messenger is an absurdly popular app that keeps users in the platform and also increases the intensity of their usage, ultimately leading to more eyeballs, ads and revenue. If you look at it that way, relatively small features, and by association, improvements to the effectiveness of those features by a couple of SWEs each, gets you tons of business impact.
Alright but if it'd just let me open a damn web link without smashing the link four times just to open an in-app browser frame I'd really appreciate it.
FB finally got me with this. I refused to install any social media apps, but had to get messenger as I was missing important messages. So it's the only one I have.
When it launched we all talked about the serving/inference costs being massive. In hindsight if they had a paywall, it might not have self-imploded so fast, might have stayed aspirational, and they might have a profitable business today. Interesting case study.
Volts covers nuclear fairly often. Check the transcript history if you're genuinely interested. It's not a compelling story; solar and wind are _really_ cheap now, and our modeling and software is getting way better at accommodating them. Nuclear just isn't economical at all in comparison.
Does this actually need to be local? Since the chat bot is open to the public and I assume the course material used for RAG all on this page (https://canvas.illinois.edu/courses/54315/pages/exam-schedul...) all stays freely accessible - I clicked a few links without being a student - I assume a pre-prompted larger non-local LLM would outperform the local instance. Though, you can imagine an equivalent course with all of its content ACL-gated/'paywalled' could benefit from local RAG, I guess.
The Partner is the consultant. The 'recent grad' is just extra low-cost apprenticeship for the partner. The customer is (ridiculously over-) paying for the Partner's time and tolerating the apprentices that come along for the ride.
Exactly. This is an apartment complex with some so-so on-site retail situated on a light rail trunk line, just outside of a university and eventually downtown Phoenix. Reduced parking but still accessible to delivery drivers. In most other cities this would be just a 5-over-1.
Around these parts a lot of the affected laid off were the upper end of that equity range. Expensive long-timers or over-hires who aren't producing at the level they negotiated. I don't feel bad for them.
I just want to say, every one of your bullet points resonated with me - work hurdles, fatherhood, aging parents, societal ugliness. Let me be your clone and perhaps you can be mine - go take the sabbatical.
Because the fixed rate is based on treasurys and the inflation rate is based on inflation, they're essentially locked-in at zero truly real return. Which is not a bad 'floor' position for your portfolio!
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