Great concept — definitely needed and will hopefully push the labs to improve design abilities of models!
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refrigerator commented on Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today · Posted by u/paraschopra
Amazing, congrats man!!
refrigerator commented on Should we use AI and LLMs for Christian apologetics? (2024) lukeplant.me.uk/blog/post... · Posted by u/hwayne
Somewhat related, I built a local llm fine tuned on some open published literature on metametaphysics via philpapers.org, and I was surprised at how well it would respond. I think that philosopher's tendency to overexplain every fine point is like the world's greatest prompt engineering (possible side gig for my underemployed philosophy bros).
Would love to chat to it — please publish online!
refrigerator commented on UK's hardware talent is being wasted josef.cn/blog/uk-talent... · Posted by u/sebg
This is spot on. All the smart and ambitious people I know who studied (non-software) Engineering at university in the UK have ended up going into software engineering via self-teaching or finance/consulting because the only hardware engineering career paths seem to be working for Rolls Royce in the middle of nowhere with terrible pay, or alternatively working at Jaguar Land Rover in the middle of nowhere with terrible pay
refrigerator commented on Tell HN: We (Causal) got acquired – thank you HN · Posted by u/refrigerator
Excellent, well done. Looking forward to hearing a discussion about this on your podcast! Might you go chase some other startup ideas? Does this "validate" the career model of creating something new, for you? Or would you not do it again?
Thanks! Definitely keen to start something again eventually, but in no rush right now :)
refrigerator commented on Tell HN: We (Causal) got acquired – thank you HN · Posted by u/refrigerator
Congratulations Taimur! I started following you from your pod with your brother and was super interested in your foray into tech with a math background. It's great to see Causal take off over the years.
These damn math folks are out here trying to make everything multi- dimensional
Thanks man!
refrigerator commented on Tell HN: We (Causal) got acquired – thank you HN · Posted by u/refrigerator
Congrats!
Do you think the US flip made a meaningful difference (presuming you did it for US customer/investor access)? Lucanet is EU, so maybe it complicated it in the end
We started as a US company in 2019 to make fundraising easier, and I think this did have a material impact. It's operationally quite annoying, but chances are that we would have had to do it eventually, to efficiently employ US people without paying Deel extortionate fees
refrigerator commented on Tell HN: We (Causal) got acquired – thank you HN · Posted by u/refrigerator
Did you pursue the acquisition? Or better phrased, was the company sold by you, or was it bought by Lucanet?
Lucanet approached us a few months ago, we were open to taking a couple of meetings to learn more, and they sold us on the acquisition pretty well