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Posted by xtreak29 7 hours ago

Discovery Loop(www.discoveryloop.com)
495 points | 303 commentspage 4
puttycat 3 hours ago|
What's the business model of these startups?
montebicyclelo 6 hours ago||
Did the ycombinator podcast which included giving advice to startup founders just a few days ago:

https://www.ycombinator.com/library/Vy-jeff-dean-the-1-rule-...

xnx 6 hours ago|
As always, a very good presentation.
guessmyname 6 hours ago||
Careers page (if anyone is interested) → https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Discovery-Loop
brcmthrowaway 6 hours ago|
I don't see the salary (on mobile). Isn't there a law stating it must be added?
guessmyname 5 hours ago||
Only California employers with 15 or more employees have to post a pay range (Senate Bill 1162 [1], effective Jan 1, 2023) [2][3]. Discovery Loop employs only four people (that we know of), so it isn’t required to disclose a salary range in its job posts, of which there is only one [4].

[1] https://hr.ucmerced.edu/hr-units/talent-acquisition/senate-b...

[2] https://www.adp.com/spark/articles/2023/03/pay-transparency-...

[3] https://www.jazzhr.com/blog/pay-transparency

[4] https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Discovery-Loop

jiveturkey 3 hours ago||
It's too bad they would follow the letter of the law, and not state the salary anyway. I see that as a negative indicator, regardless of offer size.
syntaxing 6 hours ago||
This reminds me of Three body problem and how the scientist discovered the high strength wire was through quick physical experiments and use them as input to an AI model to determine if it works.
maCDzP 3 hours ago||
I have used something similar. I set up a team of agents that researches, proposes, builds and audits. Then rinse and repeat. I have used it for different topics. It hasn’t made me a millionaire, but I haven’t lost money either - so that’s some sort of win, right? But I would not have been able to ideate, test at that speed and quality without an LLM.
skinfaxi 3 hours ago|
> It hasn’t made me a millionaire, but I haven’t lost money either - so that’s some sort of win, right?

I'm curious if that is before or after token costs?

asimpletune 6 hours ago||
They're structuring the new company as public benefit corporation.
an0malous 6 hours ago|
Does this mean anything besides for corporate virtue signaling?
Sathwickp 5 hours ago||
Is it a very hard problem to solve that jeff and the other legendary engineers have decided to quit and start on this?
thisoneworks 5 hours ago|
I mean what are they doing right now at Google? Optimizing data centres? Pretty lame compared to this. Even if they completely fail, i'm sure there'll be good lessons.
varjag 3 hours ago||
Discovery systems are making a comeback huh.
xuehaohu 3 hours ago||
Big news aside, it feels exciting to see them leave and pursue startup. They could have stayed back, and retire
danielmarkbruce 5 hours ago|
Automating ML/AI research seems completely tractable. Most of the other claims seem much less doable.
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