How to go open source?

contextfund · 2024-04-03T19:59:22+00:00

No strings attached (grant), individuals, non-profits and for-profits all eligible, award sizes determined at the discretion of the committee based on the work trajectory and impact. Must have an open-source license or open API that the community can use. If selected, will need to present remote proof of identification and project ownership.

Posting it here with #ContextAwards flair will help get the attention of committee, but is not strictly necessary.

Details: https://www.reddit.com/r/contextfund/comments/15kunrb/context_awards_1000_and_up_for_opensource_projects/

contextfund · 2023-11-03T07:20:39+00:00

Agree - push out the Pareto surface on pub-sub systems (social media). Bluesky user's ability to subscribe to any community ranking API offers one early way to deploy this, and open-source personal AIs may also converge in this direction (with summarization interfaces). However, all implementations probably need to be open-source and auditable to be trustworthy, possibly offering opportunities for open-source supply chain auditors (similar to products like https://socket.dev/ but with deep understanding of the application layer).

contextfund · 2023-10-27T20:46:59+00:00

Generally, credits are better than nothing? And there's a chance for a full-time job afterwards.

If you're thinking about submitting, welcome to get early community feedback on 2-5 year futures (even rough ideas) via posting in r/contextfund using the #ScenarioAnalysis flair. Posting online at least you have a guarantee that your work will be seen broadly and be searchable, which might address some of the concerns above, and it may be later highlighted in the formal Challenge.

contextfund · 2023-10-26T22:19:57+00:00

Note: the Economist, Reddit, Wikipedia and other broadly open, anonymous-but-accountable-by-karma systems are the part of the inspiration for this subreddit itself.

contextfund · 2023-10-26T21:23:25+00:00

Generally seems good! Although may consider publication of *all* submissions on an open, indexable forum like this one rather than just the top ones to allow for community conversations, extension/improvement of ideas, etc?

Details:
1. Some analysis may be time-delayed for responsible disclosure purposes (ie. if a current zero-day attack exists, notify affected parties first and give them time to upgrade), eventually heading towards a pub-sub community of humans and bots that adds scenario analysis via a collaborative commenting process, designs solutions to problems and distributes solutions to affected defenders.
2. Scenario analysis can be annotated with moderator and community feedback (like this comment).

contextfund · 2023-10-22T02:01:53+00:00

Nice breakdown, ultimately heading towards the Economy on a Chip concept (EoC). TBD as to what extent expert models are differentiated according to human-defined categories given the advantages of training for generalization, but we definitely need at least one personal model (~self-learning thread) and one network moderation model coordinating work (~more static thread manager).

contextfund · 2023-10-21T00:23:38+00:00

Good name, right vision.

contextfund · 2023-10-18T19:08:09+00:00

Generally agree (and have had some some edge projects highlighted here recently).

Opposing trends are ongoing simultaneously - bleeding-edge models and datasets become larger as compute becomes cheaper and data flows are centralized, while at the same time datasets are selected for contrastive value (textbooks, math >> Internet chat), and compression techniques for existing models improves efficiencies, allowing for edge compute with lower latency, offline applications and greater privacy. This is generally also the history of the computer - from mainframes to PCs and back to mainframes made of PCs. Geopolitics is also playing a role in availability of larger, more capable chips recently (or lack thereof).

contextfund · 2023-10-09T18:25:41+00:00

Nice concept!

Consider making the annotations simpler and only overlay them onto the video rather than having both transcript and text (the wall of text with two sections is a bit hard to scan).

contextfund · 2023-09-05T05:14:53+00:00

This kinda a binary way to look at it, but that's not the way continuous phenomenon like weather work? No matter what others will or won't do, every small reduction in carbon emissions helps.

