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@IlyaAbyzov

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Co-founder growing stuff @goforward . Ex-Uber, ex-financier, ex-programmer, ex-comedian, expatriate.

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Joined April 2010
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@IlyaAbyzov
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A lesson in critical thinking I got in undergrad: Econ 1 prof hands us an article about airlines overbooking & offering money at the gate to bump passengers. Article argues we should ban this. Reasoning is that itโ€™s exploitative: poorer people overwhelmingly more likely to getโ€ฆ
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Lee Hepner
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The path to profitability for Uber and Lyft has always been about depressing wages for gig workers. If a company canโ€™t afford to pay their drivers a livable wage, maybe that company doesnโ€™t deserve to exist.
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@bvdahl I strongly believe theyโ€™re both win-win. In 1989, I immigrated to America with my parents from the Soviet Union. My dad was a doctor but had to take an entry-level job at a car dealership to help us get going, since we had no savings. Thought experiment: suppose Uber, Lyft,โ€ฆ
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Incredible story from #OpenAIDevDay : Someone wanted GPT to better mimic their unique writing style when producing things like blog posts. He laboriously exported two years of his Slack messages, post-processed them, and paid to do a custom fine-tuning of GPT3.5 to steer theโ€ฆ
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@SaintCrawford @andrewchen Iโ€™m a liberal too. Normalize being liberal and having common sense about economics and incentives!
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3 months
Thanks for the spirited debate, everyone. But I have to admit that I only made this post to trick milions of people into learning how to spell Ilya. I started the OpenAI board coup for the same reason.
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@halcyontweeter Obviously not, because the kids didnโ€™t choose to work there. Gig workers arenโ€™t children. Try again.
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@EBITDUUUH The behavior here isnโ€™t absolute: clearly you can be traveling for business and have enough slack in your schedule to get bumped. Or you can be destitute and flying to a funeral and totally unable to accept the bump fee. I donโ€™t think that changes the point?
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@MegaphonixMusic I donโ€™t own any shares of Uber. I do have an interest in wanting people to not shoot their own cities in the foot because they donโ€™t understand incentives.
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@EricHovagim @TurnerNovak Was I complicit in helping create UberX and giving millions of people an option to make money that they didnโ€™t have before? God I hope so. I think youโ€™re well-intentioned too and I believe people like you genuinely think youโ€™re helping. But youโ€™re disastrously wrong.
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@bvdahl I strongly believe theyโ€™re both win-win. In 1989, I immigrated to America with my parents from the Soviet Union. My dad was a doctor but had to take an entry-level job at a car dealership to help us get going, since we had no savings. Thought experiment: suppose Uber, Lyft,โ€ฆ
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@StyledApe Who wore it better?
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@kartographien Your 18 year old self, not knowing about NVDAโ€™s future stock splits: โ€œMeh. Kind of a mid IRR % tbhโ€
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Bio: I helped Uber scale from 70 to 7,000 people and launched P2P ridesharing Reality: I inherited some of the greatest product-market fit ever and did my best not to outright fuck it up
@GergelyOrosz
Gergely Orosz
2 years
Bio: โ€œI helped Uber scale from 4,000 to 32,000 employees globally.โ€ Reality: happened to work at Uber 2016-2020 and yeah managed teams and stuff but honesty just rode with the wave. Which is why I would never put the above bio on myself. Many others howeverโ€ฆ
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@EricWollberg Zeiss is a glass wrapper Glass is a sand wrapper Sand is an erosion wrapper Erosion is an entropy wrapper
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@EricHovagim @TurnerNovak Ah yes, taxis. The industry that famously provided great transportation at a fair price to lower-income folks without discrimination. Good day, Eric.
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Say what you will about @MrBeast , but the guy moves fast.
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@ruairiSpain If we banned the practice of overbooking across the airline industry, ticket prices would rise regardless of the number of competitors. Because marginal cost of filling a seat is so low, a monopolist airline would pick a price to maximize load factor and slightly overbook.
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@BobbyHollings Yes, that was me. I wanted to annoy you personally.
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@nathanfielder โ€œTime to buy a TVโ€ Iโ€™m not falling for that again, Nathan.
