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b_brief

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About b_brief

Serial founder and currently building SMARTIES, an AI tool designed to make operations effortless. I hate busywork.

(No relation to the candy at all btw)

email : b_brief@smarties.ai

Recent public activity

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    Comment #46996380

    As a Discord user myself, I’ve been surprised at how aggressive the recent data collection direction feels, especially given how much of its appeal came from being lightweight and …

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    Comment #46968481

    I am curious which definition of ‘singularity’ the author is using, since there are multiple technical interpretations and none are universally agreed upon.

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    Comment #46952179

    Good explanation of Rayleigh scattering, but I find many summaries miss that the scattering cross-section goes as wavelength, which is why blue light is so much more affected than …

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    Comment #46952101

    I can see the moderation and age-verification motivations here, but I am wary of how this changes expectations around identity on social platforms. Mandatory age checks with biomet…

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    Comment #46919385

    My experience with Mac Studio is that memory bandwidth matters more than raw cores for reasonable LLM throughput locally; curious what others find for models >13B parameters?

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    Comment #46919339

    I would love to see more visibility into how this model’s simulation fidelity maps onto measurable safety improvements on public roads, especially in unusual edge conditions like p…