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ranman

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About ranman

Caylent CTO. Formerly of Facebook, AWS, SpaceX, MongoDB, and NASA. Opinions expressed here are my own and don't represent my employer.

randall.hunt@caylent.com

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    Comment #47940267

    They'll cut you a private offer for bedrock tokens but bedrock has a 32k output limit

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    Comment #47660806

    Which countries? Density matters but raw volume matters too.

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    Comment #47479512

    Route53 being off on the side but unconnected is still valuable info...

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    Comment #47047621

    It's a little ironic that the text wrap doesn't work on some of these examples on WebKit.

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    Comment #45623004

    Eventually he'll be about tree fitty

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    Comment #44660671

    > we built the LLMs unethically, and that they waste far more energy than they return in value If these are the priors why would I keep reading?

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    Comment #44561613

    Caylent has been testing this for quite some time and I have to say it's an interesting take. With claude code you can shift between planning and coding modes and this offers a sim…

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    Comment #43456451

    Humanity fails that question an embarrassingly large number of times.

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    Comment #41560590

    You get a scale at AWS that is hard to find elsewhere. There are still a huge number of very smart people there. You can learn a lot. I loved my time at AWS. That said there are a …

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    Comment #40602038

    Someone mentioned that this took almost as much compute to train as the original model.

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    Comment #40589214

    I don't get this take... what is the scam part? It's a real device that people can buy, and it does what it was purported to do... maybe it's not as amazing as people hoped, but do…

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    Comment #40531452

    Do 3/4 say it does more good than harm?

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    Comment #39771619

    I'd love to see one of these for migrating from Claude's prompt API to their messaging API

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    Comment #39765953

    Be lucky? I don't have any particular advice. I've been very lucky to join a few companies that were on the run up at the time but I never really knew at the time that they were go…

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    Comment #39762731

    > Don't try to guess whether gene editing or LLMs or rockets will turn out to be the most valuable technology to know about. No one can predict that. Just work on whatever interest…

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    Comment #39513786

    Is this why AWS had this announcement on Friday? https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/mistral-ai-models-coming-so...

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    Comment #39442037

    If this clears anti-trust but Amazon/iRobot didn't then we'll know the anti-trust side of things is just based on your lobbying spend.

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    Comment #38413555

    > Every single one of these could be engineered away. You clearly didn't read half of the article. 50% of these are purposeful chimes. Also, why? What is the value of making a comp…

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    Comment #37694819

    If you want to use this but are tired of waiting for the SDKs to get updated you can do this: ``` curl -sS https://cdn.caylent.com/bedrock_new.zip > bedrock.zip mkdir -p ~/.aws/mod…

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    Comment #37344302

    Now do it with the 2021 icons

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    Comment #35155945

    A simple, high-throughput file client for mounting an Amazon S3 bucket as a local file system.

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