havercosine

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by havercosine 10d ago
I wanted to believe this had something to do with revenue share with Microsoft terminating if AGI arrived. But I think that claude was negotiated again. Now its just Jensen pumping them to buy even bigger cluster :-P .
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by havercosine 1mo ago
Congratulations. 28MB is impressive, I've not played around with actual queries/outputs. I'm wondering what is the overall thesis/plan here and where exactly the innovation lies? Would love if you can throw light on belo
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by havercosine 2mo ago
In case if any Physics learner finds this useful: Susan Rigetti's list is great if you are planning to do a late life PhD in Physics but not if you are re-learning it on the sideline of normal career as a hobby. I've found many ha
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by havercosine 2mo ago
It is honestly hard to predict. We are currently in everyone is building website/mobile app/gadget era of AI. Very few places are questioning what is worth building. Short term, we can compare this to 2-3 recent (mini) revolutions
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by havercosine 2mo ago
That is the ideal solution. I'll tell you an incident that seems from a black humour novel. A state government in one of the highest populous state in India decided to make biometric attendance for government school teachers, to ensure
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by havercosine 2mo ago
I hear you, and I know every project being dissed here is not going to be Dropbox. Perhaps some projects deserve the reality check they get. Though I still believe that HN crowd telling that just pay teachers more or kids need to be taught
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by havercosine 2mo ago
Thanks for taking time to write this. HN is showing (expected) dismissing attitude towards this idea. That tells me it might work :) ! Folks here are wildly overestimating (or ignoring!) how many adults are qualified to be good teachers and
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by havercosine 3mo ago
Though, Modular should have been the team to do it. My theory is that they raised too much money too soon. With that kind of money, you get anxious investors waiting to see some magic on quarterly timelines. So Modular was forced to be comp
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by havercosine 3mo ago
Well spotted but I don’t think it’s bad trade off. A beefy postgres instance (with standby configured), couple of worker nodes running dbos / river directly as a library backed by same db . This system can go surprisingly far. I’ve see
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by havercosine 3mo ago
Yes and yes. DBOS self hosted , pointed to same application DB. Systems like these (durable execution) fit well with agents or LLM driven on demand workflows. You might be attaching multiple flaky local or remote api call tools. Many comple
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by havercosine 3mo ago
Well done! I couldn't understand how you are building reels out of it via the agent. Is it some sort of AI tool calling that takes image links and builds a reel via some video editing tool ? Or +/- time delta around the timestamp
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by havercosine 10mo ago
Not Op. I have production / scale experience in PyTorch and toy/hobby experience in JAX. I wish I could have time time or liberty to use JAX more. It consists of small, orthogonal set of ideas that combine like lego blocks. I can
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Bitfrost – LLM gateway 90x faster than Litellm at p99(github.com)
8 points by havercosine 1y ago|1 comments
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by havercosine 1y ago
Bifrost is the fastest LLM gateway on the market. Built in Go with careful garbage collection, it adds just about 11 microseconds of overhead at 5,000 requests per second (with 4,100 RPS throughput) on a t3.xlarge instance. The benchmarks a
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by havercosine 2y ago
A fellow Godot enthusiast here. Love to see Godot being used in commercially successful indie game like this. In 2021-22 time, I tried (unsuccessfully!) building educational video games for maths using Godot and I have fond memories of bein
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by havercosine 2y ago
I'm honestly in two minds on this one. On one hand, I do agree that valuations have run a bit too far in AI and some shedding is warranted. A skeptical position coming from a company like MSFT should help. On the other hand, I think MS
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by havercosine 2y ago
Paras, as a an Indian founder, I've watched your journey for few years now. You are an inspiration and a thoughtful leader. Your "Mental Models for Startup Founders", is a very well written mirror for every founder to look in
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by havercosine 2y ago
Andy's collaborator Michael Nielsen has a nice blog post, "using space repetition system to see through a piece of maths"[0]. He makes a point that the idea is to commit more and more higher order concepts to memory. But he d
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by havercosine 2y ago
I was going to say the same thing. For some real world estimation tasks where I don't want 100% accuracy (example: analysing working capital of a business based on balance sheet, analysing some images and estimating inventory etc.) the
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by havercosine 3y ago
Disagreeing here! I think we often overlook the value of excellent educational materials. Karpathy has truly revitalized the AI field, which is often cluttered with overly complex and dense mathematical descriptions. Take CS 231, for exampl
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by havercosine 3y ago
Most countries in South, South East Asia have made exams as a make and break deal for every student. In India, there are so many kids staying away from home in cities which are just exam preparation centres, with routine news of suicides. L
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by havercosine 3y ago
Spot on! Lot of voice assistants have been following "if we could" line instead of "if we should line". For many straightforward applications, clicking through well defined interface can be the least error prone way to g
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by havercosine 3y ago
Overall there's very little to understand from the page in terms of motivation, sample examples etc. But, one interesting thing: The math module allows choosing between radians, degrees and more importantly cycles. I only know of one m
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by havercosine 3y ago
Daniel Fleisch has written a series of books "Student Introduction To.." for maxwells equations, waves, tensors. All his books are famous for explaining everything step by step and making it informal but super clear.
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by havercosine 3y ago
`why rock the boat` is spot on! Most large organisations eventually go into a mode of maximising the free cash flow for shareholders. I guess more or less this is by design. Investors, Founders and early employees take risks in short run fo
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by havercosine 3y ago
Naive question. In my part of the world, board meetings for such consequential decisions can never be called out on such short notice. Board meeting has to be called ahead of time by days, all the board members must be given written agenda.
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by havercosine 3y ago
It is an interesting thought experiment to wonder if certain things were discovered earlier or later owing to a particular type of maths that we practiced. I was amused to learn that there are societies dedicated to the cause of dozenal sys
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by havercosine 3y ago
These notes are excellent. One good thing is how often Terence Tao gives real life examples and analogies, contrary to what one may expect from a fields medal winner. From utilitarian perspective, reading Axler's book looks like comica
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by havercosine 3y ago
It might have been a reason, mathematicians wanting everything well defined etc. But here's a better way to think about it: On real number line, addition defines shifts and multiplication defines scaling. If you are in two dimensions,
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by havercosine 3y ago
Solid post. It also shows how powerful Julia is: allowing to operate at different levels of abstractions (down to seeing the assembly) using the same set of tools.

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