Stromgren

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by Stromgren 2mo ago
In fact it came out as the absolute best in a comparison by Tencent (1). See table 4. It’s more than a year old though. 1. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.09101
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by Stromgren 2mo ago
For sure high end perfumes are high margin products. Can’t be a lot of cost in producing a $100 perfume. But I also feel like it’s a bit besides the point. Seeing pallet after pallet of perfumes getting destroyed every month should be an in
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by Stromgren 2mo ago
My dad worked at a logistics facility, the amount of perfume he took home was ridiculous - and you’d think that something like perfume would never go stale. It does from a brand perspective and they do everything they can to have it destroy
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by Stromgren 2mo ago
Of course there is. It’s not about the _amount_ of files or how many percent of them. I might have 1000 files that I’m fine having the LLM read and then some that it really shouldn’t. The problem here is plainly uploading your whole directo
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by Stromgren 2mo ago
There’s a hell of a difference between a tool that asks my permission to read a file to make it part of a prompt and a tool that packages up my whole working directory and sends it to Google Cloud Storage.
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by Stromgren 2mo ago
The things you allow the LLM to read will obviously be sent as part of a prompt. You can control that though. Reads are tool calls and you can configure permissions for that or be asked every time the agent wants to read something. This is
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by Stromgren 2mo ago
No I disagree. A harness reading a file is a tool call and it happens locally, which means that I can control it. I can configure that I need to permit any file reads and now I _should_ have control of what is sent. The difference between t
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by Stromgren 2mo ago
This was posted on HN yesterday: https://gist.github.com/cereblab/dc9a40bc26120f4540e4e09b75f... If it’s to be trusted, it has nothing to do with the “agent” or what’s sent to the LLM. The harness will just straight up
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by Stromgren 3mo ago
I have a last name that only my family holds in Denmark (which means me and my brother by now), yet it managed to tag me a Professional Football Player, MP for the Socialist Party and Founder of a Sleep Mattress Company. I do like the visua
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by Stromgren 3mo ago
Why _too_ late? Late, yes, but you’re implying that some line was crossed.
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by Stromgren 5mo ago
I run a SaaS business on the side of my job and have been for 15 years. There’s a million questions I’ve never had the time to dig into although the data was there. Retention cohorts, free to paid tier conversions, subscription upgrades&#x2
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by Stromgren 6mo ago
That’s how I’d want it to be honestly. LLMs are tools and I’d hope we’re going to keep the people using them responsible. Just like any other tools we use.
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by Stromgren 6mo ago
I’ve been involved in building a system that reads structured data from a special form of contracts from a specific industry. Prices, clauses, pick up, delivery, etc. A couple hundred datapoints per contract. We had many discussions around
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by Stromgren 6mo ago
Agreed. I’ve used their platform to train smaller, specialized models. Something I could have done in Codelab or some other tool, but their platform allows me to just upload a training set and as soon as it finishes I have a hosted model av
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by Stromgren 7mo ago
I saw the cost of the three downed planes somewhere else and thought the price was huge. Now I see that it’s comparable to “First Tomahawk salvo”.
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by Stromgren 7mo ago
Yea it wasn’t meant as a counter argument either. To be honest I haven’t even looked at competitors for some years. I guess one drawback of using third-parties for such a big part of the responsibilities is the lock in. The benefits of swit
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by Stromgren 7mo ago
I find Stripes fees excessive too, but I don’t think I’ll ever switch. I’ve been running a small SaaS product on the side of other work for >15 years and if it taught me one thing, it’s that I need to reduce the things I have to maintain
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by Stromgren 7mo ago
I very much appreciate this take. I will say though that I’ve had experience myself where using coding agents lead me to what I’d consider (in your terminology) a better mapping between information and code. Not because the agent was able t
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by Stromgren 7mo ago
I use Tidewave as my coding agent and it’s able to execute code in the runtime. I believe it’s using Code.eval_string/3, but you should be able to check the implementation. It’s the project_eval tool. In my experience it’s a huge leap
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by Stromgren 7mo ago
It depends where I look. Among colleagues and tech-native friends, I feel like there’s healthy skepticism as well as the excitement about new tech. On the other hand, all the investment podcasts that I’ve been following for years are nothin
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by Stromgren 7mo ago
And if you make someone 3x faster at producing a report that 100 people has to read, but it now takes 10% longer to read and understand, you’ve lost overall value.
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A better approach to determining gender from a first name(genderize.io)
27 points by Stromgren 13y ago|60 comments
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by Stromgren 13y ago
Hey. thanks! The API doesn't actually use name sets like that. Though that was my first approach. I changed it to use lists of profiles from social networks. So when a name is requested it looks up every profile with that name and coun
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by Stromgren 13y ago
Hey Dillon. It only found one match for "Dillon" in the dataset, which was a male. If Dillon is gender neutral the probability will probably change into some decimal when the dataset grows.
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by Stromgren 13y ago
Thanks a lot. I'll look into this. Regarding missing names. I'm adding around 10.000 profiles a day to the dataset. So it get's better by the minute :) Not that huge a dataset yet.
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My approach to guessing a gender from a first name.
13 points by Stromgren 13y ago|12 comments
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by Stromgren 13y ago
Hey Ryan I think most of these names will result in prober responses now.
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by Stromgren 13y ago
A "confidence level" will now be recieved :)
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by Stromgren 13y ago
Hello. I'm the author of genderize.io. At the time of your comments i was slowly getting this API up and running. A lot of sudden traffic made that a little hard :) At the time, i was utilizing a few lists of officially approved names