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uptownfunk··on Ask HN: SWEs – Are y'all worried about your jobs?
No, these are not able to reason. LLM is not the answer to AGI.
uptownfunk··on Vision Pro: What we got wrong at Oculus that Apple got right
The current model is not going to work, but it is a large leap to the ideal state of the future world to come. Probably we will adjust but it will be an odd world to adjust to when we have this thing over our face all day
uptownfunk··on Ask HN: What would make you say "I want to hire this devloper?"
Well I think the problem is the question is much harder to answer because it assumes people know why they want to hire someone. Frankly I think it comes down to personality and not flunking the question. Maybe interesting to ask why you wouldn’t hire someone? For me bad attitude, and inability to answer easy questions.
uptownfunk··on Free data transfer out to internet when moving out of AWS
AWS internally has a very strong allergy to raising prices. If anything there is generally pressure to reduce prices.
uptownfunk··on Free data transfer out to internet when moving out of AWS
Because eventually there is no difference in managed service from gcp oci msft, so when data egress cost doesn’t matter you can use any providers service. The margins will get worn away since there’s no longer high switching cost.
uptownfunk··on Leaving LinkedIn
In my career I have learned to listen more carefully to engineers. Sometimes it is not about saying yes and no to them but listening to what they are trying to say. Sometimes if you ask a few questions they learned something about the business that makes their case come apart. Sometimes if you listen to them you find a good idea and it opens up a whole new area of the product. So I think it’s a false dichotomy and you have to be good at listening and asking the right questions to get your point across.
uptownfunk··on Ask HN: Feeling quite disheartened about job search, any advice?
Market is totally brutal right now.
uptownfunk··on Free data transfer out to internet when moving out of AWS
AFAIK this is pretty much the moat collapsing on big cloud. That said you still have to contact them for it so not truly free movement. Once it becomes truly free to move data out things will get interesting. The stock market didn’t really seem to care that much which was surprising.
uptownfunk··on Claude 3 model family
Data, model arch, compute, and post training processing.

I’m assuming all bigModel cos have good data and compute access which means the model arch and post processing is where the differentiation is at?

I know OpenAI is augmenting with function calling techniques.

Where is the real differentiation ? Why is open ai so much better?

uptownfunk··on Claude 3 model family
It’s so convincing even I’m doubting my answer to this question
uptownfunk··on Claude 3 model family
What a joke of a response. No one is asking for emergent calculation ability just that the model gives the correct answer. LLM tools (functions etc) is old news at this point.
uptownfunk··on Claude 3 model family
Really? I tried the sonnet and it just was not very good.
uptownfunk··on Claude 3 model family
What is the logic behind giving sonnet free, which is not very good, and saying hey try this for free and then pay us to use our actual good model. Like trust us, it’s really good. Uh no thanks. We need better benchmarks, this is a joke, it started w google Gemini and extend to Anthropocene. How Much money and compute wasted on this. It is a shame
uptownfunk··on R: Introduction to Data Science (2019)
No better tool for EDA and data analysis than R and RStudio. Fell in love in stat 133 at Cal and now while I am doing software engineering I have very fond memories of writing R and tidyverse
uptownfunk··on Elon Musk sues Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI [pdf]
I have huge respect for both of these individuals. Sad to see them going at each other. Humanity has immense potential to benefit from their innovation.
uptownfunk··on Elon Musk sues Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI [pdf]
Come on, we all know he’s just angry they got his comp in Delaware.
uptownfunk··on Why Writing by Hand Is Better for Memory and Learning
I rarely end up reading what I write or take down in notes it’s mostly a form of recitation for me, what did I remember and how did I structure it in my brain -
uptownfunk··on Why Writing by Hand Is Better for Memory and Learning
You don’t even need a fountain pen for it to feel nice, for me there are many nice needle point pens at a decent thickness 0.5+ that have a great feel to them. That and a nice Japanese paper notebook like hobonichi and the like and you’re in for a good time
uptownfunk··on Groq runs Mixtral 8x7B-32k with 500 T/s
It is fast, but if it spits useless garbage, then useless. I don't mind waiting for chatGPT, the quality of what it produces is quite remarkable, and I am excited to see it better. I think this has more to do with mistral model v GPT4 than Groq. If Groq can host GPT4, wow, then that is amazing.
uptownfunk··on Our next-generation model: Gemini 1.5
Google is a public company. Anything and everything will be scrutinized very heavily by shareholders. Of course how Zuck operates very different than Sindar.

What are they doing with their free cash is my question. Are they waiting for the LLM bubble to pop to buy some of these companies at a discount?

uptownfunk··on YC: Requests for Startups
These are all so CapEx intensive it is totally disconnected from YC reality. Which implies if this is really what YC thinks is the direction we are headed, then the approach will essentially be much fewer bets at larger check sizes, for a very small subset. Also the business model for some of these is not exactly obvious. It’s either that or, public equity and/or massive debt heavy capex financing becomes more prevalent earlier on, so some type of high risk debt instrument. Alternatively this is partly a content marketing play to show how forward thinking and visionary they are.
uptownfunk··on Beyond self-attention: How a small language model predicts the next token
Ok but why didn’t Shannon get us gpt
uptownfunk··on Ask HN: When to Start a Business?
when you think you have a decent hand to play, and when you think you know how to play it and when you have the guts to play
uptownfunk··on Bard's latest updates: Access Gemini Pro globally and generate images
I have seen enough by now to have sold all my google shares. They are falling under their own weight. You can only layoff so much while you play catch up but it is not long before new entrants consume googles ad business and then poof, a long slow death until they are just another company of yesteryear… “wow dad you guys used to use google? How did you manage?”
uptownfunk··on Instagram Threads triples downloads in December, reaching top; X falls to #36
Huge X reader, actually used it more since Elon took it over and even more after reading the bio. One of the best things to come out for American democracy. Very clear he is being targeted especially after the ridiculous Delaware ruling.
uptownfunk··on Instagram Threads triples downloads in December, reaching top; X falls to #36
Thank goodness for X. Frankly it may make sense to convert it into a non profit in the interim and then for profitize it once it can be run properly. If it were not for X then there is very little hope for American democracy.
uptownfunk··on Data leak contains 26B records from numerous previous breaches
Is there any technology solution that authenticates via biological signature.. so even if my ssn is public (which is true and unsettling) then I don’t need ssn to be private
uptownfunk··on Ask HN: How do you know it's time for you to quit your FAANG job?
Sooner the better if you are really committed. You can only have one wife these days, the mistresses will remain mistresses until you put a ring on it.
uptownfunk··on Ask HN: How to be productive without making lists?
Fair, there’s just a weird dopamine release that happens once I write it down that makes me not want to do it anymore. But if I keep it in my brain there is a tension to get it out by finishing the task. So it’s like a mental discipline but I totally get your point.
uptownfunk··on Ask HN: Is the job market dead or something?
Ha ha, what they fail to report is that it is an election year.
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