I mean, let's be honest there. This is much different than the blockchain bubble, in which 2/3 of the population is actually utilizing or interacting with AI daily.
While, yes, it's overhyped and takes up too much of the spotlight, it isn't going anywhere and is going to continue to be a staple in our lives moving forward, and will continue to increase in impact as it improves.
Blockchain will always be blockchain, and it was absolutely a bubble. Will it improve? Sure. Will it ever be as impactful to the everyday individual as AI? Maybe, but most people will not know or care. It will mostly be a passive experience.
AI will/has fundamentally changed how we work in the matter of 3 years. So, financial system jumping on board this, is much safer than jumping onboard crypto hype trains.
(I'm not saying crypto is bad / is a bad investment, but lots of crypto and ai startups are both trash, well, most startups are trash, I say that as a founder who has had many trash ideas)
"AI will/has fundamentally changed how we work in the matter of 3 years"
The past 3 years or the next 3 years or 1.5 years both ways?
It hasn't really done that yet. The work from home zoom meetings has made a bigger impact. Maybe in a few years? Its on par with the metaverse at this point.
> I mean, let's be honest there. This is much different than the blockchain bubble, in which 2/3 of the population is actually utilizing or interacting with AI daily.
You do remember that by the time the blockchain bubble burst, literally everyone and their mother were "interacting" with it?
> AI will/has fundamentally changed how we work in the matter of 3 years
For people in bullshit jobs creating workslops, yes its probably an absolute blessing. Enjoy it while it lasts.
I had considered doing this about 3 years ago. I purchased a 1986 Vixen 21TD (a BMW diesel powered, 5 speed motorhome, build specifically as a motorhome, and gets 30mpg).
Ultimately, my goals ended up changing. I did a bit of modifications (modern brakes, improved electrical, upgraded alternator, 300aH 12v Lithium, and more), but I ended up only doing a couple trips in it.
It was really incredible, being able to have enough space to work, traveling anytime I want without worrying about crashing at a friend's place, or paying for a hotel or being stuck in a boring part of a city where the hotel is, etc.
I did a ton of research before purchasing, and loved the fact that it was fully built from the ground up to be a motorhome, rather than how modern conversions or RVs are built. It has a full queen size bed, and a wet bath, and I could comfortably stand when the roof is up.
Vixens were super cool! We bought a used one in the 90s when I was a teenager. Although it did wind up breaking down on a road trip,bao I think they might have been on the unreliable side or known for some issues-- either that or we just got unlucky.
I did as well! @rimunroe I don't remember my handle, but you took me down a nice little path on memory lane.
The Warcraft mod was a little goofy, but as a younger kid who couldn't appreciate the hardcore competitive scene I liked the variety and silliness it brought.
I spent way too much time finding custom skins online to keep things interesting. Good times.
In the past, I have applied to many YC startups, and have a pretty high response rate. Being that the job board is pretty prominent in the tech world, and engineering jobs are highly competitive, it is likely that a smaller startup does not have the resources to reply to every applicant.
This being said, I've been self employed for several years, so this may have changed since ~ 2021, but I don't think it's likely.
Also, the landscape has changed, and some job posting may have been made during more optimistic moments, and they may just be stale, rather than fake.
I have referred many people to "WorkAtAStartup" in recent years who have had quite a bit of success. While it's unfortunate that you are not having the best of luck, definitely be optimistic and continue to try! There are many great companies that recruit through the YC boards, and I recommend using WorkAtAStartup to have the best chances of response, even more so than their direct job listings.
Hey HN, I've been using RefZoom and contributing to it for over a year now. Personally, I've used it to validate and organize health information regarding supplements, weightlifting, and overall wellbeing by categorizing white papers into hierarchical notes connecting directly to the source.
Others have used it for organizing their thoughts for their PhD dissertation, and others use it as ways of proposing new treatments by validating their claims through published research.
I think it's important to call out that it's actually constantly increasing amount to increase the results.
As patients lose weight, they need to eat fewer and fewer calories to continue to lose weight, as the BMR decreases. This isn't because of the medication, but rather because it requires fewer calories to maintain their mass, so they burn fewer calories at rest.
Increasing the dose further decreases hunger signals, which further decreases their desire to eat as much.
