kwisatzh

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by kwisatzh 23d ago
Hi all, The developer here. My background is in networking/systems and got interested in MechInterp for various reasons, and one of the first things I noticed was many methods that have been built to monitor internal AI state are gener
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Show HN: ObserverBench – Test internal AI monitors by the harm they miss(kwisatzh.github.io)
4 points by kwisatzh 23d ago|1 comments
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by kwisatzh 1mo ago
This is the biggest factor. FT (or the analysts it cites) fumbled the ball in this article.
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by kwisatzh 1mo ago
OP here; direct link to the sketch library: https://github.com/llm-measurement/llm-sketchkit
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Show HN: Bounded GenAI metrics from Otel traces with O raw prompts(github.com)
4 points by kwisatzh 1mo ago|2 comments
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by kwisatzh 6mo ago
More than 70% of the employees are probably Sales/Support/Service -- on par with any large enterprise firm (Think Cisco/Salesforce/ServiceNow etc)
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by kwisatzh 2y ago
Public perception of what it means to be convicted has shifted with this election. Thiel of all people wouldn’t care if he is doing business with someone who is convicted, as long as they continue to make him money and push whatever agenda
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by kwisatzh 2y ago
He’ll get pardoned. It’s a Thiel company.
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by kwisatzh 2y ago
Since when does he care about freedom? He was shadow banning content that he disliked on X, all the while boosting takes he approved of. Sure, he owns X and can do whatever he wants with it, but he doesn’t care about freedom.
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by kwisatzh 5y ago
He wrote one of the most quoted passages as a comparison to the mother of his kids. Most SV women don’t live up to this woman, whom he was lucky to get with, according to him. You need more than mere ‘hours’ to get the context.
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by kwisatzh 7y ago
How do you know he wouldn’t have been hacked to pieces if he wouldn’t have supported the Saudis?
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by kwisatzh 7y ago
Finally, a post that goes beyond a tutorial. This is great!
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by kwisatzh 9y ago
Can you be more specific in terms of issues with ML Lib? I'm thinking of using it with Spark cause of big data requirements, but have heard MLLib in particular is highly unreliable.
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by kwisatzh 9y ago
I'd show my source code if I were you -- for one simple reason. Most data science teams in large enterprises suck. Even teams that have technical chops, I can tell you with experience that they won't be able to achieve anything ev
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by kwisatzh 9y ago
I'd show my source code if I were you -- for one simple reason. Most data science teams in large enterprises suck. Even such teams have intellectual brain power, I can tell you with experience that they won't be able to achieve an
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by kwisatzh 9y ago
How to share a secret by Adi Shamir. Simple, elegant, short and highly impactful.
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by kwisatzh 9y ago
It isn't merely about dropping the investigation, it is also setting the tone. The investigation can be denied resources for years, or whatever the investigation reveals can be undermined. An investigation doesn't have to be dropp
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by kwisatzh 9y ago
I don't see anything coming out of this or the earlier exposes. They seem to be doing fine, and will continue to thrive. Viva Tech-Bros!
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by kwisatzh 10y ago
Actually it's not the body shop's fault -- I had a similar experience with my Model S. The parts are all special and tailored. The parking sensors, for instance, are unique and have to work with the car, which is by most accounts,
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by kwisatzh 10y ago
I recently had a very similar experience with my Model S, although it was a month as opposed to multiple months that the author faced. I had a front bumper issue, and by all accounts it was a minor collision (car was moving at around 4mph).
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by kwisatzh 10y ago
Why can't the index subsystem itself have a backup then? When the primary subsystem is being restarted/rebuilt, the secondary takes over.
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by kwisatzh 10y ago
Well, what if Thiel supports David Duke or comes out as a holocaust denier -- would you still claim that Thiel's professional career can't be at stake?
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by kwisatzh 10y ago
+10000 I've always maintained that Wall Street is way fairer to its employees than the Valley. Most investment banks and hedge funds offer great bonuses to their traders/analysts as they should -- they are the ones bringing in mo
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by kwisatzh 10y ago
He was an advisor for an analytics startup I used to work for. Really unimaginative and uninspiring. Zero vision. I was very surprised how he was appointed as an advisor (and got a good chunk of equity).
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by kwisatzh 10y ago
He's a contrarian for the sake of being a contrarian. He never grew up beyond 16. It's not worth bothering about what he says or means.
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by kwisatzh 10y ago
The article hints at a larger problem that underlies all data-science-as-a-service outfits: pricing for profitability. How can you price the generation of insights so that you; Palantir etc. can become profitable, while those insights can s
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by kwisatzh 11y ago
The US should staple a Greencard to all PhDs and Masters students in the STEM fields. Most grad students have some support of funding (NSF/NIH etc) and it makes sense for these students to work here and pay off the funding instead of l
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by kwisatzh 11y ago
Totally agree! If I had a dollar bill every time I had a senior exec (VP-level) for large orgs ask me what 'probability' means, I wouldn't need to be a data scientist anymore! The issue is deeper than what you write I think
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by kwisatzh 11y ago
I don't think so. People behind Theranos from the VCs to the media are too powerful. Nothing much would change, I reckon.
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by kwisatzh 11y ago
Well, pretty much most people I know have had successes with O1 -- myself included. I work at a SV startup and while the process is onerous, if one is qualified, O1 is quicker to get and has fewer constraints attached to it. OP of this post

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