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New comment by jesseab in "There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning"

jesseab — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 03:41:02 +0000

Remember watching Alec Radford's Theano tutorial and feeling like I had found literal gold.

New comment by jesseab in "Claude Opus 4.7"

jesseab — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 03:50:23 +0000

So Mythos.

New comment by jesseab in "Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal"

jesseab — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 06:22:21 +0000

The Wall Street Journal says at least 10,000 people were killed: https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/irans-protest-crackdow...

Horrifying.

New comment by jesseab in "Business co-founders in tech startups are less valuable than they think"

jesseab — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 21:44:13 +0000

Sweeping statements in HN posts are less valuable than they think.

New comment by jesseab in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

jesseab — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 19:14:40 +0000

You're not alone, friend. A three body problem would make for more interesting dynamics.

New comment by jesseab in "OpenAI completes deal that values company at $157B"

jesseab — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 22:15:19 +0000

Investors probably aren't expecting a 10x return on a late stage investment like this.

Y Combinator to Double Number of Cohorts per Year

jesseab — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 14:45:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-12/silicon-valley-s-y-combinator-to-double-number-of-cohorts-per-year

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41531724

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New comment by jesseab in "The Myth of the Product-Market Fit (2013)"

jesseab — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 05:56:15 +0000

I don't exactly see it this way - "You can only do this by doing actual discovery interviews with prospects in an unbiased way where you explore their experience around specific problem areas without ever mentioning your brilliant solution - as proposing a specific solution is likely to bias your subject."

Sometimes the entrepreneur needs to expand the possibility space, rather than just addressing an "unmet need". There's the Jobs-ism about figuring out what the customer is going to want before they do. Thiel also talks in Zero to One about some of the biggest innovations not spawning from customer feedback or lean methodology.

I wouldn't say that GPT addressed a problem I had per se. It just created a whole new set of activities I wanted to try.

New comment by jesseab in "Building SimCity: How to put the world in a machine"

jesseab — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 04:03:07 +0000

Congrats about Stewart Brand, that’s a ringing endorsement. Can’t wait to read the book.

New comment by jesseab in "Quitting the full-time poker scene"

jesseab — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 09:04:53 +0000

One of the best HN posts I’ve ever read. Thanks for sharing your story. I don’t have any doubt you’ll be happy about your pivot and successful in your next phase. Good luck.

New comment by jesseab in "Postdocs under pressure: ‘Can I even do this any more?’"

jesseab — Mon, 21 Dec 2020 07:15:42 +0000

100% agree with this. If we seek true breakthroughs, we need highly experienced and focused teams working together on specific problems. These teams should be comprised primarily of staff scientists, like they have at the national laboratories like Lawrence. Given how high of a priority the US government places on funding biomedical research, it doesn't make sense for the vast majority of funding to be allocated to principal investigators who count that research project as only one of their numerous job responsibilities. Nor does it make sense for that work to be executed by under-supported postdocs and technicians. Instead, cultivate a career track that goes from grad student to junior -> senior staff scientist. Prioritize positions other than academic faculty with continuity and the ability to focus primarily on making steady research advancements.

New comment by jesseab in "Graph Convolutional Networks (2016)"

jesseab — Tue, 23 Apr 2019 20:32:44 +0000

Has there been any recent progress on GCNs or similar for embedding graphs rather than nodes?

New comment by jesseab in "Israel’s Beresheet Spacecraft Moon Landing Attempt Appears to End in Crash"

jesseab — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 19:57:49 +0000

It's time to retire the tired old nation-state space-race narrative. We're all in this together people. Their failure is our failure.