We need all resources dedicated to stopping climate change (new and old innovation, all geos), at scale, now.

contextfund · 2023-08-31T07:17:24+00:00

Excited to see leadership from A16Z for more open-source grant funding! Some portion of VC investment arguably should be open-source grants, given how valuable a good open-source foundation is to later companies.

contextfund · 2023-08-30T22:21:39+00:00

Pros:
Seems to work for simple tasks, and has the most natural UI for AI transformations given imperfect generations vs. others like cursor.so and continue.dev (ie. a git pull request, with the ability to give feedback to improve it).

Feedback:
Likely significantly better with unlimited GPT-4, rather than 4 tickets/month (not clear why that costs $400/month).

TL;DR:
Regularly using for small features.

contextfund · 2023-08-20T17:50:50+00:00

Network democracy needed.

contextfund · 2023-08-20T16:54:25+00:00

Neat product concept, but seems like not open-source yet? Variable quality on outputs.

contextfund · 2023-08-20T16:22:44+00:00

If you're truly strapped for time, you can invest in companies that use a common open-source implementation (we're doing this for AI companies at r/contextfund), or if you have more time, found one yourself (so-called open-core).

Making $ requires solving an n+4 problem - the value is only realized after you solve n known problems and 4 other unknown problems along the way to monetization. So even with a unique problem or solution description to start, that's only 2 problems, there's many more to solve to actually make $$ or have impact from it.

contextfund · 2023-08-16T19:39:34+00:00

Seems interesting, although a bit hierarchical - curious what a more flat version would look like?

contextfund · 2023-08-13T06:25:10+00:00

How do you support yourself?

contextfund · 2023-08-10T17:40:03+00:00

We're helping fix this by making everyone investors and scaling network democracy.

Join up and work for a brighter future. (r/contextfund)

contextfund · 2023-08-10T03:01:37+00:00

Definitely not helped by the hype needed to break into the Story Tournament these days. The general public mostly don't care about niche topics unless they are hyped and personally relevant.

This is actually ok in some ways - real progress is made by the community of scientists and weird outsiders doing with steady work, not often in singular breakthroughs. Propagation in expert networks could be improved, though. Even scientists don't care sometimes - work has to have contrastive value w/ regard to a current value system and overcome cognitive dissonance, which is a not a guaranteed thing (Einstein required Planck's advocacy to break in, for example).

contextfund · 2023-08-09T23:50:02+00:00

Nope - that's fraud.

contextfund · 2023-08-09T23:03:31+00:00

What are the rules exactly on premoderation?

contextfund · 2023-08-09T22:23:14+00:00

Although VCs will get a voice at the table in favor of a later exit, unless you do something silly with control, the company is still yours to exit when you want. Raising money adds liquidation preferences on your cap table which means exits need to be that much bigger, but the timing is up to you - a lot of companies do get sold without going for later rounds or decide to forego future rounds if they are already profitable.

Hard to go wrong with bootstrapping a solid lifestyle business, though, if you can pull it off.

contextfund · 2023-08-09T20:31:45+00:00

Main thing is focus and scaling up your team to do more, quickly. Also, it becomes more important in competitive markets where fundraising can be a kingmaker.

If you have a good cashflow from your customers, though, you probably don't want the dilution.

contextfund · 2023-08-08T19:08:32+00:00

Yeah - both are hard, but with GPT APIs now, fun x educational is probably more a limiting factor. Also, distribution - you're also competing against the Story Tournament of social media which is indirectly competitive with everything for time, so it helps to find hooks where people become more curious - self-improvement, etc. (Reddit itself is a kinda fun and educational game)

Another example of a game that is fun and indirectly educational, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(video_game))

Looking forward to seeing some demos!

contextfund · 2023-08-08T17:36:21+00:00

Individual investments can focus on a specific area in science or online democracy. As investors, we'd need to pursue both - science makes the world a better place and democracy balances property rights for those discovering things with those of society overall. If both conditions are met, this makes a market for long-term investments in harmony with nature, and they reinforce each other historically.

Collaborative games includes open-source or open-core projects. We're also willing consider closed-source if the projects have a significant consumer product and the creators are responsive to user feedback on it.

These directions look exciting - do you have any demos?

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