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kwamenum86
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Currently: Leadership Coach and Consultant at Magnetic (magnetic-inc.com).
Previously: Software engineer and manager at Facebook, Asana, and Meebo
- kwamenum86Hilariously none of the replies evaluated the deck on the merits. What has HN even become.
- We’re in the early innings of the AI transformation. You might be right but we’re talking about less than 5 years of AI, versus decades for what you cited
- They said the same about social media. Don’t conflate value creation with value capture. It can often lag, which creates the appearance of a bubble. To me, engagement through the roof and costs rapidly declining is the definition of value rapidly scaling up (scaling in this context specifically meaning reach going up while costs decline). Value capture is lagging behind but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a bubble. I’m certainly open to the possibility it’s a bubble, but that’s not what my firsthand experience is telling me or any of the aggregate numbers.
- Fastest and most drastic technological transformation of all time:
https://www.bondcap.com/report/pdf/Trends_Artificial_Intelli...
So nah.
- Librechat seems perfect for your use case. It’s open source as well. Used by many of the big techcos to solve the problem you’re describing, so it’s battle tested https://www.librechat.ai
- To me, this sounds like a reframing of the classic advice “focus on your process”. Success is emergent - it can rarely be brute forced. What matters is the process you use for navigating life, any success you realize is a byproduct of your process. This snippet from the article illustrates what I mean:
“One person sets a goal: become a best-selling author. Another imposes a constraint: write every day, but never write what bores me. The first may spend years pitching, networking, contorting themselves into marketable shapes. The second may accidentally build a following simply because the work sustains itself.”
- No need to use AWS at all -
Jupyter Nbconvert: Jupyter Nbconvert is a command-line tool that allows you to convert Jupyter notebooks into various formats, including HTML, PDF, and Markdown. You can use the nbconvert command to convert your Jupyter notebook into an HTML file, which you can then upload to a web hosting service or a file-sharing platform like GitHub or GitLab. To use this method, you will need to have Jupyter installed on your computer.
Binder: Binder is a free service that allows you to turn your Jupyter notebook into a live, interactive website that can be accessed by anyone. Binder creates a virtual environment that includes all the dependencies required to run your notebook and launches it in a web browser. To use this method, you will need to upload your Jupyter notebook to a GitHub repository and provide a link to your repository to Binder.
Google Colab: Google Colab is a free cloud-based service that allows you to create and run Jupyter notebooks in a web browser. You can create a new notebook in Colab, write your code, and then export it as an HTML file using the nbconvert command. You can then download the HTML file and upload it to a web hosting service or file-sharing platform.
- (disclaimer: used to work for Facebook) I had similar doubts about the Metaverse concept until recently. However, Meta has done a great job (better than any other company in history) scaling up VR. They've sold more units than the most recent version of Xbox. The Xbox did sell out, which makes demand appear artificially low, however the fact that Quest sales are keeping up with Xbox sales is a very big deal. I didn't realize that until I listened to Mark Zuckerberg's interview on Joe Rogan. If you're an app developer, it's more than worth considering VR given the size of the audience on those platforms. One other thing to keep in mind - the current concept of the metaverse is essentially an alpha version. Now that Meta has established VR as a legit platform, they're using it to usher in a new future. Meta is throwing out lots of ideas for how VR might help reshape the future. The vast majority of those ideas will not work out but many of them will stick and form the foundational principles that underpin the evolving VR ecosystem as people increasingly spend more time. Once the technology passes a certain threshold of maturity, it will be a fundamentally better way to connect with friends/family/coworkers than any other medium. In general, high bandwidth communication mediums dominate with in-person interactions being at the top of the food chain. Meta aspires to make it feel like you're with people in real life except that your social experiences will be augmented with super powers that don't exist in real life. If they achieve that, meeting with in VR/AR will be preferable to real life and we'll all be using VR, as hard as that is to believe. That's not a future that anyone is necessarily asking for but it is a future that many will find more appealing than the existing options offered by computing platforms, like video chat. Assuming that happens, Meta will have a path to creating the new dominant computing platform. That's the ultimate manifestation of the metaverse vision - defining and owning the future of computing. Recall how clunky smartphone and personal computing experiences felt at first. Those devices weren't for everyone...until they were. Now, <15 after the first smartphone (which I define to be a phone on par with the personal computer, so in my mind the first smartphone was really iPhone running iOS 2, which introduced the App Store), people now routinely idle on their smartphones. That is to say, when they're doing nothing else with their hands (even if they're doing something else) it's not uncommon for their to pull out their smartphones. In 2000, if you predicted that grown adults would impulsively pull out what amounts to an entertainment device while they're idling at the airport, grocery store, or even while driving that would have sounded ridiculous. It's important to remind ourselves how quickly technology can become virtually ubiquitous and how challenging it is to predict the impact on our habits.
