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Using LLM embedding cosine similarity to classify products into larger categories (bricks) wasn’t something I would’ve thought of. Last I heard of word vectors was back when word2vec came out, I guess in the back of my mind I knew LLMs have something similar and it makes sense that open weight models reveal that information easily.

I wonder whether they've considered the possibility of open-sourcing their apps and backend. Perhaps this is just Pollyannaism, but I tend to believe that workers' rights and open-source are the perfect match in a market like ridesharing. "Just goodenough" open source solutions have difficulty breaking through in consumer software (e.g. the mythical "year of the linux desktop"), but in a market like ridesharing, worker coordination could easily provide the push to critical mass.

That means this thing won't be going to Hawaii any time soon.

They claim Mokulele as one of their customers so presumably they can travel between some of the islands.

Is that a reasonable assumption to make? I don't think we have any evidence of other places we look being "largely the same" with respect to life conduciveness. It took billions of years for our own planet to achieve multicellular life, which is a significant fraction of our best estimate of the lifetime of the entire universe up to this point.

When I think of an investor, I think of someone who picks and choses specific companies or sectors of the market to invest in. I'm curious what the Fed's tools allow it to invest in specific companies or sectors other than the economy as a whole. Can they get more targeted than an individual bank? Or is that the limit of their targeting power?

Services revenue is at risk due to increased antitrust scrutiny worldwide. The more Apple focuses on services, the bigger the potential downside on their valuation.

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It's a shame that the discourse around this drug has been horribly mangled by conspiracy theorists. If it actually ends up being useful, it'll have to overcome a higher barrier to mainstream entry much like hydroxychloroquine. In HCQ's case the higher barrier was correct as its evidence was laughable, in IVM's case the evidence is still not convincing, and it has a lot further go to before the conspiracy theorists are given any shrift. The abstract to this particular article doesn't help, as its tone sounds like conspiracy theorist catnip.