The most clear sign of a large degree of souledness is the internalization of other creatures' interiority.

A simple heuristic for whether or not to let someone go is to ask yourself, “Would you enthusiastically rehire this person?

A tried and true way to build a large business is to do something that is difficult really well that no one wants to do.

The Zapier NLA API solves a major problem for large language models—the ability to interact with real systems.

Predatory pricing claims are largely ignored by courts, but a version of it continues to happen with venture backed startups.

People often ask me in interviews where I see our company going in the coming years (which is more of a meta question asking about the exit strategy).

Advancements in AI powered tools can greatly improve productivity but many companies have taken steps to limit or outright ban the use of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, and others.

The right to build something new needs to be earned from existing customers.

Building a FAISS similarity search index is not cross-platform. If you save the index locally using aarch64 and try to load it an x86_64 environment it will not work (for me, it loads an empty index).

At a certain point, optimizing productivity becomes optimizing for speed of decision making.

Making complicated things seem simple involves abstracting over reality in such a way that is clear and actionable.

The New York Mets made one of the worst deals in sports history.

Bluesky is having a moment where all the users are new, the content is shitpost-y, and it all feels very lively.

It’s almost inevitable that, after an initial research phase, progress of AI models and tools will come from open source communities rather than a corporation.

AI reduces the cost of certain tasks to effectively zero. In doing so, it lowers the barriers to domains that would previously take years to build skills such as writing code, data analysis, and more.

The easiest way to export a d3 visualization is to use svg-crowbar bookmarklet from the New York Times.

When interacting with a chatbot, there are not indications of what to say or how to say it.

B2B SaaS businesses targeting enterprise customers that want to be in good shape to raise their Series B during a downturn need to have a run rate of $7-10MM ARR, growing at 2-5X year over year, gross margins 75-85%, and an LTV to CAC ratio of 3-5X.

There is a surprising link between universality and NP-complete problems in computer science.

The recent success of large language models like ChatGPT have led to a new stage of applied AI and with it, new challenges.

In a recent study, researches looked at the effects of automation on in a supermarket.

There are many different layers to the web that people inhabit.

As it turns out, combining large language models together can create powerful agents that can respond to, and take action on, complicated prompts.

Consciousness is an emergent property of categories. As a sufficient number of categories can be represented in a system, selfhood arises and, with it, consciousness.