nsypteras

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Comment · 25 days ago
These are truly maddening. I’ve recently fallen prey to another trick - email from a famous-ish tech person starting a new company and asking to chat, but then responding with interest just enters you into the normal pipeline with a hiring manager. Nothing wrong with that pipeline, but don’t misrepresent the outreach as an opportunity to chat with an influential person when it’s actually just an automated recruitment email.
Comment · 1 month ago
This is so cool! For someone unfamiliar with modern game design but interested in building something similar, how did you get the assets such as the seats for the game? Are they open source, vibe-coded or made by hand? Would also be curious what the underlying game engine is, or any other details you wouldn't mind providing. Thanks!
Comment · 9 months ago
Comment · 10 months ago
Analyzing frontier LLM performance on my favorite daily puzzle game (https://www.nicksypteras.com/blog/cbs-benchmark.html) Next step is to assess how well the LLMs can create their own new, logically satisfiable puzzles in the same style. Then I'll have them battle it out, with one model creating a puzzle and the other attempting to solve it!
Comment · 11 months ago
Congrats on launching! One immediate thought is that people will always be wary of running LLM-generated code on their machines even if it's sandboxed. Is one of the future business cases for this to host a remote execution environment that pctx can call out to rather than running the code locally?
Comment · 11 months ago
Comment · 1 year ago
I'm impressed it recommended so many books i've already read and liked! I have a big reading backlog but once it's whittled down I will likely come back to this. One feature request would be to also show a "why this is recommended" for each recommendation so I can further narrow down the list for what I'm looking for
Comment · 1 year ago
"Counter Chinese Influence in International Governance Bodies" and grouping them in with US "adversaries" and "rivals" is quite undiplomatic language to throw in under "Lead in International AI Diplomacy and Security" section. Diplomacy with China should be an important part of this initiative but will inevitably be bungled.
Comment · 1 year ago
1984: U.S. withdraws. 2003: U.S. rejoins. 2011: U.S. stops paying dues after Palestine joins. 2017: U.S. announces withdrawal (effective end of 2018). 2023: U.S. rejoins, pledges to repay dues. 2025: U.S announces withdrawal

Seems to be a revolving door

Comment · 1 year ago
Same here! Kiwix comes in clutch on flights. I've used it so many times to get background knowledge on topics mid-read. Plus free and open source. Such a great service.
Comment · 1 year ago
I think that would be one of the success cases described in the article because HITL is an integral part of good customer support chatbots. Support chats can be escalated to a human whenever the agent is unable to provide a satisfactory answer to the user.
Comment · 1 year ago
> The transportation agency has spent years looking for an innovative way to allow passengers to move faster through the security checkpoints.

I think the writer had some fun with this one

Comment · 1 year ago
That's pretty cool! Now I can imagine a tool that gives you a prediction before you even post and then offers suggestions for how to increase performance...

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