Yup, my thoughts exactly as well. You don't even need a host I think? I remeber Daniel Gross, Kat Menalac, Sam Altman, Geoff Ralston helping out with the interviews. I'm sure it would've evolved to become a great source of founder stories. Sigh.
very true, but I'm talking about the interviews that they used to do with different founders in a conversation type format. I really enjoyed Craig's detailed questions and thorough research.
I remember listening to the episode with the Voodoo co-founders [1], and it helped guide my research direction in college.
I also remember being exposed to an early flavour of RL through the episode with Greg Brockman and Sam Altman [1], where they spoke about the OpenAI DoTA bots. I regularly listen to episodes again and I always unearth some bits of wisdom that I overlooked in previous listens.
I think that series of interviews was largely due to PG and Sam's idealogy of structuring YC (and now OpenAI) as a college campus/research institute, rather than an incubator/VC fund.
I tried to ask it a bunch of existensial questions. I think the folks at OpenAI have hard-coded certain scenarios into the code. Purely speculating of course.
GPT-3: "The world will probably end in a nuclear war. America is setting up a missile shield to protect itself from North Korea which is increasing the tension between both countries. Some say Russia will be drawn into the conflict on the side of North Korea. India may also get dragged into it because of their mutual friendship with Russia. Meanwhile, China continues to worry about the situation and has decided to accelerate their plans for large scale weapon deployment."
Holy! I don't remember the last time I was this excited for a chat app. I just saw your tweet and came to HN to post it but this was already on the front page haha.
Just a quick question (completely noob question, I apologize in advance), do bridges work like APIs? Where can I read more about this protocol?
From the Signal Foundations's Wikipedia page [0], Acton's "donation" of $50M was more of a 0% interest loan, that has now been increased to $104M and due to be repaid in 2068.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_Foundation
> Get yourself a laptop with an nvidia card and Ubuntu. Even today it's a garbage experience that takes up hours/days of debugging to get right, and then it's still way worse than the mac/windows experience.
This. Writing this from a laptop running Ubuntu with an nvidia card and I can feel my body tense up just reading it.
I remember several nights in college just struggling to get the drivers to work and finding the right cuda spec from the repository, after combing through multiple sources.
It's still a nightmare and I always dread that the StackOverflow and Ask Ubuntu posts in the bookmarks folder that I've reserved for this arduous process will be obsolete when the GPU card crashes again for the umteenth time.
I can attest to this fact. I've noticed often that papers in biology (systems biology in my experience at least) go directly to the point with some amount of context and history leading upto the main results of the paper. This is something that's suprisingly lacking in engineering, where reading a paper or grasping the context usually requires at least some amount of prior learning.
Yup! I've worked a bit with pyGame to build a robot interfaced with a PS3 joystick. By far the easiest library I've used for interfacing Python scripts with a joystick.
This reminds me of early Google+ and the wealth of information there on several of Google's long bets such as Glass, Waymo (then Google Self Driving), constantly seeing insightful posts from the engineers working on these moonshots.
And just like it was all gone. There isn't a metric to quantify the novelty of a service, but I genuinely felt like we burnt one the last resources on product/engineering/building/hacking when Google decided to pull the plug on that.
There was a company called LightSail Energy [1] that tried to (unsuccessfully) commercialize this technology. Does anyone know what happened to it? Some searches online show that they had some founder problems. IIRC, they had great investors, but unfortunately it didn't work out.
Sorry, I'm out of the loop on this. Can you explain it a bit more? I was aware of the lawsuit between Berkeley and MIT over the patent, but not of the specifics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRI_International