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postalcoder

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About postalcoder

developing llm systems

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ryan [at] hcker [dot] news

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    There is no live tarot feature. Thats the point.

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    Comment #49172636

    I’ll add that.

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    Not sure I agree with this. The math guy at anthropic's prompts are essentially: "suppose you’ve gotta resolve the $CONJECTURE, like absolutely have to, everything depends on it. t…

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    Hmm, right now I only process a subset of all submissions to keep things lean, so this is the closest that the site can do to /newest right now: https://hcker.news/?filter=top200&a…

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    Comment #49159599

    Same to you – glad you like it!

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    Comment #49159498

    There are a lot of ways of tackling this, but the only way to truly filter everything out is to update the list constantly. My filter currently has 146 keyword filters and 101 doma…

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    Show HN: Hacker News with AI stories filtered out

    Hi folks, I've noticed that a lot of people here seem exhausted by the amount of AI news on the front page. I shared hcker.news here a year ago and it has since gained a ton of fil…

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    Comment #49131986

    All due respect to the YC folks, but having a skill with 22,069 tokens is a major skill issue. Yes, ironic. My slop control skill is a thousand tokens. Biggest problem I see with t…

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    Comment #49038959

    I think the most important thing here is not absolute performance. It's that organizations now have access to a Fable-ish model without Fable's 30-day data retention requirement[0]…

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    Comment #49024186

    My point was more of an exercise to point out that finance is about mutating resources. A lot of cash can be a good thing or a bad thing. Same for debt. There’s nothing inherently …

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    Eep, I guess it depends on what kind of learner you are. For me, the notes being in the book, and the book being somewhere on my shelf spatially encodes it into my mind. Offloading…

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    Comment #49023325

    A corollary to this is, when reading books, mark them up! Don’t be precious with them. Destroy the spine so it’s easier to read, fold pages, write the important stuff inside the fr…

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    Comment #49023166

    There are many reasons to use subsidiaries for things like this, like to invite outside investment, ringfence risk, cede operational risk, and many more. This is all like CFO 101 t…

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    Comment #49023023

    > These companies have valuations reflecting a debt light business. Sorry, but this doesn’t make sense. The valuations of these companies reflect their growth. In finance there’s n…

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    I wonder how big the Pro model is that Google is using behind the scenes to train these smaller ones. Going on baseless speculation, the lack of accompanying pro models with these …

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    I've been thinking about this too much because it's so ridiculous and funny that I had to at least try wrapping my head around it. My best guess is this: If you look at past snapsh…

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