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npollock
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About npollock
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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