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sdan··on Jukebox
Just know that: much of the stuff OpenAI and other research orgs put out (including mine) are heavily cherry-picked. Most of the time its pumps out gibberish, but in the off chance it doesn't it gets used as marketing material.
sdan··on Zoom corrects usage numbers: says it has 300M daily meeting participants
Its 3x what Google Meet reported in their recent blog post, just for context.
sdan··on Show HN: AI Generated SEO Articles
Got it!
sdan··on Show HN: AI Generated SEO Articles
Bribery and misinformation is harming the world. We allow you to have that same pace of writing, but we generate meaningful articles via our cross-referencing models.

Otherwise people would write whatever comes to their mind: clickbait/misinformation without proper cross referencing/fact checking.

sdan··on Show HN: AI Generated SEO Articles
https://wordai.com/

https://automatedinsights.com/

sdan··on Show HN: AI Generated SEO Articles
In places like India I know that bribery and misinformation is more widespread than anyone could ever imagine.

Instead of a writer writing a clickbait article / low quality SEO (written by someone off-shore) article in 5 minutes, they could generate an article with our AI (provided they give us quotes, context, etc.) within that same 5 minutes. The difference is that we can iterate on our models and integrate our cross referencing fact-checking algorithms to ensure we generate meaningful articles.

sdan··on Show HN: AI Generated SEO Articles
Hey everyone, I'm building https://sflow.io and part of that includes generating SEO articles to automate the current slow processes of creating (quite) repetitive media (think: "Best Phone to Buy in March of 2020" type of articles).
sdan··on Ask HN: Best Free Python Editor?
I actually can’t use anything other than sublime. Nothing beats its simplicity and lack of complex buttons.
sdan··on PWA Store
Played the dino game, reminds me of elementary school.

Pretty neat!

sdan··on Instagram no longer allows people without an account to view photos on computers
I'm fairly sure uBlock Origin removes that banner (it does for me).
sdan··on Instagram no longer allows people without an account to view photos on computers
Had the same problems, ultimately swayed me away from signing up at all.
sdan··on Guitar – Git GUI Client
> fork.dev

That looks cool! Personally I love the simplicity of both Sublime Text and Merge so I gravitate towards those (I don't really care/need about customization)

sdan··on Guitar – Git GUI Client
Sublime Merge is this but... sublime: https://www.sublimemerge.com/ it's amazing and pretty similar
sdan··on Show HN: I made a site where students can create and share flashcards and notes
Where did the name come from?
sdan··on Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison to US textbooks? (2017)
Yeah maybe it was just me but I was predicting what the day would be, how many questions, difficulty, etc.

Ended up failing the elementary school test and was 1 out of 4 in the district who aced the middle school placement test to skip prealgebra (math 6 to algebra directly). Much of this can't be done nowadays because of common core.

By the time I went through precalc and calc at MV I realized maybe I should've taken a slower math sequence XD

sdan··on Show HN: I made a site where students can create and share flashcards and notes
Reminds me a bit of Quizlet (search functionality on Quizlet was amazing) but looks like a nice cohesive product.

Best of luck!

sdan··on Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison to US textbooks? (2017)
When I was in elementary school probably a decade ago we all had to take a math placement test (not the standardized test, a different one) to determine what math class we'd be in middle school.

Tons of privilege-this and that (this is normal in the bay area, pretty sure a lot more schools have similar systems) but at the end of the day kids (like me) studied extremely hard for these placement tests.

sdan··on YC S20 Remote Batch
Well I understand deeply that there's nothing more powerful that in-person connections.

I've witnessed that multiple times when I sneaked into some "exclusive" events in silicon valley.

sdan··on YC S20 Remote Batch
As a Bay Area native I wish this hadn’t happen, but sometimes radical change creates radical results.
sdan··on Remote Work Report
Remote work is great and all... because that's our only option.

In the long term, I suspect there may be a greater inclination towards remote work, not as much as this report suggests, but overall work at office is here to stay.

I need to go outside and have a physical seperation between work and home.

sdan··on Y Combinator cuts its pro rata stake and makes later investments case-by-case
Yes.

Another tidbit: Distribution kills a company, not the product.

Learn to sell (and make your product great) and everything will work out.

sdan··on Y Combinator cuts its pro rata stake and makes later investments case-by-case
It's a connections game. I remember last year I was trying to get an internship in an industry where I literally knew no one.

So I sent 100-200 personalized emails throughout a 4 month period to every single person I could find in the space. Eventually I got one and made a ton of connections just with that alone.

Now I'm also doing a startup and am talking with some big corporations just with getting to the right people and climbing my way to the top to sell my product.

Tyler Bosemany did a great talk about how to sell, i'd reccomend you watch it.

sdan··on Y Combinator cuts its pro rata stake and makes later investments case-by-case
Industrial machines with a 1% acceptance rate? We're talking about YC, not Startup School.
sdan··on Y Combinator cuts its pro rata stake and makes later investments case-by-case
$150k for startup/living expenses for 3 months and 7% if they succeed.

$150k in the grand scheme of things isn't much: YC knows you'll raise a lot more and much faster right after demo day if you need to.

sdan··on What Happened to Lee
Yeah I think Lee is probably the most notable (other than DJ Patil) in the tech space.

Initially found this a few years ago when I was doing a "deep dive" on Cloudflare.

Interesting nonetheless!

sdan··on What Happened to Lee
I've always wanted to work at Cloudflare because of Lee. He was probably the first one from my high school who actually made something that people want (and I also use everyday).
sdan··on GitHub has completed its acquisition of NPM
Next is pypi
sdan··on As of April 7, 2020, CA DMV has issued two Driverless Vehicle Testing Permits
Lyft is opening up their app for key players: They opened it up for Waymo and are working with others (i forgot their names) to also put them on their platform.
sdan··on As of April 7, 2020, CA DMV has issued two Driverless Vehicle Testing Permits
PR team has to work around the clock on how to spin this. People really blow up anything related to self driving, even when others are at fault most of the time.
sdan··on As of April 7, 2020, CA DMV has issued two Driverless Vehicle Testing Permits
Waymo has more competition with Cruise, Aurora, and Argo than what Uber/Lyft is trying.

I've heard that Uber ATG is barely staying afloat and Lyft is just pumping money just as a desperate attempt (their platform is much more powerful, which is what they're betting on).

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