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The person below got a false positive from Claude on interpreting a brain MRI. I have a guess as to why that happened and why I think it could happen a lot. LLM vision models are trained off data sets that consist of images + caption of each image. Often those captions areโ€ฆ
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A friend sent me MRI brain scan results and I put it through Claude. No other AI would provide a diagnosis, Claude did. Claude found an aggressive tumour. The radiologist report came back clean. I annoyed the radiologists until they re-checked. They did so with 3โ€ฆ
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@carterhambley 2021: โ€œHave you been flossing?โ€ 2022: โ€œHave you avoided building an entire avian sanctuary inside your palace of teeth?โ€
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Inspired by @romainhuet 's text to speech demo at #OpenAIDevDay , here's a demo of a python script that sits in the background and makes fun of whatever you're doing on your desktop. Tired: enhance productivity by using GPT to solve problems Wired: enhance productivity by havingโ€ฆ
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That awkward moment where something gets launched as the project code name because no one can think of a better brand name, and then 9 years later itโ€™s an answer in the NYT crossword. Whoops.
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@DorianDevelops If itโ€™s good enough for Apple to run iMessages on, itโ€™s probably good enough for your B2B SaaS app. Shout-out to ~/Library/Messages/chat.db
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Rabbit R1 review: I donโ€™t know why this needs to exist or why I bought it. The setup process made me want to throw it through a window. But Iโ€™m excited people are building weird stuff and taking risks. Make hardware fun again.
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@wtfis2bdone Condolences to your students for having a prof who would rather dunk on people than make a cogent argument or teach them fundamental economic theory. But at least they'll learn *checks notes* "Spiritual warfare prayer as global praxis"
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@andrew__reed The reason Total Access ended up failing was because Blockbuster had been levered up for Icahn and couldnโ€™t sustain the cash burn (Netflix had no debt) + badass CEO (Antioco) left after a board fight and was replaced by a 7-11 retail exec who killed the program.
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@andrew__reed Except Blockbuster Total Access almost killed Netflix and the slide actually does kind of illustrate why - consumers preferred returning the discs in stores. Reed Hastings later said: โ€œYou had us in checkmateโ€, NFLX sub growth went to 0%. Read the book Netflixed for more ๐Ÿค“
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I saw my first CarePod at a maritime museum. Well, not a CarePod exactly. A ship's medicine chest from the 18th century. Imagine you're a British Navy sailor aboard a Man-of-War in the Napoleonic Wars. When you inevitably encounter scurvy, dysentery, or a regrettable run-inโ€ฆ
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@JustJettingThru I was going to come up with a clever rejoinder, but then I saw you were a Mets fan and all I felt in my heart was love and pity.
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@owencm The refusal rate seems unusually high, i.e. too many false negatives on the image prompt being harmful when it's not. Even for something super silly and basic, like "what do you see in this screenshot?" or "make fun of what I'm doing on my desktop" it would work 90% of the timeโ€ฆ
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@matthewstoller Yes, I do adopt that premise. That wasโ€ฆ the entire point of my post. Thanks for โ€œthis guyโ€-ing me while offering nothing of substance to refute the argument โœŒ๏ธ
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@reallyrlreviews @jaytatum0 It was a Freaky Friday type of situation. A warlock was involved. They donโ€™t like to talk about it and theyโ€™ll deny it if you ask them, but real fans know the truth.
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@schemathingz Um, literally a lie? Like, actual misinformation. Do you also think Zuck turns your mic on to listen to you talk about your shopping habits?
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Been a rough couple of years for my personal identity. โ€œIโ€™m Americanโ€ - Ok, a lot of people all over the world hate you โ€œWell, ethnically Iโ€™m Russianโ€ - Then even more people hate you โ€œโ€ฆa Russian Jew, that isโ€ - You are not going to believe this
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@burkov I mean, your prompt is heavily biasing it in the direction of saying this. The big difference is Bing was scraping Google whereas Google is just ingesting crap on the internet that was already made with GPT. Not their fault. Bardโ€™s weak but this is a bit disingenuous, no?
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@bryancsk Maybe Dโ€™Angelo is a wallfacer and thatโ€™s why he literally canโ€™t tell us a single thing about his motivations or reasoning.
