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Open AI No. 2 Exec at OpenAI Fidji Simo is leaving the company(techcrunch.com)
5 points by jeffhwang 2mo ago|2 comments
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by jeffhwang 3mo ago
Is anyone else confounded by this naming scheme? I can see from the article's first two footnotes that Mythos is supposed to be a tier above the standard Haiku/Sonnet/Opus sequence. Ok that's fine since we learned about
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by jeffhwang 5mo ago
Did anyone else think of LoRA [0] at first? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LoRA_(machine_learning)
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by jeffhwang 5mo ago
Agreed. As someone who has been in charge of business websites of for both Mag7 websites and for Silicon Valley startups, there can be a productive disagreement about what exactly user needs are. As well as how to balance business conversi
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by jeffhwang 5mo ago
On the Mac vs Lisa team, I generally agree but wasn't there a strong tension on budget vs revenue on Mac vs Apple II? And that Apple II had even more constrained budget per machine sold which led to the conflict between Mac and Apple I
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by jeffhwang 5mo ago
Thank you! I zoomed in on the photo looking for sanded corners on the MacBook and saw none. Took me a sec to finally see the amorphous edge nr the trackpad...
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by jeffhwang 5mo ago
I might have to visit this exhibit next time I'm in NY. I hope their materials will answer the question of how he dealt with new construction, remodels, and demolitions over his 20 years!
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by jeffhwang 6mo ago
Halo Cortana AI: Copilot for Combat 2026
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by jeffhwang 6mo ago
I'm glad I clicked through bc I thought the article was about Mamba, the package manager I associate with Python (similar to conda). https://github.com/mamba-org/mamba
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AI Professor: I'm bad at math(togelius.blogspot.com)
2 points by jeffhwang 7mo ago|1 comments
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by jeffhwang 7mo ago
Julian Togelius is a full professor of computer science at NYU and I was fascinated by his blog post about succeeding in academic CS while not being able to solve undergraduate math problems.
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by jeffhwang 8mo ago
It's probably user error on my part. But as a somewhat technical user, I've been locked out of Mastodon account for months for no discernible reason. I had my standard first name and last name and I'm on one of the biggest Ma
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by jeffhwang 9mo ago
+1 graphemica has the right mix of completeness and simplicity for my tastes.
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by jeffhwang 10mo ago
I remember being confused by that tagline and also by Sun's later pitch: "We put the dot in dotcom"!
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by jeffhwang 10mo ago
Let me try. In US schools during K-12, we generally learn functions in two ways: 1. 2-d line chart with an x-axis and y-axis, like temperature over time, history of stock price, etc. Classic independent variable is on the horizontal axis, d
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by jeffhwang 10mo ago
Just to be clear, when you Khan "killed our remaining low cost airline carrier", are you referring to when the DOJ blocked the JetBlue-Spirit Airlines merger? Not arguing, I just want to understand.
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by jeffhwang 11mo ago
Used to be "Facebook AI Research" before company changed name from FB to Meta
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by jeffhwang 1y ago
> Also, passengers are probably going to start waking up to the realities of just how bad the air-travel experience in the US has become compared to so many foreign counterparts. If you want passengers to want your plane, design it witho
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by jeffhwang 1y ago
Didn't Einstein himself literally come from east of the Atlantic Ocean? ;)
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by jeffhwang 1y ago
I personally have moved almost all my Stack Overflow usage to LLMs. Just wondering if other folks have done the same…
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by jeffhwang 1y ago
Ballmer was hard-working, smart, and incredibly lucky in many ways. (Fairly or unfairly, I always have a soft spot for someone who survives Math 55 freshman year at Harvard—which Steve did!) But he was also enthusiastic about weird non-tech
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by jeffhwang 1y ago
I thought there was grumbling about Ballmer adopting GE’s stack ranking employee evaluation system where every team has to grade at least some people as below par. So that led to weird incentives like not collaborating across teams, sabotag
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by jeffhwang 1y ago
Is this hyperbole or do Americans actually drive rather than walk to toilets? Not being hostile, genuinely curious.
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by jeffhwang 1y ago
I’ve had 5 personal Mac laptops over the last 25 years. And all of them overlapped their service lives bc I usually had 2 active laptops at a time. None were the Pro, just iBooks and MacBook Airs. The one I just retired was my portable work
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by jeffhwang 1y ago
There's significant evidence contradicting this hypothesis. See industry analysts like Gartner, IDC, etc. who all ask tech firms to "pay to play" for better rankings in their reports. As well as the ratings agencies like Mood
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by jeffhwang 1y ago
I appreciate the vulnerability of the OP in researching and writing that article. It can be pretty hard to reconnect with friends you’ve lost touch with or actually broken up with. And to do this publicly!
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by jeffhwang 1y ago
Haha, I was doubly confused! You’re right, I should have said National Institutes of Health.
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by jeffhwang 1y ago
And here I thought I was going to read a novel defense of the British healthcare system.
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by jeffhwang 1y ago
When I was restudying biology a few years ago, it was making me a little crazy trying to understand the structural geometry that gives rise to the major and minor grooves of DNA. I looked through several of the standard textbooks and releva
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by jeffhwang 1y ago
If only I could +1 this more than once! I have learned valuable things occasionally from people in the rationalist community but this overall lack of humility —and strangely blinkered view of humanities and important topics like say history

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