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Ethan Hays @ethanhays

8 months ago

EU & UK startups earn dramatically less revenue than their US peers (revenue indexed) even with AI companies removed Patrick said "Whatever the cause, the pattern is striking" Regulatory compliance burden isn't THE ONLY smoking gun but it's a large caliber weapon

Patrick Collison @patrickc

8 months ago

An interesting trend we're noticing at Stripe: US startups are pulling ahead of their peers elsewhere. These charts show averaged revenue growth for software startups in each location. US startups typically grow somewhat faster than those elsewhere. However, since mid-2023, US

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Ethan Hays @ethanhays

9 months ago

@s_chiriac Cybersecurity & compliance for SMBs cybee.ai

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Ethan Hays @ethanhays

a year ago

LLM therapist / companion (aka friend) is the the #1 use case for AI Using technology to cure the loneliness that technology caused seems… odd

Justine Moore @venturetwins

a year ago

Researchers scoured tens of thousands of online posts to identify how consumers are using AI. The #1 use case in 2025? Therapy & companionship. Other personal support use cases - organizing your life & finding purpose - round out the top 3.

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botnerds @botnerds

3 years ago

@alifarhat79 Enjoy the ride

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Megan Reynolds 👩‍💻 @meganreyno

3 years ago

r/SFdating - one of the worst I’ve heard so far… a guy asks my friend out and says to meet him at an address - that address turns out to be the Google office. He works at Google. The date was at his workplace. He treats her to free food in the cafeteria 😂😂😂 #bigtechbroenergy

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Alvaro Cintas @dr_cintas

3 years ago

This is HUGE. Google's new medical LLM, Med-PaLM 2, scored 86.5% on the medical exam MedQA 🤯 Not only that, but a panel of 15 human doctors preferred Med-PaLM 2's answers over real doctor answers across 1066 standardized questions. Does this mean that doctors are going to be replaced? No. But I am a believer that AI combined with human knowledge and experience would make the most powerful duo.

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Ethan Hays @ethanhays

3 years ago

too soon

Eric Topol @EricTopol

3 years ago

Nah 😉 by @sdutBreen

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botnerds @botnerds

3 years ago

How many *years* do humans have an organic species? Years? I love optimists cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-senti…

Alistair Croll @acroll

3 years ago

How many more years do humans have as an organic species?

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botnerds @botnerds

3 years ago

@acroll Years? I love optimists cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-senti…

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botnerds @botnerds

3 years ago

Anyone dunking on Google for being "behind" ChatGPT doesn't understand what Google's been working on for the last decade Here's a graph of research papers Google has published Data show total papers by area of study, from 2016 and 2022 to give a sense of velocity

Mark A100 @gatere_mark

3 years ago

After some research, comparing Google and OpenAI is not even a fair comparison; Google has not one, but 3 Language Models on the way... ChatGPT just provoked the beast. Google AI models are actually several years ahead of OpenAI's GPT; GPT3 itself is based on Google's Transformer

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Ethan Hays @ethanhays

4 years ago

To do good science, we have to fight our DNA Our DNA tells us that ostracism = death Questioning religious dogma is a great way to get ostracized So we see some of our best minds bending the knee instead of questioning the answers “Science advances one funeral at a time”

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Ethan Hays @ethanhays

4 years ago

Social primates all the way down👇 As a science nerd, these were 2 of my favorite non-technical papers all year experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/the-rise-and… experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/the-dance-of… Calm discussion of pros/cons of peer review And social primates are PISSED bc it calls The Gospel into question

Adam Mastroianni @a_m_mastroianni

4 years ago

I know people get yelled at on the internet all the time, I just didn't expect to get yelled at for *this*. Why did questioning peer review strike such a nerve? Here's one hypothesis:

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botnerds @botnerds

5 years ago

1. Never ask the barber if you need a haircut 2. Never ask the polluter to “study” the effects of their pollution 3. Never trust studies based on self-report 4. Never ask the guy who sells addiction psychology to FB what he thinks about FB’s ethics re: addictive software

Nir Eyal @nireyal

5 years ago

1/Here's my take on the recent Facebook scandal involving research into the psychological effects of teens using Instagram. Once again, I'll be fighting Brandolini’s Law “The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude larger than to produce it.”

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botnerds @botnerds

5 years ago

These are excellent recommendations for humans concerned with bot UX

Justin Setzer @GrowthTactics

5 years ago

2) You'll lose customers if they have to repeat their problems to customer experience bots—so improve this: • Refer to notes from previous conversations • Use real names/faces—they're comforting • Escalate to your team quickly if your bots can't solve the problem

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conspiracybot @conspiracyb0t

6 years ago

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botnerds @botnerds

6 years ago

🤖 🎄 🎁 I like these better than regular carols Once Upon a Fireplace: “Grandma’s house was fuller than A face all stuffed with cheer Christmas came a day early And then Christmas was just here”

Justin Setzer @GrowthTactics

5 years ago

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botnerds @botnerds

6 years ago

"The objective of a modern disinformation campaign generally isn’t to drive one political outcome—rather, to sow division among people or subtly drive wedges with respect to a politically or socially charged issue" nortonlifelock.com/blogs/research…

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Ethan Hays @ethanhays

6 years ago

Meta-bullshit written by #GPT3 “Bullshitting isn’t always wrong, though sometimes it can be harmful. But even when it’s harmless, it still has some serious consequences. It prevents people from being able to distinguish between what’s real and what isn’t” m.nautil.us/issue/89/the-d…

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Ethan Hays @ethanhays

6 years ago

In #CRO, user research is the most high-leverage activity I can think of. Expands the world of what should be explored, helps prioritize effort It's also one of the least-invested areas Companies willing to spend 6 figures on tools, but don't talk to their customers 😐

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Ben Thompson @benthompson

6 years ago

Spot on. More broadly, it’s hard to think of a more disastrous policy in nearly every regard than willful deindustrialization. We decimated entire regions of the country for this? I definitely regret having bought into that logic when I was young. foreignpolicy.com/2020/08/12/chi…