okay, if I'm not going to read this code, how do I know it's going to perform within boundaries of the last code that I generated? That is conformance testing.
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... ok, I think I might be done now
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Ok, maybe 3D printing is actually really cool
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"Move fast and break things" is the wrong mantra when you are dealing with atoms; the job is to move fast and ship safely.
…you're dealing with atoms instead of bits, breaking things is not really okay. So, the thing you have to do is to move fast and ship…
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People talk about isn't it a bad idea to build in a regulated industry? Turns out you can change the regulations. And the way you do it is just by building the thing and communicating why it's okay.
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Ok. Didn’t know that was a thing. But I don’t judge.
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RE: https://infosec.exchange/@clayton/117175171619298911 It's OK. This feature is awesome, and one I use heavily. Every social network needs a few mutes here and there. Nobody inherently deserves anyone’s attention. If…
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Is This Okay? How Override Labs Built a Safety-First AI Consent Coach for Teen Boys
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The single most valuable thing a founder can find is a belief they can hold with reason that the conventional wisdom says is wrong.
…people decide like the conventional wisdom is they're just wrong. And be okay with it taking a long time and having people be like very you know, very frustratingly wrong and…
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ok everyone, i took one for the team here's the data we all wanted to see - real token value of each LLM subscription, empirically measured through usage on my real subscriptions - supergrok heavy has now become the…
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What is worth building is found by starting from a long-standing pain and asking which new technology has just made it solvable.
And so, I always kind of start with okay, where's our current pain and are there new technologies to solve that pain?
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Selected Poems, 1968--1996 — Joseph Brodsky
I am a Philistine, because I thought this was just OK. There were some good poems, quite a few which I found boring, and absolutely nothing that has stuck in my memory even a few weeks later.
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…quality of their time is going up year after year, we'll probably be mostly…
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The middle ground in writing disappears: what is left is good writers and people who cannot write, with no ok writers in between.
Instead of good writers, ok writers, and people who can't write, there will just be good writers and people who can't write.
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640 Pages in 15 Months
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Telling your investors after a Series A that you are going to vibe-code your own purchasing system is contrarian enough that any reasonable board would question it.
Well, I mean, okay, even the whole basis of building Helix is contrarian. Like, I think that if you raise a series A and then you tell your investors that you're going to vibe code a purchasing system, I think that any…
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Companies protected by high switching costs will see those costs fall to zero, and their profits with them.
Okay. So now we have people who've been able to rely on switching costs to protect their profits and the switching costs just drop to zero. Their profits are going to drop to zero and and some people aren't going to…
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ThredUp — ThredUp
ThredUp was amazing when it was in the "VC free money" stage, but their return policy tightened up and it's now merely okay.
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Each emotion probably does have a specific bodily signature; the studies that found none measured far too little of the body to have seen it.
What you would want to do is have a detailed highdimensional readout of okay your your gallbladder and your liver and your kidney and your heart and changes all over your body and look at that and ask is there is there…
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Every machine-learning deployment that has paid off so far left a person making the decision, which is the only reason imperfect models were useful.
…the decision, this means that if the system makes a mistake, um, that's okay because usually the person can kind of recognize that or or decide what to do even despite that…
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Letting a coding agent live-edit the production server works fine in practice.
…12 months messed up which meant my site didn't load for 10 seconds which is…
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The 12 Week Year — Brian Moran
It’s okay, didn’t feel like there was anything groundbreaking here in the planning, productivity, or business space though.
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ABC of Physics: A Very Brief Guide — Lev Okun
If you want an overview of the subject that is as short as possible, this is for you.
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Only a fifth of venture-backed founders are still CEO three years after going public, and the standard documents their lawyers gave them are why.
According to Harvard Law School, among venturebacked companies that have the standard best practices set up that you got from your lawyer, okay, only 20% of founders are still the CEO 3 years after going public.
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For a TypeScript team, Rust belongs on the backend — API servers — and not in the front end.
But okay, so to begin with, I think when it comes to TypeScript, Rust fits in as the backend language. That's where I would put it. I wouldn't use it in the front end. I think it's a pretty good fit for backends, API…
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Agency is what makes a hire good: the willingness to take a task in a domain you know nothing about and have learned the whole thing a week later.
…say no to something. I think like that attitude is really important of like okay, if I don't know something, I'll just learn…
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Every product put into the world removes the need for imagination, because it becomes something anyone can point AI at and copy.
And the more you build, right? The more you put things out there, you remove the need for imagination. You can say, "Okay, now I like that website. Do that for me."
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Fantastic Four
Fantastic Four. It was ok? Aside from a few things, I’m having trouble getting excited about post-Infinity Saga Marvel. There was just a special alchemy about that whole arc that is proving impossible to reproduce. (B)
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High Output Management — Andrew S. Grove
This one only gets better with age. Although it’s only mentioned briefly, this is where Andy Grove first introduced OKRs to the world. His practical advice about meetings, especially the importance of 1-on-1s, inspired
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VeggieTales Podcast
VeggieTales Podcast: Okay this is more for my children than me, but it's a good one for talking about how it's important to be "nice" and stuff (what a concept), and it's been great on roadtrips to visit family!
