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michaelmarkell

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About michaelmarkell

Nature is not created in the image of man’s compassion

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    You're 100% right, thanks! Updated my comment.

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    Comment #46651069

    That's approximately ~15.3M USD per person in the top 1% assuming 340 million americans

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    Not really. Take for example: item, date, price abc, 01/01/2023, $30 cde, 02/01/2023, $40 ... 100k rows ... subtotal. $1000 def, 03/01,2023, $20 "Hey Claude, what's the total from …

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    IMO, a real solution here has to be hybrid, not full LLM, because these sheets can be massive and have very complicated structures. You want to be able to use the LLM to identify /…

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    Danya was like the Mr. Rogers of chess. He had a way of making you feel accepted into the chess community even if you were a beginner, and was such a clear thinker. I strive to be …

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    The way my company uses Clickhouse is basically that we have one giant flat table, and have written our own abstraction layer on top of it based around "entities" which are functio…

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    From the Readme: Given a model with pre-trained transcoders, it finds the circuit / attribution graph; i.e., it computes the direct effect that each non-zero transcoder feature, tr…

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    Comment #43864564

    Syncopate | NYC (Hybrid ~3d/week) | Full-time | Senior Full Stack Engineers / Focus on AI + Finance Syncopate builds tools to help automate financial diligence and management of lo…

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    Comment #43673160

    In our use-case we have many gigabytes of PDFs that contain some qualitative data but also many pages of inline pdf tables. In an ideal world we’d be “compressing” those embedded t…

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    It seems to me like chunking (or some higher order version of it like chunking into knowledge graphs) is the highest leverage thing someone can work on right now if trying to impro…

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    If I were to guess, most (adult) humans could not add two 3 digit numbers together with 100% accuracy. Maybe 99%? Computers can already do 100%, so we should probably be trying to …

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    Can someone with more expertise help me understand what I'm looking at here? https://crt.sh/?id=10106356492 It looks like Deepseek had a subdomain called "openai-us1.deepseek.com".…

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    Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20240330143422/https://www.nytim...

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    Comment #41929210

    Timing of moves

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    Comment #41480022

    Artists do not get paid per stream on Spotify + many other DSPs. The platform sums up all of the ad revenue and divides it pro rata among all of the streamed artists. So the fraudu…

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    The Monty hall problem is a great example of something I’ve been educated into believing, rationalizing, whatever you want to call it…but I would still never claim I “understand it…

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    can you run the whole task as a postgres transaction? like if i want to make an idempotent job by only updating some status to "complete" once the job finishes.

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    From the article it seems like the content wasn’t entirely AI generated, it “digitally superimposed the faces of child actors onto nude bodies”, which makes this a lot worse than p…