josephpmay

Joined 14 years ago

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Working on mass transport in Madison, WI

Previously worked on Augmented Reality (founded Mira)and did VC at Nvidia

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Comment · 1 year ago
It's weird that they give a figure for PPV but not FOV. That tells me that the FOV must be pretty terrible
Comment · 1 year ago
Most grocery stores charge brands for better shelf positions
Comment · 1 year ago
One thing that’s incorrect in the article:

SB 684 only works on multifamily-zoned lots, but starting in July, it’s getting replaced by SB 1123, which works on “vacant or uninhabitable” single-family lots

Comment · 1 year ago
There’s been evidence recently that GLP-1 Agonists can delay the onset of Alzheimer's symptoms. Look up the evoke and evoke+ trials. This might be the first “real” treatment for Alzheimer’s, and it’s relatively low risk.
Comment · 2 years ago
Hi, I'm the person who wrote the Twitter thread this article is based off of, so happy to answer any questions about it
Comment · 2 years ago
The trick to inexpensive McDonalds is to use the app
Comment · 3 years ago
Link isn't working for me on Safari
Comment · 3 years ago
We've all pretty much forgotten about AR/VR

But Apple's going to be launching their headset next month

Comment · 3 years ago
I believe that's exactly what's going on here. I recall first hearing about this story a few weeks ago
Comment · 3 years ago
A number of comments are recommending using various services relying on OpenAI's API, but I really don't think Sidney is based on davinci-003. Sidney has a level of coherence and "emotion" that appears to be far beyond normal GPT3, and I don't think you'd get that out of rule prompting, reinforcement learning, or finetuning parameters.
Comment · 3 years ago
I’ve used the same Sonicare toothbrush for 20 years. It somehow still holds a nearly month-long charge. It’s sad to hear their quality has gone downhill
Comment · 3 years ago

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