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by cshimmin 2y ago
Hm, I wonder if you could do something like a tournament bracket for pitches. Ask it to do pairwise evaluations between business plans/proposals. "If you could only invest in A -OR- B, which would you choose and what is your reaso
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by cshimmin 2y ago
Interested to learn more about the PDF -> CAD project built on mastra, can you share a link?
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by cshimmin 2y ago
I wouldn't conflate MLPs with transformers, MLP is a small building block of almost any standard neural architecture (excluding spiking/neuromorphic types). But to your point, the trend towards increasing inference-time compute co
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by cshimmin 2y ago
Fair enough! Bubble or not, I certainly have very regularly (weekly?) seen headlines on hn about transformers for at least a few years now. Like how bitcoin used to be on hn frontpage every week for a couple years circa 2010 (to the derisio
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by cshimmin 2y ago
Yeah, it's literally the most important practical development in AI/ML of the decade. This is like reading an article (or headline, more like) on HN and saying "please define git".
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by cshimmin 2y ago
Re: lower pitch, I'd hazard a guess that you're basically reducing the restoring force, so the resonant frequency goes down. Think of the attachment point as a bunch of springs in parallel; you snip a few of them and the overall s
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by cshimmin 2y ago
@dang
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by cshimmin 2y ago
I have an old hn account. Dilbert was something I was dimly aware of my dad reading in newspapers when I was a kid in the 90s. Never heard the term PHB before today.
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by cshimmin 2y ago
Do earthquakes next! Signed, A California Resident
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by cshimmin 2y ago
Seems like a big-standard gdpr prompt to me.
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by cshimmin 2y ago
Huh, I’ve always assumed it has to do with some about of “de jure” control over the board that the VC assumes when the capital is raised. If they don’t like the founders growth strategy , can’t they just throw them out? Or is that not how i
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by cshimmin 2y ago
In the multidimensional case of integration by parts, the limit of integration is understood to be the (d-1 dimensional) boundary _at infinity _, so writing +/-inf is a reasonable shorthand. In almost all cases, it’s used when the term
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by cshimmin 2y ago
Very cool, reminiscent of agar.io :)
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by cshimmin 2y ago
32% is referring to the survey respondents, not an interest rate. Although that is by no means an unheard of interest rate for credit cards.
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by cshimmin 2y ago
A simple example of a multilinear function is the inner (a.k.a dot) product <a, b>: it takes a vector (b), and a dual vector (a^T), and returns a number. In tensor notation it's typically written δ_ij. It's multilinear becau
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by cshimmin 2y ago
I'm familiar with almost all of these architectures, but not the tensor diagram notation. I can't figure out what "B" is? I thought maybe it's a bias vector, but then why does it only appear on the input data, and n
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by cshimmin 2y ago
The problem is all of those can be ambiguous. "Hot" can mean high temperature, "spicy" can mean e.g. lots of garlic or cumin, or any other spices, and "piquant" can mean tart like citrus. Perhaps the lack of a
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by cshimmin 2y ago
Have you ever made “hot” sauce with bell peppers? My wife has literally zero tolerance for spicy food, wondering if I could make some kind of capsaicin-free sauce that gives some of the flavor of eg sriracha or tapatio, etc.
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by cshimmin 2y ago
Location: Southern CA Remote: OK Willing to relocate: Within CA Technologies: python/torch, everything AWS, many SW generalist skills Resume/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cshimmin/ Email: username@gmai
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by cshimmin 2y ago
It’s not public space, it’s a launch facility literally on a military base.
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by cshimmin 2y ago
They also switched from C to Rust halfway through the article, which was a bit jarring...
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by cshimmin 2y ago
Location: Southern CA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes ML/AI researcher and former Physicist, with 15 YoE software engineering all over the stack. I have experience with very early stage startups, but open to companies at any size&
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by cshimmin 2y ago
Mammal in the middle? Surely our threat model doesn’t include avian attackers…
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by cshimmin 2y ago
It means getting the nucleus to absorb a certain energy above its ground state. Since it is a quantum object, it can only absorb/emit energy in very specific amounts at once (“quanta”). The details of how the nucleus manifests that ex
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by cshimmin 2y ago
Literally, a death knell is a bell rung (esp by a church) to indicate someone has died. Figuratively it's an event that signals an end to something.
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by cshimmin 3y ago
For postdocs (and often grad students), the universities aren't paying the wages, it's the research grants. In some cases, those are capped by the funding agencies. NIH in particular has rigid payscale guidelines for postdocs in t
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by cshimmin 3y ago
centifoot... You had centimeter right there! "Americans will do anything to avoid using the metric system" lol
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by cshimmin 3y ago
Definitely a real thing. Also, during WWII actress Hedy Lamarr developed a system for spread spectrum torpedo guidance to prevent jamming, but the general idea predates that.
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by cshimmin 3y ago
A very valid question. In this case IIRC this drop-off in low-energy solar wind particles was correlated with observed changes in the magnetic field and also an increase in higher-energy cosmogenic particles all around the same time. These
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by cshimmin 3y ago
No, they are traveling at velocities far exceeding the gravitational escape velocity of the sun. There is no meaningful sense in which they are orbiting.

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