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I was expecting a list of actual business failures with maybe some facts or history, but it's essentially a joke site.

I wish the final paragraph of 4 solutions were as detailed and explanatory as the prior 10 pages of why it's bad.

I admit I avoided a lot of reading in high school in the 70's by buying Cliffs Notes instead, because I was young and dumb and lazy. I hope adult professionals can see how much worse it is to use LLMs to try and do their work for them, but I understand the temptation. Imagine how hard it would be to catch their shortcuts if hallucinations didn't happen.

"Committing to a niche...exploding right now" is still a gamble, because while you might stumble on something where the rates are currently climbing nicely, it could just as easily drop. Internet trends are like the fashion business: constantly changing. If you don't mind always chasing after the current big thing, knock yourself out, but being a jack-of-all-trades that can smoothly plug in to whatever's currently hot is not easy to do. You might latch on to a subscriber base that doesn't tire of you while you stick to one niche, but very few influencers can pull that off for long. Your best best is to be a young, good looking, smooth talking personality that viewers like to connect with, regardless of what you're doing or saying.

The more I think about it, most artists/illustrators will be replaced by workers who can't draw or paint but are better than artists at generating AI prompts.

And some day the news will announce that the last human actor has died.

I would not call this an "introduction", but rather a reference book covering all the technicalities of the language.

Don't restrict yourself to businesses. Instead list commercial real estate, which are occupied or vacant, and any occupants are sometimes the building owner and sometimes a renter, and the building and/or (some of the) occupant business(es) are for sale. There are buyers for every combination.

About the Poincaré conjecture being solved Nov. 11, 2002 in St. Petersburg, Russia by Grigori Perelman who then rejected the $1 million prize.

Are artists and illustrators going the way of the horse and buggy?

The quacking duck gets shot.

Should be titled "A Few of the Most Popular YouTubers aren't..."

It's one of those projects that immediately strikes you as completely unfeasible before you even get to the cost or timeline projections.

Does this imply that if you first ask an LLM to translate a prompt to Polish, then submit the Polish version, you'll get better results?

If the Milky Way is "full", imagine how many there are in the universe.

Not literally, but you can generate a dialog from the deceased's previous writings that might closely model what they would write if they were still alive.

Life forms have only one purpose: survive and multiply.

Does life have a meaning? Only in the minds of the life forms, who will not agree on the answer.

What is the most important thing in life? The answer will vary with who and when you ask.

> ...filing... more than 20,000 federal copyright cases since September 2017.

That averages over 6 lawsuits every single day.

TL;DR: The "economic mistake" is allowing monopolization through vertical mergers (taking over parts of the supply chain both upstream and downstream).

TL;DR: The "economic mistake" is allowing monopolization through vertical mergers (taking over parts of the supply chain both upstream and downstream).

I guess it's no longer a secret.

> There is no human intervention from the time parts arrive at the Metaplant’s loading docks to their installation.

The article describes one impressive feature after another. This is an amazing factory. Quite a difference from the first automobile assembly lines of the 20th century.

> The crux of Sutskever’s issues was that Altman “exhibits a consistent pattern of lying, undermining his execs, and pitting his execs against one another.”

...according to Ilya Sutskever's deposition by Elon Musk’s lawyers. The article also quotes others involved in the power struggle.

From 1973. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unix_systems

Giant colony, not giant spiders.

Other than being a list of all the details you need to pay attention to, wouldn't a simulation ultimately hinge on how well your product or service is received? Are you going to pretend your sales are terrific?

The infamous "beer distribution game" shows how difficult it is to simulate and manage an almost trivial supply chain. I would expect trying to simulate an entire startup would have so many variables that any simulation would only end up predicting real world performance purely by chance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_distribution_game

My OCD tendencies would have made me label the one chip ..ODD.. instead of .ODD... just for a little more symmetry.

Yes, it would be nice if everything was easy, fair, and equitable. But:

Almost anyone can become an Uber driver without much effort. Not true for plumbers and HVAC people.

There are so many drivers available they're waiting for your call. Any decent plumbing/HVAC company has a backlog.

All Uber drivers are centralized under one pricing system. Plumbers/HVACs control their own pricing logic. I've never gotten contractor estimates that weren't across a huge range from low to high.

You can never trust a referral unless it's from someone you know that received the service themselves.

Uber vs. plumbing/HVAC is apples and oranges.

Depending on the font, the number of underscores is hard to determine. C< or C_+_ or C-+- might have been better. And why does the big icon have what looks like 2 dashes?

Parking and checkout is a mess because so many people know it's where they can find good deals. Now that ours has self-checkout lines too it's a lot more convenient for getting just a few items. I only go occasionally, for specific items that I know have good quality for the price, like the rotisserie chicken or the ice cream. The five-pound bags of name-brand Halloween chocolates were 26.3 cents a pound; none of the other local stores could come close to that. My biggest complaint is that I'll stumble on a great product but when I go back a month later for more it's no longer available.

It's clear that if you use a phone, tablet, desktop, or television, then very soon the vast majority of what you see each day that you've never seen before will actually be 100% generated and not real. There will be generations growing up that will never see a picture, video, display, or transmission of something capturing real life. Every new thing they see will be computationally generated, including all TikTok and YouTube videos. Some day it will be announced that the last human movie star on Earth has died.