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lamroger
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Comment #49177715
Beautiful tribute. May we all be seen so clearly with whatever time we have on this plane.
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Comment #47493882
Awesome breakdown! It really feels like a hyper-hyper parameter search + bug fixer. I started looking at Kaggle again and autoresearch seems to converge to many of the solution vib…
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Ask HN: Anyone Else Fiddling with Apple Foundation Model Adapters?
I was hoping since the models fit on-device that fine-tuning adapters would be more accessible. The toolkit Apple provides is still really good but not something we can run on cons…
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Show HN: Shepherd – Generating Synthetic Data with Claude and MCP
A proof of concept stitching together Claude, MCP, and faker to generate synthetic LLM fine tuning data. The idea came from Apple Foundation Model's adaptor training example. They …
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Comment #44507104
oh that reminds me of defense tech down near redondo - andril spacex. very cool sector if you’re okay with weapons
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Comment #44506736
I do think the early stage vcs like upfront, a16z, hustle fund are trying to foster more growt and i appreciate them i wonder what other people think
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Comment #44506723
I stay mostly on the westside but id say more density of shops but at the same time less busy? if i had to guess, things were really going well before covid. then add delivery app …
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Comment #44500150
Been in LA for 2 years now and went to college in LA 10 years ago so have some data points to compare. Startups in LA are interesting. Back in the day, there was a lot of Ad Tech /…
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Comment #44015753
they're all around the same price now so not much cost savings shopping around
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Comment #43816924
Hey! Appreciate the links and sorry for the late reply. Thought this just got grabbed by the spam filter when I wasn't seeing it. I have a small writeup here: https://lamroger.com/…
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Ask HN: Who wants freshly roasted coffee?
Hey y'all - I consider myself a tinkerer and in the vein of doing things that don't scale, I want to send you coffee that I roast. I have a couple bags of green beans to choose fro…
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Comment #41364512
Awesome! Coffee + LLM-assisted programming. I had a similar experience coding an iOS app without experience with objective c using chatgpt. Great learning tool
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Comment #41352636
Tellers get first dibs
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Comment #40840674
backoffice automation
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Comment #40730721
React also gives access to React Native if you're ever interested in mobile
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Comment #40065280
Modern ads. you dont decide if you get influenced
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Comment #40041103
I'm on an Intel MBP still - not coding as much but still working great
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Ask HN: How's entry-level data science roles looking?
I'm more in-tune with the SWE side and was wondering if other ppl know how data science is going. Asking for undergrad students.
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Comment #39812864
UI and UX will be higher value
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Comment #39748745
Same world, different time period / technology
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Comment #39673327
real recognizing real
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Comment #39620456
Tough choices. o7 to the laid off. Going full enterprise by shutting down hobby plans while laying off primarily sales and marketing.
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Comment #39528743
I've had a few of these interviews. Some do it well by showing genuine interest and maybe they have expertise in the area and it's fun chatting about the project. Other's see it mo…