Debt. So much debt.
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I'm willing to be convinced otherwise, but this is my conclusion after spending 25 years growing up, living, working and building startups here.
Some 2B people live in constant hot humid weather, if we provide every single one of those people with north american level cooling facility, we'd probably have to increase the world's energy generation by at least 40%. That's no small feat.
Shooting a movie on an iphone pro can be as artistically involved as shooting one in black and white on 8mm film.
Departments have a budget. If someone else is unfairly getting paid more, it definitely means that you will be getting paid less.
I played WoW for a good 8 years everyday through high school and college, became great friends with some of the people I played the game with.
When I finished school, I hung up my WoW character and said good bye to my friends in the game.
Although I no longer keep in touch with any of them, those were some of the best 8 years of my life and I am truly fond of the memories I made playing the game and working together.
Is that not the same as a work place?
Once working, you spend 8h a day with a group of people.
It's by far the easiest way to make friends since the needed repetition of making contact (a minimum requirement for friendship) is already solved by going to work together.
Making friends as an adult is hard. Work is the easiest shortcut in establishing meaningful relationships with strangers.
Edit: addressing some of the comments below.
Some of the commenters describe a friend as someone who will maintain a connection with you no matter the circumstance (loss of job, moving to a new city etc)
I believe that is an unrealistic expectation.
Friend just means someone you have established a platonic relationship with right here right now. You may drift apart in the future, but what's important is that the connection and relationship is genuine and real.
Because "you", as an established worker in your industry don't need hand holding guidance.
Remote first will never replace the way impromptu mentor sessions happen in person or after hours. I am extremely glad I had the opportunity for this, and I want to replicate it for the juniors just entering work.
the alternative is violence or unionization, neither of which are optimal in resolving disputes like these in a civilized and efficient manner.
Don't you need to retrain the model all the time? Isn't that the most prohibitive part?
Am I missing something?
I say she did a great job.
Airbnb and lots of foreigners here with lack of local knowledge are jacking up the price.
Knowledge are generally shared in person or over WhatsApp/FB groups, not the most efficient.
That's chatgpt right now. To get it to confidently right will take years and years more
Facebook doesn't act as the central trust authority. So as an expat, most realtor is telling me to avoid FB and use them because scams. But as a user it's inefficient to talk to 20 Realtors for 20 listings.
I just want something in between that doesn't inflate the actual price by 40%
How would you typically find a place to rent where you live?
Right now depending on how much effort you want to spend, you can get a place for $2000 usd a month or $600 a month, for relatively similar unit maybe 20min of walk distance apart. Simply because information does not flow freely.
Airbnb fixed the trust issue and dominated rental market in the last few years. But hefty fees + taxes are making them less and less viable for travelers.
I honestly see a big opportunity to just improve the overall experience. Especially considering Riviera Maya is the fasted growing realestate market in Mexico.
If you're serious about working on something like this, email me (check my profile), let's connect.
Most business' official website are a Facebook page.
In a country of 150M people and growing expat presence, there is a TON of opportunities for software businesses to enter the market.
For example: Riviera Maya has no MLS style real estate tracker/listing platform. The entire real estate industry operates on word of mouth, WhatsApp and Facebook messages.
If you use ANY human input to unbais some bias.. it is just pushing down the bais chain.
Is coding up a "Spock" like logic AI a good way to unbias all future AIs?
Now that AI are more and more human like, how do you handle inherited bias in the trained models? Further more, how you eventually remove the human decision factor from Ai models?
Search results are machine like so it forces us to process and interlace it with our own thoughts, asking another human triggers our evolutionary mistrust reflex.
But are we ready to blindly trust and let AI tell us what's true and what are good questions to ask?
There was another thread on Sam Altman, the consensus is that the guys willing to do whatever it takes to "win".. I didn't quite understand why Elon is concerned about AI, but I'm now starting to get it.. it's because behind every AI there's someone like SA disregarding every safeguard you should have in order to win
As an Asian American you absolutely can attribute our success to "social engineering", we went from rail road workers to laundry mat owners to Harvard graduates. You can't have these kind of change on the societal perception level without some kind of engineering.
Now I just need money to get a house in HCOL area where most of my friends are...
I was going to use lemon.io but they cap out at $100usd an hour.
Not worth my time.
Not sure if OpenAI and with the release of chatgpt has fully implemented their own call for responsible ai
If you can use Excel spreadsheet or Google form to build your product. Do it for your first 100 users.
Obviously if you're in deep tech then this doesn't apply. But with deep tech and moonshots the value isn't the product, it's your arbitrage opportunity and expert patentable knowledge.