philipodonnell

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by philipodonnell 5mo ago
This particular example aside, I don’t think it being derivative and simplified is necessarily bad. Libraries that are popular today were written for humans and reinforced by LLMs via training. It’s unlikely they represent the ideal interac
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by philipodonnell 6mo ago
Is the difficulty that in high entropy situations, you can’t really tell whether it’s because the model is uncertain, or because of the options are so semantically similar that it doesn’t matter which one you choose? Like pure synonyms.
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by philipodonnell 6mo ago
Despite being a different kind of writing, there are some interesting parallels with the article in what you wrote here
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by philipodonnell 8mo ago
I’ve been experimenting with LiveStoreJS which uses a custom SQLite WASM binary for event sync, so for simplicity I’ve also used it for regular application data in browser and found no issues (yet). It surprised me that using a full databas
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by philipodonnell 8mo ago
Of all the interface modalities available, CLIs seem like the most natural for copilots to work with. Lots of examples in the training data, universal interface for help, maps well to the sequential nature of token generation, similar synta
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by philipodonnell 8mo ago
How do they prove this? It sounds like the plaintiffs basically claimed they were rejected a bunch of times and since the resume had recognizable indicators of protected classes they must have been discriminated against? Don’t get me wrong,
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by philipodonnell 8mo ago
You should just need the AGENTS.md right?
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by philipodonnell 1y ago
Anyone have a link to the actual report?
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by philipodonnell 1y ago
This is a great use case for using an algorithmic difficulty ramp where it can really dial in that curve to solve for getting people to play longer over multiple sessions.
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by philipodonnell 1y ago
I’ve built lots of pre-LLM data processing pipelines like this and the more I read people putting “agents” into this kind of context the less they resemble agents like the Anthropics of the world defines and the more they just resemble func
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by philipodonnell 1y ago
Isn’t this an arbitrage opportunity? Offer to pay a fraction of the cost per token but accept that your tokens will only be processed when the batch window isn’t big enough, then resell that for a markup to people who need non-time sensitiv
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by philipodonnell 1y ago
What kind of customers are using this API? I’ve had many similar thoughts but I get hung up on the idea that customers are “developers” from a marketing standpoint, because those developers are developing something and that something is pro
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by philipodonnell 1y ago
If I’m understanding this correctly, if you set off one bomb the explosion travels at a certain speed, but if you put a bunch of bombs in a circle and set them off one at a time, the very last explosion will be going a lot faster than the f
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by philipodonnell 1y ago
The contributors to the charity get a write off too
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by philipodonnell 1y ago
There’s a trope where the best white hat is a former black hat because they can recognize all the tricks, I wonder if training an LLM to be evil and then fine tuning it to be good will produce more secure code than the opposite?
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by philipodonnell 1y ago
FWIW I’ve been doing a lot of work with text to SQL and in that space verbosity in naming tables and columns matters a lot because it adds additional context about what data is in the table and how it can be used. Think “subs.id” versus “su
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by philipodonnell 2y ago
Very cool! What did you use to make the ER diagram?
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by philipodonnell 2y ago
Hi. Maybe anecdotal, Brother MDC-J480DW, had it about 3 years, always bought third party ink, two weeks ago I had to replace the color ones and it started saying there was no ink even though ink was clearly visible, it failed on two differe
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by philipodonnell 2y ago
I’ve been working on some tooling to create better views of analytics based on the idea that people don’t like to write joins so why not create logical views that do all possible joins. Appreciate any feedback. https://github.com
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by philipodonnell 2y ago
I think a lot of times this is not about skill sets but more that data engineers don’t build datasets with UX in mind. The examples in this piece are not what show up when a leader browses a real database with hundreds of tables stuffed wit
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by philipodonnell 2y ago
I often wonder if you can create databases like this using the data in the training datasets of LLMs. Generate the list of spices by asking for categories, countries of origin, etc and then asking about a list of properties for each. You co
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by philipodonnell 2y ago
Enhancing the comments on the existing data model seems to be the most common approach for sure. I'm implementing this as a data architecture at several clients and I've found creating a whole new logical structure designed for th
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by philipodonnell 2y ago
I’ve been doing a lot of work on semantic data architecture that better supports LLM analytics, did you use any framework or methodology to decide how exactly to present the data/metadata to the LLM context to allow it to make decision
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by philipodonnell 3y ago
This thread was wild.
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by philipodonnell 3y ago
Is OpenAI as a company more like a publisher or a model?
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by philipodonnell 3y ago
I often wonder if NL-SQL tasks would benefit from an intermediate query language that is more compatible with the next-logical token approach that is used to generate the code. Obviously there is less of this in the training set, but if it
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by philipodonnell 3y ago
I’ve thought about this for a few years. Sq ft gardening would lend itself very well to a grid like this one. I wonder if anyone will find anything.
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by philipodonnell 3y ago
Honestly you should for sure get a job. You seem to be choosing startup ideas that people with jobs choose, use offshore labor from the start, rapid pivots into tools to pivot faster, udemy courses, these are all side projects. Nothing wron
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by philipodonnell 3y ago
I used to do this kind of work, not with McKinsey. When you do it a lot you realize how hard it is and why. Everything you want to measure, someone will claim it doesn't capture this and that, or will definitely be gamed and destroy th
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by philipodonnell 3y ago
Don't forget "intel on if/how your competitors have solved them"

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