liamYC

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Really excited to work on tools that help humanity.

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Comment · 4 months ago
Developed a UI with Claude here:

https://ljsimpkin.github.io/pi-compress

It really shows how inefficient such a compression would be. Haha nice idea

Comment · 4 months ago
Point taken about the index potentially being really long. Why would the length be longer than the data? Don’t you need to find the right sequence?
Comment · 1 year ago
What does ADRS stand for?
Comment · 1 year ago
Smart, how do you backup the users encryption keys?
Comment · 1 year ago
You’re assuming they would attempt to produce gold exactly the same way. The process would likely evolve to become better. What happens if you add a growth rate?
Comment · 1 year ago
I’d like to 3rd the thanks for Aider it’s fantastic!
Comment · 1 year ago
How do you measure positive and negative societal impact of this technology?

I find mobile phone face unlock so useful, giving every citizen the power to use face recognition could be better than a few people, robots that identify someone and give them lifesaving medication are great (but the opposite, robot assassin can also be created). I guess it comes down to good people building good tools. Humans are generally kind and empathetic

Comment · 1 year ago
It depends on the tool you use and I guess the use case too. Some are language model agnostic like aider in the command line, I use sonnit sometimes and then 4o other times. I wonder if or when language models will become highly differentiable. Right now I see them more like a commodity that are relatively interchangeable but that is shifting slightly with other features as they battle to become platforms
Comment · 2 years ago
Haha yes!!
Comment · 2 years ago
“You can’t make this stuff up”
Comment · 2 years ago
I built an email notifier for alerting me when there is a popular news article which I defined by X number of comments. I think forums like hacker news are a really cool indicator for an emerging technology, an opportunity, or some exciting tech story. I get a tonne of false positives though, mostly articles that are inflammatory get sent to me. However, crowd strike triggered it as did the release of chat gpt so there are some hits
Comment · 2 years ago
Thanks a lot for this, I’ll check it out
Comment · 2 years ago
I suspect you’d have trouble opening ports on the client’s machine. Maybe you could use a dedicated http proxy the client talks to
Comment · 2 years ago
Technology like this will create huge selection pressures against desktop apps if it becomes easy for people to reverse engineer, remove payment mechanisms, and then freely distribute. Wouldn’t you think?
Comment · 2 years ago
Did you get ChatGPT to help you write this and is one of your main use cases generating bash commands? (Code writing code, there’s a total feedback loop happening here) I did too but wrote mine in Python. A compiled language would be much faster and using their streaming function I’m yet to implement. Any other ways you can increase the speed?

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