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gbasin

467 karma · joined January 8, 2014

https://garybasin.com/

Founder + investor — fintech

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gbasin··on Avoiding hallucinations in LLM-powered applications
Yes this feels analogous to ensembling which can help measure variance, also
gbasin··on Replit's new Code LLM: Open Source, 77% smaller than Codex, trained in 1 week
Very exciting, thanks for sharing all this
gbasin··on Is the US education system in a state of collapse, and what caused it?
Does funding matter? <insert one of a dozen studies here showing little relationship between student funding and outcomes, across and within countries>
gbasin··on AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my projects
The RLHF process performed on that chat models actively confuses their ability to estimate confidence. The raw models are quite well calibrated though
gbasin··on Stripe faces $3.5B tax bill as employees' shares expire
At least in the US, this will only be true before a company goes public. After that point, the shares will all be freely salable and have the same value (except for a small premium for supervoting shares which some founders may retain).
gbasin··on We're creating a new top-level product group at Meta focused on generative AI
When was that not the case? Only time I can think of is A/B testing facebook.com and maybe the transition to mobile feed?
gbasin··on We Found an Neuron in GPT-2
There is "long range" dependence, it's just only on the prompt: the conversation with the user and the hidden header (e.g. "Answer as ChatGPT, an intelligent AI, state your reasons, be succinct, etc."). That ends up being enough.
gbasin··on Show HN: Data Painter – A Different Way to Interact with Your Data
ngl would've killed for more alpha back then
gbasin··on Show HN: Data Painter – A Different Way to Interact with Your Data
Wow I would have killed for this in my algo trading days :) Great looking tool
gbasin··on Pineapple Litepaper: mortgage banking on a blockchain
Ya, luckily we already have one a large bank ready to use it and that's enough to start: https://twitter.com/garybasin/status/1624134955566788608?s=2...
gbasin··on Pineapple Litepaper: mortgage banking on a blockchain
Cofounder here, happy to answer questions
gbasin··on Stock market charts you never saw (2021)
The 3rd one is interesting and something I hadn't considered as much before — may be applicable still in less regulated markets
gbasin··on Ask HN: I'm 40 and feel my mental ability declining. Programming seems harder.
Not to create unnecessary paranoia, and the odds are low, but there is a possibility of early onset alzheimer's...
gbasin··on JPMorgan to spend $1B on rental homes in the US to become a megalandlord
some charts here https://twitter.com/Econimica/media
gbasin··on JPMorgan to spend $1B on rental homes in the US to become a megalandlord
To play devil's advocate, these big institutional buyers moving into the single-family home market after a huge run up just feels like suckers rushing in at the top.

We're possibly at a multi-generational peak in inflation-adjusted returns to homeownership. Total population growth has essentially peaked, and working age population is falling. Expect more inflation over the next 50 years as we have more retirees (pure consumers of goods) to working age folk (who are net producers). On top of that, we've built more housing than "needed" in 99% of the country (look up the numbers if you're curious... construction has outpaced population growth).

gbasin··on Boeing 787s must be rebooted every 51 days to prevent 'misleading data' (2020)
ya, also keep everything in cache to be below a few mics
gbasin··on Boeing 787s must be rebooted every 51 days to prevent 'misleading data' (2020)
sub 10 in Java was very doable 10 years ago, fwiw. even better than collecting once a day is doing everything off-heap — C-style java :D
gbasin··on The anatomy of an ML-powered stock picking engine
Sure ping me on twitter
gbasin··on The anatomy of an ML-powered stock picking engine
I founded and ran a quant trading firm for about a decade :)
gbasin··on The anatomy of an ML-powered stock picking engine
If your predictions are good, I'd be happy to get you $100 million in assets to manage. It's very unlikely that your predictions are good...
gbasin··on Users reporting artifacts appearing in old images stored in Google Photos
ok and then what? :D you still can't recover original
gbasin··on Users reporting artifacts appearing in old images stored in Google Photos
Nothing a little Stable Diffusion can't fix. Soon, digital memories will be just like real ones — slightly different every time we look back, but with no way of knowing what's changed
gbasin··on Getty Images bans AI-generated content over fears of copyright claims
the innovator's dilemma
gbasin··on The AI Unbundling
anti-trust law would prevent the most egregious forms of this
gbasin··on San Francisco braces for commercial real estate crash
Take a look at Manhattan's Financial District — seems like half of the commercial buildings have already been converted to residential. Some layouts are a bit awkward but it works fine
gbasin··on Investors bought a quarter of US homes sold last year
The CoreLogic data shows that what it calls “mega” investors, with a thousand or more homes, bought 3% of houses last year and in 2022, compared with about 1% in previous years, with the bulk of investor purchases made by smaller groups.
gbasin··on The strength of the strong force
Nothing an LCD and some cameras can't solve
gbasin··on Germany to Rethink Nuclear Shutdown as Energy Crisis Deepens
Cost is not static. Building more will create economies of scale. Most importantly, overhauling the excessive safety guidelines will give you an immediate savings
gbasin··on Binance has paused Bitcoin withdrawals “due to a stuck on-chain transaction”
While this is also possible, this is not what the statement was referring to
gbasin··on Binance has paused Bitcoin withdrawals “due to a stuck on-chain transaction”
Yep. Some of these are held by custodians and others in smart contracts, depending on the type of "wrapper"
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