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gkk

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About gkk

Proponent of dense representations. Previously: Stripe, hobo, Scala compiler hacker.

https://gkk.dev, greg@gkk.dev

Recent public activity

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    Comment #44605541

    My trial co-founder and I built Unpitched as a 5-week run to test if we'd work well together. The twist: we're experienced software engineers yet AI wrote ~90% of the 24k lines of …

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    Comment #41047088

    If you think of open source as a protocol through which the ecosystem of companies loosely collaborate, then it's a big deal. E.g. Groq can work on inference without a complicated …

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    Comment #39291258

    Thanks for reading it! I agree that binary questions are easy enough for vanilla GPT to answer. If your problem space fits them - great. Sadly, the space I'm in doesn't have an eas…

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    Comment #39288786

    Thanks for the response! I'm not familiar with Trust documents but I asked ChatGPT about them: https://chat.openai.com/share/c9d86363-b64a-4e44-9fd4-1d5b18... If the example is rep…

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    Comment #39281020

    Hi hansonkd, I'm working on Hotseat - a legal Q&A service where we put regulations in a hot seat and let people ask sophisticated questions. My experience aligns with your comment …

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    Ask HN: The story of Google competing with YouTube

    Hi HN, Are you familiar with the story of (failed) attempt of Google competing with YouTube? I vaguely recall seeing on Twitter a leaked email exchange where a PM wanted to hire "a…

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    Comment #37665215

    Is the licensing requirement actually in the bill? I've seen a confusion around the distinction between foundational and high-risk models - they're not the same. (on a larger point…

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    Comment #37662343

    It takes 90-120s to compute the answer. I just checked and the bot died mid-way computing answers earlier in the day and picked up from later point in the queue. I fixed it and you…

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    Comment #37662081

    (author here) One of the most non-obvious discoveries we made was that for such long documents, turning it into a Markdown (with marked headings), as opposed to plain text, made a …

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    Comment #37661459

    Hi HN, Today, we launch Hotseat AI: an AI-powered Q&A service for the 226-pages-long EU AI Act[0][1]. We launch Hotseat AI as a collaborative FAQ where anyone[2] can ask a question…

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    Comment #36787658

    Demo by Matt: https://twitter.com/_mattneary/status/1673030813825335304

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    Comment #36681026

    I'd guess Anthropic considers these 2nd tier markets, so it's not a question whether it's too difficult but whether it's a priority at the moment.

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    Comment #36535550

    I didn't test the site in the dark mode and clearly it needs fixing. Thanks for catching this and reporting! (the site is a little hacked together when it comes to styling -- I'm p…

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    Comment #36535334

    Hey HN, Author of the project here. Feel free to ask me any questions!

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    Ask HN: Can I respond to an old Ask HN?

    Hi, I bookmarked a while ago this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29606476 with the intent, that if I'm going to Munich again, I'd maybe propose meeting up for lunch (…

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    Comment #27515002

    As someone with software background and interested in bio, it's a real pleasure to see a commentary from an experienced practitioner. While we're discussing venues of progress, it'…

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    Comment #26404329

    Thanks for a quick reply! 1. Oh, I see. I didn't guess that's the intended behaviour. I wonder if it's not too clever. 2. Yes, then segments get too "excited" about the background …