nicklo

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AI Researcher, Author, Founder. https://nicklocascio.com/.

Booth.ai (YC W23) Prev. Standard.ai, MIT

http://nicklocascio.com/

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Comment · 6 months ago
Cortisol spit curve tests are pretty cheap, so I was disappointed to see the title claim not substantiated with real data. Consider biometric testing next time you distribute!
Comment · 7 months ago
or say yes? decel mentality like this is why europe is falling behind. some poor startup will try to backfill these contracts to be the new palantir of europe only to be cut at the knees by regulation and more outcry think piece boycotts like this. rinse and repeat until the us and china become the only relevant acceleration hubs on earth during the singularity
Comment · 7 months ago
the animation of the model name text when opening the detail view is so smooth and delightful
Comment · 8 months ago
Comment · 8 months ago
Yeah with sandbox pre-warming and disk co-location its fast enough to avoid UX cold start penalty.

On write amplification — we persist at the message level, not per SSE chunk. The sandbox's workspace filesystem (claude code's native jsonl files) is the source of truth for resume, and the DB is for queryability, tracing, etc - so fire and forget works fine here.

Comment · 8 months ago
Comment · 8 months ago
directionally correct but important to note the water wasted by sustaining the insufferable human is much higher than producing the tokens
Comment · 9 months ago
i've always wondered (for this, portkey, etc) - why not have a parallel option that fires an extra request instead of mitm the llm call?
Comment · 1 year ago
I think it’s the reverse - people were too lazy to read the docs so nobody was motivated to write them.

With an agent I know if I write once to CLAUDE.md and it will be read by 1000’s of agents in a week.

Comment · 1 year ago
Have you considered making an MCP for this? Would be great for use in vibe-coding
Comment · 1 year ago
The bitter lesson strikes again… now for graphics rendering. Nerfs had a ray tracing prior, and Gaussian splats had some raster prior. This just… throws it all away. No priors, no domain knowledge, just data and attention. This is the way.
Comment · 2 years ago
OP: please don't poison your MIT license w/ surya's GPL license
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Sora is not available, this looks like an attention grab by an app without relation to OpenAI trying to get downloads by false association. Same thing as a year ago with all the ChatGPT iOS apps that came out before OpenAI released theirs.

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