apollopower

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Windows 95 is 31 years old today(jonaserthal.com)
4 points by apollopower 24d ago|2 comments
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by apollopower 2mo ago
Cool stuff. From my understanding, this is less valuable at inference time and more useful when running offline pre-training data prep. When tokenizing terabytes of text for your training corpus, the speedup here is probably doing real work
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by apollopower 1y ago
Hi HN, I started working on Alki because wrangling and deploying AI models on edge devices felt clunky. Going from a Hugging Face model to something production-ready required too many manual steps. Alki aims to simplify that by offering mor
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Deploy LLMs at the edge: Alki OSS toolchain(github.com)
1 points by apollopower 1y ago|1 comments
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by apollopower 1y ago
Congrats Recall team, I've been a customer for the past 1.5 years and the entire infra layer behind meetings has let our company really focus on "what makes our beer taste better" instead of having to worry about building uni
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Ask HN: Is this a theory/rule in Mathematics?
2 points by apollopower 5y ago|5 comments
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by apollopower 6y ago
Funny to think about now with hindsight - but a prototype version of the Magic Leap One. It was an incredibly novel feeling of seeing the room I was in get mapped out, furniture and all, to see interfaces and 3d models rendered in a way tha
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by apollopower 6y ago
The book "Lost Connections" by Johann Hari (which I discovered through HN) has helped me a lot in understanding so much of the context of what makes so many of us feel depression and anxiety at many points in our lives. A big part
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by apollopower 6y ago
Thanks for sharing your experience. As a 25 year old right in the thick of it, trying to find my own personal balance, I'm curious to know your thoughts some more: 1. What are some of the trade-offs you're still feeling the impact
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Ask HN: How to overcome your skill plateau as a programmer?
2 points by apollopower 6y ago|1 comments
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by apollopower 7y ago
They mentioned Houston. I'm currently living in Houston, working as a SWE, and can attest to the pros of living here. Regarding your concerns, the city is quite demographically diverse from people of all walks of life. Summers do get h
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by apollopower 7y ago
We don't need no remote control
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by apollopower 7y ago
If access to clean data was what set Renaissance apart, we'd most likely see other funds/firms do just as well or Renaissance's returns be much lower. Market data services such as Reuters/Morning Star provide incredibly
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by apollopower 7y ago
Renaissance Technologies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_Technologies Founded by Jim Simons, the "Father" of quantitative research. The firm is famous for their significant year-over-year returns a
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Waffle.io Is Shutting Down(waffle.io)
9 points by apollopower 8y ago|2 comments
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by apollopower 8y ago
The generated pages definitely are very structured, with each page belonging to a certain area/subject (ie. "Blockchain for Kids" is then presented as "Not just a Blockchain"). A lot seems to be cut-and-paste togeth
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by apollopower 8y ago
Thats understandable. Where "This Waifu Does Not Exist" serves as a demonstration of GANs, "This Startup Does Not Exist" is more of a satirical jab on how "disruptive" startup endeavors are really generic effor