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it turns out you can do this if you think really hard about okay, how do I have agents prove to me that the stuff they've written works?
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I think a great book could be written on all this. (Among other things, it should be catnip to anyone who wants to call themselves a historical materialist.) This book, however, is merely OK.
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Purely Functional Data Structures — Chris Okasaki
Fun to work through, but, unlike the other algorithms and data structures books, I've yet to be able to apply anything from this book to a problem domain where performance really matters.
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Local-first software will not become the dominant architecture, and that is an acceptable outcome.
Local-first is not going to win, but that's okay We'll explore the complexities of traditional stack (db-server-frontend), develop a theory of software evolution: which systems succeed and why.
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OpenAI employees… are you okay?
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…works. Oh, you didn't try the thing. Oh, you don't want to work on this? Okay, we're done. Quite uncompromising. uh I say coaches are are there to identify and induce productive…
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The most important thing when working with LLMs
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The Machinery of Life — David Goodsell
David Goodsell, The Machinery of Life. Spectacular book for developing intuition of what goes on inside a cell. The text is OK but the illustrations are absolutely stunning and make the book worthy of a strong…
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A badly written AI outbound email is evidence of a bad vendor, not of a limit of AI.
And so what ends up happening is the emails that the AI write are pretty good. Okay? If you're getting terrible emails, it's a poorly trained product from a bad vendor.
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Every lab knows the benchmark grid is the wrong way to present a model, and publishes it anyway because everybody else does.
…a bad equilibrium, but like nobody wants to break out. And I I felt like, okay, well, if I just hopefully come out and say like, look guys, let's all recognize that we're in a bad equilibrium and let's move to this…
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It's incredibly written, deeply complex, confusing as hell, and you'll probably throw it at the wall when it's done. But then you'll kinda go "okay... I'm glad I did that" and maybe start it again.
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Companies that claim to be missiondriven, most of them are just mission hopeful. Okay? It's it's It's just a candy coating on top of an extractive engine. Sorry, I don't buy it. If you're serious about being…
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Um so if you say okay well we're going to instead of just running this model once we're going to run it five times and take the best of the five responses or like ask a judge which one it thinks is best then you can get…
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And then I was like, okay, can you come up with an algorithm that is better than the algorithms that I came up with or that anybody else came up with and go ahead and like look at all the published work and synthesize…
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Oura — Oura
…app (once you get to know it a bit). Get Oura for 10/10 tracking, if you're ok with the ring form…
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…app (once you get to know it a bit). Get Oura for 10/10 tracking, if you're ok with the ring form…
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Even with no redistribution at all, a little saving would rescue a great many people, because the same AI that automates the work makes returns enormous.
…rate is high and or the price of capital produced goods is falling a lot, okay? So, even without redistribution, a little bit of savings will save a lot of…
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It doesn't guarantee that you're the good guys. Okay? Just writing it down doesn't do that much. But it does solve one very specific problem, which is if someone one day sues you saying you breached your fiduciary duty…
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Coding agents demand more reading than most people can do, and until better interfaces arrive that leaves those people at a severe disadvantage.
So I think we're in a weird limbo for the rest of this year okay where until the UIs arrive that are good enough for everybody who can't read everybody who can't read is going to be a severe disadvantage.
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It’s reasonable to be woken up two to three times a year when on call. But more than that is not okay.
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10 U.S. policy ideas for 10 lifesaving technologies
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Victim of Your Own Success Syndrome
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The job of a design group is to try to shoot down every new idea; the ones that survive the attempt are probably the good ones.
And everyone was cognizant of okay, if someone comes up with a new idea, now it's our job to try to shoot it down. What What's wrong with this idea? Do Do you know what I mean? And if it could go if it could stand the…
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…with vague platitudes, I had no idea what the bar should be and I'd feel "ok, I guess" about every…
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…my peers, it’s that they’ve become so comfortable with it that they’re ok suggesting lynching in a public forum, for the world to see. This is the worst fucking…
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I Quit My Cushy Job at OkCupid to Live on Donations to Zig
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The bitter lesson is don't try to be smarter than the AI, okay? You think that you've got special knowledge. The humans bring special domain knowledge to this problem and we're going to teach it something to AI and it…
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PRINT OUT THE INTERNET Ok. Let me make it extremely concrete. Where did this giant sprawling datacenter come from? It was printed out from the Internet. Specifically, Zuck used the Internet to gather men, make money,…
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Marketing returns are fat-tailed, so paying for marketing by the hour misprices work whose value comes from a small fraction of it.
…is actually fat tailed so is innovation R&D pharmaceutical research science okay in other words 5 to 10% of what you do delivers perhaps 110% of the…
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Medullary bone does not let palaeontologists tell male dinosaurs from female ones — only laying females from everything else.
