andreybaskov

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by andreybaskov 7d ago
In my opinion going to the gym for one bench press is better than sitting at home watching tv. Would love to hear your suggestions on how to stay in ”mental” shape in the AI age.
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by andreybaskov 8d ago
I’ve learned for myself that I need to write code just to keep my brain in shape - same as going to the gym to be healthy. Even though agents are building all of my code now, I’m starting every morning with a LeetCode problem. There is no p
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by andreybaskov 3mo ago
As someone who built a niche SaaS I can see both sides of this. If you are looking to replicate the exact same feature set of an existing product - buying would almost always be a better choice. But it's rare for avg customer needs to
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by andreybaskov 5mo ago
Curious, how did you deal with inspections and building codes? Or is it in a county with no building codes?
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by andreybaskov 5mo ago
Finally, now I know I'm not the only one! These sharp edges constantly cut into my wrists to the point I was thinking of doing the same, or glueing some kind of kind soft padding to the edges. Great someone did it. I wonder how far can
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by andreybaskov 6mo ago
Sadly, memory bandwidth is abysmal compared to Apple chips - 273 GB/s vs 614 GB/s on M5 Max for similar price. Even though fp4 compute is faster, it doesn't help for all the decode heavy agentic workflows.
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by andreybaskov 6mo ago
Reading this was a roller coaster for me. Because of a bad habit reading comments before the link I knew it was AI. I read it regardless, and... I still enjoyed it! I'm very much not a writer or a critic, so my definition of good writi
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by andreybaskov 6mo ago
Just wanted to say that I've felt the same about the images. To me it's likely was the text that for some reason had AI-feel to it. Great story though, I was in awe learning it was AI generated.
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by andreybaskov 6mo ago
In basic scenarios agree it’s possible. I’ve similarly toyed with building a small language and LLM picks it up. But that’s an additional context and it’s never felt like it worked “out of the box” vs say Typescript. Just saying that it’s a
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by andreybaskov 6mo ago
Synthetic codebases are certainly an option, but if top models remain closed I don’t see them building datasets for every new language.
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by andreybaskov 6mo ago
That's cool! Do you have any info on how manufacturing is done in the US?
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by andreybaskov 6mo ago
It's a legitimate question to ask about any new language post AI - given there is no training dataset, any other language would work better with AI. The bigger problem is maintainability over the long term, Deno is built by Node.js cre
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Ask HN: What is the future of open source?
1 points by andreybaskov 7mo ago|0 comments
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by andreybaskov 7mo ago
Great summary of the current state of AI coding, without all the hype. I wonder though if we are fundamentally limited by LLMs architecture to come up with some novel architecture. Or is it just a limitation of current prompting and tools?
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by andreybaskov 7mo ago
I'm testing ground heat rejection system that dumps heat into the ground. It needs a lot of space, but you need it for panels anyways.
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by andreybaskov 7mo ago
Solar-powered data center in a desert. Fully off-grid using solar, batteries and Starlink for uplink. Focusing on AI inference at the beginning. Currently building our first prototype and testing cooling solutions. https://solarc
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by andreybaskov 8mo ago
Original Apple II manuals written by Chris Espinosa and Jef Raskin are a treat to read. Would highly recommend, just to get a sense of what it was like to get onboarded on Apple II back in the day. And then obviously Programming the 6502 by
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by andreybaskov 9mo ago
Out of all things I'm actually surprised they went straight to custom silicon, but gotta respect that decision. It's likely the only way to compete with Tesla right now.
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by andreybaskov 10mo ago
Thank you for saying this. It's almost like others are saying we should stop trying things because they are hard and challenging. I wish we could dream a bit bigger rather than coming up with reasons something will fail.
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by andreybaskov 10mo ago
I don't think we need that for 1,000x. We can building more solar, nuclear and there is still room for at least 10x improvement in efficiency for the chips. We are far far away from maxing out our compute capability as civilization bef
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by andreybaskov 10mo ago
I agree scaling alone is not enough, and transformers itself is a proof of that - it was an iteration on the attention mechanism and a few other changes. But no matter what the next big thing is, I'm sure it would immediately fill all
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by andreybaskov 10mo ago
> What high quality data sources are not already tapped? Synthetic data? Video? > Where does the next 1000x flops come from? Even with Moore's law dead, we can easily build 1,000x more computers. And for arguments about lack of p
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by andreybaskov 10mo ago
I see LLMs in a similar way - a new UI paradigm that "clicks the right buttons" when you know what you need, but don't know exact names of the buttons to click. And from my experience there are lots and lots of jobs that are
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by andreybaskov 10mo ago
Say we discover a new architecture breakthrough like Yann LeCun's proposed JEPA. Won't scaling laws apply to it anyway? Suppose training is so efficient that you can train state of the art AGI on a few GPUs. If it's better th
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by andreybaskov 10mo ago
Thanks! That's a great way to analyze it by comparing to open source models. Though I wonder if they use the same hardware for gpt-oss-120b and Claude Opus.
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by andreybaskov 10mo ago
Does anyone know or have a guess on the size of this latest thinking models and what hardware they use to run inference? As in how much memory and what quantization it uses and if it's "theoretically" possible to run it on so
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by andreybaskov 11mo ago
Exactly. It's software - `curl` or LLM. It's a function that accepts input and produces output. One is much more sophisticated that the other, but it's made out of the same machine instructions, there is no magic. What's
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by andreybaskov 11mo ago
Apologies, I didn't mean to spam, haven't seen the other thread that picked up more votes and was really curious about where the line is. I completely understand private businesses having a right to refuse a service without a caus
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by andreybaskov 11mo ago
I know its there. But we _prefer_ to have a single account to simplify tracking and picking up packages. I'm curious if from their point of view (or their ToS) I'm even allowed to share my credentials with anyone else. 1Password s
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by andreybaskov 11mo ago
Interesting. Amazon ToS actually has a section about agents - https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=... And they even provide a definition of what an Agent is: "Agent” means any sof

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