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by azath92 9mo ago
My understanding is that modern mobile phone cameras do heaps of "stacking" across multiple axes focus, exposure, time etc to compose a photo that saves onto your phone. I believe its one of the reasons for the multiple cameras on
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by azath92 10mo ago
Almost an esolang, but orca is an amazing example of spatial programming for music production (GH https://github.com/hundredrabbits/Orca and video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSFrBFBd7vY to see it
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by azath92 10mo ago
For small models this is for sure the way forward, there are some great small datasets out there (check out the tiny stories dataset that limits vocab to a certain age but keeps core reasoning inherent in even simple language https:/&
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Show HN: AI carbon and energy calculator – > pick greener cloud regions(climatealigned.co)
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by azath92 1y ago
Totally agree, one of the most interesting podcasts i have listened to in a while was a couple of years ago on the Tiny Stories paper and dataset (the author used that dataset) which focuses on stories that only contain simple words and con
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by azath92 1y ago
Im not sure about how this translates to react native, AFAICT build chains for apps less optimiside, but using vercel for deployment, neon for db if needed, Ive really been digging the ability for any branch/commit/pr to be deplo
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by azath92 1y ago
I often find that the hard part of writing big, persistant, code is not the writing but the building of a mental model (what the author calls "theory building"). This challenge multiplies when you are working with old code, or cod
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by azath92 1y ago
I think the depth (in time, and community involvement) is one of the things that has drawn me to this project. It has the excellent vibe of a dedicated and yet accessible, IMO because of the beautiful and widely available visual output, int
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by azath92 1y ago
cool to hear that the actual electric sheep project is still something you can interact with! For those super new to it (like me), check out https://electricsheep.org/ og video we came across it with https://www.
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by azath92 1y ago
The electric sheep always intrigued me so much! but was a bit before my time, and also felt so impenetrable. I appreciate you drawing the link between them and something like this which is so finite and understandable. and to OP for making
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by azath92 1y ago
see my separate comment for more on hackernews.coffee in particular, we (same team, different experiment) are thinking a lot about personal content, and how you have maximum visibility and control. Keeping these projects separate allows us
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by azath92 1y ago
Continuing to work on https://www.hackernews.coffee/ to rerank the HN frontpage based on my interests, not just what's trending. It does this by building a profile out of a small number of selected past articles, and w
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by azath92 1y ago
Yeah, we found even the delay of non-local LLMs to be prohibitive. We started using claude for "smartest" recs and profile generation from preferences and it was so slow, on the order of a minute or so for a first visit and still
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by azath92 1y ago
Totally agree! when we first made it public we saw almost half of folks churned without finishing the survey when we had it set at 30. That number is down to 15% churn, but at the tradeoff of coarseness of profile. Theres some work to make
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by azath92 1y ago
weve just explored a HN site-reskin as a quick way to validate this, and I now use it for my browsing every day. Its a pretty transparent "profile" that gets applied by an llm to rank your HN frontpage, but would be trivial to shi
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by azath92 1y ago
people have said it elsewhere, but I think you might have to fight fire with fire if you want semantic filtering.
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by azath92 1y ago
Its pretty easy to do the user-loyal bit, with a bit of prompting to give an llm your preferences/profile. Not ideologically loyal, but i mean acting in accordance with your interests. The tricky part is having that act across all site
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by azath92 1y ago
For myself, i often want to be able to just "shift views" on an existing community, rather than wholesale move to somewhere else that fits better. I find I can do that with granular enough subreddits, or the (maybe old) feature in
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by azath92 1y ago
Not sure what a local solution would look like when what you see is on websites, maybe a browser extension? we just made a similar reskin as a website, and it works great, but is ultimately another site you have to go to. Its another narrow
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by azath92 1y ago
We just built https://www.hackernews.coffee/ to rerank your frontpage based on a quick survey of your preference, all local storage based. In general we're thinking about how you can have a transparent profile that sta
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by azath92 1y ago
For a first pass having some emb search would require we store and process a lot, which we dont do for this light weight demo. all the posts and recommendations are done on the fly, only looking at the current top page and re-ranking. as so
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by azath92 1y ago
Sadly not! It lives in our FE monorepo at work, it just kind of jumped out at us as something to split out and demo once we started using it to test some of our ideas. Its something wed consider for sure, but for now the lack of an open rep
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by azath92 1y ago
yeah we are thinking a lot right now about good language for how to separate the notion of a "profile" as representative of who i am, from the concept of a profile that represents what mode im currently operating in right now. In
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by azath92 1y ago
This is great to hear in such detial. One of the first cabs of the rank to improve this would be greater user control over what preferences to include, and/or smarter selection of the pool to select. This kind of focused preference is
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by azath92 1y ago
we came to this by looking at how a "user profile" in plain english could be both used and generated by LLMs, but once we were looking at this we did discuss traditional recsys. Two things against it for this usecase: bootstrappin
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by azath92 1y ago
thats grand, thank you! we really want to look at both using comments as a source for preference, and applying your preferences to comments to perhaps flag/sort/filter once you are on a page. Will have to think about the user flow
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by azath92 1y ago
how ever you like! i tend to do it off the title, but you could click into it if you like.
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by azath92 1y ago
I genuinely find that interesting to hear. what about the 30 examples felt different to say the frontpage? (assuming it did) On a meta level i was suuuuper conscious of writing every word of this post/comments myself, as my prior is th
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by azath92 1y ago
hahaha thats a great test case, gona remember that for evals. Did it notice anything? or did it just get confused. we found if you have random preferences it often just says to skim half and skim half, which i suspect it might do in your ca
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by azath92 1y ago
Nice, great to see where it nails it, and has the right feel! Using your own comments directly, or in the first instance allowing users to paste in sections of their commented on or upvoted history is a great next step. Not sure yet whether

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