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by adamsmith 11mo ago
We have not announced anything formally RE fundraising, but we are well funded and growing the team quickly. All offers include competitive equity.
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by adamsmith 1y ago
> it's always more worthwhile to debate and work with people who have to consistently match their predictions against reality Yes! Fast, clear feedback loops provide such a boost!
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The Four Styles of Confidence on a Team(adamsmith.cc)
22 points by adamsmith 1y ago|3 comments
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by adamsmith 2y ago
If it’s helpful here is the prompt I use to clean up voice-memo transcripts: https://gist.github.com/adamsmith/2a22b08d3d4a11fb9fe06531ae...
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by adamsmith 3y ago
For Python's syntax: https://docs.python.org/3/library/ast.html If you want examples of code → ast, googling for [python ast visualizer] turns up a few tools
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by adamsmith 3y ago
There’s a lot to unpack in the quoted passage, but it is not an ad hominem attack. That you think it is, and then turn around to make an ad hominem argument of your own explains your misinterpretation.
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by adamsmith 3y ago
If anything this will turn out to be the opposite of the truth: People hit by autonomous cars will have more to go after in court than those hit by individuals, many of whom don't have adequate coverage or savings to compensate victims
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by adamsmith 4y ago
Ivan Sutherland wrote one of my all-time favorite pieces, called Technology and Courage. It's a short read, here: https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~wgg/smli_ps-1.pdf He talks about the courage it takes to do risky work in
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by adamsmith 4y ago
Thank you Quinn! It's been both cool and instructive to see Sourcegraph take off. Godspeed!
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by adamsmith 4y ago
It could be doing some "fine tuning" based on the repo. That would be cool! That said, what I meant when referring to 'understanding' the non-local nature of code was in a more principled way. For example, if an object d
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by adamsmith 4y ago
Does it seem to only understand imports of public libraries? If so, it's likely that, rather than understanding the contents of those libraries, it's learning from others' use of those library APIs. If not, it is likely just
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by adamsmith 4y ago
Yes, this was precisely what I was referring to. In small-enough programs (e.g. one file) Copilot has all the context. The other extreme would be something like the Chromium codebase. Because of this, Copilot looks better in quick demos tha
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by adamsmith 6y ago
The higher the frequency the more data you can send. This is known as the Shannon Limit. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noisy-channel_coding_theorem
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by adamsmith 6y ago
Super interesting question. I don't know. I suspect they will dominate all the largest technology markets for the long run, unless the government intervenes. I might be wrong. They may not dominate the future of "technology market
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by adamsmith 6y ago
> I've tried to explain this to VC firms. Instead of making one $2 million investment, make five $400k investments. Would that mean sitting on too many boards? Don't sit on their boards. Would that mean too much due diligence?
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Kite Now Integrates with Notebooks(kite.com)
1 points by adamsmith 6y ago|0 comments
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by adamsmith 6y ago
Yes, there are orders of magnitude of scale in both fields. In software it can cost $10k to build an app but Google Search costs $10^10: a six orders of magnitude difference. In music there’s got to be a big dynamic range in effort involved
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by adamsmith 6y ago
The turnarounds always happen quickly after the fed takes serious action. Consider the 2008 crisis, or take 1933 (I believe?) when we broke from the gold standard: immediate exit from the Great Depression. The fed and congress have been ver
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by adamsmith 6y ago
Hi there, Kite at most about half of what TabNine uses, often less than that.
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by adamsmith 6y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful message! We hope you'll give Kite another shot. We're always improving it and have covered a lot of ground in the last few years. In particular, a common complaint about TabNine on Twitter is that it&#x27
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by adamsmith 6y ago
We hear you. We agree this was a mistake, and over the ~three years since then we've listened to the community, for example by releasing local processing for Kite.
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by adamsmith 6y ago
Thanks, we believe we fixed this. Could you try again? Thanks for your patience!
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by adamsmith 6y ago
Hi there, thanks for the question. IntelliCode has a similar vision but uses much simpler models. IntelliCode can essentially give you to the top 5 attributes for a global type. Kite uses statistical models which are orders of magnitude lar
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by adamsmith 6y ago
Adam from Kite here. The team and I are thrilled to launch our new deep learning engine for JavaScript completions. After years of work building our Python product — now to over 250,000 monthly active users — we decided we were ready to exp
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by adamsmith 7y ago
Hi, this is Adam from Kite. Thanks for checking us out and for the write-up! The DGPU point caught my attention. Kite should only use CPU, even for its tensorflow tasks. Could you email me at adam@Kite.com? I'd love to learn more about
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by adamsmith 7y ago
You need semantic understanding to do several of those operations. Parsing often isn’t sufficient.
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Kite Announces Intelligent Snippets for Python(medium.com)
2 points by adamsmith 7y ago|0 comments
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by adamsmith 7y ago
Congrats on the fundraise Greg and team! Does this mean that OpenAI may not disclose progress, papers with details, and/or open source code as much as in the past? In other words, what proprietary advantage will Microsoft gain when lic
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by adamsmith 7y ago
Kite used to be cloud-powered which meant users had to trust us with their code. In January we announced "going cloudless" -- we moved all processing back to the client and code is no longer sent to our servers. (You can find the
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by adamsmith 7y ago
Great to hear Kite has been a useful part of your workflow, thanks for being a user!

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