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tristanz

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About tristanz

CEO and Cofounder @ Continual (https://continual.ai) – the fastest way to build AI assistants for applications. Formerly, CTO for Machine Learning at Cloudera and CEO/Cofounder of Sense (https://sense.io), acquired by Cloudera in 2016.

Email: tristan@continual.ai Twitter: https://twitter.com/tristanzajonc

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    Yes, I think you could get quite far with a few tools like memory/todo list + code interpreter + script save/load. You could probably get a lot farther though if you RLVRed this si…

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    You can combine MCPs within composable LLM generated code if you put in a little work. At Continual ( https://continual.ai ), we have many workflows that require bulk actions, e.g.…

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    Not considering the potential for AI consciousness and suffering seems very shortsighted. There are plausible reasons to believe that both could emerge from an RL processes coupled…

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    Coming from TRPC, ORPC is a breath of fresh air. I tested out a migration from TRPC to ORPC and I found two things particularly beneficial. The first is contract-first development …

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    As an FYI, this is fine for rough usage, but it's not accurate. The OpenAI APIs inject various tokens you are unaware of into the input for things like function calling.

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    ChatGTP maybe, but OpenAI hasn't even tried to train a model to replace search. Until somebody tries to fine-tune a model using RLHF explicitly with the goal of replacing Google it…

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    https://www.zdnet.com/article/what-is-elon-musks-x-the-every...

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    To get 10x I think you need to wed it to solving broader workflow challenges, like dbt does today.

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    Collaborative incremental improvement of models would be extremely disruptive. While this happens via research, it's massively inefficient, particularly as pretrained models get la…

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    Continual | Frontend, Fullstack, and ML Engineer | SF, REMOTE | https://continual.ai . Continual is building the missing AI layer for the modern data stack. We're hiring multiple r…

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    This is one of the most interesting and ambitious feature stores I've seen. It's also another example of Chinese companies really innovating on AI/ML infra.

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    Does anybody have any paid or open source solutions that they actually like? All the open sources solutions I've tried don't actually work for real world use cases with highly dyna…

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    Continual ( https://continual.ai ) | Senior ML Engineer | San Francisco or Remote (US) We're building a continual AI/ML platform for the enterprise. We're hiring a Senior ML engine…