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uptownfunk··on Ask HN: How do you deal with an off-day?
A little bump of cbd or thc 5-10mg and the induced sleep, it’s a good reset.
uptownfunk··on Ask HN: Do you struggle taking good pics?
Like if it really worked and made my wife go wow that’s a good photo, I would pay for it, probably 1.99-2.99 a month, or maybe 19.99 one time.
uptownfunk··on Ask HN: Do you struggle taking good pics?
I always suck. Like if an app could just give me a green check when the photo in frame was good and then I could just click it then that’d be great.
uptownfunk··on GPT-4 LLM simulates people well enough to replicate social science experiments
Is it possible to train an LLM that is minimally biased and that could assume various personas for the purpose of the experiments? Then I imagine it’s just some prompt engineering no?
uptownfunk··on GitGPT A natural language command line Git assistant
Not the author but thought it looked interesting and wanted to share.

Has anyone built something similar?

uptownfunk··on Amazon's exabyte-scale migration from Apache Spark to Ray on EC2
Are they that bored over there at amazon.
uptownfunk··on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
The correct solution is to have IT force push updates only when they deem fit (after they have tested internally on some ghost machines).
uptownfunk··on Panic at the Job Market
It’s really really bad out there. If you have a job be thankful. If you don’t, I wish you strength and support.
uptownfunk··on I am starting an AI+Education company
Whatever anyone will say. I am glad he is doing something meaningful with his life beyond just making investors in OpenAI more wealthy. At some point I suspect the money just becomes a number and then you can afford to think about bigger things like how can we help alleviate some of the broader suffering in the world.
uptownfunk··on Run CUDA, unmodified, on AMD GPUs
Very clearly the business motive make sense, go after nvidia gpu monopoly. Can someone help a lay person understand the pitfalls here that prevent this from being an intelligent venture?
uptownfunk··on AMD to buy Silo AI for $665M
Smells fishy anti trust
uptownfunk··on Show HN: A modern Jupyter client for macOS
I just want a Python version of rstudio- I bet they probably support Python by now
uptownfunk··on Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?
why does everyone make their own note taking app - is it easier to specify the app in code than to build an app that gives you what you want?
uptownfunk··on Introduction to Program Synthesis
Agree with the other commenter the new approaches are mostly neurosymbolic and based on DNNs vs the approaches given here. FWIW I think this is one of the critical pieces to AGI and I know many of the large AI labs are working on integrating these approaches in an agentic way with the LLMs they’ve trained. I expect this will dominate at least the next 12-24 months of research. There are also a few AI startups out there also working on prototyping these ideas.
uptownfunk··on My finetuned models beat OpenAI's GPT-4
Remember folks there is no free lunch :)
uptownfunk··on A Day Job Is So Much Easier Than Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is so brutal, so crushing. Day job way way easier.
uptownfunk··on Ask HN: To biz people here: what problems does your eng team push back on?
Very helpful, so the type of work doesn’t really matter ?
uptownfunk··on Delving into ChatGPT usage in academic writing through excess vocabulary
Ha ha at “delving” common gpt language
uptownfunk··on Ask HN: How many AGI researchers have/are studying philosophy seriously?
I am more interested in meta-cognition, advanced cognitive architectures, learning about how humans learn and then figuring out how we get machines to do that better and faster
uptownfunk··on Getting 50% (SoTA) on Arc-AGI with GPT-4o
Arc agi is a small stepping stone to agi but is not agi.

Program search mimics what humans do to a certain extent but not in entirety.

A more general world model and reference will be required for agi.

uptownfunk··on Tell HN: OpenAI seems to be A/B testing ads in answers
I’m surprised they didn’t do it sooner. They will consume Google. They should literally roll out email and a browser and a device and it’s game over
uptownfunk··on Ask HN: Any advice for someone getting back in the game after 13yrs at startups?
Use your network. You’ll still need to pass the bar at a FAANG co so start prepping. Probably aim for manager / sr manager type role. Or a director role at a smaller co- best of luck
uptownfunk··on What happens in the brain to cause depression?
The government has laws that it makes you obey. American Values they want you to have. Money of yours that they take. How is it different from control?
uptownfunk··on What happens in the brain to cause depression?
If people are isolated and don’t have social support and are therefore more emotionally vulnerable and unstable (basically we are put into isolation to a lesser degree than prison inmates) then it is easier for the government to control us.
uptownfunk··on What happens in the brain to cause depression?
People lack a support system. Before we lived in villages with lots of family and a very tightly woven social fabric. With technology and urbanization everyone is isolated. Covid isolation has exacerbated it. We are still evolving to create a race that can thrive in this new social setting after thousands of years of a different type of society. I prefer the former, my neighbors kids just randomly pop in almost daily, they have fun and it’s like a village and family. But I suspect society is progressing more towards this type of socially isolated type of dynamic, people on screens, to themselves. Easier to control us that way and better for disease transmission.
uptownfunk··on How fast can one reasonably expect to get inference on a ~70B model?
Dumb q- have you profiled the inference execution? Where are the bottlenecks you are observing?
uptownfunk··on Ask HN: Disillusioned after AI?
You have nailed it.
uptownfunk··on Ask HN: Disillusioned after AI?
Wondering why this got shadow banned from the front page?
uptownfunk··on Ask HN: Could advanced M-Line chips ever substitute for Nvidia H100s?
Winners generally stick to what they’re good at. Apple is consumer hardware- everything else is just accessory. Nvidia is a whole company just focused on this one thing. The markets tend to favor this type of behavior.
uptownfunk··on Moms Make the World Brighter: Happy Mother's Day
…and if you don’t have a mother in your life, pay homage to her memory, and if you don’t have a memory celebrate the source of whatever currently nurtures you, your heart and inner being..
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