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npollock

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About npollock

Podcast Marketing - getAudiogram.com

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    Comment #48779066

    exactly, it's like Bobby Fischer playing 10 games of chess simultaneously

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    Comment #48284288

    one of the interesting properties of public forums like SO is that the maintainers of software packages get visibility into the problems and frustrations that their users experienc…

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    Comment #48273645

    learn by considering critique

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    Comment #47819077

    You can configure the status line to get a feel for token usage: [Opus 4.6] 3% context | last: 5.2k in / 1.1k out add this to .claude/settings.json "statusLine": { "type": "command…

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    Comment #46238449

    Disney said "Our IP is $1B for a 3yr license, or we sue" Altman said "We can pay with equity, but let's frame it as an investment" No cash exchanged

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    Comment #44501272

    it could be the "grounding with google search" feature when using Gemini models

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    Comment #44321871

    no, but a subset of English could be

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    Comment #44285186

    LoRA adapters modify the model's internal weights

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    Comment #44078373

    Here's how I would market this: Create "packages" of context for popular API & Libraries - make them freely available via public url Keep the packages up to date. They'll be newer …

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    Comment #44067639

    Are 7 free weekly eval runs fair compensation for sharing your evaluation and fine-tuning data with OpenAI?

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    Comment #44054554

    "The takeover of io will provide OpenAI with about 55 hardware engineers, software developers and manufacturing experts" 6.5B / 55 = $118 million per engineer not a cheap aquihire

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    Comment #44054534

    if you own the device, you control the flow of data and dollars

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    Ask HN: Most accurate image to HTML model or service?

    I'm looking to convert 30-40 fairly simple images into html and css. I've tried the frontier models, and they do an ok job but struggle with accurate positioning and sizing of elem…

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    Comment #43197247

    something like this that runs as a browser agent, allowing me to extract structured data from websites (whitelisted) using natural language queries

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    Comment #42910729

    A quote I found helpful: "reinforcement learning from human feedback .. is designed to optimize machine learning models in domains where specifically designing a reward function is…

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    Ask HN: How do you distill a frontier model?

    Is it just obtaining a distribution of the next token predictions, or is it more complex?

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    Comment #42753612

    does the tool snap to I-frames when slicing?

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    Comment #42590153

    how long before the advertisers pressure model providers to "fine-tune" mentions of their competitors?

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    Comment #41998197

    doesn't Stripe have an interest in maximizing this revenue recovery? they earn a percentage of successful charges

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    Comment #41286565

    running inference

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    Comment #41000722

    thanks - is there a way to determine/monitor if excessive swapping is taking place?

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    Comment #41000646

    you're right, Firefox is gobbling up about half of the RAM thanks for pointing me in this direction