will-burner

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by will-burner 11mo ago
The advice about deleting youtube history and setting and auto-delete cadence (though every 3 months looked like the most frequent possibility for me) is good and I wasn't aware of it. I don't have social media, but I do have a pe
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by will-burner 2y ago
It's crazy that insurance companies are (rightfully) viewed so negatively that the killing of a CEO is responded to positively in a lot of circles. No doubt the jokes on twitter have been great, and it is a good release like I've
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by will-burner 2y ago
Capitalism baby, you always need to grow to increase share holder value.
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From PDFs to AI-ready structured data: a deep dive(explosion.ai)
23 points by will-burner 2y ago|0 comments
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by will-burner 2y ago
True, but you could also frame this as a way for Anthropic to try and break that trend. IMO they've got to try and compete with OpenAI, can't just concede that OpenAI has won yet.
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by will-burner 2y ago
https://www.tonic.ai/products/textual offers NER models through an API or with a UI for managing projects. You can sign up for a free trial at https://textual.tonic.ai
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by will-burner 2y ago
Is there any reason why this would work better or is needed compared to taking audio and 1. doing ASR with whisper for instance 2. applying an NER model to the transcribed text? There are open source NER models that can identify any specifi
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How Scaling Changes Model Behavior(interconnects.ai)
2 points by will-burner 2y ago|0 comments
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by will-burner 2y ago
It would be cool to see one of those word diagrams where the size of the word is how often it appears (a word cloud), and to have one of the word clouds for the word in 1970 and one for the words in 2018 with maybe some years in between. Th
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by will-burner 2y ago
Love the name Chonkie and Moo Deng, the hippo, as the image/logo!! edit: Get some Moo Deng jokes in the docs!
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by will-burner 2y ago
An assumption of the article is that in addition to getting readers, bloggers want to make money from their blogs via advertising, brand endorsements, etc. That's fair and true for the author in this case, but not necessarily true of a
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by will-burner 2y ago
I agree that's most people's problem, but it's now mine. I've tried to think about effective altruism from first principals. For me, I can rationally understand effective altruism and why it's attractive. I even bel
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by will-burner 2y ago
Lol this is a perfect encapsulation of the white savior problem. Thank you.
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by will-burner 2y ago
I'm surprised the article and non of the comments I've seen in this thread mention effective altruism, which in the framing of the article is an attempt to scale caring in some sense. The article helped me realize why so many peop
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by will-burner 2y ago
>What’s something you’ve learned that you believe gives you an edge - something that you’re almost surprised more people don’t know about? I don't know if it's just me but I would not be stoked to be asked this question during
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by will-burner 2y ago
I also like mathematician's apology and would recommend it for understanding now a mathematician's brain works and in particular a mathematician's perspective and mindset on being a mathematician. But I'm curious what pr
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by will-burner 2y ago
This is a well written article with some good tie bits and lots of links. The author clearly spent a lot of time thinking about Palantir, why Palantir is successful, and what makes a good employee at Palantir. As a Palantir skeptic, it made
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by will-burner 2y ago
>I’ve done Ayahuasca several times, each ceremony fundamentally life-changing. In one ceremony, the shaman helped heal years of abuse. One led to my divorce. The penultimate ceremony convinced me to make this film, instead of using my sa
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by will-burner 2y ago
I think Psychology is really interesting - what could be more interesting than studying why humans behave the way we do. For a while in undergrad I was a double math and psychology major. I spent a semester doing undergraduate research in a
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by will-burner 2y ago
A great fantasy book is "The Fifth Season" by N. K. Jemisin. The whole broken earth trilogy by Jemisin is amazing. Here's to fantasy books!
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by will-burner 2y ago
Yeah, my strategy is to when I start reading move my bookmark from where I am in the book to where I am in the footnotes so that while I'm reading I use the bookmark to quickly find the correct place in the footnotes.
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by will-burner 2y ago
I feel like there were many instances where something would be described, either a a character's internal feelings or an observation about the world and I would think, "damn that just perfectly put into words something that I&#x27
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by will-burner 2y ago
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace It’s kind of cliche for a white male nerd of a certain age, but it has stuck with me. How imaginative the book is, the huge mix of characters and stories in the book, and the style of writing are incred
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by will-burner 2y ago
Who buys chips like this and what are they used for? It's obviously important to push the cutting edge, and it's imaginable that someday a chip like this could be in a personal computer (over 100 cores and over 4TBs of memory!). T
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by will-burner 2y ago
Apple killed new social apps. What's the value of a social graph nowadays? Most of the big social media platforms like instagram and facebook that used to present you content based on your friends, now present general content from an
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by will-burner 2y ago
For me, it wasn't just about a feel-good thing, I enjoyed being around and had the most fun time on a day to day basis when hanging out and working with the high school teachers. I met them all at a summer program, so it was probably t
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by will-burner 2y ago
> Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company makes the Cerebras chips. Cerebrus warned investors that any possible supply chain disruptions may hurt the company. They get their chips from the same company that Nvidia does.
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by will-burner 2y ago
This is the first I've heard of Cerebras Systems. From the article >Cerebras had a net loss of $66.6 million in the first six months of 2024 on $136.4 million in sales, according to the filing. That doesn't sound very good. Wha
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by will-burner 2y ago
This is something I think about a lot and I thought the article was pretty solid. My father is a musician, so he always told me to do what I love. I tried to do that by becoming a research mathematician, that didn't work on and now I d
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by will-burner 2y ago
I can't tell if this is a serious comment or a joke. Tons of people make "a little bit of money" and mange to get by and are even happy.

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