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by zachthewf 3y ago
Expressivity and naturalness are still not good enough. It's getting there, but today you'd never have a voice conversation with an AI and come away thinking "boy, what an engaging, charismatic personality that AI had!"
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by zachthewf 3y ago
Hard for me to imagine that this could be solved in text space. I think the prediction task needs to be done on the audio.
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by zachthewf 3y ago
Good way to start is to force yourself to post (as yourself, ideally with your work) on the internet every day
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by zachthewf 3y ago
You are right, but using the 409a pricing would not really be honest either. (In the sense that the 409a is basically "as low as we could reasonably value this stock" in order to keep the strike prices low.)
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by zachthewf 3y ago
I didn't know that. Maybe it's not good enough so they figured they had to train on customer data to ship something high quality, hence this change.
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by zachthewf 3y ago
If it's attached to a Sentry error, there's clearly some issue which produces the exception.
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by zachthewf 3y ago
Today the largest context window for GPT-4 is 128k tokens. That's around 300 pages of English text. It's a lot of code! It is certainly not enough for every case, but it is enough (and the models are smart enough) to be useful.
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by zachthewf 3y ago
If I were running product at Sentry I'd be working on an agent that opened pull requests to fix your Sentry errors. This would work today with GPT-4 on a nontrivial number of errors/codebases.
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by zachthewf 3y ago
Whimsical is amazing. https://whimsical.com/
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by zachthewf 3y ago
There's a good contingent of YC folks in Capitol Hill. I'm very interested in improving the Seattle startup scene and would love to grab a coffee or chat. Contact info in bio.
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by zachthewf 3y ago
Do you know of there's any data on the prevalence of these noncompetes in employment contracts?
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by zachthewf 3y ago
I'm curious to know more about your experience with ImageBind, and what applications for multimodal embeddings are most exciting to you.
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by zachthewf 3y ago
While I agree with the general sentiment, poverty and inequality are wildly different problems (e.g. modern capitalism tends to increase inequality but also decrease poverty).
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by zachthewf 3y ago
Have you tried perplexity.ai? It has become my go-to for LLM + browsing. It is really fast and does a pretty good job with retrieval and summarization.
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by zachthewf 3y ago
Burn is how much you lose, not how much you spend. If you have >1,000s of employees you presumably also have $100s of millions in revenue.
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by zachthewf 3y ago
there are lots of swe jobs with the government.
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by zachthewf 3y ago
Building a tailored earworm might actually be easier.
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by zachthewf 3y ago
Your channel and engineering skills are amazing. I've showed the series of increasingly awesome basketball videos to so many people.
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by zachthewf 3y ago
hopefully a whole bunch of them!
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by zachthewf 3y ago
Uberduck | https://uberduck.ai/ | Founding ML Engineer, Founding Backend Engineer | Full-Time | Onsite in Seattle or New York | $120k - $200k + equity Uberduck makes AI vocal generation tools for music professionals, hobbyi
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by zachthewf 3y ago
Most people I know in their 60s would way rather be in their 60s than dead
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Who Owns SpongeBob? AI Shakes Hollywood’s Creative Foundation(wsj.com)
2 points by zachthewf 4y ago|1 comments
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by zachthewf 4y ago
Heh, is this a Therac 25 joke?
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by zachthewf 4y ago
As long as the customers don't know, I can imagine it might help.
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by zachthewf 4y ago
I understand and share your fear. In a sense, I think we already live in this world: there are many people who are already slaves to YouTube, TikTok, strategically timed push notifications, etc. We live in a world where digital tech is fant
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by zachthewf 4y ago
Cost of ChatGPT API just dropped 90%. Guaranteed that prices will come down dramatically over time.
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by zachthewf 4y ago
That is a good point that I hadn't thought of. I lived in an illegal unit in San Francisco—a buddy and I got permission from our landlord to put up a wall subdividing our bedroom in Bernal Heights into two smaller bedrooms. Some of my
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by zachthewf 4y ago
In some sense I agree with you, and it would all be much simpler if the laws could be changed. But I think this is pretty unlikely at least in the next 30 years or so. But sufficiently cheap/fast technology is very difficult to block.
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by zachthewf 4y ago
Lately I've been thinking that perhaps the solution to the housing shortage is a technology that makes it easy, cheap, and extremely fast to build housing that is both attractive and illegal. Uber and Airbnb were both pretty much illeg
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by zachthewf 4y ago
Part of the 90%. True but not particularly insightful.

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