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Cool stuff. From my understanding, this is less valuable at inference time and more useful when running offline pre-training data prep. When tokenizing terabytes of text for your t…

Hi HN, I started working on Alki because wrangling and deploying AI models on edge devices felt clunky. Going from a Hugging Face model to something production-ready required too m…

Congrats Recall team, I've been a customer for the past 1.5 years and the entire infra layer behind meetings has let our company really focus on "what makes our beer taste better" …

Hi all, I recently was daydreaming and had this silly thought experiment about adding two random integers chosen from an infinite set. I tried searching online for something simila…

Funny to think about now with hindsight - but a prototype version of the Magic Leap One. It was an incredibly novel feeling of seeing the room I was in get mapped out, furniture an…

The book "Lost Connections" by Johann Hari (which I discovered through HN) has helped me a lot in understanding so much of the context of what makes so many of us feel depression a…

Thanks for sharing your experience. As a 25 year old right in the thick of it, trying to find my own personal balance, I'm curious to know your thoughts some more: 1. What are some…

Hi all, I've been working professionally as a software developer for 3-4 years, and am currently in a large engineering organization (not a FAANG but a financial firm). While the d…

They mentioned Houston. I'm currently living in Houston, working as a SWE, and can attest to the pros of living here. Regarding your concerns, the city is quite demographically div…

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If access to clean data was what set Renaissance apart, we'd most likely see other funds/firms do just as well or Renaissance's returns be much lower. Market data services such as …

Renaissance Technologies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_Technologies Founded by Jim Simons, the "Father" of quantitative research. The firm is famous for their signific…

The generated pages definitely are very structured, with each page belonging to a certain area/subject (ie. "Blockchain for Kids" is then presented as "Not just a Blockchain"). A l…

Thats understandable. Where "This Waifu Does Not Exist" serves as a demonstration of GANs, "This Startup Does Not Exist" is more of a satirical jab on how "disruptive" startup ende…