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Hemant Bhanoo
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Hemant Bhanoo
@hbhanoo
swe at zippin. dad. engineer. entrepreneur. tinkerer. meditator. Ex- amzn/goog/siyli/cmu
Corvallis, OR Katılım Nisan 2008
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@thevirdas Bravery isn't 'not being afraid.' It's being afraid and doing the thing anyway.
But either way your advice is solid.
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An iPad with a keyboard has been awesome because it actually is comfortable to use on my lap.
How strange:
Laptop computers usually sit on a desk.
Desktop computers usually sit /under/ a desk.
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Some languages have the best phrases for capturing complex feelings in a single word.
TIL: “Age-otori” pronounced (aah-gey-oh-toh-ree). A Japanese word that means “to look worse after a haircut”
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Just finished season 2 of Panchayat. Amazing writing and acting.
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Just finished "For Profit, A History of Corporations" by @profmagnuson
A remarkable recounting of the invention and use of corporations from the roman times for tax collection, British global conquest, railroads, multinational oil and onward.
A good read.
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Hm. It seems the IRS would be better off simplifying the tax rules rather than trying to write software to deal with overly complex rules.
Elizabeth Warren@ewarren
After years of fighting for this, I’m very happy that the IRS is getting ready to pilot a new free tax filing tool next year, which can save taxpayers an average of $140. And I’ve urged them to make it available to as many people as possible, as quickly as possible.
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IMO most investors wouldn't place too much value on getting the money back.
But they might value the honesty, and might be psyched to re-invest in the same founder working on another idea (this time hopefully wiser)
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Yes, and.
For every "should have stopped sooner" there's a "shouldn't have given up". To me the importbt question is if the founder was still having fun.
Gokul Rajaram@gokulr
Just spoke with a founder who's shutting down their company. Over the last few years, the company built a handful of products that people oohed and ahhed over (and professed love for, when asked for feedback), but very few people actually used daily or were willing to pay for. Founders: the difference between a "nice-to-have" and a "must-have" product is so tiny that if you don't realize or own it, you might end up spending years of your life building something that doesn't have the impact on the world you aim for. You owe it to your stakeholders (and to yourself) to be honest with yourself.
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For those of you (like me) who are overgrown kids and need books read to them:) , “Seeking Fortune Elsewhere” by @sindyabhanoo is now available as an audiobook. Some pronunciations are different from how I imagine them, but it's great! (Narration by @soneela)
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@dvassallo Pico-8 has been fun for my kids. Lots of source code you can browse.
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My 9yr old wants to start learning how to make computer games. I was making small games in C at his age, but I’d rather spare him the trauma :)
What’s the best tech nowadays for teaching kids to code a Tetris-like game while also learning some programming fundamentals?
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Eventually people will figure out that emotion-modulated learning and garbage-collection (forgetting) is basically how we work.
Jim Fan@DrJimFan
Google is hosting the first "Machine Unlearning" challenge. Yes you heard it right - it's the art of forgetting, an emergent research field. GPT-4 lobotomy is a type of machine unlearning. OpenAI tried for months to remove abilities it deems unethical or harmful, sometimes going a bit too far. Unlike deleting data from disk, deleting knowledge from AI models (without crippling other abilities) is much harder than adding. But it is useful and sometimes necessary: ▸ Reduce toxic/biased/NSFW contents ▸ Comply with privacy, copyright, and regulatory laws ▸ Hand control back to content creators - people can request to remove their contribution to the dataset after a model is trained ▸ Update stale knowledge as new scientific discoveries arrive Check out the machine unlearning challenge: ai.googleblog.com/2023/06/announ…
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Interesting. I have a similar dynamic with my wife. I guess we get vibes of different things and we mostly tend to be happier with decisions where we get each other's second opinion.
Paul Graham@paulg
My ability to judge character (which was never that great) has completely atrophied in the 20 years I've known Jessica. I just ask her.
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The algorithm should reward kindness. What social network does this?
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Buddha: observe reality as it is.
Apple: here’s an artificially generated augmented reality light bubble for you to be mindful in.
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Did you have a Danish Butter Cookie tin in your house growing up too? We did. nytimes.com/2023/06/06/mag…
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Bummed to be missing @upayazen Varela Symposium in person this year! Making do with zoom from the other side of the world.
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Wow. I listening people from different walks of life who are clear reflections of the sublime. Richard Feynman, Fred Rogers, etc. I got goosebumps watching this interview!
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