lewismenelaws (u/lewismenelaws)

lewismenelaws commented on Grokipedia by xAI grokipedia.com... · Posted by u/thsName

Looking up the Republican Party "controversies" vs the Democratic Party "controversies" should let you know exactly what this projects intentions are.

That being said, my biggest issue with it is how Grok is writing everything. It's like it is trying REALLY hard to be neutral but it's conversational training slips up and starts "spicing" things up a little. For example on Elon's article:

"...at age 12 in 1983, developing a space-themed video game called Blastar, which he sold to PC and Office Technology magazine for approximately $500. *This early entrepreneurial act foreshadowed Musk's later pursuits in technology and business*."

Sentences like that are designed to subtly bring emotion to certain topics.

lewismenelaws commented on Open Sauce is a confoundingly brilliant Bay Area event jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/rbanffy

kortilla · 5 months ago

It’s emotionally immature to couple these things together. Would you refuse to board a plane if you knew the pilot attended pro-life protests? Would you go around telling other people in the boarding line this “FYI”?

lewismenelaws · 5 months ago

This is a false equivalence. You don’t choose your pilot. You choose your airline company. If your airline company voiced there views on a certain topic you disagree with, we have the liberty to choose where we put our dollar (or attention).

For others who share your same views, they might want to hear this in case they are unaware. Freedom of the market.

lewismenelaws commented on Notion Mail notion.so/product/mail... · Posted by u/taylorlapeyre

lewismenelaws · a year ago

I've been using Superhuman for a while now and something I can't find in any email client is speed.

Knowing how Notion is, I hope it isn't slow to use.

lewismenelaws commented on Stolen masterpieces that are still missing thecollector.com/stolen-m... · Posted by u/Tomte

lewismenelaws · 2 years ago

The whole concept of art gaining perceived value after it's stolen is interesting to me.

If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend "Exit Through the Gift Shop" by Banksy that explores this concept. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqVXThss1z4

I wouldn't be surprised if most of these robberies are staged in an attempt to raise prices/launder money.

lewismenelaws commented on ReALM: Reference Resolution as Language Modeling arxiv.org/abs/2403.20329... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

dvt · 2 years ago

I'm very excited about work being done in this area. In fact, I'm working on a product that does exactly this (runs in the background, local LLM, has access to screen-space entities, can take certain actions). It feels pretty magical to use (here it's running on my 3090Ti; much slower but still serviceable on my M1 MBP): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH1noETdQEA

Currently using Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2, but working on a fine-tuning dataset which should make it work better with local applications interfaces (console, browser, email client, Slack, Discord, Word, Excel, etc.).

lewismenelaws · 2 years ago

Cool! How hard would it be for it to take actions do you think?

lewismenelaws commented on FDA clears first over-the-counter continuous glucose monitor fda.gov/news-events/press... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

cadr · 2 years ago

I just started with the G6 (still using it), and when I started I'd have that sometimes. Whatever they changed in the past year or so, it has gotten waaaaay better. (They would always replace them if they failed early, but was still a huge pain.) I'm exited to move to the G7 (mainly because of the shorter warmup time).

Also, pairing it with the Omnipod 5 is just next level. Closed loop. Never having to inject in public. No tubes.

lewismenelaws · 2 years ago

I have the G7 and it's incredible. On a medtronic pump... wanting to switch asap

lewismenelaws commented on The creator economy can't rely on Patreon joanwestenberg.com/blog/t... · Posted by u/Timothee

mrguyorama · 2 years ago

Okay, but I don't want to watch businesspeople, I want to watch what this person is making/doing/writing/etc! That's the whole point!

Patreon means I can just give them dollars for doing a good job, and they don't have to go get an associates degree in marketing to realize that sponsorships are lowballing them entire magnitudes.

I consider this infinitely better to a creator selling my attention, for pennies on the dollar compared to what a company would spend for equivalent advertising from a less exploitable cadre, to companies that are morally grey at BEST, often false advertising or literal scams like Established Titles in the norm.

lewismenelaws · 2 years ago

You're right! Creators often get short changed from deals like this. All I am saying is that my background has made this career decision for me easy to transition into while making sponsors sustainable.

I know lots of creators who get completely screwed on this front. I am sure the same could happen on Patreon.

lewismenelaws commented on The creator economy can't rely on Patreon joanwestenberg.com/blog/t... · Posted by u/Timothee

monkey_monkey · 2 years ago

500k subs and a very low level of actual views...

lewismenelaws · 2 years ago

Long form has been expirementation to see what works the last year or so. Shorts is how we grew a lot, long form still needs work but getting there!

lewismenelaws commented on The creator economy can't rely on Patreon joanwestenberg.com/blog/t... · Posted by u/Timothee

dotnet00 · 2 years ago

The incentive doesn't have to be meaningfully extra work though, many of the creators I follow just have the patreon incentive be stuff like getting access to videos a week early, getting access to a discord to hangout in or if they're streamers, having one of their streams each month limited to supporters.

But on top of that, I have never really thought much about the incentives anyway, I join the patreons/youtube memberships of the creators I really enjoy because I enjoy them. For the vast majority of them I don't even pay attention to if they're delivering on their incentives as long as their regular content continues to be enjoyable.

lewismenelaws · 2 years ago

Appreciate the insight. Something like this is something I have been debating and hearing this is great.

lewismenelaws commented on The creator economy can't rely on Patreon joanwestenberg.com/blog/t... · Posted by u/Timothee

JoshTriplett · 2 years ago

What does the typical sponsorship pay, and what factors does it scale with?

lewismenelaws · 2 years ago

It depends. I have a large following across short form platforms like TikTok and Instagram too. Usually for an integration (basically 1-2 minute ad) it ranges between 8-14k. For a short form video usually around the same.