thatthatis

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Comment · 9 months ago
Very ironically, this violates the MIT trademark in a quixotic pursuit of intellectual property ludditry.
Comment · 1 year ago
Glad we have a name for this. I had been calling it “context shaping” in my head for a bit now.

I think good context engineering will be one of the most important pieces of the tooling that will turn “raw model power” into incredible outcomes.

Model power is one thing, model power plus the tools to use it will be quite another.

Comment · 5 years ago
How does the encoding work? Did you write up the algorithm separately?
Comment · 5 years ago
Spare parts are expensive because they’re priced to willingness to pay which is usually “if it’s significantly less to repair than replace, repair”. $100 part + $200 labor is cheaper than a new $500 machine. Repair let’s tend to have much much higher margin for manufacturers than the original machine.
Comment · 5 years ago
Email. Cold email costs $0.01 per message per address to send.

How we distinguish warm va cold, idk

Comment · 5 years ago
What’s the deal with captable.io transitioning from “a public service for every startup to safeguard their equity from day one” to basically the same price model as carta?

Why weren’t legacy companies given grandfathered pricing?

Comment · 6 years ago
I can confirm. My company is a top 2,000 amazon seller (top 0.1%) and we’ve never bought or incentivized a single review. Our fake spot grade is “B” with some products getting “A” and others “D.”

Most recently amazon changed their review gathering algorithm in a way that increases the percent of customers who leave reviews. The acceleration in our review velocity is flagged by fakespot as suspicious.

Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
Why not just agree that speed runs exclude the time between minigame start and minigame end, vs allowing an external tool?
Comment · 6 years ago
Also, stock buybacks don’t incur capital gains tax until the appreciated stock is sold. Dividends are taxed when issued.

Maybe there’s an effect of executive compensation, but the standard narrative on buybacks is tax avoidance

Comment · 7 years ago
I always shot for a “B+” in college. My logic was that in 5 years I’d remember the content at a B+ level, and any incremental effort was better spent socializing or building student organizations.
Comment · 7 years ago
I’m of the opinion that the scariest words to a startup founder/employee should be “exit below the liquidity preference”
Comment · 7 years ago
For business users, can a single password be stored in multiple “shared folders” or groups?

For example, can I share a password with both “marketing” and “customer support”

The lack of this is one of the biggest pains I have with LastPass

Comment · 7 years ago
There are at least two other factors:

1) most of these certifications come with large philosophical impact. You can’t choose to be a “social impact only” B Corp, for example, you have to go all in on their philosophy on waste management too.

2) by not publicizing you reserve the option to switch grades/practices if necessary in the future.

Comment · 7 years ago
But not the 2 dimensional index(match, match) use case, unfortunately

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