>120 biolabs in over 30 countries And yet the only ones listed in detail are the ones in Ukraine, huh.
You should ask BigCo if they're only providing goods/services to their customers "for the money."
He did so well with Theranos
Now we're seeing more colon cancer in young people. All of the discussion is around factors that change slowly (diet, alcohol, exercise), no one I've heard has pointed out that a pathogen would explain a quick change.
Have always been fascinated with Paul Ewald's arguments (as laid out in his books The New Germ Theory of Disease and Evolution of Infectious Disease) that most chronic illnesses are due to pathogens.
This seems similar to the "let's just rebuild from scratch" impulse that has been tried so many times on very large complicated systems and often, although not always, fails.
I'm not arguing that layoffs lead to a death spiral. I'm arguing that if you're on a downward trajectory and your primary strategy is layoffs and cutting expenses, rather than investing, you're not going to recover.
Anyone have examples of companies that were in trouble and cut employees and spending heavily and that led them back to success? My personal experience with working for such companies is that it leads to a death spiral,…
My question is less about PDFs and more about the notion that all the facts needed for the RAG are in documents. In my experience just a fraction of the questions that might be useful exist in a document somewhere.…
The emphasis on PDFs for RAG seems like something out of the 1990s. Are there any good frameworks for using RAG if your company doesn't go around creating documents left and right? After all, the…
How do you know you're actually getting what you bought?
Quantum entanglement
Police in my city go to pretty much every protest and take video and photos (with big zoom lens) from the roofs of nearby buildings. It's always surprising to me that more people don't notice.
You're conflating outright fraud with a difference of scientific opinion?
Where are these numbers from? How does 5 million housing units from 2020-2023 (this was published in 2024) translate into "90K housing units" >The United States has added almost 5 million housing units since 2020, most…
>If you make them feel good, they’ll say yes. You could really generalize and say this is about relationships in general. If people leave interactions with you feeling good about themself, it will be a relationship they…
You think they all magically figured out they were overstaffed at the same time? It's 100% herd mentality. They're cutting because everyone else is cutting, just like they went on hiring sprees because everyone else was…
Reminds me of the famous Reagan "welfare queen" story about someone showing up in Cadillac to use their food stamps. Did it happen, probably. Is it widespread, it is representative of most people on food stamps. Of…
>But SQL is an old language with significant design problems, making it difficult to learn, difficult to use, and difficult to extend. It's difficult to learn and use? Compared to what? The "difficult to extend" might…
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What are you basing this assertion on? It was closed because of the pandemic. When that was over Allen had been dead for several years, his instructions had been to sell everything and give it to charity so that's what…
If the museum was open I'm sure it would have plenty of visitors and support. Can't visit a museum that isn't open. But the fact is that most museums rely, in least in part, on grants and benefactors in addition to…
It's not like there's a shortage of money for art museums or natural history museums, but we do seem to be closing museums (this one and previously the Boston one) detailing the history of one of the biggest innovations…
The dude was sick on and off for years, could have had an army of lawyers setting up these places to continue after him, and didn't bother. Don't blame his sister who was left this mess.
> but likelihood that any of your potential heirs is also interested in it That's not the issue, he set up the parts of his empire he cared about so they'd live on (Allen Institute for example) and instructed his sister…
>120 biolabs in over 30 countries And yet the only ones listed in detail are the ones in Ukraine, huh.
You should ask BigCo if they're only providing goods/services to their customers "for the money."
He did so well with Theranos
Now we're seeing more colon cancer in young people. All of the discussion is around factors that change slowly (diet, alcohol, exercise), no one I've heard has pointed out that a pathogen would explain a quick change.
Have always been fascinated with Paul Ewald's arguments (as laid out in his books The New Germ Theory of Disease and Evolution of Infectious Disease) that most chronic illnesses are due to pathogens.
This seems similar to the "let's just rebuild from scratch" impulse that has been tried so many times on very large complicated systems and often, although not always, fails.
I'm not arguing that layoffs lead to a death spiral. I'm arguing that if you're on a downward trajectory and your primary strategy is layoffs and cutting expenses, rather than investing, you're not going to recover.
Anyone have examples of companies that were in trouble and cut employees and spending heavily and that led them back to success? My personal experience with working for such companies is that it leads to a death spiral,…
My question is less about PDFs and more about the notion that all the facts needed for the RAG are in documents. In my experience just a fraction of the questions that might be useful exist in a document somewhere.…
The emphasis on PDFs for RAG seems like something out of the 1990s. Are there any good frameworks for using RAG if your company doesn't go around creating documents left and right? After all, the…
How do you know you're actually getting what you bought?
Quantum entanglement
Police in my city go to pretty much every protest and take video and photos (with big zoom lens) from the roofs of nearby buildings. It's always surprising to me that more people don't notice.
You're conflating outright fraud with a difference of scientific opinion?
Where are these numbers from? How does 5 million housing units from 2020-2023 (this was published in 2024) translate into "90K housing units" >The United States has added almost 5 million housing units since 2020, most…
>If you make them feel good, they’ll say yes. You could really generalize and say this is about relationships in general. If people leave interactions with you feeling good about themself, it will be a relationship they…
You think they all magically figured out they were overstaffed at the same time? It's 100% herd mentality. They're cutting because everyone else is cutting, just like they went on hiring sprees because everyone else was…
Reminds me of the famous Reagan "welfare queen" story about someone showing up in Cadillac to use their food stamps. Did it happen, probably. Is it widespread, it is representative of most people on food stamps. Of…
>But SQL is an old language with significant design problems, making it difficult to learn, difficult to use, and difficult to extend. It's difficult to learn and use? Compared to what? The "difficult to extend" might…
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What are you basing this assertion on? It was closed because of the pandemic. When that was over Allen had been dead for several years, his instructions had been to sell everything and give it to charity so that's what…
If the museum was open I'm sure it would have plenty of visitors and support. Can't visit a museum that isn't open. But the fact is that most museums rely, in least in part, on grants and benefactors in addition to…
It's not like there's a shortage of money for art museums or natural history museums, but we do seem to be closing museums (this one and previously the Boston one) detailing the history of one of the biggest innovations…
The dude was sick on and off for years, could have had an army of lawyers setting up these places to continue after him, and didn't bother. Don't blame his sister who was left this mess.
> but likelihood that any of your potential heirs is also interested in it That's not the issue, he set up the parts of his empire he cared about so they'd live on (Allen Institute for example) and instructed his sister…