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Ask HN: What do you think the future of captchas is?
2 points by davidajackson 2y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: Why Did Stripe Deprecate ACH Credit Transfer Before Migration Extensions
1 points by davidajackson 2y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: How Would You Build Restrictions for Deployed Model Prompts/Answers?
2 points by davidajackson 2y ago|1 comments
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by davidajackson 3y ago
LlamaIndex docs, LangChain docs, Youtube vids on intro to neural networks, tutorials on RAG, cross encoders, etc. should keep you busy for 20-40 hours at least
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Ask HN: Has anyone implemented reranking with llamaindex chatengine?
1 points by davidajackson 3y ago|0 comments
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by davidajackson 3y ago
Nice, whatever you do, just don't stop.
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by davidajackson 3y ago
SEEKING WORK - REMOTE - PST I am a seasoned engineer with deep experience building full stack AI applications. Whether you're building a tool for search, travel, exploring vector databases or RAG - I can architect the first version and
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by davidajackson 3y ago
SEEKING WORK - Location: PST - Remote Consulting: Yes I have a deep understanding of AI infra/architecture patterns if that is needed. I'm a seasoned senior engineer and have helped 3 YC companies launch & have worked on and a
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by davidajackson 3y ago
You're probably better off analyzing how different models work with different RAG subjects/content. It will proxy the work you're trying to do of analyzing models trained on different datasets. Find an HF model trained on nat
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by davidajackson 3y ago
- I predict that we will see the tangible effects of AI eating into non-technical areas (insurance, content creation, chatbots via RAG + agents) more and more. - We will continue to see price gouging in utilities and rent, driven by corpora
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by davidajackson 3y ago
Chunking is one of those things that needs to be custom to the document being processed. As a general rule, try recursive chunking for most questions. Consider using multiple strategies in tandem. It has the nice advantage of incorporating
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by davidajackson 3y ago
SEEKING WORK - Location: PST - Remote Consulting: Yes I'm a seasoned senior engineer and have helped 3 YC companies launch & have worked on and at multiple startups, as well as big tech. I work for and consult for startups launchin
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Ask HN: Avoiding irrelevant or undesirable model context in RAG
1 points by davidajackson 3y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: ChatGPT thinks it can't solve 8 Queens problem, but it can?
1 points by davidajackson 3y ago|3 comments
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by davidajackson 3y ago
Flexible Finance | REMOTE (US) | Fast growing fintech Flex ( https://getflex.com/ ) is an early-stage, remote-first FinTech startup that is bringing flexible payments to recurring bills. Flex currently offers flexible payment
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by davidajackson 3y ago
That's funny -- my grandfather wrote that other people were coming up to him.
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by davidajackson 3y ago
My grandfather was a young writer living in Spain a long time ago. At one point he wrote that he saw Hemingway sitting and working in a cafe, but didn't go up to him since he didn't feel he had proven anything yet.
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by davidajackson 4y ago
I've worked for 4 startups previously almost all very early stage. 1 was aqui-hired. It takes a lot of patience, a company might get totally nixed by black swan events like covid :)
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by davidajackson 4y ago
Use the occasional feeling of inferiority to drive yourself to learn technical topics you don't know much about, maybe build something. As an aside, I would much rather work with people like you than inflexible engineers that are know-
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by davidajackson 4y ago
Flexible Finance | REMOTE (US) | Fast growing fintech Flex ( https://getflex.com/ ) is an early-stage, remote-first FinTech startup that is bringing flexible payments to recurring bills. Flex currently offers flexible payment
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by davidajackson 4y ago
Some learnings from circa 6 years in startups, applicable to startups: 1. Only listen to people who have walked the walk. Many people with limited tech exp will try to advise you on how to build products/tell you what to do, don't
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by davidajackson 4y ago
My advice is to be fine with coding challenges, just don't do non compensated take homes. Take homes trend toward being non-paid work; I've seen plenty that are asking for a frontend and a server and a DB, and it's just somet
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by davidajackson 4y ago
Well congrats. Barring any issues re: proving its your app, all users are real etc (2 big IFs!)..., then: Are you tracking metrics? MAUs, DAUs? Anything like cohort retention ( https://docs.holistics.io/docs/charts/
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by davidajackson 4y ago
What size is the company? For a big company, just prevent merge to main unless approved by another team member. Set up pairings, like Junior<-->Senior reviews. The junior reviewer will learn a low from the senior coding style. For ver
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by davidajackson 4y ago
Flexible Finance | REMOTE (US) Flex ( https://getflex.com/ ) is an early-stage, remote-first FinTech startup that is bringing flexible payments to recurring bills. Flex currently offers flexible payments on rent for certain t
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by davidajackson 4y ago
SEEKING WORK - Location: PST - Remote Consulting: Yes I'm a seasoned startup engineer and have helped 3 YC companies launch & have worked on and at multiple startups. I work for and consult for startups launching MVPs and new servi
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by davidajackson 4y ago
SEEKING WORK - Location: PST - Remote Consulting: Yes I'm a seasoned startup engineer and have helped 3 YC companies launch & have worked on and at multiple startups. I work for and consult for startups launching MVPs and new servi
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by davidajackson 4y ago
My guess would be it's a combination of: 1. Many good eng's might not have the skills to fundraise/run the business side, and with them more often having friends that are also eng's maybe there's less likely to be
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by davidajackson 4y ago
I was first eng at 2 YC companies so can share my experience: Benefits: - Learn on the job - Learn to start companies/test ideas Drawbacks: - Company pivots or moves locations? Can lose all equity if < year 1 even if you stayed up l
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by davidajackson 4y ago
SEEKING WORK - Location: PST - Remote Consulting: Yes I'm a seasoned startup engineer and have helped 3 YC companies launch & have worked on and at multiple startups. I work for and consult for startups launching MVPs and new servi

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