simonvc

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I built a game for Claude and Fable to fight(twitter.com)
1 points by simonvc 2mo ago|1 comments
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by simonvc 2mo ago
I built a simple game with a self documenting API (HAL) and let claude and fable fight. Who won?
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by simonvc 7mo ago
im running asahi fedora with niri on my M1 Air and apart from display port over usbc not working (it's coming) it's perfect. not too annoying to setup if the first thing you install is claude-cli
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I vibe coded a BBS bank with a real working ledger(mini-ledger.exe.xyz)
2 points by simonvc 7mo ago|1 comments
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by simonvc 7mo ago
Weekend experiment. Im the CTO of a real bank so speed ran vibecoding a pretty complete bank ledger with real double entry accounting, FX, open currency positions etc.
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by simonvc 1y ago
Adding some facts. No-one in Georgia could access google, everything else worked. googleapis.com and google.com seemed to be the only thing affected. If you VPN'd out you were fine. Hilariously, we use tailscale, so thought cool, we&#x
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Encore the Go platform/framework now has MCP(encore.dev)
6 points by simonvc 1y ago|0 comments
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by simonvc 1y ago
Was drinking in a bar in Espoo in 2012 or 2013 and heard this from someone at rovio. At the time they used Riak db and basho were onsite and we asked why they didn't enable inter server encryption. "Because nsa pay us 10m not to&
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by simonvc 2y ago
It's a risk that was very much understood and it's fully covered.
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by simonvc 2y ago
i had a similar experience working in copenhagen. read an article about copenhagen sub orbital rockets, looked up and out my window and my eye landed on the rocket i was just reading about. weird.
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by simonvc 2y ago
+++ATH QModem was the best (until everyone started pushing zmodem).
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by simonvc 2y ago
+++ATH
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by simonvc 2y ago
Cool post, wish it existed 2 years ago when we started building Pave Bank, or 10 years ago when we started building Monzo. If you're starting a bank or need a ledger these days (and aren't using a core banking provider that has on
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by simonvc 2y ago
His name was Vile Rat. That was a weird, sad time.
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by simonvc 2y ago
I worked on a project just like this once.. a mobile phone network build in the middle east before the arab spring. 10/10 would not repeat the experience.
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by simonvc 3y ago
they just run other open models, so you're complaint isn't about Groq, it's about GPT-4 vs mixtral 8x7b accelerated
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by simonvc 3y ago
The paper talks about LLMs a lot, but would this result hold for all Transformers? Are Ternary Transformers going to make things like Whisper faster/better?
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by simonvc 3y ago
Pave Bank | Building the worlds first programmable bank | Singapore and Tbilisi 3 founders, ex-Monzo (YC https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/monzo-bank ), BigPay and VP bank in vietnam. We're building a brand new
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by simonvc 3y ago
GPT-3.5 (unfinetuned) has been matched by many OW (open weights) models now, and with fine tuning to a specific task (coding, customer care, health advice etc) can exceed it. It's still useful as a well known model to compare with, sin
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by simonvc 3y ago
Can it do audio rate stuff? it reminds me a lot of PureData (or MaxMSP) but with a cooler interface.
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by simonvc 3y ago
vim mode in vscode is good enough honestly. i've not booted vim for anything other than quick hacks in ages. 99% of the time i `code` now instead of `vi`
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by simonvc 4y ago
It really is. I guess this'll be quite useful for people on chromebooks and iPads as well.
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by simonvc 4y ago
This isn't an artifact that was stolen, it was bought by or given freely to a doctor who donated it to the museum in the late 1800s. All the greek and egyptian stuff should be returned though.
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by simonvc 4y ago
i wish there was a working guide on how to do this. I've been hacking away at trying to get the ldm-finetune repo to work with Stable Diffusions released checkpoints.
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by simonvc 4y ago
Yeah banks here are so far behind what real neo-banks like Monzo are doing. I left Monzo in the UK and came to Singapore to join Bigpay. We're building a proper digital challenger. 1.1m customers in Malaysia and about 1/10th that
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by simonvc 5y ago
You use the python or JS web3 library to ask the users private key to sign a message you control. Then you "recover" the public key/address from the signed message. Then you ping infura and ask for the balanceOf the nft conta
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UK Regulator finds Apple and Google have vice-like grip on devices(twitter.com)
20 points by simonvc 5y ago|2 comments
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by simonvc 5y ago
Upvote for BangleJS2. Been wearing mine for a couple of weeks now and it's great. The always on transreflective screen is really easy to read in sunlight and the battery seems great (over a week). Being able to quickly hack watch faces
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by simonvc 5y ago
How is the world going to balance instant low friction commerce with the need to prevent instant low friction fraud... I don't think anyone has answers, it's a problem that will affect crypto payments as well as Fiat payments.. I
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by simonvc 5y ago
Been beta testing this (full disclosure, angel invester) and i can honestly say i miss it when i'm not on my Big Sur machine. Vim keybindings are such a win, and Sigma does it better than all previous attempts at a vim-like browser bec

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