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Love Your Enemies

Based Meditations • 19 implied HN points • 29 Sep 23
📖 Philosophy Perspective Human nature Morality Conflict Nature
  1. Enemies are not just human-made, but also a fundamental force of nature due to competition for survival and resources.
  2. Embracing and understanding enemies can lead to personal growth and motivation, culminating in greatness.
  3. Conflict and competition, even with enemies, can lead to creativity, abundance, and mutualistic relationships, showcasing the importance of both love and hate in life.

The case for RAMP - A visual summary

Algorithmic Frontiers // Antonio Max • 19 implied HN points • 31 Jul 23
🕹 Technology Enforcement Regulation AI
  1. RAMP is a global compliance instrument for AI, delivering technical and normative resources efficiently.
  2. RAMP stands at a unique position in the AI lifecycle, seamlessly integrating with current AI technology.
  3. RAMP offers unparalleled features compared to other AI regulatory instruments, introducing logical governance to AI products and services.
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Speech to Text AI - the best apps, free tools, and APIs

Mythical AI • 19 implied HN points • 10 Mar 23
🕹 Technology Apps Tools APIs Open Source AI
  1. The post covers the best speech to text apps you can try today like Apple Dictation, Otter.ai, and Descript.
  2. It provides an overview of free open-source speech to text models you can use, like Whisper and Vosk.
  3. The post also lists paid speech to text APIs, such as Deepgram, AssemblyAI, and Google Speech-to-Text, with their pricing and features.

Please knock on your local college's door...

mainstreetjournal • 19 implied HN points • 13 Mar 23
💼 Business Education Economic Development Entrepreneurship
  1. Bard College is launching a Global Certificate in Social Enterprise and Leading Change to help colleges deliver a world-class curriculum.
  2. The program focuses on local entrepreneurship to meet urgent community needs, avoiding wasteful subsidies and global investment schemes.
  3. They are seeking college teachers interested in participating in this program and welcome partnerships with organizations committed to local investment.

Killer Frequency

Have You Played? • 19 implied HN points • 04 Jul 23
🕹 Technology VR Gaming Immersive experiences Console gaming
  1. The game Killer Frequency is a first-person horror adventure where you play a DJ helping people escape a serial killer.
  2. The puzzles in the game vary in difficulty from easy to ambiguous solutions, impacting the gameplay experience.
  3. VR can enhance immersion in games like Killer Frequency but may also have drawbacks like discomfort and scariness.

Hey Siri, Meet ChatGPT.

aidaily • 19 implied HN points • 22 May 23
🕹 Technology Apps AI Chatbots AI
  1. Google is enhancing ads and assisting YouTube creators with new AI models.
  2. StableStudio is bringing stability to AI with their Stable Diffusion solution.
  3. OpenAI introduced the ChatGPT app for iOS, offering a conversational AI experience.

TechLetters #124 - Generative-AI for ads approaching. Dwell time goes down.

Lukasz Olejnik on Cyber, Privacy and Tech Policy Critique • 19 implied HN points • 24 Apr 23
🕹 Technology Cybersecurity Cryptography AI Disinformation Security
  1. Google plans to use generative AI for dynamic ads, raising concerns about transparency and data protection.
  2. New cryptographic standards are compared to a jigsaw puzzle, emphasizing the complexity and precision required.
  3. The EU is establishing a 'cyber solidarity' reserve to address cybersecurity threats, with a focus on supporting countries like Ukraine.

How To Estimate An Engineering Project (Or Really Any Project)

Throwable • 19 implied HN points • 03 Sep 23
🕹 Technology Engineering Team Collaboration Uncertainty
  1. Estimating projects is not impossible, but relies on understanding uncertainties and mapping outcomes to a distribution curve.
  2. Providing project estimates as a range with an error rate is a more accurate way than giving a specific date.
  3. Reducing uncertainty in a project can help narrow the estimate range and improve predictability of outcomes.

The Cost of Poor Performers

Build To Scale • 19 implied HN points • 21 Aug 23
💼 Business Performance Management Feedback Recruitment Culture
  1. Quickly addressing poor performance is crucial for building a strong performance culture in a company.
  2. Identifying and managing poor performers is essential, especially in fast-growing organizations to maintain a high-performance environment.
  3. Giving clear feedback, setting expectations, and making decisions about poor performers promptly can lead to increased productivity and a stronger team.

Must Learn KQL Part 10: The Count Operator

Rod’s Blog • 19 implied HN points • 31 May 23
🕹 Technology Data Analysis
  1. Using the count operator in KQL can help understand the overall impact of a situation by providing the exact number of occurrences of a specific event or data in a table.
  2. The count operator syntax is simple, with just the table name followed by the count operator, making it easy to implement in queries.
  3. Adding the count operator to queries can significantly enhance their impact by providing summarized, relevant data instead of rows of information to manually sift through.

Why You’re Missing The Point Of Analytics

Three Data Point Thursday • 19 implied HN points • 05 Oct 23
🕹 Technology Data Storage Data Analytics Data Management Data products
  1. Analytics and Business Intelligence are about turning data into actionable insights, not just analyzing historical data.
  2. Separating data into 'hot' and 'cold' categories can lead to cost savings and less complexity in data management.
  3. Be cautious of the term 'data product' as it can have different meanings to different people, and ensure clarity in hiring, marketing, and tool usage.