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@andrewchen I heard that in Miami, Mayor Suarez swings by and drops off new clothes for you just because he was shopping in Wynwood and saw something he thought would be flattering on your figure.
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@GenerousLantern Fun story: at one point I was the interim GM of Uber Seattle. I was summoned to meet with someone on the transportation commission there. I sat down in his office. He plopped a giant book in front of me. It was "NIST Handbook 44: Specifications, Tolerances, and Other Technicalโ€ฆ
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Yo, there is a robot out there that stole 5,000 Budweisers and is drunk off its ass right now. cc @sweenzor @ottodrives
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@sama Wow, this is significantly better than a Google search for a whole range of questions.
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@Altimor I already wrote the post-mortem, didnโ€™t you see it when I sent it in the Slack DM thread with you, me, and five arbitrary people, arranged in a way that youโ€™ll never be able to find it again?
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Lord give me the confidence of the UberEats PM who shipped an alphabetical list of every Starbucks
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The way OpenAI folks feel about Sam is the same way early Uber folks felt about @travisk
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@quantian1 If Twitter existed in 1995, some finance or tech bro would have been tweeting this exact sentiment about Fen-Phen
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My housing plan would provide a tax credit that would give Americans $400 a month to put toward their mortgage when they buy their first home or trade up for a little more space. Thatโ€™s breathing room.
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LinkedIn is always like โ€œCongratulate Boog Aarselv on his new position as Chief Wizard Officer at Trashifyโ€ and youโ€™re like: who the hell is that, why are we connected, what the hell is that company, and how do I pour kerosene on this entire website and set it ablaze?
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@zackkanter @rabois_likes Agree /w point but worth separating the Uber innovation from the UberX innovation. For the first few years of black car-only Uber, we did interview drivers for professionalism. The original innovation was giving more work to drivers & fleets that would have otherwise been idle.
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Oh no, the Microsoft fast-follow just dropped :( I was just trying to build a model... @andrewchen
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@netcapgirl When you reimagine p-n junctions with the boys
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@swyx @OpenAI A more silly take on the same idea:
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8 months
Inspired by @romainhuet 's text to speech demo at #OpenAIDevDay , here's a demo of a python script that sits in the background and makes fun of whatever you're doing on your desktop. Tired: enhance productivity by using GPT to solve problems Wired: enhance productivity by havingโ€ฆ
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Astounded by the level of mechanical engineering and industrial design that Apple invested in making sure that dropping your AirPods case reliably results in the two AirPods instantly exploding out of the case and scattering in two different directions 17 miles away.
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@wtfis2bdone Ah yes, I believe it was Socrates who taught his students that the path to enlightenment was biasing everyone against a strawman version of an argument you disagree with and being a huge dick to people you don't know. You're a true credit to your profession.
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@nickbaum Half the people in my replies: โ€œItโ€™s incredibly obvious why this is correctโ€ The other half: โ€œItโ€™s incredibly obvious why this is incorrectโ€ I did it. The Platonic tweet. I can hang it up right now.
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@punishedgummies Iโ€™m now convinced Indy should have been black & white all along.
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April Fools is a comedy nightmare. That goes doubly so for all corporate April Fools jokes. Unfortunately, I was part of the problem one year. April 2013 at Uber. Travis comes to me: "You did comedy stuff. What do you think about an April Fools blog post about how Uber seedsโ€ฆ
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Yeah, didnโ€™t see any April fools jokes today, glad everyoneโ€™s locked in. Ainโ€™t shit funny
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@MikeIsaac The San Marzano investigative journalism beat sounds dope
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Good reminder that everything you put in the context window nudges attention in ways you wonโ€™t always like. Implies that stuffing context window, RAG, etc, is not always โ€œmore is betterโ€ Inspired by @jaseweston paper and @colintjarvis talk at devday.
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@MegaphonixMusic Of course, I'm not impartial. I think most people would have some desire to protect their ego and feel like they worked on a good thing even without economic interest. But hopefully my argument stands regardless of where I worked.
