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chrisgd··on Google is picking ChatGPT responses from Quora as correct answer
It’s also a dumpster fire that someone else pointed this out, then it was screenshot and posted again without attribution, then appropriate attribution was provided later
chrisgd··on Better.com stock gets clobbered as it begins trading publicly down more than 93%
Sorry, but this makes no sense. First, it was a de-SPAC combination so only two investors putting fresh money in and, it seems, all the SPAC IPO investors dumping ad quickly as possible.

Second, index fund buying would be a positive so not sure why that is mentioned here.

SPACs were not of interest for 20 years, anyone still contemplating has likely been turned down by everyone else.

chrisgd··on The DeSantis Campaign Texted Me with a Large Language Model
Is partially lanced better than lanced? Hard to tell
chrisgd··on ChatGPT costs 700k/day to run; may go bankrupt in 2024
This article doesn’t understand an income statement or balance sheet.
chrisgd··on Launch HN: Certainly Health (YC S23) – Book doctors without surprise bills
You paid and had a credit problem. I didn’t and haven’t had any issues. Seems like the better solution is to ignore it until you can’t
chrisgd··on Launch HN: Certainly Health (YC S23) – Book doctors without surprise bills
If you get a bill you don’t agree with, just don’t pay it. If you want to spend the time on it, you can ask for full itemized bill and when they send you something, tell them you want more detail. You can let it go to collections and settle for a lesser amount. Or just ignore it, unlikely anyone is going to credit bureau or garnishing wages over less than $5k.

Only do above with doctor you don’t plan to see again or anesthesia/lab company. Your insurance company will have a list of doctors in network, print it out and ask for front office staff to verify over email.

chrisgd··on First 'tooth regrowth' medicine moves toward clinical trials in Japan
It is also one of the most heavily sought after physician specialities for PE roll-up. Consolidation of back office functions and technology really drives cost savings as there is little variation between treatments, consolidated purchasing power with supplies and, to your point, a lot of add-on opportunities to upsell patients.

My story is only about my doctor wanting to do additional x-rays because I had new insurance. She saw it as a way to get paid and I was already tired of getting offered another service at every visit. I told the practice I didn’t want another set of x-rays 6 months after my last when my insurance allows every year just because I had new insurance. You would have thought I had offended them, hygienist, front office and dentist all tried to change my mind.

chrisgd··on Data-Oriented Design (2018)
I like the content of your comment. Everyone who has experience recognizes that our love of data and programming often gets sideswiped by business needs. I think though this article tries to say that if we focus on gathering data needs from the beginning, it might make the business needs conversation moot
chrisgd··on List one task, do it, cross it out
I think lists also serve the purpose of getting your tasks out on paper. If I am working on 4 projects, I need to be constantly reminded of those tasks and need to break them down into smaller tasks. Getting Things Done is an effective method, but all of these things, including this method, require real effort. There is just no way around the fact that there is effort required.
chrisgd··on I made nodb, a RESTFful API to store and fetch JSON
Is this webscale? /s
chrisgd··on Ask HN: What did you do when a employer rejected a raise?
Wait 3-6 months and re-evaluate. It sounds like a great environment with a lot of upsides. You don’t want to trade a terrible team for 5% more where you commute in each day. If after 3 months you still want to change jobs, start looking. You might be in a spot of feeling under appreciated today but feel differently soon
chrisgd··on The End of Faking It in Silicon Valley
How come JPMorgan doesn’t get any blame for the Charlie Javice situation.? Under what circumstances is it appropriate to close that deal without validating customer data. You could have put it in escrow immediately before closing.
chrisgd··on What it feels like to work in AI right now
Go to CHATGpT and ask for a link to some examples and half of them are 404. There is certainly a drawback to having scraped the web to build the model
chrisgd··on Trimming spaces from strings faster with SVE on an Amazon Graviton 3 processor
Thanks for sharing. Is understanding how best to utilize computer hardware part of a classic CS program or is most learned on the job?

