thatthatis (u/thatthatis)

thatthatis commented on The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering philschmid.de/context-eng... · Posted by u/robotswantdata

thatthatis · 2 months ago

Glad we have a name for this. I had been calling it “context shaping” in my head for a bit now.

I think good context engineering will be one of the most important pieces of the tooling that will turn “raw model power” into incredible outcomes.

Model power is one thing, model power plus the tools to use it will be quite another.

thatthatis commented on IT Without Software ndt.instedd.org/2010/05/i... · Posted by u/hwayne

nditada · 4 years ago

Hi! author here, funny to read this 11 years after! I'd be happy to provide more details. You can mail me at my username @ domain of the post.

And yes, the title was awful simonw!

thatthatis · 4 years ago

How does the encoding work? Did you write up the algorithm separately?

thatthatis commented on British right to repair law excludes smartphones and computers 9to5mac.com/2021/07/01/br... · Posted by u/sidcool

aeorgnoieang · 4 years ago

I can understand (in a very vague, general sense) why spare parts might be relatively expensive – it's probably fairly expensive to make, store, and maintain a distribution network for the parts, i.e. the price isn't just for the price of the part, but the entire system (e.g. customer support) to send it to a customer in response to their request. I'm _sure_ there's also an 'original manufacturer' premium too, and maybe that _is_ in fact most of the difference compared to 'unbranded compatible' parts.

thatthatis · 4 years ago

Spare parts are expensive because they’re priced to willingness to pay which is usually “if it’s significantly less to repair than replace, repair”. $100 part + $200 labor is cheaper than a new $500 machine. Repair let’s tend to have much much higher margin for manufacturers than the original machine.

thatthatis commented on Ask HN: You have one shot to redesign the Internet – what do you change? · Posted by u/lowercasename

thatthatis · 4 years ago

Email. Cold email costs $0.01 per message per address to send.

How we distinguish warm va cold, idk

thatthatis commented on Twilio, Asana to List on Long Term Stock Exchange wsj.com/articles/twilio-a... · Posted by u/rayshan

eries · 4 years ago

Founder/CEO of LTSE here. Happy to answer questions if anyone wants to know more, AMA

thatthatis · 4 years ago

What’s the deal with captable.io transitioning from “a public service for every startup to safeguard their equity from day one” to basically the same price model as carta?

Why weren’t legacy companies given grandfathered pricing?

thatthatis commented on Amazon is filled with fake reviews and it’s getting harder to spot them cnbc.com/2020/09/06/amazo... · Posted by u/admiralspoo

jsmith99 · 5 years ago

> I'd like to know how it's possible for third-party sites such as https://www.fakespot.com to more effectively identify fake Amazon reviews while Amazon (with presumably better data) fails so miserably.

Maybe they can't? Fakespot authoritatively scores reviews but is there evidence that they are accurate? Anecdotally, there are many claims that the results aren't perfect, such as poor scores on a product where the seller knows there are no fake reviews. As a buyer the results on similar, shortlisted, products often seem a bit random compared to my judgement from reading the reviews carefully. Also, without knowing what reviews are identified and removed by amazon themselves we don't have much to compare it to.

thatthatis · 5 years ago

I can confirm. My company is a top 2,000 amazon seller (top 0.1%) and we’ve never bought or incentivized a single review. Our fake spot grade is “B” with some products getting “A” and others “D.”

Most recently amazon changed their review gathering algorithm in a way that increases the percent of customers who leave reviews. The acceleration in our review velocity is flagged by fakespot as suspicious.

thatthatis commented on Indie.vc: Unicorns Are Out, Profits Are In marker.medium.com/indie-v... · Posted by u/BobbyH

loceng · 5 years ago

Does anyone know a VC similar to Indie however that doesn't convert to equity if more funding occurs from another party? Give me $100k and sure I'll pay you back $300k, however let me use that $100k to see how much more valuable I can make my company and therefore leverage its new metrics including revenues.

These current models don't only want the icing (their returns on initial investment) but they want to eat their cake too; they're currently doing this because they can get away with it because their current competition, traditional VCs, is far worse - but once a new competitor comes in that only wants the icing but not the cake from the transaction, they'll lose out on potentially a lot of this deal flow.

thatthatis · 5 years ago

https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/19/who-are-the-major-revenue-...

thatthatis commented on How We Solved the Worst Minigame in Zelda's History [video] youtube.com/watch?v=1hs45... · Posted by u/sabas123

Agent766 · 5 years ago

Usually external tools like this wouldn't be allowed, but the community decided on allowing it because the minigame is so brutal. It's pure RNG and I've seen runs lose 15 minutes to it. This tool removes the random element from it and makes the total run time better reflect a player's skill rather than just their luck.

thatthatis · 5 years ago

Why not just agree that speed runs exclude the time between minigame start and minigame end, vs allowing an external tool?

thatthatis commented on Mark Cuban says bailed out companies should never be allowed to buy back stocks cnbc.com/2020/03/18/mark-... · Posted by u/electrum

lavezza · 5 years ago

Companies used to take their profits and either invest in R&D/Capital if they were trying to grow, or give dividends if they were mature. But once C-level compensation became focused on stock options, top management have an incentive to increase the stock price over other concerns. If a company spends every dollar of profit (or cheap loans) on buybacks, they aren't spending money on things that will sustain the business long term like R&D, having funds to weather a downturn, etc. Not that every buyback is a problem. Apple has done buybacks because they felt there stock was the best place to invest their money. It's not like they blew through their cash account just to boost the price.

thatthatis · 5 years ago

Also, stock buybacks don’t incur capital gains tax until the appreciated stock is sold. Dividends are taxed when issued.

Maybe there’s an effect of executive compensation, but the standard narrative on buybacks is tax avoidance

thatthatis commented on The Lesson to Unlearn paulgraham.com/lesson.htm... · Posted by u/adunk

thatthatis · 6 years ago

I always shot for a “B+” in college. My logic was that in 5 years I’d remember the content at a B+ level, and any incremental effort was better spent socializing or building student organizations.