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There are production ready AI tools in hospitals, with FDA approval. The writers of this article just decided to try a non-FDA approved tool and ignore the approved ones

This feels like it was done for the clicks and not actual research. There are plenty of AI startups in the radiology game, GPT-4V isn't free - so why is that the one being tested?

Run research on models that are actually trained to solve these issues, that is relevant research

Just as an example, Viz.ai applied[1] and received FDA clearance/approval for their model in hospitals.

Have OpenAI ever submitted a request for use of GPT-4V? Whats next, try autopilot driving with GPT-4V?

[1] https://www.viz.ai/news/viz-ai-receives-fda-510k-clearance-f...

Pretty much everything we use daily were introduced to "regular people" as a luxury product for the 0.1%. Even personal computers

Eventually companies are able to scale things

I really dont understand the hate. Reddit to me is a mini Facebook, with some added anonimity

* Mods dont get paid - Facebook Groups has niche groups much bigger than niche subreddits. I subscribe to both FB and Reddit for the car models I own, the FB groups are 10x bigger with 20x posts. Those mods dont get paid either, and Facebook as a much bigger spam/fake account problem to work tirelessly to defend your group against

* No API / 3rd Party access - well, just try asking Meta for a free API to build an adless wrapper around the Facebook wall, good luck

But spez is the bad guy here and zuck is a saint. Or they're both bad guys but if you think that, then spez is on the right trajectory to easily have a $20b company in 5 years

People seem to be confusing - high potential for profits with building an adless platform that also has succesfully passed the network effect

Reddit goes hand in hand to me with Facebook Groups. I dont think either will follow the path of Digg to be honest, the adoption is just far too wide. Some people on this website might be in an echo chamber of old school geeky subreddits.

But I recently found /r/NYCbitcheswithtaste/ to be surprisingly active. a bunch of teen and 20something females in NYC asking for recommended lip injections. Its a natural expansion from the many skincare subreddits that have been popular for years, but I admit I didn't think the userbase has expanded that much

Of course it worked. No popular website gives people unlimited use of an API for free. Its financial death. Reddit kept it on far too long, Facebook was suitng anyone attempting to build an app based on unofficial APIs more than a decade ago, and it worked great for them

I also haven't really seen any of the major (Reddit mods are not spread out, a very small group control the majority of large subreddits) mod just quit. Anyone who edited their content "so reddit doesnt profit" just gave the internal Reddit DB more value to sell to the LLM companies

Reddit moderation, like Facebook Group moderation, works for free because people are bored and love the power grab. There are SO MANY Facebook Groups with over 100,000 and 1,000,000 users, their mods work endlessly 24/7 to stop spam and make sure everything is kosher. They've never once asked Zuckerberg for cash, the ego boost is just too big to give up

I happened to be at an investor-startup conference yesterday that had a few different companies trying to do this. It's actually not a bad idea. There were some claims made about specific companies that I couldn't verify, but interesting none the less

* Examples of specific company employees extracting information they had no access to in the regular JIRA/Confluence world, but were able to extract it via an LLM trained on company data. There are a bunch of "train LLM on the companies entire knowledgebase" startups right now. Without control on who is querying about which project. Employees can query about the RIF that is happening next month, and maybe theyll get a truthful response

* Hiding information that needs to be legally, or morally anonymized

* Anonymizing business logic and code

If it works well, itll allow companies to really throw in everything they have into LLM training, without worrying of what goes in. Plenty of companies (including my employer) still block the chatgpt URL accross all computers

The only problem I see with these shovel sellers, is that any corporation can build this in a couple of weeks tops to help sell enterprise licenses, they don't really have an edge

In the long term no company offers free unlimited APIs like that. It was a dumb decision to offer it in the last 5 years

Reddit and Facebook Groups (the latter being much better) are the only 2 places I can search for reviews or recommendations to pretty much anything these days. Google & co. are impossible to use for "best" anything

Probably an unpopular opinion:

A probabilistic word generator is still a word generator. It might be slightly better next version, we've seen it get worse, its more of the same

We can talk about AGI all we want, but it wont be built on the same technology as these word generators. There will have to be a technological breakthrough years before we even get close

The companies focusing on LLMs right now are dealing with

* Generate better words

* Make it cheaper to generate (use less compute)

* Find better training material

There is a ton of money to be made, but its still more of the same

Promethease is why i initially did 23andme, and it was beyond worth it for me personally.