I studied Econ in college and been a python guy for last 8 years but have no knowledge of how the machine actually interacts with my code. Is there a formal name for understanding that?

chrisgd··on Joint statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC
Apologies. Thought it was something else. Much bigger than I thought.
chrisgd··on Joint statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC
Crypto focused bank and pretty small, even in consideration of historical bank runs
chrisgd··on The apps that Americans search to “delete” the most
I think that is an insanely insightful comment. It is very scary having an 11 year old and wondering when that day comes when his friends are on social media and he wants to participate. I am skeptical of a lot so don’t fall for get rich scams or ads on these platforms but do enjoy perusing for sometimes too long
chrisgd··on The SPAC Fad Is Ending in a Pile of Bankruptcies and Fire Sales
Don’t forget to shame A16Z and Chris Dixon as well. Those guys were complete scumbags around the crypto space
chrisgd··on A warning from Walmart about the health of the American consumer
All the reasons they gave are warnings we already know - fed tightening, auto delinquencies, and a declining savings rate. All general warnings but nothing specific about what they are seeing.

I wonder if all of management got new restricted share grants based on revenue growth and aiming for that

chrisgd··on Early morning university classes linked to poor sleep and academic performance
I received a D minus in two classes my first semester. I thought I was fully prepared for college (and I was if i had been at home and I didn’t have anyone next door to play James Bond on N64 while drinking beers and ordering pizza).

I can totally see this being a problem and it happens more often with 200+ people seminars for freshmen. Best advice I can give you and didn’t realize until I was about to graduate is that you can retake a class and replace the grade.

chrisgd··on Newly public companies going private again
Is it their fault they found someone willing to pay $14/share?
chrisgd··on Twitter Lost $60M a Year Because 390 Telcos Used Bot Accounts to Pump A2P SMS
Makes more sense anyway why now only Twitter blue accounts can use 2FA
chrisgd··on First UK child to receive gene therapy for fatal genetic disorder is now healthy
I think CAR-T and cell / gene therapy is going to cure a lot of these orphan diseases with enough time. They really seem like miracles. Carl June winning a Nobel needs to be a bet on DraftKings. We have seen 10 years of remission with some ALLs in children
chrisgd··on Show HN: Experimenting with GPT-3: Building an Investment Analyst
That’s awesome.
chrisgd··on Show HN: Experimenting with GPT-3: Building an Investment Analyst
I am referring to these types of market maps where you classify different companies into a better description of what they do

https://pitchbook.com/products/desktop/discovery/market-maps...

United Healthcare and Merck are both considered healthcare companies, but very different. I would think some kind of classification algorithm could learn from doing it and then getting feedback but not sure how I would do that.

chrisgd··on Show HN: Experimenting with GPT-3: Building an Investment Analyst
I have been thinking about this as well. Something that helps you create market maps and identifies private acquisition targets would be part of software you could sell to investment banks.

I think the summary part for LYFT is really good. Identifying the drop in price and giving a reason why is beneficial.

chrisgd··on Show HN: I trained an AI model on 120M+ songs from iTunes
Thanks for sharing your opinion
chrisgd··on Show HN: I trained an AI model on 120M+ songs from iTunes
I did the latter and think the former is necessary. It is like when Dropbox was on here and everyone shit on it. You can offer criticism without being a jerk.
chrisgd··on Show HN: I trained an AI model on 120M+ songs from iTunes
I find it disheartening that the comments are loaded with people saying how bad it is. The interface is awesome, the ability to have search results pop up and offer suggestions is impressive. I thought the results for a Lana Del Ray song and a song by Carlos Santana were both interesting and suggested new things.

We should do a better job of supporting creators here.

chrisgd··on The founder of Gmail claims that ChatGPT can “kill” Google in two years
I can see this being true as there are a lot of people who accept whatever they find on a random website as truth. Why not have an answer bot you can guide to give you the answer you want
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