lukemercado

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by lukemercado 3mo ago
This means that, in practice, it functions more like an agent than a streaming text model. That in turn breaks trajectory analysis which not only makes distillation harder, it also makes it much harder to improve your own harnesses and agen
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by lukemercado 4mo ago
Foam | Staff Founding Eng | In-Person, San Francisco | Full-time (M-F 9am-7pm) | $300-$400k/yr + equity Foam is building a Better Sentry on an observability stack purpose-built for AI. We automatically identify and root-cause breakages
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by lukemercado 8mo ago
That was lovely, thank you for sharing. It seems the core of the game is correctly understanding the victory function (time to complete refinement of all resources) and then applying bottleneck theory to correctly optimize each stage. Defin
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by lukemercado 10mo ago
foam.ai | Founding Engineer | $180-$300k | 0.25%-2% | SF (onsite) | Full Time foam is building a new observability stack that captures, traces, and links everything, purpose-built for AI. We use this foundation to feed complete context into
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by lukemercado 11mo ago
foam.ai | Full Stack Founding Engineer | SF (onsite) | Full Time At foam we’re building the first telemetry and production system designed for LLMs, giving them complete visibility into and control over running software. Today we’re making
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by lukemercado 1y ago
> Farm animals grown with their brains shut off, used as compute substrate for biological neural networks, while their biological functions are controlled remotely. I’m sorry, you were working on what? Where does one learn more about thi
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by lukemercado 2y ago
From first principles I'd expect the functional limit not to be one of power generation but of energy transfer. The limit probably manifests as wiring and motors overheating in a full electric drive (I don't think any subs are...)
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by lukemercado 2y ago
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA Remote: Yes, but in-person preferred Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, Ruby, React, Salesforce, TypeScript Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d&#x2F
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by lukemercado 3y ago
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA Remote: Yes, 3+ years of remote experience, also interested about going to an office. Willing to relocate: Yes Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TggpfOgWs7R30Ixyf4
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by lukemercado 3y ago
Did the 350 california sale go through? I thought it was just an offer? Just googled it, and shit, it did: https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/350-california-sf-offic... Holy hell. Now to find out if they land ba
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by lukemercado 3y ago
> It takes a lot of exercise to burn off excess calories, and virtually no effort to simply not consume them. > and virtually no effort to simply not consume them. I don't think this is true. The executive function required to ma
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by lukemercado 3y ago
> I don't see how wealth is lost when it is just being redistributed. The workers didn't disappeared, they are just living elsewhere, bringing business opportunities and improving across many different places. If I'm recal
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by lukemercado 3y ago
> In general, I'd observe that there's been much more of a reset to pre-pandemic norms than many anticipated. I haven't traveled well enough recently to agree or disagree, but this matches my reading, so I'll take you
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by lukemercado 3y ago
Disclosure: I live in SF and co-founded www.daybreakhealth.com which is fully remote. I am, 100%, part of why this tower, and others like it, are empty. > "[...] Mayor Breed, who in an interview earlier this year said that “for this
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by lukemercado 3y ago
I really like Tyme for time tracking. It works quite well for me, is dirt cheap, has a great UX across both my iphone and my macbook and gives me flexibility around start and end times so it's easy to keep it roughly accurate. That sai
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by lukemercado 4y ago
Short, but interesting little piece. I specifically enjoy how it's not just a rant about how the Player / Coach concept is bad. It's also an explanation for how to make the Player / Coach concept work well.
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by lukemercado 4y ago
> Saving face and preserving "decision making credibility" means that taking advice is simply not on the cards for a large portion of the middle management class. While I'm happy to admit that this construct may be true in
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by lukemercado 4y ago
I've been exploring this concept a bit at my startup for our B2B offerings. Where I've landed is a robust set of feature toggles that Sales and Account Management configure. Within the confines of your Microsoft Word toolbars anal
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by lukemercado 4y ago
This whole article is a beauty. > FTX worked fine: People liked its technology, and it seems to have made money. The problem was in its balance sheet, which was full of snakes, and its governance, which put all the snakes there. Fucking
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by lukemercado 4y ago
> Everything you've said is logical, but the radius you are describing is multifaceted. No disagreement there. > There are regulations, inertia, cultural and ideological factors, and all sorts of other considerations that come in
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by lukemercado 4y ago
> You are paid based on how difficult you are to replace. Hence the location based pay You're partially right. Pay is very much about how difficult you are to replace. However Location in many industries is no longer the dominant in
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by lukemercado 4y ago
Would you happen to know of an example of "tag-along rights" that I could bring up at my next board meeting? I'm curious what the implications of such a thing would be and having sample text would be incredibly valuable.
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by lukemercado 4y ago
I'm sorry, I can't resist. What is a "fuzzy pumper" in this context?
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by lukemercado 4y ago
This seems like an EXCELLENT way for junior engineers to finally get out of the "no job can't get a job" box. Super curious to see what comes of it, and to recruit those who complete the fellowships.
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by lukemercado 4y ago
Daybreak Health (YC) | Lead Salesforce Engineer | USA Only (legal reasons) | Fully Remote (and staying that way) | Full-Time I’m trying to hire for a Lead Salesforce Engineer and I am just utterly failing. I know I’m looking for a unicorn,
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by lukemercado 5y ago
Uh, yeah. My business budgets out 20k/year for insurance premiums on the employer side per employee. This might be an old shorthand, but it's what we use in our models. Some employees pay extra out of pocket for added dependents.
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by lukemercado 5y ago
Yes, at first that is SUPER important, but wouldn't you ultimately want to fully decouple it from employers and just go to income taxes per individual for it? The distinction is subtle, but in my mind having it structured as an individ
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by lukemercado 5y ago
Daybreak Health | Senior Ruby Engs and Lead Salesforce Engineer and Lead Data Engineer | REMOTE (USA ONLY) | Full Time | https://daybreak-health.breezy.hr/?&department=Engineering#p... Our mission is to create a world w
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by lukemercado 5y ago
> I think for politicians above a certain level, we should go full Rawls. When you leave office, a random citizen from your constituency is selected, your net worth is set to their current net worth, and for a period of k years after lea
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by lukemercado 5y ago
Almost all combat is N+1. The holy grail is asymmetric weaponry/tactics. Unfortunately all asymmetric weaponry/tactics is eventually countered through R&D. The critical question is whether one combatant can gain a strategic ed

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