- If you're interested in learning more about this subject check out The Aesthetic Brain: How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art https://www.amazon.com/Aesthetic-Brain-Evolved-Desire-Beauty...
Really great book that touches on the meta-analysis in this article and much more
- Direct link to the original article that Voxsnap republished https://www.atrium.co/blog/seed-stage-funding-startups/
- 2 points
- I think you're taking lots of liberties here so I'll try once more: I think that actively or passively resisting progress toward greater coexistence is antisocial and therefore pathological. My stance is that being fine with inequity (which is the status quo) is passive resistance.
You make some valid points about what constitutes active/passive resistance and your comment made me think. I don't think everyone is obligated to come up with better solutions but I do think if you're going to participate in the dialog, focusing solely on attacking existing solutions is counterproductive and makes me question your motives.
- I think you're misinformed. There are plenty of people who are either fine with status quo (which is not totally equitable from my POV) or completely fine with prejudice. Few people articulate it as "I want to stop the workplace from becoming better for everyone" but the outcome is the same. I'm not speculating - I've experienced both groups first hand.
I think an even more subtle problem is people who attack ineffective policies as opposed to focusing on the primary objective, which is coexistence. In other words, people focus on attacking solutions as opposed to helping create better ones. That behavior is pervasive, insidious, counterproductive, and seems to be picking up steam.
- I was lucky enough to grow up around black scientists, engineers, and intellectuals. So I have deep self belief and, to me, emulating behaviors of non-blacks (or other genders, or even athletes) feels natural - I just want to be exceptional and I find inspiration everywhere.
To the extent possible, I've always tried to shape my identity based on what feels right for me instead of what's expected of me, even from my own race. With practice, divorcing yourself from other peoples' opinions of you becomes second nature. When you don't adopt that mindset you're allowing other people to write your story, which some people are fine with but I personally find that intolerable. I can definitely relate to feeling like you have to disown part of your identity but I just can't accept that. It happens in many subtle ways we don't think about. For example, when we sense someone else's self doubt if evokes feeling of self doubt, anger, or sadness in ourselves. In reality, other peoples' flawed opinions don't pay my rent so I try to live in reality and disregard ignorance unless it affects the outcomes I care about.
I chose tech (over politics!) because it seemed like more of a meritocracy and, although I've dealt with some race-related challenges, focusing on doing my best work, creating value, and writing my own story has led to pretty good results.
I do still get distracted wondering whether my story would be different if I weren't black - it's tough.
- That's fair and I shouldn't have let that color my opinion of the entire community. But for hot button issues knee jerk reactions do tend to set the tone for conversations, if not dominate them.
- Absolutely.
In the ideal world, we all work together to find something that works. In reality, we're prone to change resistance so when we disagree with a new policy (regardless of whether it really has implications for our own lives) we tend to reject the policy, the premise, the authorities, and any groups that support said policy. There's lots of evidence that suggests that's an inherent dynamic of social systems. When policies have implications for social groups things turn explosive quickly, but beyond that I think the reaction we see to diversity conversations is just run of the mill change resistance. I often find it helpful to highlight the inarguable, universal truths in those situations as a starting point for finding a better way forward but...it's never easy.
- Based on many conversations over the years. Anecdotal evidence to be sure but quite a lot of it.
- Lots of tech companies do require diversity/bias training for managers and interviewers. It's often counterproductive. In my experience people either don't take the training seriously or strongly object to being forced to go through it. I'm not sure it'd be effective even if everyone embraced it since shifting attitudes and behaviors takes time and effort even when you're highly motivated to do so.