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@nealkhosla I think youโ€™re over-indexing on Diverse English Kings Gate or whatever weโ€™re going to call that. Gemini 1.5 looks very legit They own two of the three most important front-ends to consumer AI queries: Android and Chrome They have the best web index for live retrieval RAG intoโ€ฆ
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@0xgaut Only solution in these cases is to disassemble the entire house.
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Grateful for my dad, who taught me to recognize evil early and often. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ
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Ilya Abyzov
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Super excited for @rahulvohra and the @Superhuman team. Iโ€™ve spent hours a day in Superhuman for the past year and itโ€™s a masterclass in beautiful design and producing flow state and happiness. Not words I ever associated with email in the past ๐Ÿค“
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Itโ€™s 2010. Iโ€™m staying at the Oberoi hotel in New Delhi. Incredibly nice - the kind of place you bump into Ambanis and Tatas getting married. Amazing breakfast every morning. Some of the best coffee Iโ€™ve ever had. The final morning before checking out, I get a waiterโ€™sโ€ฆ
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@netcapgirl When you learn an increase in interest rates leads to a decrease in bond prices
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@justjoshinyou13 @growing_daniel Before they changed it, I literally wrote a JS snippet that deleted the attribute on the password field that prevented you from typing in it. You know you have bad web UX when Iโ€™m doing recreational front end work to fix it for myself.
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1920s - Everyone starts speaking English in a more mid-Atlantic accent because thatโ€™s what broadcasters chose to use on the radio 2020s - Everyone starts writing English in formal-register Nigerian because Nigerians wrote RLHF content that chatGPT disseminated across the web
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The way Nigerian twitter is blowing up at this makes me think a lot of ChatGPTisms are just colloquial language for the workforce they hired to write fine tuning data.
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@StrongerInNos Agreed, I think that's a reasonable point. There's a whole contractor vs. employee debate to be had here, but I think in the U.S. it's a bit of a moot point when comparing to taxis because taxis also paid taxi drivers as 1099 contractors, not as employees. I think in realityโ€ฆ
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This is the kind of hard-hitting, counter-intuitive insight that you can only get from an esteemed institution like Harvard.
@HarvardBiz
Harvard Business Review
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The root cause of burnout is overwork
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Vision Pro reaction: you wild for this one, Apple. Kudos. An amazing engineering achievement. Way better than you think in some ways and way worse than others. A true gen 1 product with infinite possibilities in front of it, which is inherently exciting. Hereโ€™s the twist: theโ€ฆ
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@pixelatedboat And theyโ€™d do super affected artsy stuff like have a guy escape from the mobsters in the woods but then literally never mention it ever again.
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Ilya Abyzov
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Great teachable moment to learn a bit about accounting games! I worked on a few satellite deals (Iridium & Intelsat) as an analyst at Morgan Stanley. The tricky thing you learn quickly about satellites is that they really mess with your intuitions about P&L. Typically, aโ€ฆ
@elonmusk
Elon Musk
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Excited to announce that @SpaceX @Starlink has achieved breakeven cash flow! Excellent work by a great team. Starlink is also now a majority of all active satellites and will have launched a a majority of all satellites cumulatively from Earth by next year.
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@HalSinger Taxi drivers used to be able to put their kids through college. Then we created the medallion system, long before Uber and Lyft. You won't believe what happened next. Don't @ me until you can explain what "gate fee" means.
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Ilya Abyzov
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I watched the pilot of The OC on the futon of a New Hampshire dorm. I thought: โ€œOops, I live on the wrong coast.โ€ That planted the seed to go to grad school in CA, which led to Forward, which now comes full circle with a Forward in Newport Beach. Thanks, @JoshSchwartz76 !
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@varun_mathur @rabois_likes The problem with Cabulous and Taxi Magic is that they were building on top of an anti-competitive cartel (the medallion system) instead of materializing new supply, which Uber did with livery and Lyft/Sidecar did with P2P. It wasnโ€™t the capital or Gurley.
