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Comment · 10 months ago
If your tooling gains attention, will you take seed money from rich VCs?

When the product succeeds and you get offers to exit, would you sell to the uber-wealthy? They will exploit your user's data and collect the gains.

Those are the questions you should be honestly asking yourself when considering your own ethics. What's your price?

Comment · 11 months ago
Human drivers that are at fault face repercussions that affect the rest of their lives. Robot drivers that are at fault face repercussions of a minuscule fine and a "sorry... again" press release.
Comment · 2 years ago
Could you share a bit more about semantic chunking with Phi? Any recommendations/examples of prompts?
Comment · 2 years ago
ChatGPT's search is powered by Bing.
Comment · 3 years ago
Words with capital letters typically have higher token counts. This causes the LLM to apply attention differently.
Comment · 3 years ago
> Those impoverished kids you talk about are often lactose intolerant.

Exactly. Same goes for other common allergies options like legumes, seafood, and gluten. That's why you provide options.

Comment · 3 years ago
No one thinks that peanuts and vegetable oil combine into some magic superfood, yet Plumpy'nut is concretely beneficial to keeping people fed and healthy. Now, consider this same rationale into to a kind of poverty close to home. There is plenty of evidence that milk in school lunches is often the only reliable daily source of calcium and protein for millions of impoverished children worldwide.

Contextualized one way, milk is a meal replacement or nutrition supplement, and one that is more practical than most other options. A serving of whole milk requires zero on-site prep time, is relatively portable once packaged, and perhaps more importantly, it is often the most palatable option for picky eaters. Public health is complicated.

Comment · 3 years ago
Its impossible to have a sane conversation about nutrition, especially in a historical context, when addressing folks' anecdotal cultural notions of what foods make their body feel good. Whatever point you're trying to make is meaningless without offering science or anthropological-historical context to back it up.
Comment · 4 years ago
> When did we become so comfortable with the government mandating presentation of papers and tracking of private transactions?

After Timothy McVeigh blew up a building with a truck full of agricultural supplies.

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