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seany62

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seany62··on Targeted Bets: An alternative approach to the job hunt
I posted this mainly as something to refer friends to when they complain about something being to competitive / hard to get. Thought I'd shoot it here too.
seany62··on Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed
Unbelievable
seany62··on Abundant Intelligence
It surprises me that people still believe this! I've seen AI deliver incredible value over the past year. I believe the application level is utilizing <.5% (probably less) of the total value that can be derived from current foundation models.
seany62··on Built an AI tool to visualize large codebases - would love feedback
devin ai does this amazingly
seany62··on Show HN: I made an AI that turn live lecture into structured notes,mind-maps,PDF
Great idea! Will it highlight parts where the professor says something like "this is important and will be on the exam...". All of the information on the exam (which dictates the majority of your score in the class at most US universities) must be conveyed to the student one way or the other (worksheets, lectures. etc.). A cool runoff would be an "AI Exam Prep" which guessed what would be on the exam, based on previous exams and where the info came from
seany62··on I am (not) a failure: Lessons learned from six failed startup attempts
> My main lesson from running a startup: don't.

I hear this a lot and I think it is good advice because the only person who should actually start a startup is the one who sees this but still does it.

seany62··on Cerebrum: Simulate and infer synaptic connectivity in large-scale brain networks
Based on my very limited knowledge of how current "AI" systems work, this is the much better approach to achieving true AI. We've only modeled one small aspect of the human (the neuron) and brute forced it to work. It takes an LLM millions of examples to learn what a human can in a couple of minutes--then how are we even "close" to achieving AGI?

Should we not mimic our biology as closely as possible rather than trying to model how we __think__ it works (i.e. chain of thought, etc.). This is how neural networks got started, right? Recreate something nature has taken millions of years developing and see what happens. This stuff is so interesting.

seany62··on Launch HN: Midship (YC S24) – Turn PDFs and Images into usable data
Are users able to export their organized data?
seany62··on SimpleQA
Any way to see the actual questions and answers? Where can I find simple_qa_test_set.csv ?
seany62··on Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku
From what I'm seeing on GH, this could have technically already been built right? Is it not just taking screenshots of the computer screen and deciding what to do from their / looping until it gets to the solution ?
seany62··on Ask HN: How do you add guard rails in LLM response without breaking streaming?
> Hi all, I am trying to build a simple LLM bot and want to add guard rails so that the LLM responses are constrained.

Give examples of how the LLM should respond. Always give it a default response as well (e.g. "If the user response does not fall into any of these categories, say x").

> I can manually add validation on the response but then it breaks streaming and hence is visibly slower in response.

I've had this exact issue (streaming + JSON). Here's how I approached it: 1. Instruct the LLM to return the key "test" in its response. 2. Make the streaming call. 3. Build your JSON response as a string as you get chunks from the stream. 4. Once you detect "key" in that string, start sending all subsequent chunks wherever you need. 5. Once you get the end quotation, end the stream.

seany62··on Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]
Unbelievable. Amazing.
seany62··on Show HN: Itineraries.io – I built a joint trip planner in between surgeries
This is not always true. Both my mother and father enjoyed taking the kids on adventures
seany62··on Launch HN: Modern Realty (YC S24) – AI Real Estate Agent for Home Buyers
I'm a licensed agent in CA and am particularly interested in the answer to this question.

There's very strict regulation around unlicensed individuals performing activities requiring a license (negotiating, showing property, etc). Thus I would be surprised if they have AI doing this for a client!

seany62··on The Subprime AI Crisis
> Writing code with AI? I could swap to a local model.

AWS only brings in 80B+ a year, must be from everyone self-hosting. I'm curious why people think this is different?

seany62··on Ask HN: What are the main factors that determine YC acceptance?
Be formidable.
seany62··on Exploring How Cache Memory Works
Super interesting. Thank you!
seany62··on Etched Is Making the Biggest Bet in AI
A coworker of mine recently got access to Groq. Not sure how many slots there are but we have a pretty strict rate limit for what thats worth
seany62··on AI Love Island – multi agent text based dating simulation
Skimmed over the video and I gotta say this is sick! Imagine streaming this live with animation once we get their.
seany62··on Why we no longer use LangChain for building our AI agents
Glad to see I'm not the only one experiencing this. The agents framework I use is moving very fast and its not uncommon for even minor versions to break my current setup
seany62··on Ask HN: Open-Source Alternative to Bland.ai
https://github.com/statelyai/agent?tab=readme-ov-file

I've gone down the same rabbit hole and wasn't really able to find anything. Have been thinking about building an open source alternative myself