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Cursor is a victim of its own success. Clearly the future is agents but the average user just wants them for a smarter tab completion. I also cancelled my subscription since I’m no…

Akur8 | AI Engineer | NYC (Hybrid) | Full-time Akur8 builds the OS for insurance pricing - our SaaS platform helps 320+ insurers worldwide model risk up to 10x faster using transpa…

There's a potentially amazing use case here around parsing PDFs to markdown. It seems like a task with insane volume requirements, low budget, and the kind of thing that doesn't be…

The vast majority of people don't need smarter models and aren't willing to pay for a subscription. There's an argument to be made that ads on free users will subsidize the power u…

Karpathy had an amazing tweet about this if you’re interested in a deep dive. [1] https://x.com/karpathy/status/1902046003567718810

This is a hand wavy article that dismisses away VLMs without acknowledging the real world performance everyone is seeing. I think it’d be far more useful if you published an eval.

Congrats on the launch - you're value-add is quite confusing as someone that's at the applied AI layer. This comes off as more of a research project than a business. You're going t…

I'm not sure if they're gearing up for an announcement, but about 9 days ago they dropped the preview warning from their README. I'm assuming they're still working through final ho…

Seems like their critique boils down to two areas - pandas limitations and fewer built ins to lean on. Personally I've found polars has solved most of the "ugly" problems that I ha…

If cloudflare goes down, you can blame them. If your hand rolled solution fails when cloudflare exists, you’re going to have a tough pitch to leadership why you’re in charge of the…

It's disappointing there's no flash / lite version - this is where Google has excelled up to this point.

As someone that also worked at a large automakers, I think you’re making large, unfounded assumptions. Warranty data flows up from the technicians - good luck getting any auto tech…

Seems like a very natural fit for fine tuning - would have loved to see more on the LLM side.

Did you try fine tuning the LLMs?

This is just a company advertisement, not even one that’s well done. They didn’t benchmark any of the real leaders in the space (reducto, extend, etc) and left Gemini out of the fi…

A lot of the comments on here are too pessimistic. Deepnote has had the single best jupyter interface for years now - unfortunately locked behind a cloud subscription though. Jupyt…

One of the big ones that hasn't been mentioned is all of a hexagon's neighbors are equidistant. As a result, h3 is a better fit for flow modeling - stuff like telematics. This has …

H3o is an awesome piece of work. I created polars bindings for it(another reason I love polars) and last time I benchmarked it, it had 5X better performance than even duckdb’s C++ …

I feel like interviews with Sam always leave you underwhelmed - OpenAI needs more compute, he’s excited AI will accelerate science, and some sort of subtle hint he doesn’t care abo…

This is the most confusing pricing page I’ve ever seen - different options have different credit usage and different cost per credits? How many degrees of freedom do you real need …

Congrats on the launch. YC 2022? I'm assuming this was a pivot - what lead to it and how do you guys plan on making money long term?

For those interested in the GitHub link. https://github.com/apple/ml-simplefold

Always appreciated Taleb's quote on this: > A good book gets better at the second reading. A great book at the third. Any book not worth rereading isn't worth reading

The big labs have 50+% margins on serving the models, the training is where they lose money. But every new model boosts OpenAI's revenue growth which is unheard of at their size (3…

Desperate pivot aside, I don't see how anyone competes with the big labs on coding agents. They can serve the models at a fraction of the API cost, can trivially add post training …