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bobosha
1y ago
TL;DR: The human brain craves certainty and simplicity, aiming to avoid the mental effort of weighing and reconciling conflicting information.
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bobosha
2y ago
i think this agents vs workflow is a false dichotomy. A workflow - at least as I understand it - is the atomic unit of an agent i.e an agent stitches workflow(s) together.
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Ask HN: Which agentic framework/tool do you prefer and why?
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bobosha
2y ago
We used Qdrant in production - it's a solid vector db offering and highly recommend. However we are moving everything to Postgres with pgvector for simplicity i.e fewer moving parts. It was a PITA keeping data synced between pgsql <
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bobosha
2y ago
The human brain operates at just 25W of power—less than the monitor you're likely using right now—whereas AI models like ChatGPT consume nearly 1GWh every 24 hours! As I discuss in the paper, predictive coding suggests that the brain a
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bobosha
2y ago
Ty for reading the paper! I completely agree! Assigning soft weights to the window based on context is a fascinating research area. This concept is similar to Ebbinghaus' forgetting curve, which emphasizes recency bias while requiring
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bobosha
2y ago
I argue that JEPA and its Energy-Based Model (EBM) framework fail to capture the deeply intertwined nature of learning and prediction in the human brain—the “yin and yang” of intelligence. Contemporary machine learning approaches remain hea
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bobosha
2y ago
Very impressive. well done team sesame!
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bobosha
2y ago
off-topic: i've never seen a paper with this many authors.:-)
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bobosha
2y ago
Our time there overlapped—I was a student of TimBL from 2004 to 2006, researching the Semantic Web initiative. CSAIL was, and still is, a truly magical place. I had the privilege of working alongside some of the greatest minds of our time:
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bobosha
2y ago
i hired 2 engineers in Argentina through that thread and they were some of our best resources.
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bobosha
2y ago
Mining visual data—whether from CCTV, smartphone videos, or other sources—is the next big frontier. Given its immense information density, the potential payoffs could far exceed those of previous data revolutions.
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bobosha
2y ago
This is also common in the Italian/Greek/Indian etc. American subcultures. Immigrant cultures take their time - and sometimes never - in absorbing the larger anglo-saxon culture into their own.
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bobosha
2y ago
>My only consolation is knowing that I'm seeing the world more accurately than I used to. also known as growing older ;-)
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bobosha
2y ago
The rise of islam was only possible due to the fight to exhaustion by the Byzantines and Sassanids. If not for the timing, Muhamad and his religion would have been but an obscure cult in the sands of Arabia. Just goes to show that timing is
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bobosha
2y ago
Streisand effect in full display.
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Form over Function: The Paradox of Manners and Character
(healthio.notion.site)
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2y ago
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bobosha
2y ago
Rosy Retrospective Bias [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosy_retrospection
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bobosha
2y ago
A better system would be a points based one: that uses salary indexed to COL, educational qualifications etc.
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bobosha
2y ago
well said, this debate is too emotional to have a balanced conversation. Overall h1b issue is a dichotomy - like with many such hot-button issues - with both sides right about the other side, but wrong about themselves.
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bobosha
2y ago
tyvm for your thoughtful answer without some of the usual histrionics on this topic.
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bobosha
2y ago
The results look quite promising.i will give this a try...
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bobosha
2y ago
I had the privilege of spending 1.5 years (2004-06) at MIT CSAIL under his guidance, where my research focused on the Semantic Web—an idea aimed at making the web more intelligent. With that experience in mind, let me share a couple of thou
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2y ago
Actually, no, I didn’t have a warm introduction. I reached out to him directly and got a response within 5 mins!, I was inspired by another entrepreneur who successfully raised funds in a similar way. (By the way, his email is publicly avai
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bobosha
2y ago
In 2017, I secured investment from Mark Cuban for my startup through a cold email. He contributed to our initial seed round, followed on in subsequent funding rounds, and we successfully exited in 2023. My email was concise, under five sent
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2y ago
I'm developing an implementation of what I call Hydra – Multi-Head Prediction Embeddings [1], which I believe represents the next evolution in transformer architectures. [1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/
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bobosha
2y ago
am i the only relieved that for once a non-AI human has won the nobel?
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bobosha
2y ago
I am a proud Indian-American (naturalized after h1b) and I think this kind of discriminatory mindset has no place anywhere, definitely not in the workplace. I think my community can be secure in its success and learn to do better and be ope
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bobosha
2y ago
Schmidhuber invented everything. /s
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bobosha
2y ago
haha!
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