And same time here Finland we have super cheap electricity. It is just that you don’t build enough new capacity and nuclear power is no go.

Super cheap electricity and new built nuclear power requires absolutely insanely large subsidies to go exist.

In other words: you would pay for it with your taxes instead.

Some discord/slack spaces have kinda same feel.

Those are centralized and apparently the former at least now requires phone verification. Not even close.

SQL is beautiful when it works but when it doesn’t you end up with some abomination eg if you need some kind dynamic query.

The two most helpful things with SQL are (1) always use set-based operations (never a cursor) and (2) break up your queries into smallest possible reusable chunks (CTEs). Sprinkle in tests to taste. Without some discipline SQL can get out of hand. This is what made dbt popular.

Can you share more detail? Every pain point I've seen can be handled by a more suitable/performant/flexible DB and/or software that makes working with SQL less painful.

I would not hold my breath, Norway is kinda holding back new supply (wind + solar + nuclear) if you compare it to Finland or Sweden.

Also, even if you want to be honest, at this point, probably every public or semipublic benchmark is part of CommonCrawl.

True. And it's even worse than that, because each test probably gets "talked about" a lot in various places. And people come up with variants. And those variants get ingested. And then the whole thing becomes a mess.

This was noticeable with the early Phi models. They were originally trained fully on synthetic data (cool experiment tbh) but the downside was that GPT3 / 4 was "distilling" benchmarks "hacks" into it. It became aparent when new benchmarks were released, after the published date, and there was one that measured "contamination" of about 20+%. Just from distillation.

But if you listen to Levels' interviews, especially before his Twitter stardom, you will see that he always promotes the find your audience and build to them approach.

Amusingly enough the product that makes him the most is PhotoAI and that doesn't seem to target his audience at all.

But there's no guarantee your audience will buy what you can sell.

your audience is supposed to guide what you're selling. The fundamental belief is getting the audience is harder than building something they want. This part is probably true, while the rest of the ecosystem is garbage and scams

Yup, the yearly average should be that 35-45 hours per week, but sprinting is fine if opportunity is there.

It depends, like here in Finland, there is lots of farmland and active farms, but most is at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humid_continental_climate , Norway also has a lot of farms in subarctic areas like this in the article, but Norway is substituting farming very heavily even European standards.

Both Finland and Norway have low population, too, because overall the climate is too harsh for high-yield agriculture.

*subsidizing

The term comes from John Doerr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6iwEYmbCwk . But Altman kicked most missionaries out during corporate turmoil in 2023, so not sure where this comes from.

From that by the way

>...one hand The Mercenaries they have enormous Drive they're opportunistic like Andy Grove they believe only the paranoids survive they're really sprinting for the short run but that's quite different I suggest to you than the missionaries who have passion not paranoia who are strategic not opportunistic and they're focused on the big idea in partnerships. It's the difference between focusing on the the competition or the customer.

It's a difference between worshiping at the altar of Founders or having a meritocracy where you get all the ideas on the table and the best ones win it's a difference between being exclusively interested in the financial statements or also in the mission statements it's a difference between being a loner on your own or being part of a team having an attitude of entitlement versus contribution or uh as Randy puts it living a deferred Life Plan versus a whole life that at any given moment is trying to work difference between just making money anybody tells you they don't want to make money is lying or making money and making meaning Al also or my bottom line is it's the difference between success or success and significance.