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I laughed!

What do you mean by "as execution is going to zero"?

Drive to manufacture drive is drive itself - what do you guys think?

Super cool art, can I ask how you did it?

(Not sure if this is just me, but) I find this truck so aesthetically displeasing?

Somehow, most EVs have curves and "bounciness" (and why such odd headlights??) in all the right places to make it look childish. I find the Tesla sedan extremely aesthetic though, that might be the one exception. The bigger Teslas (especially in color white) remind me of pandas for some reason.

Haha thanks!

I'm still trying to understand what users want. The origin of this site was a friend's issue - everytime he wanted to make a contract and send it to someone he would (1) generate w/ gpt (2) paste in google docs (3) export as pdf (4) drop into docusign and drag signature fields into blanks (5) sign + send.

After I talked to another person who recounted the same story, I thought there could be something here.

I did learn that people have their own existing contract templates they want to use instead of generating new ones each time (though sometimes that's nice), and that feature is in dev.

But all my data on what users want is from very low sample sizes :(

https://www.dreamsign.ai/

An AI-native DocuSign

It's been around a month I've been working on it. Struggling with getting people to actually use it - this week I've set the ambitious goal of 10 new contracts sent *and completed* by people I don't know (last week's was 10...by people I do know).

It's hard because I feel I'm in a weird hole - in order to have a good product I need people to use it and give me feedback, but in order for people to use it and give me feedback I need a good product. It's like wth!

Another thing I'm struggling with - enjoying the process. I get daydreams like mad. I feel I'm always living in the future in some way, especially with this software, and it's taking away from being present in this work. Which sucks, because I want to be excited to *work* on this and NOT fake my own excitement towards this as a manifestation of my greed to get rich off it.

But MAN am I greedy. It's ugly sometimes, to myself.

But god how I love to work on software also. How I love making stupid bash commands on my terminal. How I love to feel like the old gods, who conquered the infant digital world.

I hate school I'll learn everything on my own write when I want to cheat on whatever you give me don't make me do anything.

^I really like living like this. I couldn't imagine being the "good student" ratting out the guy in front of me for gambling! We have to make our own way, school is like this bubble - even if you excel within it, you're just excelling WITHIN it. It's meaningless to me.

Awesome, what dedication!

Wonderful analogy

This, staples "rebranding", openai's font change...

Is there really any benefit in these small changes? Certainly a good laugh out of it!

That's amazing! Within 40 seconds I overlapped the two hard mode images and saw 8 shimmering objects set within a clear picture. It took me a little longer (maybe a minute), but the two impossible mode pictures snapped together and I saw a single shimmering star within an otherwise crystal clear photograph!

I thought the color combinations were nice, especially at around Hue = 190.

I agree. I've been interested in how the stories we consume, whether presented to us by ourselves or others, affect our personalities. Thank you for pointing me to Vonnegut.

One thing I feel is often overlooked in this conversation are our physical urges, specifically the ones motivating us to action that is different from what the 'character' we want to be would do. That adds noise to our personality, and widens the gap between what we are and what we want to be.

This put into words something I've been thinking abstractly for a while. Thank you for your examples and explanation.

I'm guessing but it's not without some experience. I feel like I trick myself all the time - to guide myself towards becoming what I want to be.

There was a time when I felt unintelligent and incapable of great, technical things. So I kind of just did things that it seemed capable people did. I felt like people who are smart, capable, and rich now, hacked things when they were young and were rebellious and broke the rules and did whatever they wanted and put lots of effort into random interesting things because they were interesting.

So, because the end goal was attractive to me in a way, I tried to do those things too - maybe consciously, maybe not. I feel like that process made me different though. I have genuinely changed into someone far more capable technically, way more interested in super 'nerdy' things.

Anyway, I don't know what it means to think this through ego. I don't really get it.

But sunsets are nice - I like seeing them too. Yeah I suppose what I mean was that the commentary changed. Interesting that for you there's no commentary, I think I've felt like that before. Sometimes I feel like I just exist in a nice feeling - no words, nothing. Just experiencing. But that doesn't last very long, or it turns into something negative like boredom or something. Then I get up with a bad feeling lol

I think when I've read things I liked, it's because I was sort of writing when I was reading if that makes any sense. I know I'm stretching the meaning of the words a bit, but it feels to me like whenever I've read words that I've written and don't really feel what I'm talking about, it's because I'm a different person now and so the words aren't really my own.

But as I'm writing, the words are full of meaning, to just me, and I'm really saying something honest that I know is honest. After a while though, they seem dead.