But for the same reason I'm just a one time customer, all I needed was for 23andme to give me a very expensive hospital test at a 95% discount, and I didn't need them anumore

This sounds pretty great for a first iteration. My first iPhone was a 4S, but I can definitely see the "buy everything first" crowd enjoying this vs. the first iteration from every other company, as Apple usually succeeds doing

I would bet the version announced in 4 years will be naturally usable all day

Walmart Global Tech is above average tech pay, just a step or 2 behind FAANG. One downside is annual stock grants instead of 4 year, so there is a lot less upside

From that same article it was 650 million active iphone users vs. 2.5 billion android

I think Apple is *very* happy to be Porsche in this story

The sales numbers so far are pretty much on par with the iPhone 1, which wasn't that great a product either with no app store or 3g connectivity

>There are, to be sure, valid business reasons for all three services to have not built a native app; the latest prediction from Apple supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo put first-year sales at around 500,000 units, which as a tiny percentage of these services’ user bases may not be worth the investment

Except for the fact the iPhone users spend 7x more on apps than Android users[1]. And it would be safe to assume Vision Pro users are on the higher end of having extra money to spend.

Apple has made a clear definition for "Rich AF" iOS users and app makers are trying to look the other way? Their loss. Hell, even having a list of iPhone users that pre-ordered the Vision Pro is worth targeting $$$$

[1] https://9to5mac.com/2023/09/06/iphone-users-spend-apps/

Barak is no fan of the current Israeli government. And they often attacked him publicly and organized demonstrations around his home. They truly sent the best international law expert the country has to offer

Except SA specifically asked the court to require a ceasefire, which would have immediate consequences via security council vote and no more munitions landing in Israel. And the judges voted it down

This isn't a read between the lines situation, because SA's request was specifically for the court to temporarily rule for a full immediate ceasefire until the larger case could be heard

What is interesting here is that by mis-reading the verdict like yourself, and Israel assuming the worst, both sides immediately came out saying today was a huge win. So at least we have that, everyone (but the Palestinians, who aren't a side in this case) is happy

I know the Android vs. iOS conversion rates first hand for many years. Working for a large US fashion company that had >50% of transactions online, the conversion rates for Android were comically low.

I have a feeling there will be a similar split with iOS users who are installing 3rd party app stores vs. iOS users who choose to stay locked in

You have to wonder, if there is an exact duplicate of a role, do they settle it in a 1v1? Mortal Kombat?

This has nothing to do with journalism and everything to do with the term “brand recognition”

The boomer concept of the 80s that we can’t get rid of. People still think something is high or low quality because some licensed logo of a company that ceased operations 20 years ago is on it

That Calvin Klein jacket from tj maxx? No calvin Klein employee had ever even seen its design before. Your Toshiba TV was not made or designed by Toshiba

We need to step away from the 80s and start focusing on quality instead of logo playing cards being traded between billionaires

Can you imagine Ilya Sutskever being fired because his frontend code wasn't up to par

A leader should know how to influence his org within a 3 minute conversation to do this. The fact he stopped his Director of AI work to do this means their org is broken - or worse they have no influence over it

Oof to this link in the post https://www.brex.com/journal/operate-at-all-levels

What a terrible culture, dunking on people management, calling it meaningless

And no, I don't want the Director of AI to explain react component rendering to me, it sounds like they are grooming a generation of super-micromanaging executives. Maybe the CTO was kicked out after he failed to complete 3 back to back leetcode hards

Planes get swapped out last minute pretty often, its pretty much the only way to avoid full airline meltdowns every time one flight is 60 minutes late to take off. Hell, there was no huge meltdown in the US once the 737 MAX was grounded, twice. They just swap them out, the system knows how to do it efficiently

An evil (but working) way to bypass this once 737s are flying again, would be to put a different plane with similar layout on every flight, then swap to the 737 on the itinerary the day before

Different plane, different seat, is pretty aggressively baked into TOS

So with 1.5 Billion active iPhones, you think the only app store that powers them does not have any overhead?

Spotify themselves split revenue with artists 70/30, just like Apple

The media seems to be hyperfocused on one specific supercharger station in Chicago. When in reality

* There are lots of other EVs and EV charging companies in Chicago

* There are lots of other cold places in the US

* Hell Stockholm looks colder than Chicago this week and there are plenty of electric Volvos driving around

It seems that a single local news story grew into a monster for no good reason

An Israeli 8200 engineer makes $350/month for 24/7 availability. Must be the Americans making all the money

Knowing the average SV interview loop too well, I can't imagine how many bad (for corporate type work) hires growing that fast brings in. A bunch of leetcode-hard optimized engineers being thrown into an organization that just grew from 200 to 1000 people.

If you are part of that 200 original group, you probably have a paycheck for another 5 years just answering tech debt questions