Daniel_Van_Zant

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by Daniel_Van_Zant 6d ago
Lumen Labs | Robotics / Hardware Engineer | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Full-time | $130k–200k + equity | https://lumenresearch.co I'm Daniel, co-founder. Lumen Labs is building the cognitive layer for physical AI. Ne
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by Daniel_Van_Zant 2mo ago
Lumen Labs | Simulation/RL Integration Engineer | REMOTE (US/Canada), then ONSITE SF from fall 2026 | $130k–200k + early equity | Visa OK Lumen ( https://lumenresearch.ai ) is building the cognitive layer for physical AI
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by Daniel_Van_Zant 1y ago
Honestly having an AI agent that interviews a interviewees agent sounds like a great "first filter" for certain tech jobs if you do it right. As in "here are the api specs, build an agent that can receive questions and reply
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by Daniel_Van_Zant 1y ago
As someone that enjoys carpentry, I don't think I would be entirely upset about this way of taking the question haha.
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by Daniel_Van_Zant 1y ago
I have dealt with this issue as well before. If folks need something more in depth I will use a LLM + some massaging of my own to create a supporting document. Here is an example of a very disorganized conversation and the supporting docume
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by Daniel_Van_Zant 1y ago
I agree with the author, but I would also say there is something above goals and constraints. Values. A set of things that, when comparing multiple options, make the choice clear. An example of some values I frequently use is "What wi
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by Daniel_Van_Zant 1y ago
I fight to record any presentations I do as often as possible. When I am asked for the slides I send the full recording instead as the way to manage this exact issue.
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by Daniel_Van_Zant 2y ago
I'm glad someone else had the same thought. I have been wondering what their "secret sauce" is for a while given how their model doesn't degrade for long-context nearly as much as other LLMs that are otherwise competitiv
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by Daniel_Van_Zant 2y ago
Is there any effort to organize scientific literature like this? I know journals often generate tags for papers but those can often be quite poor and restricted to the field The journal is in. I would happily join a volunteer effort to crea
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by Daniel_Van_Zant 2y ago
Have been searching for a deep research tool that I can hook up to both my personal notes (in Obsidian) and the web and this looks like this has those capabilities. Now the only piece left is to figure out a way to export the deep research
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by Daniel_Van_Zant 2y ago
I see Cohere, is there any support for in-line citations like you can get with their first party API?
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by Daniel_Van_Zant 2y ago
Being able to control how many tokens are spent on thinking is a game-changer. I've been building fairly complex, efficient, systems with many LLMs. Despite the advantages, reasoning models have been a no-go due to how variable the co
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by Daniel_Van_Zant 2y ago
Thanks for the explanation this was very helpful. You've given me a whole new list of stuff to Google. The quasipotential/comittor functions especially seem quite interesting although I'm having a bit of trouble finding good
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by Daniel_Van_Zant 2y ago
This out of everything, convvinced me. The more I get the "full picture" the more I appreciate what a wondrous thing computers are. I've learned all the way down to Forth/C and from the bottom up to programming FPGAs wit
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by Daniel_Van_Zant 2y ago
This looks to be very cool will check it out. Wild to see it on a Mario Kart Wii Site, but I guess modders/hackers are one of the groups of people who still need to work with assembly frequently.
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by Daniel_Van_Zant 2y ago
Is stochastic calculus something that requires a computer to stimulate many possible unfolding of events, or is there a more elegant mathematical way to solve for some of the important final outputs and probability distributions if you know
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by Daniel_Van_Zant 2y ago
I'm curious from anyone who has done it. Is there any "pleasure" to be had in learning or implementing assembly (like there is for LISP or RISC-V) or is it something you learn and implement because you want to do something el
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The scale vs. intelligence trade-off in RAG(substack.com)
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by Daniel_Van_Zant 2y ago
I think there is a large pool of near minimum-wage white collar workers who wouldn't care about that difference when it comes to executing on their jobs. These are the folks who are already using VBScript, AutoHotKey, Excel wizardry, e
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by Daniel_Van_Zant 2y ago
I agree that at the business contract level, it's more about sales and regulations than tech. But in my experience working close to minimum wage white-collar jobs, about 1 in 4 of my coworkers had automated most of their job with some
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by Daniel_Van_Zant 2y ago
What made you decide to build for the NES specifically at opposed to building for a fantasy console with similar restrictions but more usability like the Pico-8?
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by Daniel_Van_Zant 2y ago
Yeah! I am a computational neuroscientist and I was trying to understand this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.01678 so I had added the paper to my personal Gnosi and was asking questions about it. I had added this pa
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by Daniel_Van_Zant 2y ago
This looks cool. Would be willing to pay for it if there was a RSS option.
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by Daniel_Van_Zant 2y ago
Gnosi: https://www.gnosi.ai/ . Y You can auto-generate a constantly updated encyclopedia from a set of documents and conversations with an AI about those documents. Trying to make the process of having a Zettlkasten or pers