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davkap92

45 karma · joined September 11, 2015

Founder and creator of www.valueforest.co.za
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davkap92··on LFM2.5 2.6B model competitive with 4x larger models
Tbf its in the description on the page "Competitive with models 4x larger on tool use, instruction following, and multi-step agentic tasks."
davkap92··on Show HN: How LLMs Work – Interactive visual guide based on Karpathy's lecture
Well Karpathy did. this is basically his work (with the big caveat if there are no LLM mistakes/hallucinations). Its just exporting his transcript to a different format. I think if its presented as 'look what i built' its misleading. but if its presented as, this format of information was helpful to digest, and properly attributed to the author (which it was here) theres no real issue
davkap92··on Two Months After I Gave an AI $100 and No Instructions
Interesting but by telling it to check X for mentions of itself, that is an action.. wouldn't this essentially direct it and hence be steered/controlled by random individuals on the internet?
davkap92··on Show HN: Fire UK Calculator and Visualiser
Nice interface, a few tweak suggestions, its not clear when things are auto updating maybe some more indicators some tooltips, such as retirement spending, is that annual? nice job though!
davkap92··on Show HN: I ranked news websites by speed
Looks cool. Just a note might be worth mentioning you're benchmarking the desktop scores as the mobile ones can be significantly different on pagespeed insights. Maybe show/track both? Seeing as mobile usage is significant
davkap92··on Building Your Color Palette
This one looks good too https://material.io/resources/color/#!/?view.left=0&view.rig...
davkap92··on Building Your Color Palette
I was just thinking the same thing! May also build something like this. This from cloudflare seems quite close to what i had in mind https://cloudflare.design/color/
davkap92··on Show HN: A guitar tab viewer that listens
I'd test this myself but don't have a guitar with me at the moment
davkap92··on Show HN: A guitar tab viewer that listens
Looks very cool will try this out and report back but just curious first thing that comes to mind, how are you differentiating between the several frets that could produce the same note, or for example 6th string 5th fret(A) vs open 5th string(A) ?
davkap92··on Web.dev by Google
I had ssl error... and then realised it was because I have dnsmasq on *.dev at the time there was no dev tld :P
davkap92··on Ask HN: Are you working on interesting technical problems?
I've been in the same boat... guess in any profit focused business eventually the cs stuff has to be wrapped up into some form of value adding service, and 'CRUDified' and delivered. I suppose which team you're on or maybe at a startup depending how early on you get into it, could impact how much time/opportunity you'd have to work on the interesting problems
davkap92··on A checklist of marketing ideas for side projects
Nice idea thanks! One suggestion maybe add some sort of priority marking/ time spent for each one, as I would say some are definitely higher priority than others
davkap92··on If you bought Bitcoin 7 years ago
I like the changes nice job!
davkap92··on Show HN: CodeContext – need your help visually contextualising software
Ok, so as an example you're a developer new to Node and associated technologies, I think it may be helpful if one could visually see how all the tools interact with each other. Grouped by say CI, Task Automation, Libraries etc. A visual story of the complex of web of technologies that exist and how they interact with one another.
davkap92··on 20 lines of code that beat A/B testing (2012)
Regarding your first point, not sure if author covered it, but in Google Content Experiments with multi bandit approach cookies are stored, so user who sees variation b will keep seeing b while the experiment is running
davkap92··on 20 lines of code that beat A/B testing (2012)
Interesting but since the writing of this article (2012) Google do offer Multi Armed Banned Content Experiments... https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2844870?hl=en
davkap92··on Microsoft demos 'holoportation' 3D presence tech with HoloLens
Microsoft Office 3D here we come, walking past life size graphs and real life spreadsheets
davkap92··on Ask HN: CodeContext – need your help visually contextualising software
this is the little bit I have so far... https://github.com/davkap92/codecontext
davkap92··on Ask HN: What's your 1-man startup?
I made http://www.valueforest.co.za a website that aggregates all the major South African classifieds into one place. Growing well 50K unique users a month, will probably have to get partners at some point, as they say you need a hacker/hustler/hipster and I'm the hacker.