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New Music Friday on @Spotify is basically becoming its own subplatform - custom UI on mobile, its own branding, videos this week. Super cool
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Ilya Abyzov
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My favorite ways to write ranked lists, ranked: 1. Use ascending numbers 2. Put a period after each number 3. Nobody reads the third one anyway 4. The Last Jedi 5. Rogue One 6. USS Callister 7. Even 8. If 9. We 10. Never 11. Talk 12. Makethisyourstatus
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Ilya Abyzov
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Found a cool WeWork competitor that gives you a free hot desk. I canโ€™t find the kombucha or cold brew, though. Trying to get into the angel round. Itโ€™s called โ€œPublic Libraryโ€
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@IlyaAbyzov
Ilya Abyzov
5 years
Yeah, while I was thinking small CNBC was really changing the game in making the ultimate TV channel that I need to turn off when I first get to a hotel room.
@CNBC
CNBC
5 years
Uber's IPO caps an era of mediocrity and small thinking in Silicon Valley
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@DimitrisPapail Similar meta-prompt issue below. Activating neurons you donโ€™t mean to activate. Surprisingly human-like in some ways. โ€œDonโ€™t think about the orange elephantโ€ does the opposite.
@IlyaAbyzov
Ilya Abyzov
7 months
Good reminder that everything you put in the context window nudges attention in ways you wonโ€™t always like. Implies that stuffing context window, RAG, etc, is not always โ€œmore is betterโ€ Inspired by @jaseweston paper and @colintjarvis talk at devday.
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Ilya Abyzov
7 years
@MikeIsaac As former UberSF GM, my team and I regularly banned riders who harassed and insulted drivers on the basis of ethnicity or religion. Proud that Uber continues to do that!
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Ilya Abyzov
6 months
@ESYudkowsky If the high-level point here is LLMs are deeply uninterpretable, I agree very strongly. I donโ€™t totally follow the reasoning on points like "LLMs just predict text" being a Blank Map fallacy. Text prediction was literally the loss function we created to guide training, right?โ€ฆ
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Ilya Abyzov
2 years
@VCBrags Paul doesnโ€™t understand scale. Take $20m. Use all $20m to buy tomato plants.
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Ilya Abyzov
6 years
@joshk Do you think they prefer first-time founders or cereal entrepreneurs? ๐Ÿ˜
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Ilya Abyzov
5 years
Things are NOT looking good for my startup idea to rent office space in bulk and then carve it up into a bunch of shared vape dens.
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Ilya Abyzov
3 months
@netcapgirl Humanity: launches that amazing piece of engineering Also humanity: is Kate on that rocket?? What is the royal family hiding?? Weโ€™re truly a species that contains multitudes.
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Ilya Abyzov
3 years
Trying to navigate the legacy health care system got me like Weeknd. Last week, I got a $10,000 bill for 3 hours spent at CPMC. Excited to bring our vision for what healthcare could be to more people:
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Ilya Abyzov
2 years
Jack and Elon hand-wringing over impossibility of moderation at scale. Meanwhile, some guy named u/cheesehead82 in Kenosha is on his 12th year of free labor for Reddit keeping an iron grip on the 8 unbreakable rules of r/GreenBayPackers.
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Ilya Abyzov
3 years
@ian5446 @Vanessa_ABee @YuckyTom Joyce Carol Oates is saying "It's impossible that many dead bodies are falling out of coffins every day. And it's impossible that one out of every five of them are nude." I don't know what to tell ya, bud!
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Ilya Abyzov
2 years
This is the editor of state-controlled Russian media outlet, RT, writing: "If you're ashamed of being Russian right now, don't worry - you're not Russian" ...and Vitalik Buterin telling her to go fuck herself. *chef's kiss*
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Ilya Abyzov
2 years
Early Uber finance team reading this tweet like. @thatJLucas
@coffeebreak_YT
Coffeezilla
2 years
๐ŸšจFTX USED QUICKBOOKS FOR THEIR ACCOUNTING. ๐Ÿ˜‚BRUH.
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Ilya Abyzov
2 years
@Biz_Ukraine_Mag My grandmother lived through the siege of Leningrad in World War II, as I suspect this woman did. This broke my heart into a million pieces.
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Ilya Abyzov
5 years
Designer of PT Cruiser: Hear me out Exec: Go Designer: I made it look like an old hearse Exec: Oh hell yeah Designer: That's it. That's the whole concept Exec: I'm in. Is it fast or reliable? Designer: Good lord no Exec: You just saved the company, son
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