iceman_w

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   by iceman_w 7d ago

   What you are observing is relativistic aberration. W does make your velocity increase in the forward direction.
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   by iceman_w 1y ago

   RL constrains the space of possible output token sequences to what is likely to lead to the correct answer. So we are inherently making a trade-off to reduce variance. A non-RL model will have higher variance, so given enough attempts, it w
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   Show HN: Cricket Stats GPT(cricket.pivots.fyi)

   1 points by iceman_w 1y ago|0 comments
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   by iceman_w 2y ago

   I always thought that the point of instruction tuning and ability to use prompts to get the model to do 0 shot tasks was that you don't have to collect tons of example data/samples. The method proposed here requires you to have to
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   by iceman_w 2y ago

   I've also been tracking the 'path to graveyard' for the startups from the last 3 years here https://pivots.fyi/
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   by iceman_w 2y ago

   I've been scraping YC data week over week to track things like changes in founder, pivots in the idea, company shutting down, etc. You can check it out here https://pivots.fyi/
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   by iceman_w 2y ago

   Thanks! The data is collected by continuously scraping the startup's website and their YC page.
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   by iceman_w 2y ago

   I'm working on pivots.fyi ( https://pivots.fyi/ ). It tracks 1000+ startups that have been founded in the last 3 years and showcases how their product, mission, team size, founders, etc. evolve week over week. It is inte
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   Ask HN: AI Modeling Projects with fast iteration times?

   1 points by iceman_w 2y ago|0 comments
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    Ask HN: What's the coolest non standard application of LLMs you've seen?

    68 points by iceman_w 3y ago|61 comments
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    Ask HN: What's the incentive for 'Founding Engineers'?

    3 points by iceman_w 3y ago|2 comments
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    by iceman_w 6y ago

    Nope. I didn't know about the Gnutella Network when I posted this. I've changed the name since but HN doesn't allow editing posts.
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    by iceman_w 6y ago

    Oh, changed the name of mine!
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    by iceman_w 6y ago

    Didn't know about this famous distributed systems project! Thanks for pointing out, changed the name of mine to codable.live
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    Show HN: Gnutella – Code Execution Visualization(gnutella.io)

    3 points by iceman_w 6y ago|9 comments
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    by iceman_w 6y ago

    I'm building this tool to make it easier for educators to create programming videos. It can also be useful for people new to programming to play around with basic data structures and algorithms like Trees, Linked Lists, etc. Looking fo
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    by iceman_w 6y ago

    If you have too many engineers on a problem, they will overengineer stuff. This is a management problem.
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    by iceman_w 8y ago

    I don't have any problem with working with people who are different from me. But I think showcasing the benefits of diversity will make everyone actually embrace it rather grudgingly support it just to be politcically correct.
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    Ask HN: Examples where diversity helped ship a better product?

    4 points by iceman_w 8y ago|5 comments
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    by iceman_w 10y ago

    Insecure websites could get around this by not marking the fields as password fields but using javascript to make them appear so to the user.
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    by iceman_w 11y ago

    In the following scenario: origin: A-B-C local: A-B-D What is the recommended action? git pull --ff-only will fail, right? So should I be using git pull --rebase?
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    Ask HN: How often does Git merge make mistakes?

    1 points by iceman_w 11y ago|5 comments