It's not "increasing to maintain the same results" its "increasing to increase results".
Ex.
Patient A currently weighs 330lbs. Has a BMR of 3300 Calories.
- Initial dose, they eat 2,800 calories a day instead of 3,500 calories they used to.
- Loses weight. Now weighs 250lbs.
- BMR is roughly now weighs 250lbs, and has a BMR of roughly 2500 calories, but dose still has them eating around 2,800 calories.
- Dose is increased, patient is now eating around 2,000 calories.
- Patient A reaches 200lbs, BMR is roughly 1,800 calories, but is still eating 2,000 calories.
- Dose is increased, Patient A is now eating 1600 calories.
Anecdotally, I lost 130lbs in 1 year, and have now lost 140lbs (1 year 4 months).
Initially, I was 330lbs and lost weight at a rate of 3.5lbs per week. Slowly decreasing weight per week to stabilize at around 1% of body weight per week.
During the entirety of this time, I had, and still maintain, a rigorous resistance training program. My muscle mass is significantly higher than it was when I was 330lbs.
The important part of losing weight is to know what your goals are, and to adjust all aspects of your life accordingly. Not just cutting calories, unless your goal is to lose weight, vs lose fat.
The biggest thing afterwards is, if your lifestyle doesn't support the maintenance of your new weight, and when you hit your goal you eat like you used to and revert activity to your old sedimentary ways, all of that weight will come back incredibly fast.
Whole life changes are needed. Going slow helps with these changes, as they become habits. This is why the success rate of achieving a healthy weight for someone who is morbidly obese is only 1-1266 (men) and 1-677 (women) [1].
Something can be fast, but lack efficiency or the ability to utilize the speed.
For example, a car can have 1,000hp, but utilizes a large turbo which takes a long time to spool up, leading to poor performance. It may also have poor handling characteristics.
On the other hand, let's use a car like a Mazda Miata, which only has 181hp. It is not fast, but it is an incredibly performant car, with exceptional handling and driving dynamics.
Speed and performance are not directly correlated, and are independent metrics. Performance is more of an indication of the overall dynamics of action, intention and results.
I think that for a lot of businesses, they can hire internal developers prematurely before they have a clear vision of the product that they're building or need.
We structured our studio as a group of (very) senior talent, most with over a decade of experience each across Product Design, Software Engineering, and Product Management, where thee entirety of our studio is available on each project.
We focus on documentation, developer experience, and working with companies to get the initial product in a state of both product management and cleanliness to ensure that they're reading to onboard specific team members internally to carry the product forward.
It can be very cost prohibitive to create a new product without having designers, developers, product owners, all that are dedicated to your vision. A developer may miss key user experience interactions, making it difficult to use. A designer may forgot key features from a business perspective. Having access to all of the talent for a new product is hard.
As others have said here, I recommend finding very talented and experienced SENIOR Engineers. If you are intent on them being an internal team, ensure they have excellent project management skills and have built their own side project from scratch, so they know what it takes to build a full product from the ground up.
An engineer that builds their own products has experience that is invaluable when it comes to building functional tools that people want to use.
>Arguably United airlines shouldn't have chosen a product they can't test updates of, though maybe there are no good options.
I used to work with regional parks and recreation departments, and they would not approve any updates that did not go through UAW environments that we had set up. All updates had to be deployed to their UAW, thoroughly tested, before going to their production environment.
I get this this is slightly different, but I'd imagine Airlines, Banks, and Hospitals would have far more strict UAW policies to avoid a single vendor from kneecapping operations.
While, yes, it's overhyped and takes up too much of the spotlight, it isn't going anywhere and is going to continue to be a staple in our lives moving forward, and will continue to increase in impact as it improves.
Blockchain will always be blockchain, and it was absolutely a bubble. Will it improve? Sure. Will it ever be as impactful to the everyday individual as AI? Maybe, but most people will not know or care. It will mostly be a passive experience.
AI will/has fundamentally changed how we work in the matter of 3 years. So, financial system jumping on board this, is much safer than jumping onboard crypto hype trains.
(I'm not saying crypto is bad / is a bad investment, but lots of crypto and ai startups are both trash, well, most startups are trash, I say that as a founder who has had many trash ideas)