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Hello everyone! I'm a solo developer, and intermediate Chinese learner, and I just launched a new Chinese app I want to share with you. My own Chinese language study stack used to …

It's been a while (15+ years) since I was in that game... but back then, it was $60k for a Phase I and $200k for a Phase II. Phase III and beyond was open-ended. You don't really m…

I used to work for a company (~50 people) whose entire business was based on the SBIR pipeline. We did a lot of super-interesting work! Here's my advice: 1) Your proposal needs to …

It makes perfect sense. Apple's philosophy is that new APIs need some time to stabilize before they can be baked-in as a commitment to third-party developers. So new APIs are almos…

I thought this pull-quote was interesting: "Interoperability only works when it is built into the platform from the start" -- Lucas Lasota, FSFE Legal Programme Manager To my mind,…

This is true, but I also think the input context isn't the only function of those tokens... As those tokens flow through the QKV transforms, on 96 consecutive layers, they become t…

Product Engineer (full stack, design + ux) Former Founder / Principal Engineer of https://shaxpir.com Location: Portland, OR Remote: Yes Willing to Relocate: Yes Technologies: Java…

> show LoRA on a 400B model, or full fine-tuning on a 70B Yeah, that's what I wanted to see too.

I think the biggest injury to the hiring of junior devs happened after COVID made remote-work ubiquitous. It's a lot harder for a junior dev to get real mentorship, including the a…

I read it. I also searched the page for the word "Opus" and it didn't appear anywhere. The word "Sonnet" appears, but only once. There's also "GPT-4.1 or GPT-5", but that's not wha…

Sonnet only?

A similar kind of question about "understanding" is asking whether a house cat understands the physics of leaping up onto a countertop. When you see the cat preparing to jump, it t…

Same for me :)

Is there way to get "speech marks" alongside the generated audio? FYI, Speech marks provide millisecond timestamp for each word in a generated audio file/stream (and a start/end in…

If I'm reading the pricing correctly, these models are SIGNIFICANTLY cheaper than ElevenLabs. https://platform.openai.com/docs/pricing If these are the "gpt-4o-mini-tts" models, an…

A long, meandering, playful conversation with ChatGPT, where I take it through a whirlwind of associative tangents (in order to relax its constraints), then put it into a hypnotic …

Nope. They needed the maximum amount of thrust from those boosters in order to propel the spacecraft toward Jupiter, so they couldn't save enough fuel for the boosters to land them…

Awesome, I'm been following Seph's work for many years! Always thoughtful and well-executed. Probably the most prolific and insightful engineer in the "collaborative text editing" …

It doesn't sound like they "failed" any actual safety test, but rather that they rushed their safety tests, thereby "failing" (in the eyes of many people) to conduct sufficiently r…

Nice! Thank you for the links!

This reminds me of the amazing molecular animations of Drew Berry, which he showed in this TED talk: https://youtu.be/WFCvkkDSfIU?si=JNe06VS8TjIrHpqh Which was 12 years ago! After …