tdullien

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by tdullien 4d ago
Oh my. It gives me headaches to think about what "no steady state" means for the statistics of benchmarking and perf optimization.
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by tdullien 25d ago
Author here. To clarify: when I talk about dichotomy in this context, I refer to the idea that these two systems are in opposition , and that ignoring one system (and set of data) is somehow enlightened. There's no point in denying th
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RL economics, morally charged terms, and "distillation"(thomasdullien.github.io)
3 points by tdullien 26d ago|0 comments
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Three important steps in my maturation process(thomasdullien.github.io)
227 points by tdullien 26d ago|124 comments
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by tdullien 1mo ago
Optimal bet size is 2x the coin bias. Dérivation here: https://www.edwardothorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/TheK...
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by tdullien 3mo ago
I should add something about this, but if a market looks like a drunken bar fight, I'd probably not want to go there. That said: A good market will become crowded quickly in either way.
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by tdullien 3mo ago
Good point, will add that. Thanks!
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by tdullien 3mo ago
Yeah. Also - I use the term "coach" broadly here. Many people react very poorly to the term "therapist", and "coach" is a much broader term encompassing both therapy or just people that have significant experie
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by tdullien 3mo ago
I don't think you need 8 years to build a product people like, Prodfiler got good resonance and we built it in ~18 months, it would probably take 4 months now...
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by tdullien 3mo ago
Yes. Usually, the VCs will want you to not take an extravagant salary, but a solid family with which you can keep your family comfortable. And that's normally the right bar. And if there are liquidity pressures a few years into the pro
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by tdullien 3mo ago
You don't have a product until there's ~3 customers, with perspective to more. Before that you're essentially a consultant. I'll add that to the next version of the doc, too. The point is: For anything you build, you can
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by tdullien 3mo ago
I will add a section. Pay yourself a salary at the very latest the moment you've raised funding. If a VC objects to you doing that, get a different VC. You're in for the long run, and support from your family etc. is important, a
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by tdullien 3mo ago
Definitely - but those are normally called "development partners" in B2B, right?
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by tdullien 3mo ago
Good question. I think I did it to indicate that we sold to public companies.
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by tdullien 3mo ago
Author here. I'd be curious what went wrong in your case? (Also, happy to soften that advice further if there's strong evidence that people find the advice detrimental).
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Halvar's Guide to Entrepreneurship(thomasdullien.github.io)
2 points by tdullien 3mo ago|0 comments
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by tdullien 5mo ago
The readme says that unless you're using vLLM you're largely out of luck with it?
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by tdullien 6mo ago
That's a clever and intriguing idea. I have to think through the security implications a bit though - I don't actually know much about how git operates with regards to hooks etc. I'd imagine you lose the ability to have the c
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Safer vibecoding via old hacker habits(addxorrol.blogspot.com)
1 points by tdullien 6mo ago|3 comments
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by tdullien 8mo ago
The old warez cracking scene had an outsize impact on computer security. GRSecurity, Heartbleed vulnerability, most reverse engineering tools for security, etc. etc. etc. There's so much history here, touching on all sorts of insanity
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by tdullien 9mo ago
The privatization of the train system in Germany was a particularly insane disaster that is only now, 30 years later, being undone/repaired. If you look at an org chart of the DB these days, the most fascinating part is that DB consist
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by tdullien 9mo ago
There's been an ongoing issue with North Korean state agents infiltrating SV companies, and this proposal helps them pass the interview process more easily. There's multipronged benefit for them: Access to company infrastructure t
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Ask your LLM for receipts: What I learned teaching Claude C++ crash triage(addxorrol.blogspot.com)
3 points by tdullien 9mo ago|0 comments
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by tdullien 10mo ago
Xoogler here (2011-2018). It's heartwarming that a core part of Google culture ("for every problem we have 3 solutions: 2 that are deprecated and 1 that is experimental") is alive and well.
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by tdullien 10mo ago
I only remember 2015 TF and I was wondering: why would I use Python to assemble a computational graph when what I really want is to write code and then differentiate through it?
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Tongyi Deep Research – relatively lightweight hi-perf open-source model(tongyi-agent.github.io)
1 points by tdullien 11mo ago|0 comments
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by tdullien 11mo ago
So there's a long intellectual history behind these technologies, and Intel had multiple chances of taking the leadership on this around 2018 - they failed to do so, some of the talent went to Apple, and now Intel has to play catch-up.
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by tdullien 11mo ago
I don't know tbh, and I gave that talk when I was in terrible shape, so I'm not upset ;). If people care a lot, I can record a YouTube video on the topic.
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by tdullien 11mo ago
With all the negative comments here: This is existing technology on ARM64 (MTE) and on modern iPhones ( https://security.apple.com/blog/memory-integrity-enforcement... ). For a good intuition why this (coupled with instr
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by tdullien 11mo ago
The usual story they tell themselves is that the software is used against criminals and child pornography and terrorism. Which is not wrong, the majority of the use cases are probably that, in the majority of jurisdictions.

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