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RL constrains the space of possible output token sequences to what is likely to lead to the correct answer. So we are inherently making a trade-off to reduce variance. A non-RL mod…

Query statistics for IPL 2025 using natural language. You can ask questions like: - What is Kohli's strike rate in the first 5 overs of the match? - What is Dhoni's average in matc…

I always thought that the point of instruction tuning and ability to use prompts to get the model to do 0 shot tasks was that you don't have to collect tons of example data/samples…

I've also been tracking the 'path to graveyard' for the startups from the last 3 years here https://pivots.fyi/

I've been scraping YC data week over week to track things like changes in founder, pivots in the idea, company shutting down, etc. You can check it out here https://pivots.fyi/

Thanks! The data is collected by continuously scraping the startup's website and their YC page.

I'm working on pivots.fyi ( https://pivots.fyi/ ). It tracks 1000+ startups that have been founded in the last 3 years and showcases how their product, mission, team size, founders…

I have a good theoretical understanding of the math behind deep learning and have broad understanding of the recent architectures (Transformers, etc.). I'm looking to improve my pr…

Something other than the chat bots.

I'm trying to understand the incentive for engineers to join a startup as a 'founding engineer'. To me it seems like taking on all the risk that a founder takes (pre-pmf, pre-reven…

Nope. I didn't know about the Gnutella Network when I posted this. I've changed the name since but HN doesn't allow editing posts.

Oh, changed the name of mine!

Didn't know about this famous distributed systems project! Thanks for pointing out, changed the name of mine to codable.live

I'm building this tool to make it easier for educators to create programming videos. It can also be useful for people new to programming to play around with basic data structures a…

If you have too many engineers on a problem, they will overengineer stuff. This is a management problem.

I don't have any problem with working with people who are different from me. But I think showcasing the benefits of diversity will make everyone actually embrace it rather grudging…

There's this narrative everywhere that having a diverse team is good for businesses. Instead of just forcing it on everyone, I think it would be very helpful to collect examples wh…

Insecure websites could get around this by not marking the fields as password fields but using javascript to make them appear so to the user.

In the following scenario: origin: A-B-C local: A-B-D What is the recommended action? git pull --ff-only will fail, right? So should I be using git pull --rebase?

I was working on an express app with a friend and git auto merged a file after I ran 'git pull'. There were no merge conflicts, but git added duplicate functions to a file after me…