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gbasin

467 karma · joined January 8, 2014

https://garybasin.com/

Founder + investor — fintech

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gbasin··on Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
you're doing what now?
gbasin··on I program without syntax highlighting
me too except codex writes the code and i only look at git diffs :/
gbasin··on Eat Real Food
I don't believe that's true with 100% grass fed beef
gbasin··on Show HN: I built a dashboard to compare mortgage rates across 120 credit unions
I still use this regularly :) thanks for building it. any interest in open sourcing? i can help
gbasin··on OpenAI is building a social network?
I see, thanks. Seems just a matter of cost to reclaim it. Maybe regulation is needed
gbasin··on OpenAI is building a social network?
pardon my ignorance, in what was does it "consume water"? water cooling is closed loop
gbasin··on An analysis of DeepSeek's R1-Zero and R1
the main bottleneck will be model depth... you can only do so much with N layers, and recurrence has proven to be way less efficient (for now)
gbasin··on Chocolate intake and risk of type 2 diabetes: prospective cohort studies
~210 calories
gbasin··on Chocolate intake and risk of type 2 diabetes: prospective cohort studies
yep i switched to taza
gbasin··on Chocolate intake and risk of type 2 diabetes: prospective cohort studies
i eat half a bar of it per day, amazing brain fuel
gbasin··on MIT engineers make converting CO2 into useful products more practical
yep it should be possible. check this out: https://terraformindustries.com/
gbasin··on One Genius' Lonely Crusade to Teach a Computer Common Sense (2016)
this was my main takeaway from 20th century philosophy lol
gbasin··on Looming Liability Machines (LLMs)
Yes I was specifically thinking of the latter with larger models, I think many many shot ICL still tends to outperform but you're right it's worth trying both for your use case
gbasin··on Programming Zero Knowledge Proofs: From Zero to Hero
I am building in the mortgage origination space and have these sorts of enhancements on the drawing board... you hit the nail on the head that the bottleneck will be in QC and legal review, as 3rd-parties (especially regulators) may want to manually see the data you used to reach the conclusions you did. Although I'm still digging. You'd be interested in what we're creating btw, it's a crypto-based mechanism that enables instant digital mortgage origination, we should chat!
gbasin··on Programming Zero Knowledge Proofs: From Zero to Hero
This should not be down-voted
gbasin··on Looming Liability Machines (LLMs)
For large models that are well-trained with large context support, ICL seems to work about as well as FT
gbasin··on Better and Faster Large Language Models via Multi-Token Prediction
great comment
gbasin··on How Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Helps Neural Networks Compute
what would it mean to plan ahead? decoding strategies like beam search are popular and effectively predict many words ahead
gbasin··on Porn Sites Need Age-Verification Systems in Texas, Court Rules
Strictly for research purposes, what would some of these offshore sites be?
gbasin··on Tesla shares tumble as analyst decries 'train wreck' investor call
Today's revenue is not tomorrow's, and companies are valued based off of the future. Where did Amazon's revenue come from (and still primarily, afaik) for most of its life?
gbasin··on Weak-to-Strong Generalization
Your conclusion may be true but your examples aren't. You can definitely predict the stock market based on past prices, and I suspect you can with weather as well.
gbasin··on Product Strategy in the Age of AI
TikTok's success is primarily about the creator tools, not the viewing experience. Making video editing mobile-friendly and accessible to more people is what enabled the proliferation of short-form content.
gbasin··on The new science of meditation
here's one, just google around for "how to access jhanas": https://www.lionsroar.com/entering-the-jhanas/#:~:text=If%20....
gbasin··on The new science of meditation
Jhanas are achieved a particular way and should be readily accessible once your concentration is strong enough (yours likely is). You may have not experienced them if you haven't accidentally pulled the right levers, so to speak. There are a few guides online of what to do, I suspect you'd succeed quickly
gbasin··on Is technical analysis just stock market astrology?
Yes, insofar as awareness of it may influence your own behavior which gives it some predictive power
gbasin··on Children of alumni no longer have admissions edge at Carnegie Mellon, Pitt
and it's probably not the one you think
gbasin··on Ask HN: My GPT project has become a local hit but I can't afford the bill
the primary cost would be the OpenAI GPT-3.5-turbo API, which is ~ $0.002 per 1k tokens
gbasin··on Math prodigy runs market-making empire
it's not... it's competing in the market for profits. citadel makes plenty of money from trading, separate from fee-based business
gbasin··on Distilling Step-by-Step Outperforming Larger Language Models with Less Training
The latencies and costs are changing so quickly...
gbasin··on Distilling Step-by-Step Outperforming Larger Language Models with Less Training
you don't need access to the weights though, unless I missed something? this is akin to the various groups using GPT-3.5/4 to generate data for fine-tuning smaller models
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