krosaen

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by krosaen 3y ago
Wow, apparently published his last post, "What Is the Spectral Radius of a Matrix?" just 8 days before his passing. Legend. https://nhigham.com/2024/01/
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by krosaen 3y ago
Hmm kroger delivery has been working well for me, and glad they are increasingly offering non instacart fulfillment. A little clunky in the UI? Fine, I’ll take that over a polished app that changes the prices on me.
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by krosaen 3y ago
One of my favorite t-shirts was a "rusty makes his move" with dog breath spray - I wore it weekly until it had yellow pit stains and holes in it.
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by krosaen 3y ago
Didn't really feel like a random startup - felt like one of the most innovative startups around, backed by impressive investors including Google, co-founder married to Sergey Brin... So perhaps in hindsight sending DNA to anyone is a
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Why Frozen Pizza Is the Best Pizza(reason.com)
3 points by krosaen 3y ago|1 comments
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A practical introduction to kill-safe, concurrent programming in Racket(nikhilism.com)
1 points by krosaen 3y ago|0 comments
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by krosaen 3y ago
This is interesting not only because there was a product decision to sort the seasons of Black Mirror so that S4e1 would show up instead of S1e1 to avoid showing the pig f--er episode in people's home page, but also because the lengths
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by krosaen 3y ago
productionizing ai models is a pain, this makes it easy. say you were building a d&d app and wanted to generate character art, this would make it very easy to get started. aws has similar offerings (e.g sage maker) but it’s not on the e
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by krosaen 3y ago
I bet the distribution of outcomes among all YC participants tells a different story - not all or nothing. Getting acquired or acqui-hired, while not as prestigious, often nets the founders as much or more than the opportunity cost of not t
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by krosaen 3y ago
Anyone have experience with this and postgraphile? The additional data sources is clearly a benefit of graphweaver, but wondering for the postgres use case how they compare.
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Parkinson’s Law (1955)(economist.com)
2 points by krosaen 3y ago|1 comments
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by krosaen 3y ago
For every person doing great work of the sort he describes - original and impactful - there often needs to be several talented people helping to execute towards the newly discovered goal. He hints at this when he mentions the need to manage
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by krosaen 3y ago
I responded to a post [1] by Skydio's head of autonomy and ended up going through their interview process and joining - have been at Skydio for almost 2 years now. Thanks HN! [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=259
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by krosaen 4y ago
I worked with Bob on Adwords and then Android, our time overlapping quite heavily at Google. He was not afraid to ruffle feathers, often getting into spirited debates on long threads or in meetings. He stood up to managers. He insisted on d
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by krosaen 4y ago
Reminds me about my neighbor who designed and then sold a batch of portable modular synths: https://www.modernsounds.co/pluto amazing work and so cool that that sort of thing is possible from a solopreneur these days.
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by krosaen 4y ago
Why are transformers and large language models (which AFAIK use transformers, e.g Generative Pre-trained Transformer) in different boxes in the decision tree? They yield the same conclusion so I guess it's fine.
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by krosaen 4y ago
That's a great way of putting it - the memorization becomes sustained through deeper understanding.
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by krosaen 4y ago
The Kalman filter. I felt like I understood it watching some videos but it always turned out I didn't really understand it well enough to put it to use or explain it to others. Gaining a better understanding ultimately just took a lot
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by krosaen 4y ago
Can you share more about your RN apps? Would be great to have some more examples.
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Adventures in generating music via ChatGPT text prompts(holovaty.com)
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by krosaen 4y ago
> where he took deposits, put them in completely inappropriate investments It's not just that they were inappropriate, taking assets from FTX to prop up Alameda is fraudulent and should never have happened right? He claimed there wa
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by krosaen 4y ago
Wait what? Python, if anything, has a reputation for being readable! Perhaps this is more of a criticism of dynamically typed languages in general? As the team grows, adding mypy types can help a lot.
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by krosaen 4y ago
Creator of Django did an ML project last year and has a lot of good insights - general web / programming know-how is really useful for building custom tooling to manage / observe datasets and things like that. edit: forgot to incl
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by krosaen 4y ago
A lot of this hinges on fake reviews. It seems like it should be a solvable problem, but then I read about things like scammers going so far as to actually order their bogus products to real addresses of unsuspecting people (not caring what
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by krosaen 4y ago
I don’t understand the benefit of nominal typing when structural typing is available?
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by krosaen 4y ago
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/pandemics-...
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I Won My Three Year AI Progress Bet in Three Months(astralcodexten.substack.com)
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by krosaen 4y ago
Thanks, we’re getting one installed and will have a small gas furnace supplement/ backup for the coldest days. Will be curious how the latest “hyper heat” tech works. They made it sound like we’d only need the backup unit on like negat
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by krosaen 4y ago
We’re getting air source heat pumps for our house in Michigan- including new tech that makes it still work to minus 20. However, due to the possibility of a polar vortex, and the decreasing efficiency below zero, the installer recommended a
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by krosaen 4y ago
Can you say a little more about what you don’t like?

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