dmvaldman

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How Statisticians Split a Bill(dmvaldman.github.io)
2 points by dmvaldman 2mo ago|0 comments
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How Statisticians Split a Bill(dmvaldman.github.io)
8 points by dmvaldman 3mo ago|0 comments
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by dmvaldman 5mo ago
A ring you can talk into and it controls an agent on your phone. Eg say "pick me up" and an Uber arrives. Looking for people who know hardware well. Let's get to know one another on a flight to Shenzhen :P
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by dmvaldman 8mo ago
may the REM sleep gods light your path
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by dmvaldman 8mo ago
thanks for catching this!
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by dmvaldman 8mo ago
1000%
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The Alignment Game (2023)(dmvaldman.github.io)
55 points by dmvaldman 8mo ago|9 comments
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by dmvaldman 8mo ago
it's a lot of work, but something you could do is track how you feel (manually or some other way) and do a similar statistical analysis. chess elo was just convenient and aligned for me.
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by dmvaldman 8mo ago
thank you! i think it's ridiculous how little they invest in their developer ecosystem. i have been thinking about jumping ship to oura or whoop simply because of this.
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Training my smartwatch to track intelligence(dmvaldman.github.io)
156 points by dmvaldman 8mo ago|68 comments
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by dmvaldman 8mo ago
This misses that agentic LLMs are trained via RL to use specific tools. Adding custom tools is subpar to those the model has been trained with. That's why Claude Code has an advantage, over say, Cursor, by being vertically integrated.
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A Game to Align People and Priorities(docs.google.com)
3 points by dmvaldman 3y ago|1 comments
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Leaving the Company I Co-founded(dmvaldman.github.io)
3 points by dmvaldman 5y ago|0 comments
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by dmvaldman 5y ago
i have a different take. i'm very glad flat earthers exist. in general i would hope the population of people who believe an idea be proportional to the probability of its truth. so even the wildest ideas should have some modicum of sup
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by dmvaldman 5y ago
language will be the next interface to software. to get software to do something, you will simply ask it. this work is an example. i've been documenting this theme in a twitter thread here https://twitter.com/dmvaldman&
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by dmvaldman 6y ago
I think this is generally a good answer, but keep in mind I said AGI "in text". My forecasting is that within 3 years you will be able to give arbitrary text commands and get the textual output of the equivalents of "clean my
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by dmvaldman 6y ago
what is the difference between zero-shot learning in text and AGI? not saying there isn't one, but can you state what it is?you can express any intent in text (unlike other media). to solve zero-shot in text is equivalent to the model
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by dmvaldman 6y ago
i think you are assuming that what is happening under the hood is that a human-inputted sentence is being parsed into a grammar. it is not.
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by dmvaldman 6y ago
Zero shot and few-shot learning in GPT-3 and lack of significant diminishing returns in scaling text models. Zero-shot learning is equivalent to saying "i'm just going to ask the model something that it was not trained to do"
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by dmvaldman 6y ago
AGI in text is < 3yrs away.
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by dmvaldman 6y ago
I think these are good examples, but to me "linear algebra thinking" lies in it's generality. For example, the derivative is a linear operator, so how do you write it down as a matrix? Google's PageRank is a solution of
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by dmvaldman 6y ago
80/20 rule? Make the problem simpler and deliver a better solution for it. Revisit and grow the problem space as needed.
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by dmvaldman 6y ago
[off topic] FYI, i found this comment by subscribing to the RSS feed of your HN comments on Fraidycat (by linking to https://edavis.github.io/hnrss/ for your username) Very cool!
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First look at Apple/Google contact tracing framework(twitter.com)
208 points by dmvaldman 6y ago|109 comments
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by dmvaldman 7y ago
scratch everything i said. the tool can import any RSS feed. so you're 100% right, it can already do HN posts/comments/etc from specific people
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by dmvaldman 7y ago
thanks for sharing! did not know about this! this could be the foundation of what my request was implying. it's the data pipe, but would need the frontend the OP is building
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by dmvaldman 7y ago
have you considered following hackernews profiles? (comments, posts, etc) also, best promo video of all time and amazing concept. we'd be great friends IRL. alas.
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by dmvaldman 7y ago
thousands of people should be studying this. we’ll look back on these moments as the dawn of a new empirical science
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Brave Rewards Now on Android(brave.com)
2 points by dmvaldman 7y ago|0 comments
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Standard.Ai (YC S17) Is Hiring a React Native Developer in SF
1 points by dmvaldman 8y ago

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