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gavribirnbaum

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gavribirnbaum··on Ask HN: Why is Midjourney better than Stable Diffusion?
What tools are you referring to and how are they being automated?
gavribirnbaum··on Ask HN: Heavy computation setup for Python?
Here's a small example https://gist.github.com/killah-t-cell/d9425435732a155c8f0e72... (feel free to reach out to me at gbbinbum@gmail.com as well)

Would love to hear your thoughts

gavribirnbaum··on Ask HN: Heavy computation setup for Python?
I'm currently running things locally on my MacBook Pro. The models aren't too big, just a few atoms for now as I'm still testing things. But the optimization codes runs for a couple of hours, and I wish it went down to less than a half hour. I am running GPAW.
gavribirnbaum··on Chinese Demography
Extremely thoughtful reply. This type of argument completely undermines the reality that a small number of highly-productive companies generate most of the GDP. It is not about the amount of workers.
gavribirnbaum··on Ask HN: Have you ever tried to live without a phone?
Thanks! I am 23 and live abroad so I always told myself I owned a smartphone to stay connected to family at home. But I just started to realize that it owns me. Plus during COVID I don't go out anyway. So why not try...
gavribirnbaum··on Ask HN: Have you ever tried to live without a phone?
It gets you hooked so quickly. I have no FB and a pretty tame Twitter. But it is so mindless that it gets me every now and then.
gavribirnbaum··on Ask HN: Have you ever tried to live without a phone?
Inspiring set up. This is basically what I am gravitating towards.
gavribirnbaum··on Ask HN: Have you ever tried to live without a phone?
Maybe the rule should be: no phone while at home? Lock it on arrival or something. All the practical/non-attention-sucking benefits of phones happen outdoors I reckon
gavribirnbaum··on Ask HN: Have you ever tried to live without a phone?
I mean, you can still have an old phone that you can use for rendezvous - it is mostly an attention issue.
gavribirnbaum··on Show HN: We made Wcurl – a dialogflow sales bot for LinkedIn automation
Thank you :) LMK if I can help you understand it. Onboarding still needs a bit of work.
gavribirnbaum··on Show HN: We made Wcurl – a dialogflow sales bot for LinkedIn automation
It's a bit of a grey area. But there are other LinkedIn Automation tools already available.
gavribirnbaum··on Show HN: We made Wcurl – a dialogflow sales bot for LinkedIn automation
Hi everyone. We built Wcurl as an internal tool after spending hours a day responding to outreach messages on LinkedIn. Our ultimate goal is to automate all outreach-related things up until the first call. We'd love to get your feedback. It is very MVP-ish – we just connected the dots between Slack, LinkedIn and Dialogflow :)
gavribirnbaum··on Ask HN: Example of a chatbot in a business use case that doesn't suck?
Sales sequences. We are building this chatbot for LinkedIn outreach. You can check it out at https://wcurl.io
gavribirnbaum··on Brazil Bolsonaro: Facebook told to block accounts of president’s supporters
Read what I said. I said I'm super concerned about it :D
gavribirnbaum··on Brazil Bolsonaro: Facebook told to block accounts of president’s supporters
Well I'm also super concerned that he has expressed dictatorial aspirations. But as of right now the constitution holds.
gavribirnbaum··on Brazil Bolsonaro: Facebook told to block accounts of president’s supporters
I stand corrected then. Thanks for clarifying. I remember lots of talk about that back then and I was not aware of the details.
gavribirnbaum··on Brazil Bolsonaro: Facebook told to block accounts of president’s supporters
I'm not sure that was the case 4 years ago. They first tried to beat it before joining it.

The subpoenas were widely seen as a pretext among the population. It is Brazil: you have to read between the lines.

gavribirnbaum··on Brazil Bolsonaro: Facebook told to block accounts of president’s supporters
True. You cannot expect the judicial to be apolitical if it is appointed by the other two highly political branches of government. But we pretend it is apolitical in Brazil and in the US.
gavribirnbaum··on Brazil Bolsonaro: Facebook told to block accounts of president’s supporters
Hold on, Bolsonaro is not a dictator. Federalism even recently screwed him over. He didn't act on COVID but individual states imposed their own measures and thankfully countered his opinion.
gavribirnbaum··on Brazil Bolsonaro: Facebook told to block accounts of president’s supporters
Last time I visited Brazil some 5 years ago, the courts would ban Whatsapp every couple months. They were in bed with telecom companies that hated that Whatsapp made many of their services free.
gavribirnbaum··on Brazil Bolsonaro: Facebook told to block accounts of president’s supporters
Brazilian here. Unfortunately I wouldn't call them independent. They simply represent the other side. Brazil is not as united behind Bolsonaro as the media makes out to be.
gavribirnbaum··on Coursera valued at $2.5B after a finance round of additional $130M
previous EdTech founder here. can only agree. It is a weird business. I think it boils down to this: most students don't care about learning. They educate themselves for other reasons.

So if you make a good learning tool, it only will be liked by the small niche of high performance self learners / students.

gavribirnbaum··on The growing short case on Facebook and Google
I think the major question is not whether they will invent something else. they are reliant on Ads and will remain so as far as I can tell.

the real question is: is the ad model overvalued?

I think so for the following reasons: ad blockers, users getting desensitized to ads, diminishing returns of the amount of data one needs on a user to sell.

I think OP has the right conclusion but the wrong reasons.

what do you think?

gavribirnbaum··on Show HN: Runnaroo – A new search engine
why is it that all search engines still look like Google in the 90's. Can't the UI become fresher?

also I think SEO really ruined the search experience. do you have plans to use other ranking factors? Maybe social upvoting or so to improve ranking of actual good content as opposed to crappy listicles which is 50% of search results right now?

gavribirnbaum··on Concorde ‘B’ (2014)
is the site down?
gavribirnbaum··on Europe's recession will be even deeper than expected
8.3% cause everything is fine and Covid will be gone next week... right?
gavribirnbaum··on Discord raises $100M at $3.5B valuation
We even use Discord instead of Slack.
gavribirnbaum··on MakeSpace – Virtual Spatial Chat
I loveee the concept of drawing rooms with a mouse to enable spontaneous conversations. the site is incredibly wordy and doesn't drive a CTA, but that is really nice. when can I use it?
gavribirnbaum··on Ask HN: What's broken about the internet?
Server farms are weird concept to me. I feel the infrastructure the internet is build upon is a bit archaic and could use a more rewrite. not sure how though
gavribirnbaum··on Very fast CRISPR on demand
still don't get it :D for dummies explanation?
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