dalys

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I help other businesses with sales letters, customer acquisition, landing pages, lead generation, direct response marketing and related things.

Ex-engineer turned marketer.

Contact me at [email protected] I live in Stockholm, Sweden.

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Comment · 3 years ago
I am a Swede but never heard of this at all and haven't seen it. Seems like something that is happening far up in the north? Maybe something new for the hipster coffee shops to try.
Comment · 3 years ago
1M token is around 750k words, in English.

According to Wolfram Alpha that is:

Single-spaced document: 1500 pages

Double-spaced document: 3000 pages

Book: 1028 pages

So around 1-5 books.

I'm assuming they're using OpenAI's tiktoken tokenizer. (??)

Comment · 3 years ago
I was also thinking about this the other day.

Idea one: Captchas are to become pretty useless as a "is this a human" tactic soon. Maybe it already is, I don't know. What other things could we think off to prove someone is human? I was watching Lex Fridman and Max Tegmark and they were remarking on how Twitter using payment as a differentiator between human and bot is actually really good. And maybe the only way we can reliably determine if someone is a human or not right now. Just by the virtue that having thousands of bots doing something, that suddenly costs $5 per event will deter most attacks. Integrating online identification systems from various countries could be one tactic (such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BankID that we use in Sweden to log in to basically any online service). New startup: Un-botable authentication as a service.

Idea two: Since captchas are useless, we'll be able to do bots that can do almost everything on the web. No need for writing automation scripts, headless browsers, regexp etc. Just feed real visual data from browser to GPT-4 (or MiniGPT-4 or similar). Give instructions like "You need to accomplish this task: Go to facebook.com and create a user account and be friends with 100 people and act like a human. Follow the instructions on the website.". Then let the bot figure out where to move the mouse and send click events, keyboard events etc. Obviously much slower than a scripted bot, but would be very hard to detect as a bot. Good for E2E testing also? New startup: WebGPT: Bots that can do any task on any website. TestGPT: E2E testing service. Just write test instructions like "Make sure the login works on /login" and you're done! And you thought flaky tests were a thing of the past... Would be kind of cool for UX testing also. "You are a 43 year old truck driver in Spain, please go to news.ycombinator.com and see how easy it is for you to register an account, log in, go to any news story and make a new comment. Report anything you think is confusing."

Comment · 3 years ago
Plus, I assume people want to have their assistant on their phone, not their desktop computer. So until everything can run locally on your phone, I think people will prefer the cloud versions.
Comment · 3 years ago
Since he mostly seems to do North America it`s definitely a global common style. Piste maps seems to have been looking this way since 1970. Take a look at the 1970 map here https://skimap.org/SkiAreas/view/987 or any other place in the world. That said, obviously all artist have their own style and technique.

I used to also love piste maps as a kid, and still go skiing a few times per year. One of the best activities I know. Outdoor, exercise and spectacular views for a whole day. What a dream!

Comment · 3 years ago
I quit to run my own businesses in the pandemic and the amount of LinkedIn messages have increased. I'm not even in tech anymore. I'm not getting a huge amount by any means, but during 2023 exactly one per week on average. If anyone in EU willing to relocate to Stockholm with background in backend python / full stack, I guess I can connect you to at least 10 recruiters. Many of them explicitly ask for referrals.
Comment · 3 years ago
Someone already mentioned the, VW e-up! and it has a sibling called Skoda Citigo iV. They do belong to the "very tiny car" segment, but you can get them without any screen at all! Google some interior pictures. (Both not sold anymore, but you can find them used).

I think for a brand that does as simple and cheap cars as possible there's Dacia. They have the electric Dacia Spring which is also a small car. It does have a touch screen though. Only available in some select European countries.

Edit: Actually, the touch screen in the Spring is only the "Plus" version, so you can be touch-screen free! :) But the Plus version also has DC fast charging, so you probably want that anyway.

Comment · 3 years ago
Throwing Alex Hormozi into that list feels like the author just found a random person on YouTube that seems like a get rich quick guy and added him to the list? The other ones seems very shady I agree.
Comment · 3 years ago
Does this software category have a name? Or do you have the names of specific software that is popular, but expensive? I am curious how it looks and works
Comment · 3 years ago
Halting scheme
Comment · 3 years ago
I know this is a popular belief on HN. But I assume you mean part of marketing that is paid advertising?

Because you know, HN is a marketing site for companies in Y Combinator and Y Combinator itself.

Every landing page you have ever visited is marketing.

Every GitHub README.md is marketing.

There's not a single business in the history of mankind that have made money without marketing. Because they wouldn't be allowed to show or tell anyone they existed.

Comment · 3 years ago
I think that might be hard even if there was a specific target that was "People who work at surfing schools" because people don't really keep their FB job description up to date.

I would just target "Surfboard (sporting goods)", "Surfing (water sport)" and similar and then let the FB algorithm do it's magic. I.e. create a very broad targeting for your ad and then let the ad run for a while and get results, and those results will let FB automatically fine tune the targeting for you. It costs some money but it will probably be better in the end. Unofficial rumours says you need around 50 conversion events on ad for the ad to be fully "trained", which can mean a couple of hundred dollars.

Remember the targets you add have a OR function between them, unless you use the "Narrow audience" button in the targeting.

If you really want to narrow down you could do "Surfing (water sport)" and narrow the audience and find some interest that is AND <insert teaching-related interest targeting>. People that work as surf school teachers could possibly have been identified by FB with some kind of teaching-interest.

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
I actually like taking short showers, as a sport! I've optimized it during the years I just timed my 'short' version shower and I made it in 1m 22s, including the 5-10 seconds of letting the water heat up.

1: Drench yourself in water.

2: Use soap where you have apocrine sweat glands ONLY, i.e. groin and arm pits.

3: Rinse soap.

4: Rinse hair and massage with your hands simultaneously.

5: Done.

I used to cover my whole body and soap carefully and rinse it off, but after realizing the foul smelling sweat glands only are in the groin and arm pit area, I realized it's unnecessary.

What about shampooing the air? I don't. I usually only do it before going to the hair dresser, once every two months or so. Does it get super oily? No, you can train your hair not be, if you don't shampoo. Here's how (for people ok with short hair). Just do it after cutting your hair really short. Stop shampooing and instead just rinse it really good. After the shower it's important to rub the hair with a towel really good though. It's much easier with short hair. You can also train long hair by just extending the period between shampoos slowly, there's a ton of YouTube videos about it.

Comment · 3 years ago
Guessing it is a breathing mask like https://www.airtrim.se/eng/default.asp to make the air you breathe in warm and moist. Common for athletes here in the Nordics. Not sure about the exact science but I remember hearing exercising outdoors starts to be bad for the lungs around -15 to -20C (5 to -4F) Because the air is so dry.

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