jlas

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Harness Engineering(openai.com)
4 points by jlas 6mo ago|0 comments
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by jlas 6mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_and_the_Art_of_Motorcycle_...
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by jlas 11mo ago
Notably the scaling law paper shows result graphs on log-scale
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GitHub Spark – a new tool in Copilot that turns your ideas into full-stack apps(twitter.com)
3 points by jlas 1y ago|0 comments
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by jlas 2y ago
Yann LeCun discussed why LLMs are not enough for AGI on Lex Fridman pod: https://youtu.be/5t1vTLU7s40?t=138
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by jlas 2y ago
> (more resources = closer to intelligence) The scaling law only states that more resources yield lower training loss ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_scaling_law ). So for an LLM I guess training loss means its
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by jlas 2y ago
Seriously though when is HiFi coming out?
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by jlas 2y ago
Coding interviews are a lossy process. Once you realize this the angst of rejection softens and it becomes an almost mechanical effort.
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by jlas 2y ago
Don't overlook sources of anti-productivity which might be easier to measure like the time it takes to build & test code changes.
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by jlas 2y ago
If you're a photographer, the low tech way of doing this is just use a polarizing filter
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Regional Bell Operating Company(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by jlas 3y ago|0 comments
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by jlas 3y ago
This. As you get into later stages, check sizes become bigger and so does risk aversion + due diligence.
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by jlas 3y ago
Non-zero probability I think, one interesting measure of overfitting I've seen is contamination (where the model has seen the exact questions it is being evaluated on) see stats at https://hitz-zentroa.github.io/lm-cont
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by jlas 3y ago
ZIRP is over and startups are back to hard mode > In 2021 and the first half of 2022 (when most of the 2022 activity happened) we essentially crammed 5 years worth of funding into an 18 month period. Series Bs and Cs were raised when com
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by jlas 3y ago
Sort by citations ( https://dl.acm.org/action/doSearch?SeriesKey=cacm&sortBy=cit... ) to see the most seminal ones.
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by jlas 3y ago
Would be interesting to see a time to exit histogram. Estimating from the current status chart it seems like every 4 years about 25% will exit.
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by jlas 3y ago
It's useful for streaming data where you want to pass small chunks of data incrementally. JSON by itself isn't streamable (you need the entire blob to decode it). But if we just pass smaller json-encoded chunks of data and separat
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by jlas 3y ago
Major drawback of Apple Hi Res is that Apple headphones dont support it (bluetooth is lossy), and even their recommended 3.5mm adapter converts it down to 48kHz ( https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212183 )
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by jlas 3y ago
Even Tidal has questionable HiFi ( https://youtu.be/pRjsu9-Vznc )
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by jlas 3y ago
> In venture markets, I think we’re only 10% into the pain that we’ve delayed given the large cash balances of startups. 2025 is probably the year of max pain in the venture ecosystem.
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Hard Truths(cloudedjudgement.substack.com)
1 points by jlas 3y ago|1 comments
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by jlas 3y ago
> The researchers ran a simulation that seems to align with the scarce physical insights Fwiw, we will probably never be able to directly observe the contents of the mantle. Computer simulation has been a godsend for geology research.
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Alan Kay shows the Rand tablet [video](youtube.com)
20 points by jlas 3y ago|2 comments
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by jlas 3y ago
You can export the app artifact and share it. The artifact is human readable and in a JSX format (called Toolscript). In this way it can be meaningfully interpreted, improved and customized by others in an open source manner. As for running
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by jlas 3y ago
It's even easier today with web browsers being the ubiquitous app platform, and the VB equivalent being https://retool.com/
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by jlas 3y ago
(Not) fun fact that I learned recently is some dyes like Red 40 are made from petroleum! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red#:~:text=The%20most%20commo...
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Monty Hall Simulator(montyhall.retool.com)
3 points by jlas 3y ago|1 comments
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by jlas 4y ago
What really amuses me about flat earthers is how much science they are willing to invalidate. For example pretty much all of geology would have to be rediscovered under a flat earth model.
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365 Retail Markets Acquires Stockwell(prnewswire.com)
1 points by jlas 6y ago|0 comments
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by jlas 9y ago
See also: http://jvns.ca/blog/2013/12/30/questions-im-asking-in-interv...

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