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by zoogeny 3y ago
When talking about a developer that terminated their contract with 10k, the author says: "There was a moment to reconsider the contract and I've failed to explain our value." After reading the first chapter and skimming the r
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by zoogeny 3y ago
This documentary really frustrated me. It seems the documentary creator wants to tell two stories at once but he conflates them. There is one story, the story of the financial maneuvering to take control of intellectual property. And there
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I can comment on this since I had a similar co-worker. Well educated in Mechanical Engineering (or perhaps Electrical?) but working as a software engineer. He was a vocal supporter of flat earth and enjoyed debating the subject. The convers
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I think what I really want is turn-key fine tuning for existing foundational models. But honestly, even that is probably 2 years away before it is really a viable business. We lack sufficiently vetted commercial license foundational models.
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This looks decent and the idea is sound. I was looking at headless CMS recently and it only vaguely struck me that what is needed is the front-end builder component. Looking at the comments from the dev in this thread it seems this really o
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I like The Catcher in the Rye quite a lot and have read it three or four times. I also loved the Calvin and Hobbes cartoons of Bill Watterson. It is interesting to me how both authors chose shy away from fame and to protect their works from
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I might be loose with my terminology, but hooks as standard as `useState` or `useRef` will trigger errors like: You're importing a component that needs useState. It only works in a Client Component but none of its parents are mar
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I can comment on personal experience with this. I've been building a new application using next.js and its new `app` directory setup. First, it is hard to reason about what is happening where (server or client). If you want to know the
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by zoogeny 3y ago
> There are so many features I miss from Rust ... like sum types (called enums in Rust) I feel the same whenever I have to go to other languages after using TypeScript. I want to model all of my data using the limited algebraic data type
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When I read articles like this I can't help but question my own intuitions since they are so opposed to this author's thinking. Firstly, his suggestion on the worker shortage and the anecdotal $1000 sign on bonus at some local McD
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That is my speculation. But the question is one of intuition. If the speculation is correct, that some problems are better solved by a single more intelligent agent, then how can I determine the appropriate approach? What I mean to say is,
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by zoogeny 3y ago
Right, but the intuition I am going for isn't "Are 10 high-school students who collaborate together smarter than 1 high-school student working on their own". The intuition I am asking for is more like: "Are 10, 100, or 1
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by zoogeny 3y ago
> My mantra became "products not papers." Maybe that applies downstream of the LLM now. I agree, in the sense that my intuition is fed by having as many available examples as possible. I am not even sure one could quantify the
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> look at a problem from different angles Sure, but just as a thought experiment imagine you have a really bad disease. I give you two options: 100 high-school students can diagnose and prescribe a treatment or you can choose 1 professio
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by zoogeny 3y ago
Once we start talking about multi-agent AI systems I think my intuitions go out the window. If we consider that GPT-4 is about as capable as a reasonably intelligent high school graduate or college freshmen, I wonder how much actual benefit
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by zoogeny 3y ago
My first point, which I elaborated on in another reply to my comment, is that this makes sense for tools that are completely no-code. Refine brags about being developer first. Their example on github is a 75 line React-ish script. So, someo
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by zoogeny 3y ago
If this was a no-code solution I would agree. But the developers themselves are in this thread saying things like: "One of the key differences is our code-first preference over no-code, which distinguish Refine from the drag-drop style
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I am a bit confused by these tools. Can someone analogize what they are doing here? It somehow reminds me of the Django admin capabilities but expanded to any Typescript base technologies? I have trouble wrapping my head around the use case
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by zoogeny 3y ago
The question is what happens once you want to transition from your RTX 4090 to a business. It might be cute to generate 10 tokens per second or whatever you can get with whatever model you have to delight your family and friends. But once y
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> It's just that if you read papers most people publishing aren't using giant clusters. There is a massive difference between what is necessary to prove a scientific thesis and what is necessary to run a profitable business. An
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by zoogeny 3y ago
That is a decent point, in that it reminds me of a startup that posted on HN a couple of months ago that did background removal from images using AI models. They claimed this was a mature market now where bulk pricing was bringing the cost
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I did choose the 1000+ H100 case as the outlier. But even what you are describing, $500k for dozens of A100s or whatever entry level looks like these days, is a far step away from the $10/month for previous generations. This suggests w
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by zoogeny 3y ago
The real gut-punch for this is a reminder how far behind most engineers are in this race. With web 1.0 and web 2.0 at least you could rent a cheap VPS for $10/month and try out some stuff. There is almost no universe where a couple of
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by zoogeny 3y ago
This would initially be a community, like Wikipedia, Reddit, Github, etc. People who are passionate about the future of AI, believe in the value of open source data and want their voice to be part of a community of data that will be used to
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I agree that it would be almost impossible to defend this kind of business, especially if you stayed committed to open-source datasets. It would come down to the UX and the community if you hoped to survive. Probably long-term you would eit
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I don't think the major barrier to the idea would be consumer awareness. For the near-term the major barrier will be cost. Just as one example, together.ai offers fine-tuning service at an advertised cost of $0.001 per 1k tokens used [
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by zoogeny 3y ago
What I'd like to do is create a website where: 1. There is a list of open source fine-tuning datasets on millions of topics. Like, anime, lord of the rings, dnd, customer service responses, finance, code in many programming languages,
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by zoogeny 3y ago
> Not everybody is going to spend time tweaking some invisible algorithm Well, there are exactly two options with TikTok. Either you use the app or you don't. If you don't use the app then you probably shouldn't be making
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I would argue that "5-10% of videos trending right now have text that take up >50% of the screen" is a huge moving of the goal post from the original claim in this sub-thread: "just computer generated voices reading screen
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> A decent amount of TikTok "videos" are just computer generated voices reading screenshots of funny tweets and reddit comments. Not for me, I get exactly zero videos like that. I always chuckle when I read someone say "Mo

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