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Comment · 3 years ago
Really good to have google etc busted wide open by superior products and innovation. Company just seems like a black hole for talent attached to a huge money printing machine.
Comment · 3 years ago
Moat for chatbots is soon going to be whoever reddit/twitter/quora/stackoverflow allows to mine their fresh content for models.

If the endpoint is not the user clicking in a link then why should these companies give away all that value?

Comment · 3 years ago
The only way you can tell that this article isn’t chatgpt is the frequency of grammar mistakes
Comment · 3 years ago
Still don’t understand why putting plastics into landfills is not considered carbon capture and promoted as more environmentally friendly than risking it being burnt or disposed of in the sea when shipped to developing countries for “recycling”

A single valley in some remote area can easily swallow millions of tonnes of plastic

Expensive, energy utilizing recycling processes seem less environmentally friendly while also leaving more fossil fuel available for combustion use elsewhere

Comment · 3 years ago
For context, the econ prize isn’t a real nobel prize
Comment · 4 years ago
Doesnt fannie mae/freddie mac essentially backstop a lot of this risk too?
Comment · 4 years ago
Whats more likely to result in your kids being upstanding members of society? 300 million cash in a bank account, or a job and board seat at a billion dollar charity for eternity and $20 million?
Comment · 4 years ago
Blacklisting/censorship of tokens/addresses is an existential crisis for defi that noone wants to talk about.

Most of defi is based on collateral, and if locked collateral can be debased by censorship, the whole thing falls apart.

A good reminder as to why crappy old dumb rock ossified btc with no features and 13 years of track record and no founder is something pretty special

Comment · 4 years ago
Was very effective for a couple i know, so much so that the baby had a very flat head from sleeping so much
Comment · 4 years ago
You could input an image and get it to recreate it as best as possible and then output a seed. That would be interesting!
Comment · 4 years ago
Bs.. i remember sending the link for the nypost article to a friend via facebook measenger and the link would simply be deleted as soon as I sent it.

That isn’t tweaking algos.

Comment · 4 years ago
Dall-e2 is the most amazing technology I have ever seen. Literally magic.
Comment · 4 years ago
You can borrow btc then use that btc to take 5x leveraged positions on btc.

If number go up, you make billions. If number go down 20% you default on loan. Absolute scumbag behaviour of course.

Comment · 4 years ago
If you could really move heat 300% more efficiently than using a resistive heater to generate heat, couldn’t you just move a bunch of heat to power a steam turbine and get a perpetual motion machine?

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