So the instant assumption is, okay, so you can tell female from male. No, we can tell laying female from everything else. So males won't have medullary bone. Young females won't have them. Females outside of the…
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But okay, they shouldn't actually be enacting these ideas. There is a queue of ideas and there's maybe an automated scientist that comes up with ideas based on all the archive papers and GitHub repos and it funnels…
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The banks earning the highest returns on equity before 2007 mostly went bankrupt, and earning less in the good years is what let JP Morgan survive.
if you look at the history of banks from up until 2007, a lot of banks were earning 30% equity. Most of them went bankrupt. We never did that much. Okay, but in '08 and '09, we were fine, and they weren't.
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…happen in Turtle Creek [which I can only too easily believe]), and it was OK, but not good enough to make me pick up any of the many…
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Taste is not innate; it is a loop of noticing whether you like something, asking why, and learning the canon that led to it.
It's just this loop of okay, I'm having an experience of any sense. Maybe I'm looking at art, maybe I'm hearing music, maybe I'm literally eating food and tasting something, you know, but like do I like it? Do I not…
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We don't really have much evolved experience in evaluating postal efficiency, do we? Okay, we have quart of a million half a million years of evolved experience in deciding who to like and trust because for most of our…
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A rising share of statistically insignificant experiments is the signal that a team has exploited an area too far and should go back to exploring.
…that are not statistically significant, that may be a signal to me to say, okay, we might have kind of tried to exploit a little bit too far. Like there might not be as much juice to…
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Today's models are the student who drilled 10,000 hours for the programming contest, which is exactly why what they learn does not carry anywhere else.
The models are much more like the first student but even more because then we say okay so the model should be good at competitive programming so let's get every single competitive programming problem ever and then let's…
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The visiting-aliens story is incoherent: a civilisation with the technology to stay hidden would not keep being spotted.
Like, okay, there's an advanced civilization that is visiting Earth regularly. They don't want to be detected. They've got super powerful technology, but they really suck at using it because we keep seeing them, we keep…
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…of weaknesses. If they’re strong where you need them to be strong, it’s okay if they aren’t equally superpowered at everything — that’s why we build teams, to supplement and balance each other…
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…on and off. They can go, I have my own taste. I know what I like. And then, okay, you're going for this. And that might be different than what I like, but I can match it brand as…
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A startup does not have to set out to build the greatest business in history; a merely good business is a legitimate thing to aim at.
…in a cash cow as Google was. You have to remember that it’s still…
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A margin of safety means paying a discount deep enough that being wrong about what a company is worth still leaves you whole.
…less, you paid a deep enough discount to your estimate that you're still okay. A big part of investing is not losing…
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Natural gas can power the first gigawatt of data centres a year but not the fiftieth, because every input behind it runs into a supply limit.
We're not going to run out of natural gas at 1 gawatt per year indefinitely. Okay, what if we're doing 5 gawatts per year? What if we're doing 50 gawatts per year? What if we're doing 100 gawatt per year? Like, you can…
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…a tendency to to grow and to come back and they're really hard to weed out,…
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…it from somebody else’s base model or a model we host ourselves, it’s…
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…retrieve, which is even more powerful than RAG because RAG just says, “Okay, use this additional context and write an answer.” But we say, “Don’t use anything more than that too.” That way we ensure a factual…
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…a solution, they will have a pretty complicated process of review of like, okay, I think these parts that I did well, these parts I did not do that well, I should probably do this or…
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Hit Man
…(not all) is fairly bland. Where’s the style? As a comedy, it’s only OK. As film noir, it’s nowhere near as intense as Body Heat. It’s sort of Soderbergh-lite. And yet more people will like this one than any…
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Because it's like okay we got these numbers and the numbers go up. It's like no, the fact that you still have to choose which things you look at is an art, not a science. And your interpretation of if the number went up…
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AI helps exactly as far as the work is predictable and well documented, and stops helping on anything cutting edge.
Okay, my general view is it comes down to something that's pretty simple, which is that if you're doing something in which is very predictable, AI is really nice. When you're doing something that is just not…
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A pre-mortem has to treat the failure as certain and ask why it happened; asking what could go wrong is too tentative to work.
One of the mistakes is that they just frame it wrong from the beginning. They'll say, "Okay, we should do a pre-mortem. So, what can go wrong?" It's not an issue of what can go wrong. We're dealing with a crystal ball…
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In a monotonous stretch of life the days crawl and the weeks vanish, because the sense of how much time passed is built out of what you can remember happening.
Almost everyone in the class said that the days were moving by slower. Then I would say, “Okay, so do you feel like the weeks are passing by slower, faster, or the same?” The majority of them said that the weeks were…
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…think the market wants. Not being passionate about any idea but thinking, okay, look, this is what will get me venture funding. This is what will get me revenue or customers. That’s what will get me venture funding.…