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edmack

548 karma · joined October 7, 2013

Cambridge Computer Scientist / Oxford Mathematics Software developer, designer, Startup CTO
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edmack··on A guess at how o1-preview works
Corrections and discussion very welcome! Happy to improve it!
edmack··on Ask HN: Senior Positions Interview Prep Resources?
yes!
edmack··on Arrow of time and its reversal on IBM quantum computer (2018)
Here's my attempt at distilling it:

"Normally in a quantum computer, if we apply measurement function F to input x so y=F(x), it's impossible to reverse F and turn y into x. However, if we constrain y, we can make a special function G_Y such that x=G_Y(y)"

Whilst I don't have time to really dive through all the sections, this seems weirdly click-baity and IBM-promoting for an academic article.

edmack··on Arrow of time and its reversal on IBM quantum computer (2018)
The word IBM feels conspicuous.
edmack··on This Startup Does Not Exist
Where do you find all these?
edmack··on [dead]
wow.
edmack··on Myths in Machine Learning Research
Nice refreshing list :)

I didn't think "Attention > Convolution" was a prevalent myth, given how integral convolutions are to SOTA image classifiers and GANs (if anything, I believe attention is unde-utilised here and due to grow in usage a lot)

edmack··on Ask HN: Are you working on interesting technical problems?
A couple of months ago I quit the tech startup I founded to focus full time on research. So far, I'm hugely enjoying it and really glad I made the (scary) jump.

https://octavian.ai if you're curious.

edmack··on What I wish I knew when I became CTO
I totally agree that requiring PRs to have tests is a good way to solve this - it's what we've adopted after trying a few approaches
edmack··on What I wish I knew when I became CTO
We had a little MySQL db, and both the data and the different systems consuming it grew quite rapidly, faster than we could get ahead of given company priorities. We have a read-replica for the BI dashboarding system, and this keeps our world relatively stable and reliable.
edmack··on Growing from 0 to 4M users on our fashion app with vertical machine learning
Their R1 hoody and climbing pants are the two items I've worn the most this year. Their design is great, and as these pants wear out, they'll fix them for me.
edmack··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2017)
SketchDeck (YC W14) | Full-Stack Developer | Sunnyvale, CA | ONSITE Full-time

We're looking for a full-stack developer to join our team here in Silicon Valley. SketchDeck is a technology-powered design agency designing for companies like Dropbox, Reddit, YC, Okta and Rémy Cointreau. We're a small eng. team of three, we've grown our MRR a lot this year and have a lot of opportunities to pursue.

If you're interested, love to chat! david@sketchdeck.com

edmack··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2017)
SketchDeck | Mid level full stack engineer in Sunnyvale ONSITE

Hello! We're looking for an engineer to help grow our tech-enabled design agency. You'll work directly with our designers and clients, suggesting and building your own ideas to contribute to company growth. We're a small supportive team and excited to talk to HN candidates :)

$100k - $160k (depending on experience!), stock, benefits

https://www.workable.com/j/560E9126CE

edmack··on Hire a former SoundClouder
Please add to the list of companies hiring :)

SketchDeck, Full stack engineer, Sunnyvale California, No remote, Join our little dev team to grow our design marketplace - happy to talk: david@sketchdeck.com

edmack··on AI is already being creative
Thanks for reading and replying! By author I mean "that which writes books on bestseller lists" as opposed to "that which outputs text". Hope that clarifies.
edmack··on Decoupled Neural Interfaces Using Synthetic Gradients
This area is a big deal - ML networks need to be much deeper and denser to provide human-level understanding, and training networks is currently a considerable bottleneck.
edmack··on Ask HN: What was your “why didn't I start doing this sooner” moment?
Starting a company
edmack··on Ask HN: What visa do foreign YC founders use to stay in US beyond 3 months?
E-2 is more general and useful than people realize - I say after exploring it and getting it.
edmack··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2015)
Full time onsite account directors at SKETCHDECK!! We're an on-demand design agency, based in Sunnyvale. Come make beautiful design happen wood (Visa needed, sorry, we're young and not yet able to help with visas)
edmack··on Ask HN: Did you implement a lunch picking app at your startup?
/giphy food is my FAVORITE slack usage!
edmack··on Lily – Drone camera
I've wanted this for ages for run filming! Excited to see if tracking works well.........
edmack··on New Hacker News Guideline: Avoid Gratuitous Negativity
If it helps you can take respectfully to mean "the recipient will not feel angry or attacked due to the message tone" and constructively to mean "the recipient will finish reading the message feeling positive with ways to improve their work or actions".
edmack··on New Hacker News Guideline: Avoid Gratuitous Negativity
Be nice is a good guideline. I try to be nice.
edmack··on New Hacker News Guideline: Avoid Gratuitous Negativity
This is great. I hope the community rally around this and make it happen.
edmack··on Companies That Presented at Y Combinator Demo Day 1
It's early seed stage for many :)
edmack··on Stripe Connect v2
This is great! Well done!
edmack··on YC Stats Winter 2015
Thanks :)
edmack··on Show HN: Paid, an API for invoicing
It's really quick to start using. It's like a mashup of Segment and Stripe, you just start pinging events and it starts getting you money.
edmack··on Welcome Peter
I didn't find it a waste of time.
edmack··on Magic
The answer is probably they spent around two days building this before demand grew left them zero time to improve infrastructure. Which is more or less good.
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