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Had a math prof in undergrad that once said, “this guy” 61 times in a 50 minute lecture!

This line stuck out to me as well, but my follow up thought was different. I’ve had friends who have been on cocktails like these, and one of them once said something like, “I’ve b…

There's really not much to share. I rewrite the prompt each time, but here's was a recent one: > I have an image of a hand drawn workflow diagram. I’d like to turn it into a mermai…

That's an interesting idea. A lot of times what I'm drawing is a blend of what the code is versus what I want it to be post-refactor.

One of my favorite applications of multimodal LLMs thus far is the ability to: 1. Draw a DAG of whatever pipeline I’m working on with pen and paper. 2. Take a photo of the graph, m…

We're finally seeing that all of the answers to our company's top-of-the-funnel coding screen are nearly identical. It's fine that people are using LLMs, but it's clear that the va…

Inspired by this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42656184 I'm starting a new job in a few days as a senior PM at a ~1000 person company, but I've never been a PM before.…

I'm usually pretty verbose with prompts, so I wanted to see what chatgpt would do with just a "Schumpeter's Creative Destruction" https://chatgpt.com/share/66ff28e2-ea74-800b-a230-…

Nonzero, for sure.

Yep, I'm in the rare disease space. "impossible" is pretty appropriate. It's tricky. On the one hand, it's obviously not appropriate to be flippant about patient privacy. On the ot…

GenAI, like most technological changes, comes with a mixture of hype and genuine improvements in productivity. I'm curious what tools people have been using in their day-to-day tha…

I want to second this. It seems like document chunking is the most difficult part of the pipeline at this point. You gave the example of unstructured PDF, but there are challenges …

Just to add to the list of this Jim Simons did and funded, he also established the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI). "SFARI’s mission is to improve the understa…

The paper kinda leaves you hanging on the "alternatives" front, even though they have a section dedicated to it. In addition to the _quality_ of any proposed alternative(s), comput…

I read this article when I was in grad school 5 years ago. Absolutely love it and talk about it to this day. It really makes me frustrated about the ways I was introduced to statis…

Hey, HN! Maybe not your typical startup announcement here, but I recently left my job as a bioinformatics engineer to start a company called Lodestar Bio. We are addressing challen…

About a year ago I did some work collecting interesting blogs from HN users and shared it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32291993

It is exciting! As others in the thread are saying, the cost of individuals with severe rare diseases are also very high. Here’s a recent attempt at quantifying the costs across al…

That’s exactly what happened. :)

This is a reference to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36012360

Here's a thread where I fed all of his questions to ChatGPT-4. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36014796 It seems like his graduate student did him a great disservice by feedin…