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Comment · 5 years ago
I suspect he won't want to get into thorny PR issues, but probably company organization. It's easy to imagine a disorganized startup scaling poorly, and those within it wanting guidance from highly-scaled FB.
Comment · 5 years ago
It's surprising to me that your (former) title wouldn't entail more direct leadership, even as a simple messenger for "shut up and soldier."
Comment · 5 years ago
It seems you are implying that this sort of arrangement is fundamentally unhealthy for a market focused on accurate price discovery, and I think that's trivially true.

Some investing incentives are aligned with accurate price discovery, some are not (warren buffet vs a pump and dump).

Comment · 5 years ago
Effective strategy. It seems your edge comes from 1. learning about SPACs early and 2. identifying which ones will be successful. How do you get #1?
Comment · 5 years ago
The examples you selected do not seem representative of the list.

For example, the top three incidents involve verifiable journalists. You neglect to mention these before skipping to #4, the ACAB twitter account.

Comment · 6 years ago
I grew up in Maine, and I think the statement is quite accurate. Portland is not authoritarian, but it is by comparison to the northern counties
Comment · 6 years ago
Why not try to get better at whiteboarding?
Comment · 6 years ago
with Snap's earnings pop today, it must be tough to be them
Comment · 6 years ago
Sorry. Fixed list:

1. Set up a pseudo-adversary NN trained to recognize context-correct speech based on a small corpus.

2. Craft a GPT-3 prompt to get N 9s of accuracy

3.Retry if the answer fails the test from the other NN

4. Set a cap on retries based on how many 9s your prompt got

5. If cap exceeded, return a context-free or limited context response

Comment · 6 years ago
Seems like a minor technical challenge (at least in the case of games)

1. Set up a pseudo-adversary NN trained to recognize context-correct speech based on a small corpus. 2. Craft a GPT-3 prompt to get N 9s of accuracy 3.Retry if the answer fails the test from the other NN 4. Set a cap on retries based on how many 9s your prompt got 5. If cap exceeded, return a context-free or limited context response

Comment · 6 years ago
As you said, we have a little bubble on guns & ammo in the US right now.

Basic NATO 5.56 - ie, cheap enough for practice or poorly equipped grunts - is probably ~$0.30/round. However, it doesn't specify the caliber or load.

Loads designed for combat and not practice - like armor piercing, barrier penetration, soft target performance, precision, short barrel optimized, etc. - could be ~2-7x more expensive, and more indicative of a serious organizational problem.

Small arms calibers could include .50BMG, which is also a much larger cost & problem.

Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
As a daily Pushbullet user, thank you for posting this! It's maddening that the best way to escalate a Google customer service issue is social media.

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