It’s weird how often business will have a contra ask you for a particularly constructed half-truth, which you then provide and the contra accepts, thankful that you were not the unacceptable idiot that would drag things out by trying to describe the full truth.
@patio11
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Hacking Non-Technical Systems: Immigration Status State Machine
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(For a number of years I thought “If I ever have to answer YC’s question about hacking a non-technical system I will pull out the published specs for the state machine that is Japanese immigration statuses and show how Bingo Card Creator satisfies all three prongs of the test.”)
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Sophisticated LLM User Preferences and Interaction Guidelines
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I’m not the world’s most sophisticated user but happy to share: Unless instructed otherwise, write as a capable, diligent advisor to a very sophisticated client. I am aware you are an LLM, am sophisticated regarding your limitations, and prefer you to avoid hedging. Prefer
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Sales Rep Confidence Intervals AI Predictions
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(The sales rep would not put a confidence interval on it. Probably.)
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Recovering from surprise, recalling expertise statement in user instructions
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After recovering from the surprise, I remembered that I had a brief statement about expertise and appropriate levels of detail in my user instructions.
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ChatGPT provides surprising exercise advice recommendations
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Asking ChatGPT for exercise advice and, after the usual fairly anodyne bulleted list of not-too-much-alpha, got something which surprised me:
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Real Estate Analytics: From Manual Studies to SQL-Powered Insights
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You wonder what anybody with just a bit of verve plus any source of good trip data could do in e.g. real estate. A while ago traffic studies were $$$ and their results archived for decades and poured over manually. Now you can get a map arbitrarily colored at the speed of SQL.
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FAA conservative approach to novel aviation technology regulation
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FAA is an extremely conservative regulator and generally takes the position that anything novel which cannot be proven to not interfere with flight systems is presumptively a threat to flight systems. This exists in some tension with other goals we have for flight infrastructure
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Cost efficiency in AI: scalability as business imperative
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Overwhelmingly “Eat it as a cost of doing business at most relevant margins; unless it is scaled it isn’t worth the cost of human attention. However, if it is scaled it is another thing entirely.”
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Balancing Fraud Prevention with User Transparency and Enforcement
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This involves solving for competing interests, attempting to increase the legibility of the systems to users, minimizing cost of enforcement actions, dealing with the reality that fraud is a cause of many but not all disputes and some people are as honest as their options, etc.