Both a borrower and a lender being?

The Jolly Contrarian • 19 implied HN points • 17 Jun 23
💰 Finance Debt Contracts
  1. Debt securities involve complex processes with multiple bureaucratic steps before they are issued in the market.
  2. If an issuer holds their own promissory note, the debt might be considered non-existent due to the concept of merger.
  3. Bearer instruments lack a history, leading to unique challenges in determining debt continuity and the involvement of clearing systems adds layers of complexity to debt transactions.

Payment of the Seas

Money in Transit • 19 implied HN points • 14 Aug 23
💰 Finance Payments Credit Cards
  1. Credit cards offer flexibility in payment not provided by cash or checks.
  2. Card transactions go through initialization, authorization, and capture stages for security and efficiency.
  3. Companies like Visa and Mastercard simplify transactions by connecting merchants with various banks.

Taptive's 18 Month Progress Report

Grant's Writing • 19 implied HN points • 07 Jul 23
💼 Business Community Engagement
  1. Taptive partners with organizations to teach community members how to write online through cohort-based programs
  2. In the past 18 months, Taptive has worked with over 20 organizations, ran 35 programs, and helped publish 1,800 essays
  3. Taptive's future goals are to improve the cohort experience, partner with more organizations, and grow their team

Transmission line explorations

Only Wonder Knows • 19 implied HN points • 06 Oct 23
🕹 Technology Manufacturing Materials PCB Design
  1. When designing for high speeds, it's important to investigate the terrain, understand the influencing factors, and make informed decisions.
  2. For differential transmission lines, attention to impedance match and signal attenuation is crucial for maintaining signal integrity.
  3. Factors like coupling effects, dielectric thickness, solder mask, copper thickness, and material choice all play key roles in high-speed design outcomes.

Cityscapes: Sim Builder

Have You Played? • 19 implied HN points • 20 Jun 23
🕹 Technology Game design Gaming Mobile
  1. Cityscapes: Sim Builder is a real-time simulation game where you build a city by placing blueprints for different types of buildings.
  2. The game lacks challenge due to easy money-making opportunities and simplified mechanics like no running costs for buildings.
  3. Cityscapes was initially designed as a free-to-play game monetized by selling in-game currency, but converted to Apple Arcade with a focus on time-based gameplay.

🤰🏽Mom-led startup action, exit trends, pivots, raises, top accelerators, funding, and more

Lolita's Newsletter • 19 implied HN points • 16 May 23
💼 Business Entrepreneurship Venture Capital Startups Funding Accelerators
  1. Moms in the United States control a significant portion of household purchases, showing impressive spending power.
  2. Mom founders like Jessica Alba, Melanie Perkins, Toyin Ajayi, and Whitney Wolf have achieved unicorn status with their startups.
  3. Supporting mom-led startups can lead to significant investments, high valuations, and successful exits.

Performance Tuning Snowpark For Identity Resolution On Snowflake

Sonal’s Newsletter • 19 implied HN points • 29 Jul 23
🕹 Technology Performance Tuning Data processing Database Management
  1. Performance tuning Snowpark on Snowflake can significantly reduce processing time, from half a day to half an hour.
  2. Utilizing the query profiler by Snowflake and making targeted optimizations can have a high impact on performance.
  3. Optimizations like converting UDTFs to UDFs, caching Dataframes, and using batch size annotations can further optimize Snowpark workflows.

The Fight Begins

Splattern • 19 implied HN points • 14 Sep 23
💼 Business Career development Project management Networking Work Culture
  1. The person has chosen to take on a challenging project at work instead of accepting a severance package. They see it as a chance to learn and grow.
  2. Feedback from both their boss and a senior engineer highlighted areas for improvement, making them realize they need to change their approach to work and learning.
  3. They are making a conscious effort to balance work and life, treating this project like a marathon where pacing and focus will help them succeed.

Why I don't like (some) smart devices

Fulton’s ramblings • 19 implied HN points • 03 Aug 23
🕹 Technology Data Privacy Consumer Tech Smart Devices Internet of Things Tech Trends
  1. Smart devices with practical uses enhance lives, like doorbells or thermostats.
  2. Be cautious of useless smart features that can lead to unnecessary data collection.
  3. Companies are adding non-essential smart features to products to charge extra and surveil users; consumers can push back by being selective in purchases and expressing opinions.

Free Money

The Odin Times • 19 implied HN points • 18 Jun 23
💼 Business Startups Taxation Investments
  1. SEIS and EIS schemes in the UK offer tax relief for investing in startups, making government schemes ideal for angel investors.
  2. Investors can get up to 50% of their investment back as tax relief, and pay no capital gains tax on profits, de-risking the investment.
  3. SEIS and EIS have driven growth in the UK startup ecosystem and helped make the UK an attractive country for angel investors.

How I Built This In Public: Luca Restagno

Build In Public Newsletter • 19 implied HN points • 11 Aug 23
💼 Business Marketing Community Motivation Entrepreneurship Startup
  1. Start your 'build in public' journey early to engage with your audience and get valuable feedback.
  2. Building in public can be energizing, provide introspection, and offer opportunities for collective learning.
  3. Overcome the fear of judgment and share your journey authentically to gain trust and reputation in the community.