dsalzman

> Or take fragmented markets. Same question: how could US startups successfully conquer these fragmented EU markets when European startups can't?

I think this assumption is wrong. By the time a “startup” in the US expands into Europe they are really not a “startup” anymore. They have a proven business model in the US and have raised 100Ms. So succeeding in Europe is not a fair comparison. When Airbnb expanded into Europe in 2011 they had raised 120m and acquired a company in Germany to kickstart the expansion.

I agree. I’ve been looking for a “smart” watch strap or strap clasp I can use with my vintage seiko watch. I just want vibration alerts when very specific things happen on my phone. My wife is calling etc. Dont need all the features or display of a typical smart watch. Too distracting.

This is why I buy “commercial” appliances when I can. My speed queen washer and dryer each have two knobs and a start button. Thats all you need. I doubt I will need to ever replace them.

Using the aquarium chillers is really smart! Just need someone to mfg the mattress membrane covers.

Stability control vs Guidance control

There is a company that does this but senses direct from your circuit breaker panel. The uses FFT plus algos to determine individual devices on each circuit from their unique electrical signature. Called Sense I believe. I’ve never used it.

I use an Alphasmart Neo for journaling. Recently modded it with an ESP32 for wireless file transfer. I love it!

https://www.dannysalzman.com/2024/06/20/modding-alphasmart-n...

Trail cameras are much larger. So if size is a restraint this could be better, but valid point. Most trail cameras use 8x AA batteries!

“65 participants (Mage = 21.40, SD = 3.21, N = 42 females) with an average of 35.20 (SD = 27.01) days of observation per participant.”

This is one of the great “no shit” type studies. Good to validate basic and ancient wisdom I guess.

The interesting point of this article to me is not the positions but the sleeping surface. Due to my newborn I’ve been sleeping on the floor on a thin yoga mat for over three months and my back and joints feel great. The pressure from the hard ground is like stretching while you sleep. Took a few weeks to get used to it though.

I use it more as a reminder system. Someone tells me to checkin next week or in a couple days and I can just schedule the text right then so I dont forget.

I’ve built something similar with ios shortcuts. One shortcut that uses prompts and data jar to schedule and store messages. It also creates a cal event as a reminder to myself. It supports group texts. Then I have three automations that run in the morning, noon, and afternoon that check for scheduled messages and send them. Works well. Happy to share if interest.

During this energy transition phase more emphasis should be on PHEVs since

1. We have the infrastructure to build PHEVs faster than EVs. Since they are mostly modifications of current vehicles.

2. With the same amount of battery material to make 1 EV we can make ~10 PHEVs and adding that to the fact that most people drive less than 40 miles per day, the effective electric range of a typical PHEV, you are utilizing the battery supply at a much higher level.

I think the current incentives and tax breaks that favor high end luxury EVs have been a mistake. If you can afford a Tesla Model S or a Rivian you don't need a tax incentive to buy it!

Agreed. commoditizing the complement of OpenAIs models.

Boulder,CO per his github

Nice example of persistence of vision display. You can use large stick versions of this to “paint” images by waving them around.

Should bring back in class writing essay tests on paper. One page long. Incentive critical thinking not page length.

Great explainer by Kurzgesagt - How A Nuclear War Will Start - Minute by Minute https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wmP3MBjsx20

They have an example python script for batch jobs with retries. https://github.com/openai/openai-cookbook/blob/main/examples...

The apple lisa was 25k when adjusted for inflation…prices are for early adopters

> Imagine a hard drive head as a 747 flying over a grassy field at 75 miles per hour. The air gap between the bottom of the plane and the top of the grass is two sheets of paper. Now, if we measure bits on the disk as blades of grass, the track width would be 4.6 blades of grass wide and the bit length would be one blade of grass. As the plane flew over the grass it would count blades of grass and only miss one blade for every 25 thousand times the plane circled the Earth.

NeetoCal is $4/user/month for pro

Calendly is $8/user/month for essentials tier and $12/month for professional tier

For reference

Hopefully he updates https://www.mashinsky.com/failed-ventures

I just use small python snippets in Jupyter notebooks and the api. Use a chat to try and walk you through setup?

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I hope they buy and back some of these companies building local/on-prem capable models to run locally on iOS. Add in some proprietary ML chip tech to run it efficiently on mobile and they will capture a big market. Having intimate personal assistant requests uploaded to MSFT/OpenAI is a deal breaker for me.

There is a very interesting HBS case on whaling [0]. It explains how the high risk and high return nature of whaling drove the development of concepts like syndication and limited liability corps that we take for granted today. Pretty interesting the tangible connections of modern startups and VC to hunting for whales.

[0] - https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=43322

Really cool Alex! I think it would also be interesting to pull and use the most rewatched data[1] from each video too as an additional weight. That is how I usually skip to the "important" parts without a summary.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72610552/most-replayed-d...