wildermuthn

I have seen the failure of 4 tech startups from the inside. As I consider what startup to join next, I've reflected extensively on these failures. Rather than adhering to YC's dictum of "Make something people want,"…

A recent interview with the CTO of OpenAI, Greg Bockman, made a fascinating point: new technology is hard to predict (“imagine predicting Uber and smartphones in the 50s”). And yet good science fiction writers routinely…

With OpenAI's decision not to release the fully-trained model for their GPT-2 NLP model, some ambitious people have attempted to 1) build a similar dataset (40G of text), and 2) find funds to train the model (~$40,000).…

I've found a job that I like, and will keep for a while. So my startup ideas are useless to me. Here's one I like. I wonder why it hasn't been implemented yet. I'd like to pay for things with my phone. I call up Jimmy…

"Where will this end? Not in Topolsky's dystopian vision, but where all technology ends up — in the casual mundanity of everyday life as you pretty much know it, just one step removed. It ends with "honey, have you seen…