Yeah, I see your point—it might be misleading to label Nebula as a co-op since it technically isn't one. But I think what's important is how much Nebula does to empower creators compared to other platforms. The founders are creators who've invested a lot to make it a place where content makers get more support and a bigger share of the revenue. Even if it's not a co-op, it still feels like a step in the right direction for giving creators more control and benefits than they'd get elsewhere.
Honestly, I feel like the criticism is missing some key points. Sam and the other founders are creators who've put a ton of work and resources into Nebula. They've made awesome original content like Jetlag and have invested heavily to support other creators on the platform. Nebula gives budgets for creators to produce their own shows, and they get a share of the revenue from subscribers they bring in—I wouldn't be surprised if they earn from views too. So saying it's misleading doesn't sit right with me. Creators on Nebula definitely get a bigger piece of the pie compared to other platforms. It might not be a perfect co-op, but it's way more creator-friendly than most out there.
This is great to see. Evals on voice are hard - we only have evals on text based prompting, but it doesn't fully capture everything. Excited to give this a try.
> Researchers inside the AI unit have told colleagues they’re proud of their advances on Gemini, such as its “context window,” the amount of information the system can analyze at once. This is particularly useful to a company whose enormous amount of data is one of its key competitive advantages.
what does a large context window have anything to do with google's data moat?
I’m not sure the throughput is that high - scans take quiet a bit of time, I would doubt that a register scans an item every 3.6 seconds - don’t have data on this but would easily triple that estimate as an average (so in the hundreds)
Also , I get the simpler tech, but complexity breeds failure - if you have a hybrid on prem / cloud model, especially with only 250k skus, at that point doesn’t it make sense to keep that exclusively in the cloud.
It’s a system that scans a barcode and returns an item at its core - this is still well under the limits of using an off the shelf system like Redis behind an endpoint
Target has 250k SKUs total - why is their inventory system so complicated? Why the hybrid on-prem store + data center cloud model - isn’t it easier if there is one source of truth? Seems like it would reduce the need for even dealing with all this eventually consistence cache sycning and whatnot
I ofc don’t know what I dont know, but super curious if anyone has insight into why such a complex system is required
Also, if this microservice is used for brick and mortgage mortar, can’t imagine more than a couple hundred per second? ( 2000 stores, 5 registers a store - and humans manually scanning items ) - why did that overload the micro service (guessing it wasn’t an endless exponential backoff)
Just had to call out a nuance here - Disorder is an extremely strong word. People living with ASD are not "weird" or "abnormal" in anyway whatsoever, they are just different. As a society, we accept people's genetically predetermined sexual orientation, regardless of whether it represents the majority. ASD is no different, lets avoid calling it a disorder.
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This reminds me of the f-35. I find it absolutely insane that a mix of tax incentives can lead to this inefficient mess involving custom built ships and airplanes.
Wonder how much this supply chain dynamic ends up adding to the cost of the a380 in aggregate
I'm one of the founders at Sympto Health - we are helping nurses and doctors communicate more effectively with patients. Nurses spend up to 60% of their day on manual patient outreach, and the vast majority of nurse's I've spoke to complain about the roteness and mundaneness of this outreach.
Our goal here at Sympto is to supercharge the role of the nurse, automating the rote and manual tasks, and ultimately allowing nurses to focus more on patients who need their attention.
As you can imagine, with COVID-19, we are facing unprecedented demand from health systems, who need help triaging the expected massive inflow of patients.
We just closed a fresh round of funding, backed by investors in Modern Health, Udemy, Guardant Health, DoorDash and Airbnb. We are looking to hire a Founding Engineer who is interested in playing a critical role in helping the lives of thousands of patients & care teams across the country.
Really like this concept! As a vegetarian, I have come across many other services that focus on nutritionally customizable products, but when it comes to vegetarian options, the macros / protein numbers leave a lot to be desired. I've also noticed that a lot of the vegetarian options available at restaurants in the bay tend to be much more carb heavy than I would prefer, and it takes a lot of overhead to research / optimize each and every meal.
I'm always looking for ways to algorithmically optimize my meals, and currently Chipotle and their app does the best job of enabling this in a standardized way (can pretty easily get nutrition info and hook it into other apps) , but it ends up being pretty boring on a routine basis. Something like this, with an expanded product line would be really useful.
Google is pretty monopolistic. They have shown anti-competitive behavior with local, maps, etc. Would create a more competitive marketplace if Google has broken up into separate publicly traded entities (ie like Waymo)