Training a small, cheap model to imitate a big, expensive one. The big lab gets mad about this roughly every other week.
We distilled their ten-billion-dollar model down to something that runs on a laptop. They're suing the laptop.
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monopoly_maxi
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Buying a large amount of something on pure impulse with zero research, like a monkey smashing the buy button.
Saw a tweet, aped in with my savings, immediately regretted every part of it.
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The non-binding document where a VC offers to invest, full of clauses founders skim and regret later.
He signed the term sheet without reading the Liquidation Preference. See you at the soft landing.
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Going from nothing to something genuinely new, instead of copying what already exists. Also a book founders quote to demonstrate that they have read one book.
He said we need to go 'zero to one,' which is excellent advice for a company that is currently at zero.
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'Performance Improvement Plan.' Officially a path to do better. Universally understood as a countdown timer.
They put him on a PIP, which is corporate for 'please start applying elsewhere, gently.'
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