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pbmango

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About pbmango

Founder of PromptLoop.com bringing intelligence to spreadsheets. YC W22

Reach out peter /$at$/ promptloop.com

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    Comment #48585470

    This is fascinating as a lover of both oil painting and history.

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    I can't help but think of Iphone updates since about 2018. The thinnest, fastest, longest battery life Iphone ever. It seems mostly the same and I probably won't be able to tell ot…

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    Anthropic is getting capacity from Colossus 1 not Colossus 2 it sounded like. The initial colossus capex was under $5B, making that an even more astounding payoff. Edit: S1 states …

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    Comment #47237293

    I imagine a huge proportion of their users are under 30. The prompt examples included even use the tell tale all lowercase (though apparently sama types like this too). This is pro…

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    Comment #47132471

    This is very interesting. I don't see much discussion of interpretability in day to the day discourse of AI builders. I wonder if everyone assumes it to either be solved, or to be …

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    Along these same lines, I have been trying to become better at knowing when my work could benefit from reversion to the "boring" and general mean and when outsourcing thought or pl…

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    Comment #44501516

    As the founder of another product in this space - this is super impressive and well built. Great demo video and congrats on top of HN! Getting this smooth UX and data behind the sc…

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    https://www.canva.com/design/DAGqKquGD-c/xtRObgH1r_4RoulPAys...

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    Comment #43827086

    > Whether intentional or not I am not claiming it was intentional, but it certainly magnified the media attention. Maybe luck and not 4d chess.

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    Comment #43826569

    It is also possible that this "world view tuning" may have just been the manifestation of how these models gained public attention. Whether intentional or not, seeing the Tiananmen…

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    Comment #43686424

    There are probably many more small battles being fought or emerging. I think voice and PDF parsing are growing battles too.

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    Comment #43686051

    I think an under appreciated reality is that all of the large AI labs and OpenAI in particular are fighting multiple market battles at once. This is coming across in both the numbe…

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    Comment #43177975

    Growing up in Buffalo New York, I only once as a kid saw one flying while on a camping trip in a remote state park. Now, you see one almost every day on the coastline of lake Erie.…

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    Comment #39895768

    Great demo! Going to try this with a huge folder of call recordings that I would love to search across. Does it work with Google Docs as well as PDF?

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    Comment #37297657

    Congrats! Big fan of Fig and excited to see the UX brought to aws CLIs

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    Interesting. I think a lot of AI agent internet navigation is still being figured out. Both rules as implied in comments but also tools. There are a lot of nuances OpenAI probably …

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    Comment #35344095

    Great demo video - I like the focus on being open an flexible, knowing how much will change in the next year.

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    Comment #35215065

    This is very cool and could be the basis for a huge set of interesting operations - but any time I read about DB Spreadsheet discussions they seem to be started by folks who much b…

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    This is great. Can endorse LuckGrib for IoS folks as well. Great UI and can pull NOAA and EU models. https://luckgrib.com/ . Not FOSS but worth the $20 I paid once several years ag…

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    Yes - Not open access yet but drop me an email!

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    Comment #33442222

    Microsoft and Google both have excellent formulas for dates - and are getting there for addresses. Right now - the most useful things you can accomplish in sheets center around wha…

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    There is a huge potential for language models to get close to messy text problems (many of which are in Excel and Sheet). I am the founder of promptloop.com - the author of this tw…