"They're really good at some things, terrible at others, and prone to doing something totally wrong some fraction of the time."
I agree 100% with this sentiment, but, it also is a decent description of individual humans.
This is what processes and control systems/controls are for. These are evolving at a slower pace than the LLMs themselves at the moment so we're looking to the LLM to be its own control. I don't think it will be any better than the average human is at being their own control, but by no means does that mean it's not a solvable problem.
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If you’re interested, especially if you have Home Automation experience (HomeAssistant would be rad) apply at https://www.dvele.com/career/ or shoot me an email at [email protected]. Help with relocation to sunny, beautiful La Jolla is available for the right candidate.
Don't listen to the Don't(s). Only you know your circumstances, if you're in a position to follow your inspiration (no kids, mortgage, etc), awesome do it. These circumstances (typically) evaporate with age, take advantage of them.
Worst case, you learn a ton (probably more about yourself than anything else) and you still have a trade (software dev) that will land you you in the top 1% worldwide in terms of standard of living to fallback on. Best case you build a rad business, plenty of room in between.
That said, become enamored with the problem not the tools (django/python, JS etc). Try to get "ramen" profitable or feedback with the least possible effort. The hard part of sideprojects is rarely the dev, it's most always the marketing.
On the marketing side, read, read, read...then experiment, experiment, experiment. Given the lack of capital you're gonna need to be creative, it can be fun, it can be frustrating...this will be the hardest part of your journey.
No need to do in transit. I mean iMessage could simply proxy all http/https requests post decryption in iMessage, pre-request.
At the end of the day this privacy trade off (apple gets your browsing info) is probably more secure than an embedded webview that could potentially be exploited and is auto-loaded. Similar to how Chrome alerts of malicious sites...I see this as a long term larger attack vector than privacy leakage.
Drone defense is very interesting....but I find the concept of jamming/electronic spoofing/RF commandeering somewhat comical in this arena. (what ApolloShield seems to be doing)
This is a physical threat (in the terrorist scenario) that needs to be dealt with kinetically.
RF spoofing doesn't work for planed flights, GPS spoofing can work but reply attacks are wonky at best and most just will trigger a "go home" which is easily overridden to be the target.
Skywall (http://openworksengineering.com/skywall) type stuff is interesting, but very hard to get right...know a few folks in the field working on some cool stuff.
The passive whoops I'm a terrible drone pilot and flew my drone over moffet is fairly easy to deal with (betting we'll see some sort of drone tagging (RF)/mgmt system tied to the in-place registration very soon)...but not nearly as lucrative as true airspace security
/2cents from someone not in the field but interested in it
I made https://www.myothernumber.com (online temporary sms/mms/voice numbers) about a 1.5 years ago, was making ramen money within 3 months.
Now tracking in the 5-figure/year range.
It's a very, very crowded market so primary cost is user acquisition, but then again that's exactly why I built it, to better learn (consumer facing UA) and have a platform to experiment with.
About to officially launch http://artistic.af (neural artistic transfer meets instagram + canvas printing). I expect this one to take a bit longer to scale, but it was just an excuse to learn DNNs.
associate.io | mobility for the hourly employee | Oakland
We're still in "stealth", funded, beta clients but early stage. Tackling the mobility problem for the non-professional employee. Founding team has "done it before" and has successful exits under their belts.
We're looking for:
iOS engineers
Python (full stack) - experiance with django (we only use it for presentation) and twisted would be awesome
But first and foremost we're looking for smart people, who play to win.
We've also got a very cool digital nomad work policy for folks that want to travel the world after they've been with us for a few months.
Fun fact. Placing a halved avocado in a bag of water will save it from oxidation overnight, as will face down on a plate with oil (olive, veggie, etc) creating a seal. #AvocadoHacking
Virtual Fan Network (VFN) We’re launching sqor.com soon!
Dig sports? We’re an early stage Sports startup with incredible athlete relationships; our goal is to totally change the way athletes engage with their fans. Located in downtown SF, well funded, very well connected.
We’re looking help in three areas.
Back end
We use a python stack on top of Pyramid, that said we’re open to pretty much any technology that can make our team more productive and our users more engaged.
Front-End
We use backbone, jquery, SASS ya know the good stuff.
Product Management
Want to help define how athletes engage with their fans in the digital world, awesome. We’re looking for an awesome product person to help craft the experiences of both the fan and the athlete.
I agree 100% with this sentiment, but, it also is a decent description of individual humans.
This is what processes and control systems/controls are for. These are evolving at a slower pace than the LLMs themselves at the moment so we're looking to the LLM to be its own control. I don't think it will be any better than the average human is at being their own control, but by no means does that mean it's not a solvable problem.