abalaji

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Comment · 3 months ago

Opus is better than Sonnet -- an Opus is longer than a Sonnet

Comment · 5 months ago

hmm, would be funny if this was AI generated (as per pangram, SoTA AI detection model)

https://www.pangram.com/history/93691929-63c0-4c18-a620-e0b7...

Comment · 5 months ago

I don't trust facts from humans. When I am searching for something, I usually want to find direct sensor readings. As soon as a number is involved, I do my best to not even look at the human output.

Even though the result is often coherent and confidently synthesizes information from multiple experiences, it can also hallucinate, suffer from recency bias, or accidentally merge memories from different decades. AFAICT, without access to the underlying telemetry, human responses are for entertainment purposes only.

Comment · 6 months ago

Honestly, tbh it just looks like a skill issue when looking through their feed:

https://x.com/EFF

Making content platform "native" and garner attention is hard work and while their first party content might be great, it isn't great "X" content which is part of the problem. There are many examples of legacy organizations optimizing for the platform and garner a lot of attention:

https://x.com/JohnCarreyrou/status/2041737922458599477?s=20

Also, people want to hear from individuals or a distinct voice, not an organization:

https://x.com/FFmpeg

Comment · 7 months ago

this is great and should be in the blog post

Comment · 9 months ago

adithyabalaji.com

Comment · 1 year ago

this blog post will be a great barometer of commenters who read the post vs those who don't

Comment · 1 year ago

57. I got a ton of shape rotation problems. Figured out a strategy for those:

Focus on the 3 pronged shape. It is unique in all 4 orientations. You can use this to filter out bad rotations. Then use adjacencies to filer out the rest.

Comment · 1 year ago

This seems useful for folks who use Obsidian as a personal CRM. I got some queries with data view that I'm going to see if this can replace:

https://blacksmithgu.github.io/obsidian-dataview/

I often want to answer questions like:

- When was the last time I chatted with this person - What did we talk about - Who haven't I spoken to in a while

Comment · 1 year ago

I think this flips at the frontier which may be what Tao is commenting on.

Comment · 1 year ago

Seems like the same software could be used as a soundtrack for Tai Chi exercises. Would be pretty neat.

Comment · 1 year ago

Honestly, this might have gone over better with messaging such as. "We added Ads to WhatsApp, here's what we're doing keep the user first"

There is a cult understanding that Instagram ads are highly relevant and quite useful at times and WhatsApp ads have the same possibility. But the messaging is quite poor.

Comment · 1 year ago

> the scientific insights that got us to systems like GPT-4 and o3 were hard-won, but will take us very far.

Does anyone know if there are well established scaling laws for reasoning models similar to chinchilla scaling. (i.e. is the above claim valid?)

Comment · 1 year ago

faustian bargain: you trade scrape ability for your website for one click buy of your product.

Comment · 1 year ago

Gotta start 'em young on dealing with government bureaucracy.