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I have this book for my kid and love it!

Seems the innovation of LLMs and these first movers is diminishing. Claude is still just chat with some better UI

Congrats on the launch. I love this idea, excited to check it out. I wonder how this fits in with the probable rise of AR glasses

This has been my go to podcast for bedtime or when I can’t sleep… the broad topics, depth of discussion and tone are all fantastic… the ONLY thing that bugs me is the volume of guests microphones not being equalized, so you get some guests on the same episode being so much quieter than others

The Pudding is one of the bright spots of the internet for me. Does anyone have any recommendations for other new / blog interestings websites on the same level?

My old boss was a tour rider in the early 90’s - he told me in 2012 that tiny motors were being used. I believe him.

Part of me can’t help but think that scientific journals as billion dollar industries need to keep the status quo of how articles are written, where they get submitted and who reviews them. Even though per review today is failing

Maybe it’s selection bias, but it’s amazing how the comments section for this post has so much more punctuation than a typical HN post; fascinating

“Metrics: We combine user metrics and offline eval metrics, and employ both human and automated evaluation, particularly using LLM-as-a-judge techniques”.

I’m curious to know what people are doing to measure whether the customer got what they were looking for. Thumbs up/down seems insufficient to me.

The ability of the LLM to perform purely depends on having good knowledge of what is going to get asked and how, which is more complex than it sounds

What techniques are people having success with?

Why would I need to use this over a flexible multi-agent framework? What’s the benefit?

I’m using Typesense hybrid search, it does the job, well priced and is low-effort to implement. Feel free to ask any specific questions

Their success in my opinion is having great content in a world where peers have degraded.

I recently went back to the guardian after 10yrs as NYT and even WSJ just got crappier in every way.

The Guardian podcast ‘long reads’ is so good. I hope they continue to thrive

When and how to do stop saying LLMs are predicting the nect set of tokens and start saying they are thinking? Is this the point?

It’s really interesting to see nvidia make a play higher up the AI stack. It really seems that generalist robots will be available in my lifetime. However, I have questions of their value. All of the demos look really slow, I do not think this is can be solved with more train data, but seems to suggest a current limit in the thinking- physical encoding and decoding of information and action, especially in humanoid robots which are a lot more complex

All I see here is the pandemic boom in hiring

Owner of high-end hybrid EV. Hybrids are still new to many car garages, which means skills to fix issues are not optimized. It took 3 weeks and $9k to figure out my hybrid wouldn’t start due to a faulty basic EV component (fortunately under warranty).

In addition cost of fuel cell replacement pushes up cost and risk of ownership and can be common at 70-80k miles.

I hate to say it, but I am actually considering a trade in for gasoline.

The form factor for these improves acceptance but no doubt there has been a societal shift, so much more of our lives are captured, shared, communicated and entertained through individuals filming. If not your peers, the generation below you is a ‘video and image as communication’ generation.

I own a pair and haven’t looked back. IMHO these have incredible utility and for me feel freeing. I have small kids and I want to capture those special small moments, but I refuse to pull out a phone to do so, small kids are so perceptive and they intuit something has changed when you pull out a phone to record. With the meta’s I just hit record and I don’t feel guilty or torn about recording. Granted, I don’t love how they look so I’m not always wearing them…

Seen some comments about juiced numbers, every teen interacts video first, that’s how they communicate with friends, not text, so I totally buy these numbers. Anecdotal, I’ve been to a couple of ray ban stores and staff say they sell like hot cakes and are sold out a lot of the time (obviously low production is a contributor, but point being they seem to have market fit)

I don’t know about the whole zone 2 thing, but I found running 10ks and pushing myself the whole time led to fewer gains than mixing slower paced runs with separate sessions of quarter mile sprints and 1 session of squats per week.

Also running extremely hard for a good distance for me at least, became mentally a lot less enjoyable

His high does your HR spike? And what pace are you running at and for his long

More of a comment on your goal and something I’ve been thinking about with non-fiction books recently.

I’ve begun thinking I dislike the rigid format of non -fiction books. Few ideas bulked out and iterated, with lots of context and examples. Takes me ages to get through and I have very little free time. Cliffs notes are awful because you need some iteration and emotional connection to make the content stick.

I’d love a version of a book that has variable rates of summarization and is navigable around points and themes, so I can hop about while ensuring I don’t miss a key fact or insight buried somewhere

I find the decline in alcohol consumption fascinating, how much of it is lack of sociability, being more aaare of its dangers, or just not willing to put up with the hangover.

I was at a family event last night and all the cousins and their friends were using zins - tobacco pouches. I don’t see those mentioned in this data under nicotine in the article.

This is a very neat exercise but I don’t think it’s going to create change. These models already exist and I’ve never met anyone who said their reason for not investing in solar is because they felt the accuracy of existing models is not good enough. I say this as someone who lives on a part of the world where a large % of the inhabitants could have solar but do not - and I find it sad, frustrating and puzzling.

Biggest blockers for solar are (total conjecture) : 1- Inertia - flat out. 2- Long-term ROI is not totally clear - How long till I need to replace, roof damage, ability to hold up in storm. 3- Cost - You need to invest sig $ to see your electric bill decrease meaningfully. Gov subsidies are nowhere near where they should be.

I am praying for a major breakthrough in cell efficiency to make it a no brainer. Does anyone have any insight on that?

This did not go far enough. Why is there a class action lawsuit for Cliff bars and not for scummy location data harvesters. I am curious whether they sold only segments or device level data and whether you could identify an individual

Hah, try that in New York! I looked in to getting a coffee cart to use in peak hours because I had a passion for how I wanted the cart to look and saw the crazy lines outside Starbucks in the AM.

- 20 year wait for a cart permit. _ Shady black market license resales from veterans (who have priority access to licenses - which is great in theory) - If you use water you need a ‘food’ license - Illegal to store your cart anywhere but a licensed depo that charges exhorbitant - very high penalties for unlicensed distribution

> So they made more money by selling their farm land, instead of being a farmer? That sounds like a good trade to me. This is pretty normal process in all highly developed countries.

The reasons and conditions are totally different in economies like those in Africa that are setup for wealth extraction vs. America where they are setup for wealth generation. The book ‘why nations fail’ does a great job of explaining this.

We’re fortunate to have your local Knowles and expert - thanks for sharing

I only managed to get part way through the article before some video overlay for a vodka brand kept trying to load and crashed the page. I tried again as the article was interesting/ same thing. Not so interested to try again. These moments of how realization of how bad some parts of the web are, reLly frustrate

So many incredible and rich, nuanced side characters. mentioned Bubs in the comments, and as soon as I read his name his memory came back as if I knew him personally. Snoop was a Baltimore native, did a stint in prison and had really lived the life they portrayed.

Find ‘watering holes’ where your ideal customer is and appropriately approach the community. This could be online forums, Reddit groups, meetups.

Good luck