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Startup CTO and investor, currently living in Japan, previously living in NYC.

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Comment · 11 hours ago
Thanks for the tip, I wouldn't want to come across sounding like an ass. I can learn a lot from you.
Comment · 13 hours ago
This is great but...

Systems like Hacker News are great because they are relatively unknown. When a system like this takes off, it puts a lot of pressure on moderation of its source. Is dang ready to moderate an influx of comment spam?

Not a criticism at all... just that we're going to see this happening all over the place. It's become very easy to scrape data and launch something. If you are a source for an audience, people will start to game your thing.

Comment · 10 months ago
It's very nice to have written for so long... I often think I should write more for myself than for others.
Comment · 11 months ago
as long as the business model is:

- users want the best/smartest LLM

- the best performance for inference is found by spending more and more tokens (deep thinking)

- pricing is based on cost per token

Then the inference providers/hyperscalers will take all of the margin available to app makers (and then give it to Nvidia apparently). It is a bad business to be in, and not viable for OpenAI at their valuation.

Comment · 1 year ago
Did you read the comment you're replying to? It's talking about the DEI selection process being blind and instead focusing on outreach to get a more diverse input. You wouldn't be denied anything due to your sex under a system like that. It has nothing to do with what you're talking about.
Comment · 1 year ago
Have you ever lived with or helped a person with AD? It's not cellular senescence. What you're talking about is fine and well, but AD is a devastating disease that has very particular symptoms. We may not know all of the causes, but reversing cellular senescence isn't going to solve this.

Researching and curing AD is not barking up the wrong tree. There is a horrible deadly monster in that tree that needs defeating. I hope people also get scientific funding for other age-related issues.

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Yeah I don't think CRM is the correct thing in this case... I just think that there needs to be some new set of incentives put in place such that the culture reinforces the outcomes you want.
Comment · 1 year ago
Science needs an intervention similar to what the CRM process (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crew_resource_management) did to tamp down cowboy pilots flying their planes into the sides of mountains because they wouldn't listen to their copilots who were too timid to speak up.

...on the evening of Dec 28, 1978, they experienced a landing gear abnormality. The captain decided to enter a holding pattern so they could troubleshoot the problem. The captain focused on the landing gear problem for an hour, ignoring repeated hints from the first officer and the flight engineer about their dwindling fuel supply, and only realized the situation when the engines began flaming out. The aircraft crash-landed in a suburb of Portland, Oregon, over six miles (10 km) short of the runway

It has been applied to other fields:

Elements of CRM have been applied in US healthcare since the late 1990s, specifically in infection prevention. For example, the "central line bundle" of best practices recommends using a checklist when inserting a central venous catheter. The observer checking off the checklist is usually lower-ranking than the person inserting the catheter. The observer is encouraged to communicate when elements of the bundle are not executed; for example if a breach in sterility has occurred

Maybe not this system exactly, but a new way of doing science needs to be found.

Journals, scientists, funding sources, universities and research institutions are locked in a game that encourages data hiding, publish or perish incentives, and non-reproducible results.

Comment · 1 year ago
Have many other projects put MPC servers (https://modelcontextprotocol.io/introduction) to use since it was announced? I haven't seen very many others using it yet.
Comment · 1 year ago
Right... I think it's going to be way more than just data as well. You can expect all gov functions will start to show up in his app. Driver license applications, tax filing, etc...
Comment · 1 year ago
My prediction is that any future data that is published will likely show up in the x.com app. I believe they are trying to privatize all government functions and Musk wants X to be the official government super-app similar to China's system.

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