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by ahzhou 7mo ago
Fast as in time-to-market
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by ahzhou 1y ago
VC vs bootstrap is usually based on company TAM. There are certainly high growth bootstrapped businesses.
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by ahzhou 1y ago
Not common in Silicon Valley, but much more common in the rest of the country. There’s an archetype for bootstrapped tech businesses: - highly vertical specific - couple hundred million TAM - founder started the business in the
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by ahzhou 2y ago
It’s a tensor stored in GPU memory to improve inference throughput. Check out the PagedAttention (which introduces vLLM) paper for how most systems implement it nowadays.
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by ahzhou 2y ago
They slightly restructure their MoE [1], but I think the main difference is that other big models (e.g Llama 504B) are dense and have higher FLOP requirements. MoE should represent a ~5x improvement. FP8 should be about a ~2x improvement. W
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by ahzhou 2y ago
You can easily do a fermi estimate based on the information given. They are comparing GPU hours. See: https://planetbanatt.net/articles/v3fermi.html
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by ahzhou 2y ago
I might be missing something, but DeepSeek’s recipe is right there in plain sight. Most of the cost efficiency of DeepSeek v3 seem to be attributable to MoE and FP8 training. DeepSeek R1s improvements are from GRPO-based RL. Interesting to
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by ahzhou 2y ago
LLMs are inherently bad at this due to tokenization, scaling, and lack of training on the task. Anthropic’s computer use feature has a specialized model for pixel-counting: > Training Claude to count pixels accurately was critical. With
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by ahzhou 2y ago
Author: @fandzomga Username: fsndz Why try to funnel us to your paywalled article?
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by ahzhou 2y ago
Conditionally yes. There are many libraries that cannot be tree shaken for various reasons. Libraries typically need to stick to a subset of full JS to ensure that the code can be statically analyzed.
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by ahzhou 2y ago
GraphQL is very powerful when combined with Relay. It’s useless extra bloat if you just use it like REST. The difference between the two technologies is that LangChain was developed and funded before anyone know what to do with LLMs and Gra
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by ahzhou 2y ago
To be fair, LLM-based chatbots are much better about this because you don't need to discover the magic incantation to talk to a human. It's a trade-off because that same property introduces the possibility of hallucination.
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by ahzhou 2y ago
It depends on the business, but the kind of metrics you are talking about are measured and taken seriously. People have absolutely gotten fired for CS quality KPI drops.
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by ahzhou 2y ago
While it may not happen for you, “too lazy to look it up” is the vast majority of CS requests. My understanding from talking to a couple of CS execs is that these have been a slam dunk in terms of ROI because CS agents don’t need to handle
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by ahzhou 2y ago
> AppStore would be dead on arrival Certainly not. PMF was already established via the jailbreaking scene and Installer.app / Cydia. Millions of people went through the annoying processing of jailbreaking their phone to get apps.
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by ahzhou 2y ago
If you’re saying that economics is a foundational driver of progress, then yes - almost by definition. Banks and investors provide liquidity to the system, which is just one of many things the market demands.
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by ahzhou 2y ago
Yes, this is a fundamental weakness with LLMs. Unfortunately this is likely unsolvable because the search space is exponential. Techniques like beam search help, but can only introduce a constant scaling factor. That said, LLM reach their c
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by ahzhou 3y ago
They fall under a few buckets: Driver: - node-postgres - node-mysql2 Query Builder / Other thin clients: - knex - kysely - slonik ORM: - TypeORM - MikroORM - Objection.js - DrizzleORM - Prisma (actually runs a separate binary)
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by ahzhou 3y ago
Its a two sided marketplace and companies only care about the conversion they get from different channels. If demand dries up, it will be reflected in more attractive pricing - I don’t think it’s likely that the entire market pulls out. FWI
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by ahzhou 3y ago
Css modules would be great, except there’s bad tooling in VSCode. Autocomplete through Typescript is the killer feature of Panda / Vanilla extract, not that you can style.
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by ahzhou 3y ago
I was thinking about this too, but the wife of an actor and someone two years out of her masters were not the caliber people that should have been on the board of an $80B company. I would expect people with backgrounds like Sheryl Sandberg
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by ahzhou 3y ago
Firing a CEO is an extraordinary measure only taken in dramatic situations. Yes, the board can do it, but the legal and reputation risks are such that at the very least you let the CEO resign and pass the torch down.
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by ahzhou 3y ago
You’re right - the board construction is remarkably bad. Seems like it was a classic case of centralizing power by stuffing the board with relative nobodies.
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by ahzhou 3y ago
It’s incredibly common in every East Asian coastal cuisine. If you live near the coast, you can easily forage your own too.
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by ahzhou 3y ago
Mexico has been a victim of corruption since before it was a nation. Its political system under the Spanish was designed for efficient resource extraction and labor exploitation. Its home-grown system in the 1930's was created for the
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by ahzhou 3y ago
I agree it's complex. I'm not blaming the US. Like most problems in the world, it's a result of circumstance, not because there's a bad guy. It's not like there's a magical solution to market forces applying to
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by ahzhou 3y ago
I'm not even sure how Mexico manages to dig itself out. The only way to root out the cartels seems to just hope that the US figures out how to manage its drug market. It's a pity - Mexico is so rich in culture but is just absolute
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by ahzhou 3y ago
I’ve never understood ESG funds. 1) It’s hard to reliably turn ESG goals into fair (non-gameable) portfolio metrics to incentivize funds 2) LPs still want funds to make returns, so even if they define good metrics, they still want most of t
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by ahzhou 3y ago
Smart bulbs are a PITA anyways. If you just need on/off/dim (most people) a Lutron Caseta based system is way more reliable and you don't need to worry about unintuitive light switches.
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by ahzhou 3y ago
> Why not spend the money building better power plants? This is equivalent to the “build it and customers will come” fallacy of startups. You still have to convince humans that it’s all worth it. The US could have had the nuclear industr

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