So I write all the time (literally, and all over the place too) and I don't really care to share it because the words I've written aren't even all that impressive to me - it's more how I feel about the words I'm writing.

Or maybe I'm just saying that. I feel like when people say (share with others) that they think something, it's actually just a ploy to trick themselves into thinking that way - because being the person that would genuinely think that way is an attractive thing for them.

What can I say.

Now I don't have a story in which I live on.

Lately, I've had this intuition that we change by sort of tricking ourselves. The mechanism for that change is by settling on like this one kind of character, like someone out of a movie that’s playing in your head, and acting like that person. Then, as time passes, we simply forget who we were before we started acting and the only way we know how to act is as this one character.

You say you've lost your 'story' and your 'character', that you don't 'act' anymore.

But, it just feels like you've made another story and another character for you to fit into. You've got a new aesthetic, a new ideal, and your appreciating sunsets and nature is another thing you do because that's what the 'character' you try to fit would do.

And by acting like that person in your head would, you start to feel the same way too.

I think it's a lot more complicated than how I'm thinking. But I really do have a strong intuition that people feel the way they think the person they're acting like should feel, when physical feelings are non-factors.

Really, I don't actually know. Like, what we actually do and what we say we do; what we actually think and what we say we think. What we say we do and think feel like things we're saying to trick ourselves into doing and thinking those things. That's I guess the core of my intuition.

It takes a lot of time and effort to decide how to best explain something. Thank you, this was a wonderful read!

Wonderful website. Kudos to the developer!

Unrelated to your current comment, but you mentioned "I let promises of being a millionaire working for a start-up drive me to eating shit for well over ten years...All it cost me was the prime of my life..." [1]

I'm in college and looking to work for a startup when I graduate. I want experience, I want to learn about what building a company is really like - because I have ambitions of starting my own. Your comment felt to me very raw and real, and I'd love to talk more about your experiences working for startups.

And if these comment threads are insufficient, please feel free to contact me at ruchirkavulli[at]gmail[.]com

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39022547

Interesting article, I enjoyed following along - but I do hate the parentheses lol

What a wonderful story, thank you for sharing.

So there will be some key given to the database. And the key either gets results from the right branch or the left (at decision points, as opposed to leaves which would be the result itself). But if you hardcode the branching condition to be something like a greater than or less than, it's not very useful in finding the best result for the key.

But if you have a probabilistic setup, then the key has some chance of retrieving data from the right and from the left. Then we have {expected goodness = p * f(right) + (1 - p) * f(left)}.

Where f is some objective function that tells us the 'goodness' of the resulting data the key got from going right or left. If you differentiate the expected goodness with respect to p you get f(right) - f(left). Which is how much the expected goodness will change if I increase the probability of going right.

Suppose the derivative f(right) - f(left) was positive, so going right was better than going left, then I can write some script to change p positively so that next time when I get that key the probability of going right is higher. That way we can optimize p for given keys.

Very interesting! I hope I got everything right; where I couldn't understand, I used gpt to help me out (when it told me f was a 'goodness' function, I had a breakthrough lol). The discrete way feels like clean, understandable logic while the probabilistic way with changing p values feels really messy, but I can see intuitively why the latter gives better results.

My university recently discovered a covid outbreak at my freshman dorm by testing the wastewater; that was the first I heard about the technique. It's especially effective for this use case: "Traces of SARS-CoV-2 can show up in an infected person’s feces days before any symptoms are detected, and even when a person ultimately shows no symptoms at all." [1]

[1] https://adminvc.ucla.edu/expanded-wastewater-testing-program....

I'm working on a private social media app for (me and my) friends who workout together. Making a beta version of the app with flutterflow (low-code, bit buggy) to see if it is what I think it is.

I wish all explanations made complicated concepts this manageable!

the simplest way to differentiate most discrete objects (like database insertions) is to insert them probabilistically and apply your derivatives/slopes to the likelihood of the insertion succeeding.

I hope it wouldn't trouble you to go a bit further with this idea? Namely, the idea of differentiating an object or database insertion sounds like it shouldn't be structurally possible.

And why would there be a probability function for a db insertion succeeding? How could it fail - if the db was full or if there are too many requests?

I'm astonished that it works! To my understanding, the 128GB has specifications for how to "talk" to it on its datasheet and same with the 1TB. Do they have the same manufacturer for them to have the same pinout?

And, how come they're the same size lol. Intuitively, I'd expect the 1TB to be way bigger.

This is so damn interesting. I've downloaded the github files, but it's all going way over my head. I would greatly appreciate anyone with domain expertise giving me the one-two on getting my own model up and running.

Me too, 3 months ago in California.