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by wenc 2y ago
But do you calibrate p (say through estimation) and then apply the Kelly criterion in your portfolio? I don’t think it is used in this way. It swings too much with a given p.
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by wenc 2y ago
Try looking for your a local Thai restaurant in your area. Kagi doesn’t profile you so it doesn’t know where you are, so any local searches involve adding a keyword or doing the search a second time with !g. I just tried it on Kagi and it s
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by wenc 2y ago
I was a paid Kagi user. It’s one of those tools where I have to say, “it doesn’t fit me but you’re doing something good in the world so keep going.” I don’t do the kind of searches where Kagi is a lot better than Google (I bet folks here do
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by wenc 2y ago
The Kelly criterion is almost never used as-is because it is very sensitive to probability of success, which is hard to know accurately and in many cases, dynamically changing. This is easy to see in an Excel spreadsheet. Changing the proba
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by wenc 2y ago
I think it depends on the problem domain. I have to implement a lot of throwaway ideas quickly, and LLMs are really useful there. For instance, say I wanted to plot a complicated Matplotlib diagram. It takes me 10+ minutes plus many context
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by wenc 2y ago
What if you treated Claude like a Junior dev? Have it write small chunks of code, which you code review and unit test.
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by wenc 2y ago
This is an interesting finding. There are two takeaways from the paper. 1. The length of streaks L for an independent Bernoulli process with success probability p (with q = 1-p) over n trials can easily be calculated. L = log_{1/p} (n*
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by wenc 2y ago
Aiming for consistency in branding achieves brand legibility (customer can figure out progressions and segments intuitively) but branding is about so much more than that. It’s about name recognition, cachet, aspirational qualities, etc. whi
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by wenc 2y ago
Aren’t coding copilots based on tokenizing programming language keywords and syntax? That seems to me to be domain specific tokenization (a very well defined one too — since programming languages are meant to be tokenizable). Math is a bit
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by wenc 2y ago
It's a running joke but also still true in many cities in America. Cab drivers really do prefer to be paid in cash.
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by wenc 2y ago
Just curious, is this an EV thing or just a high weight and low center of gravity thing? Because a number of gas cars also fall into the latter category.
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by wenc 2y ago
Author also graduated high school from Austria early, and finished a Berkeley math degree in 2 years. I’d say author is gifted. That said, technical PhDs often require a combination of raw mental horsepower, persistence and luck. (Working f
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by wenc 2y ago
I agree with peer comment. The actor was not learning the language but the pronunciation. In opera, singers usually sing in different languages that they don’t speak (Italian, German, French) so they learn how to pronounce. I grew up multil
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by wenc 2y ago
Claude can generate Artifacts but they are not inline editable and they keep getting regenerated at every prompt. Canvas appears to be different in that it allows inline editing and also prompting on a selection. So not the same as Claude.
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by wenc 2y ago
> This also demonstrates the type of things Google could do with Gemini integrated into Google Docs if they step up their game a bit. This is exactly what Google’s NotebookLM does. It’s (currently) free and it reads your Google Docs and
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by wenc 2y ago
Arguably this is better than Claude projects because you can prompt and edit inline. You cannot with projects. Claude keeps regenerating the artifact. This is closer to Cursor for writing than Claude Projects.
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by wenc 2y ago
This is a nice UI for editing prose inline. With Claude projects today, it keeps updating the artifact upon every new prompt when I sometimes really just want to tweak something inline.
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by wenc 2y ago
Let's check the Chatbot Arena in a bit. That's a more useful benchmark than any self-reported benchmarks. https://huggingface.co/spaces/lmsys/chatbot-arena-leaderboar...
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by wenc 2y ago
I remember a time when this mattered in terms of branding (Mac OS X being a Unix). It meant that the OS was “industrial-class”. This was against a backdrop of Macs not being seen as serious machines, unlike Windows machines which were more
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by wenc 2y ago
Yes it’s integrated with Google drive and allows external uploads too. This is more seamless than uploading files.
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by wenc 2y ago
This is the RAG (Retrieval-Augmentation) tool for Google Docs that I've been waiting for. It's like Perplexity for your personal docs.
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by wenc 2y ago
You just described the average human podcast (that's not on a Top 100 list). :) The output reminds me of any number of new marketing podcasts that are still trying to find their footing.
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by wenc 2y ago
I gave it some of my Google Docs and it generated an amazing back-and-forth audio podcast conversation that was quite believable! The only issue was that it got some things wrong (like my gender, but my name is gender neutral, so) and factu
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by wenc 2y ago
Can you tell me more about what you enjoy about HEB so I can look out for these things when I visit next? My last visit was too short. I'm down in the Austin area from time to time.
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by wenc 2y ago
Isn't there a balance? If there were tons of mom-and-pops, prices would be even higher due to lack of scale economics. There are a ton of mom-and-pops where I live and they are extremely pricey -- I never shop at them.
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by wenc 2y ago
One of the concerns I had when I did 23andMe many years ago was that someone in the future would be able to recreate me Jurassic-Park-style. Now I'm not an expert, but based on my reading of how they collect data, turns out 23andMe doe
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by wenc 2y ago
Forget about toys. Kids love big cardboard boxes. My nephews and nieces love them. I’m middle aged but I remember building so many make believe things out of boxes. All I needed were markers, glue and paper. My parents couldn’t afford those
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by wenc 2y ago
Yep. The unlocked part seems to be missing from the headline. You don't have to unlock your phone to show something on your wallet. This is entirely how airline boarding passes and Starbucks coffee cards work.
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by wenc 2y ago
The scene where the girl goes "It's a UNIX system, I know this" was one of the most realistic computer scenes in movies during a time when computer output on screen was mostly fake mockups. I was a kid back then but I'd
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by wenc 2y ago
This is an interesting use case. I don't know if it's a deal breaker though, because most restaurants today don't accommodate this either, unless you're already there in-person. Letting customers do this on the phone is

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