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po

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About po

Technical co-founder, currently living in Japan, previously living in NYC.

https://mastodon.social/@poswald

https://www.makeleaps.com/

I run Hacker News reader meetups in Tokyo.

Always looking for awesome people to meet up with. Get in touch!

pauloswald@gmail.com

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/poswald; my proof: https://keybase.io/poswald/sigs/HVlTjzK0n89ogL4IrN4QAX1JSJJUZRzfp_9MrlPIJ0A ]

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    It's very nice to have written for so long... I often think I should write more for myself than for others.

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    as long as the business model is: - users want the best/smartest LLM - the best performance for inference is found by spending more and more tokens (deep thinking) - pricing is bas…

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    Did you read the comment you're replying to? It's talking about the DEI selection process being blind and instead focusing on outreach to get a more diverse input. You wouldn't be …

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    Comment #43819123

    Have you ever lived with or helped a person with AD? It's not cellular senescence. What you're talking about is fine and well, but AD is a devastating disease that has very particu…

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    Comment #43359651

    I happened to be walking a few blocks north and one east of this when it happened. I saw dozens of people running up the street in a panic. Office ladies running barefoot with thei…

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    Comment #42917582

    Yeah I don't think CRM is the correct thing in this case... I just think that there needs to be some new set of incentives put in place such that the culture reinforces the outcome…

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    Comment #42916352

    Science needs an intervention similar to what the CRM process ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crew_resource_management ) did to tamp down cowboy pilots flying their planes into the…

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    Comment #42916273

    Have many other projects put MPC servers ( https://modelcontextprotocol.io/introduction ) to use since it was announced? I haven't seen very many others using it yet.

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    Comment #42905596

    Right... I think it's going to be way more than just data as well. You can expect all gov functions will start to show up in his app. Driver license applications, tax filing, etc..…

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    Comment #42905389

    My prediction is that any future data that is published will likely show up in the x.com app. I believe they are trying to privatize all government functions and Musk wants X to be…

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    Comment #42766225

    > This led to slower device performance without informing users, which is a removal of expected performance functionality. As opposed to the device unexpectedly shutting down due t…

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    I suspect this is related to why a string quartet is the right number of musical voices. Two violins, viola, and cello give you a very fulfilling number of separate ideas to track …

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    Comment #42313935

    Whether or not Zuckerberg himself is alive (he is), this version of him is long dead. Yes, that was the joke that apparently wasn't obvious enough. :-)

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    Historically, those who controlled the media controlled the message. If you're the only one with a printing press, you control what people read. Same with radio. Same with TV. But …

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    yeah I looked at that too... and that aspect is useful. However, I'm not really looking for a layer on top of ledger as much as I'm looking for a configurable web-scraping system (…

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    Plain text accounting is cool but I think one of the biggest barriers for people is downloading bank data into a standard format. The banks are never going to embrace much more tha…

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    Following the St. Petersburg attack, the Federal Security Service (FSB), in an event that may ring somewhat familiar to many in the United States and Europe, asked Telegram for enc…

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    This one coins many new phrases that will stick in my mind. Phrases like "Big teddy bears" are actually useful in that they roll up a subtle or complex idea into a pattern that we …

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    The action isn't between political parties, it's the factions within the party. It's structured differently than the US so it looks strange that it's one party in power all the tim…