islewis

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by islewis 3mo ago
You give two critiques relating to the exact numbers the author has choose (equity package at join, valuation at exit), neither of which is really related to the authors hypothesis that people misvalue EV from equity. You can slide these nu
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by islewis 4mo ago
Pretty clearly slop, with some of the scandals make no sense. Take Ripplings "scandal": > Parker Conrad's redemption arc after Zenefits hit a plot twist when Rippling sued competitor Deel for planting an undercover spy ins
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by islewis 5mo ago
Note that this is from 10 months ago
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by islewis 5mo ago
> Figma is targeted towards designers who create thoughtful design systems and cohesive UIs and who don't code, while this is targeted towards vibe coders who can't design. Two different circles that intersect to some level. th
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by islewis 6mo ago
The quality with the 1M window has been very poor for me, specifically for coding tasks. It constantly forgets stuff that has happened in the existing conversation. n=1, ymmv
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by islewis 1y ago
> It's powerful but dangerous, and is intended for developers who understand how to safely configure and test connectors. So... practically no one? My experience has been that almost everyone testing these cutting edge AI tools as t
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by islewis 1y ago
This appears to be a psuedo-acquisition, but with a strange format to appease regulators. Will this still be an exit event for employees or do they get screwed here?
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by islewis 1y ago
> The cold-start training procedure begins by prompting DeepSeek-V3 to decompose complex problems into a series of subgoals It feels pretty intuitive to me that the ability for an LLM to break a complex problem down into smaller, more ea
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by islewis 1y ago
> Already in anti-trust related to ads, AI is probably in the clear. "Already in trouble for committing monopolist behavior in market A, Google should be fine committing even more monopolist behavior in the very related and overlapp
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by islewis 1y ago
If you are trying to commercialize something, a popular project with bad margins is a better spot to be in than an unsuccessful project with good margins. If it's a personal learning project, that might not be the case.
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by islewis 1y ago
> For the purposes of this experiment, though, we taught the models to reward hack [...] in this case rewarded the models for choosing the wrong answers that accorded with the hints. > This is concerning because it suggests that, shou
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by islewis 1y ago
I've always wondered what the technological development of F1 would look like in other sports. This feels pretty close.
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by islewis 1y ago
> I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs. I don't believe OP's thesis is properly backed by the rest of his tweet, which seems to boil down to "LLM's can't properly cite li
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by islewis 1y ago
Cool format for a demo. Some of the voices have a slight "metallic" ring to them, something I've seen a fair amount with Eleven Labs' models. Does anyone have any experience with the realtime latency of these Openai TTS
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by islewis 1y ago
is this in reference to Triton?
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by islewis 2y ago
It's because the motivation for these acquisitions doesn't have much to do with product. It's just a way to extinguish outside talent and innovation that could disrupt down the road.
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by islewis 2y ago
I recently noticed that there was a "Time to order" message written on the outside of the cardboard core of my saran wrap. The visibility to the core became clearer as the wrap was consumed- giving both a sense of urgency, as well
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by islewis 2y ago
A valid response to my initial comment which was a bit tongue in cheek. However, i'm not sure that them being LLM researchers compared to quant researchers changes the dynamic of their relaxed security posture.
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by islewis 2y ago
A bunch of ML researchers who were initially hired to do quant work published their first ever user facing project. So maybe not a side project, but if you have ever worked with ML researchers before, lack of engineering/security chops
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by islewis 2y ago
$500B is not $7T, but its surprisingly close.
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by islewis 2y ago
> Maybe that’s better for the industry because all the money will be concentrated on one or two competently run foundries How would this be better for the industry?
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by islewis 2y ago
This looks like a very similar project to "Diffusion Models Are Real-Time Game Engines"[1] that circulated on HN a few months ago [2], which was playing DOOM. There's some pretty interesting commentary on that post that might
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by islewis 2y ago
The motivation for these accounts is usually a rift on the "ultra-wealth is bad" train. Setting aside any possible agreements/disagreements with that, the flight tracking information is freely public, available to anyone who
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by islewis 2y ago
> The underlying issue is that AI agents too slow, Inference speed is being rapidly optimized, especially for edge devices. > too expensive, The half-life of OpenAI's API pricing is a couple of months. While the bleeding edge mod
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by islewis 2y ago
This argument is centered around the belief that language and reasoning flow bidirectionally- language can be understood first (we are here), and reasoning is the next natural rung of the latter (your thesis believes we will get here with L
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by islewis 2y ago
> Differential attention takes the difference between two softmax attention functions to eliminate attention noise If I understand correctly, this architecture trades twice as much attention memory in exchange for either a higher quality
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by islewis 2y ago
So instead of Oura owning your data, Oura _and_ Apple own it?
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by islewis 2y ago
> "As long as your curve is sufficiently expressive all architectures will converge to the same performance in the large-data regime." I haven't fully ingested the paper yet, but it looks like it's focused more on com
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by islewis 2y ago
Regardless of what you think of Pear, making the claim that they have damaged Y Combinator's reputation is pretty dramatic. Knowing the title is in reference to Pear (and not something that could be _actually_ damaging to YC's rep
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by islewis 2y ago
The words "internal thought process" seem to flag my questions. Just asking for an explanation of thoughts doesn't. If I ask for an explanation of "internal feelings" next to a math questions, I get this interesting

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