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by tikkun 2y ago
Awesome. For others, I see that Paras is now running https://turingsdream.co/ "an AI hackhouse running a six-week residency for coders and researchers who're interested in AI. The hackhouse is in Bangalore, India
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by tikkun 2y ago
Yes, "reduce loud sounds" (Works okay, but not great)
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by tikkun 2y ago
Work wherever you like and respect the people more.
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by tikkun 2y ago
Right, they seem highly volatile/variable. The thinking is that showing the 99th percentile / range of possibilities would cover that, if it's based on historical data - does that seem right to you or no, and if not why not?
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by tikkun 2y ago
Another fire project idea: show, based on some kind of prediction model that gives 50th, 90th, 99th percentiles (from historical data, perhaps, or perhaps just from wind/fire speeds), how fast a given fire could reach a specific locati
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by tikkun 2y ago
Intersting. So engineers that like to iterate and explore are more likely to like LLMs. Whereas engineers that like have a more rigid specific process are more likely to dislike LLMs.
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by tikkun 2y ago
This reminds me of a life philosophy. If you dislike a situation you're in and you try and fix it by switching to a new situation, you'll generally bring with you some of the problems that created that prior situation. If instead,
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Ask HN: Which browsers did you try in 2024, and what's your daily browser?
5 points by tikkun 2y ago|14 comments
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by tikkun 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41693844 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39316653 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39316653 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i
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Ask HN: What's the best site to track H5N1 progression?
10 points by tikkun 2y ago|0 comments
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by tikkun 2y ago
I wonder: when did o1 finish training, and when did o3 finish training? There's a ~3 month delay between o1's launch (Sep 12) and o3's launch (Dec 20). But, it's unclear when o1 and o3 each finished training.
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by tikkun 2y ago
They're only allowed 2-3 guesses per problem. So even though yes it generates many candidates, it can't validate them - it doesn't have tool use or a verifier, it submits the best 2-3 guesses. https://www.lesswrong
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by tikkun 2y ago
I was confused about this, here's how I understand it now: Previously when Amazon lost or damaged items in their warehouses, they would reimburse sellers the full sales price. Starting March 2025, Amazon will only reimburse the manufac
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by tikkun 2y ago
Marius Hobbhahn (the researcher) > Oh man :( We tried really hard to neither over- nor underclaim the results in our communication, but, predictably, some people drastically overclaimed them, and then based on that, others concluded that
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by tikkun 2y ago
I used to think Perplexity was terrible, then I fixed my settings and I love it. Key settings to adjust: * Always use "Pro mode" searches * Set the model to 3.5 sonnet in settings Once you do those two things, you'll have a g
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by tikkun 2y ago
As context on Ilya's predictions given in this talk, he predicted these in July 2017: > Within the next three years, robotics should be completely solved [wrong, unsolved 7 years later], AI should solve a long-standing unproven theo
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by tikkun 2y ago
Not anymore. In May 2024 OpenAI confirmed that it will not enforce those provisions: * The company will not cancel any vested equity, regardless of whether employees sign separation agreements or non-disparagement agreements * Former employ
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by tikkun 2y ago
SemiAnalysis consistently does deep technical posts like this. Worth subscribing. My notes: Scaling is continuing. Amazon's 400k trainium2 chips, Meta's 2gw datacenter, OpenAI's multi-datacenter training. Opus 3.5 training su
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by tikkun 2y ago
> What resources would you point your friends to who both want to learn about generative AI and assuage their fears that AI will make artists obsolete? Step 1 - get them to sign up for AI image tools. * Midjourney is best for quick image
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by tikkun 2y ago
Thank you for answering!
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by tikkun 2y ago
That's pretty cool that Shell was such an early adopter. Who led the adoption of GPT-1/2 there - a developer, you, a VP, someone else?
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by tikkun 2y ago
It's almost as if supply has increased slower than demand.
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by tikkun 2y ago
It sounds like you want more broad stuff, not necessarily learning how to train models. More like learning to use them and how they work. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36195527 and Hacker's Guide to LLMs by Jere
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by tikkun 2y ago
Anonymous, but prior to that it was Dharmesh from Hubspot https://domainnamewire.com/2023/05/25/chat-com-sells-for-8-f...
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by tikkun 2y ago
I've now tried plato AI (and subscribed to premium) but it made too many errors (likely confused by the interview format, it thinks things that the interviewer asked are the right answers, but they're not). https://news
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by tikkun 2y ago
I tried quizgecko, quizizz ai, and magic school, none seemed to work well for this. (Could be a nice side project idea if someone is looking for one! But I'm hoping there's one someone has already made)
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Ask HN: Is there a good tool to turn YouTube videos into quizzes or Anki cards?
2 points by tikkun 2y ago|3 comments
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by tikkun 2y ago
If the only thing I care about is speed of page turns, what's my best option? A Kobo device? Colorsoft? Scribe? Paperwhite?
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by tikkun 2y ago
What are your favorite places to buy books that let you download the epub versions also?
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by tikkun 2y ago
This is great! I think it'd popular more easily if: rename it, and give it a new tagline eg Opencast or something. and tagline: Open-source alternative to NotebookLM's podcast feature

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