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Cost and intelligence aren't the only axes. Terra has better latency and output speed than Sol for example.

I’ve been building this out too, and your comment made me realize the missing piece for me. I’ve given the agents tools to validate its own work, but I haven’t improved the experience of humans verifying the agents’ work.

I played again and found issues. After level 40ish, basically nothing can hurt you. You heal too fast. And once I got past level 80ish, I was running so fast, I ran through walls. And the saddest part, I got to level 200+ and couldn’t die to lock in my high score! It was a fun time though, thanks for sharing this game!

This was more fun than I was expecting. Nice way to waste 20 min!

At a minimum, you increase top-k to cast a wider net, then after reranking, take the N you really want. You have to play around with it a bit, but that’s the idea.

I’m very surprised this isn’t getting more attention. Am I missing something?

It seems at or above SOTA on the given benchmarks, doesn’t have context rot, is orders of magnitude faster, and uses less compute that current transformer models. I suppose it’s just an announcement and we can’t test it ourselves yet.

Just fyi, for RAG/similarity search, adding a reranker was much bigger pay off than switching embedding models.

I built one of the top 3 results on Google when you search “compound interest calculator” and a dozen other similarly popular calculator pages.

The value isn’t the interface, it’s the trust that its calculations are accurate. I can’t tell you how many meetings I had with accountants and finance people to validate all the calculations.

That’s a new fire as of a couple hours ago - Sunset Fire. There are 5 going on in LA at the moment.

Less than 10% of my projects ever made anything. Check out indiehackers.com - tons of old posts of people starting things, but the domain is dead when you click through.

I’ve worked in e-commerce for years and the thing that always slows down the sites the most is 3rd party scripts. Are you addressing this? I couldn’t find anything in the repo.

Ive had websites slow down 10x just by introducing the Facebook re-targeting script for instance

Fyi regarding cover images: I have built and run a handful of book related websites and Amazon is the easiest place I found to get book covers. You just need the Amazon id and every image is a standard url.

This resonates a lot. For years, I would dive in for a week or two, sometimes I would make it to a few months. Lately, I've just been telling myself no, to keep focus on my start up, but it sometimes feels like I'm squandering this spark of energy you described. I absolutely love your approach of doing the planning in that initial burst rather than just getting some part of the idea working in a day or two.

I think those ultra-productive days earlier in my career account for some of the best learning, but now, over a decade into software engineering, focusing on the planning aspect seems much more prudent.

I've recently come to believe the differences in hypertrophy are negligible between eccentric and concentric focused movements, but can't find any recent, compelling research that says so. There was a 2017 meta analysis by Brad Schoenfeld (basically THE hypertrophy researcher) that showed a pretty significant different in hypertrophy: an average of 10% vs 6.8%.

I know Greg Nuckols from StrongerByScience believes this is mostly caused by lifters, especially untrained lifters which most of the research is on, having spent less time in eccentric phases so there is more opportunity for growth there, but it will eventually plateau.