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lerchmo··on Meta got caught gaming AI benchmarks
The switching costs are so low (zero) that anyone using these models just jumps to the best performer. I also agree that this is not a brand or narrative sensitive project.
lerchmo··on Phind-405B and faster, high quality AI answers for everyone
I think an API would be fantastic for use cases like Aider / SWE agents. The primary issue besides fully understanding the code base is having up-to-date knowledge on libraries and packages. Perplexity has "online" models. And phind with Claude, GTP-4o, Phind 70 + search / rag would be awesome.
lerchmo··on AI paid for by Ads – the GPT-4o mini inflection point
this is mainly to prolong time on site / impressions that can be served. of course 98% of the banners on those pages are served by doubleclick (google) and thus google makes more money, the crappier the page.
lerchmo··on Why do tree-based models still outperform deep learning on tabular data? (2022)
There is some work with zero shot (decoder only) time series predictions by google and an open source variant. Curious to see how these approaches stack up as they are explored.
lerchmo··on Launch HN: Loops (YC W22) – Email for SaaS Companies
In practice that is a major bummer. You can’t distinguish between a new subscriber and a re activated subscriber.
lerchmo··on AI demand is already shrinking
ChatGTP as a tool is so novel and magical that everyone will sign up and try it. Some of those people will shake out and follow a normal hype cycle.
lerchmo··on Backyard Metalcasting (2018)
This type of website is where I spent the late 90’s. Tesla coils and quarter crusher instructions. This is a great website!
lerchmo··on Claude 2 Internal API Client and CLI
I have found just using it in the web interface comperable to OpenAI. But the context window makes a huge difference. I can dump alot more files in ( entire schema, sample records etc)
lerchmo··on Launch HN: Fastgen (YC W23) – Visual Low-Code Backend Builder
Pricing is crazy. team plan with 2 million actions ($300 is already expensive for this) + $29k? This is not realistic in any way.
lerchmo··on “$15M of [OpenAI] donations can be traced definitively back to Musk“ (not $100M)
Are you going off an interpretation of their agreements or the public comments of Elon Musk?
lerchmo··on Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter
The emerald mine + hand wavy dismissal of his achievements is pretty wishful thinking. You can be totally repulsed by his behavior and trolling. But he has taken a few giant swings and hit them out of the park.
lerchmo··on Google “We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI”
caching + simpler models for classification / triage should reduce the load on the big model.
lerchmo··on Google “We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI”
this is a temporary state. Open source alternatives are already available and more are being trained.
lerchmo··on DeepFloyd IF: open-source text-to-image model
it doesn't seem like they have anything published https://huggingface.co/DeepFloyd
lerchmo··on Samsung considers moving to Bing as default search engine
I think chatgtp itself with access to search / wolfram / apps etc is a more serious competitor than Bing.
lerchmo··on Samsung considers moving to Bing as default search engine
They really have a flywheel of internet destruction. The fact that they own the entire display advertising business + search and ping pong people from a 50% paid search listing to a CPM arbitrage SEO website and back is just gross.
lerchmo··on What it feels like to work in AI right now
Maybe scrape the top 100k websites and track changes / re-evaluate legal pages.
lerchmo··on I’m a doctor: Here’s what I found when I asked ChatGPT to diagnose my patients
Even providing it with a tool to search and load its context with relevant training textbooks / papers.
lerchmo··on I’m a doctor: Here’s what I found when I asked ChatGPT to diagnose my patients
Not sure why the outside view is so wise? Predicting the future in complex systems is hard, regardless of your prediction.
lerchmo··on I’m a doctor: Here’s what I found when I asked ChatGPT to diagnose my patients
Watch the late night shows making fun of (the internet) in the 90’s. This is just the next round of that in my opinion.
lerchmo··on Google CEO Sundar Pichai Says Search to Feature Chat AI
Remove links to content that could be characterized as "SEO spam. Google has spent billions of dollars on this right? No way you could detect that a page with 27 (google) ads that takes 12 minutes to scroll is not useful content.
lerchmo··on Xstate: State machines and statecharts for the modern web
I have been using this XState alternative https://github.com/StoneCypher/jssm

I find the DSL much easier to wrap my head around than the json format of Xstate.

lerchmo··on In which Balaji gives away at least a million dollars
pump and dump is not 4d chess. its lame
lerchmo··on In which Balaji gives away at least a million dollars
this seems the most rational. BTC is up 15% in the last 5 days. Who knows how much effect his publicity stunt is having on the price but assuming he has a large percentage of his liquid assets in bitcoin. The pump may end up making him more money than the million he puts into escrow.
lerchmo··on Show HN: BBC “In Our Time”, categorised by Dewey Decimal, heavy lifting by GPT
I like the typescript definition, rather than example json that I normally use.
lerchmo··on Show HN: BBC “In Our Time”, categorised by Dewey Decimal, heavy lifting by GPT
My company has gone years wanting our product catalog to have structured data around our products but not going through the tedium of extracting it all. about an hour of prompt tweaking and it can pull, normalize, summarize and output valid json from all of our products. Basically pulling it out of a big unstructured html blob.
lerchmo··on Pgvector: Open-source vector similarity search for Postgres
Probably better to use an off the shelf recommender or Amazon personalize. Amazon personalize will turn your product text data into embeddings and use that + collaborative filtering to generate various types of recommendations.
lerchmo··on Microsoft announces new Bing and Edge browser powered by upgraded ChatGPT AI
It’s the innovators dillema. Google is selling the answers to questions for millions of dollars per day. If their bot answers with ads, people will use another bot.
lerchmo··on Nelua: AOT statically typed Lua
https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r21

(openresty) is luajit + nginx

lerchmo··on Show HN: Plus – Self-updating screenshots
Honey was primarily a browser extension. 4 billion exit
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