sfsylvester

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London - Engineering Lead

Worked at YC'11 company. Went back to a <100 headcount startup.

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Comment · 1 year ago

Yep, this is me as well.

Comment · 1 year ago

> leave a gap in the smartphone market wide enough to drive a truck through

I think the opportunity is most likely going to be taken Huawei's HarmonyOS than something like Lineage or Librem.

As such we should consider this almost a-kin to a DeepSeek level threat to international security. Google did a lot to secure our phones [0], and we were lucky their economic incentive forced them to be as open as they were.

[0] https://www.privacyguides.org/en/os/android-overview/#google...

Comment · 2 years ago

Also looks like an older version of Codestral works well with TabbyML: https://tabby.tabbyml.com/blog/2024/07/09/tabby-codestral/

Thank you for sharing, this is almost exactly what I've been looking for, for ages!

Comment · 2 years ago

This is a completely fair, but open question. Not to be a typical HN user, but when you say SOTA local, the question is really what benchmarks do you really care about in order to evaluate. Size, operability, complexity, explainability etc.

Working out what copilot models perform best has been a deep exercise for myself and has really made me evaluate my own coding style on what I find important and things I look out for when investigating models and evaluating interview candidates.

I think three benchmarks & leaderboards most go to are:

https://huggingface.co/spaces/bigcode/bigcode-models-leaderb... - which is the most understood, broad language capability leaderboad that relies on well understood evaluations and benchmarks.

https://huggingface.co/spaces/mike-ravkine/can-ai-code-resul... - Also comprehensive, but primarily assesses Python and JavaScript.

https://evalplus.github.io/leaderboard.html - which I think is a better take on comparing models you intend to run locally as you can evaluate performance, operability and size in one visualisation.

Best of luck and I would love to know which models & benchmarks you choose and why.

Comment · 2 years ago

"The youth of today love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority, disrespect for elders, and love talking" ~ Socrates, 432 BC.

The only older than elders writing off the youth is the youth proving them wrong. Let's hope some follow Charlie's quote instead: "If you've got anything you really want to do, don't wait until you're 93. Start now, and don't stop!"

Comment · 3 years ago

What was your solution?

Comment · 3 years ago

Any clue on what distros are causing the growth? First I've heard of all this.

Comment · 5 years ago

There's a Netflix show about him?

Also there's plenty of shows and news about MU, SSC etc. I'm also surprised that Tao's rather specifically niche blog attracts such comments. Is it possible that the other blogs are just better moderated and Professor Tao doesn't need or care to?

Comment · 5 years ago

I almost can't believe this is true. What possible reason could the Foundation urge such a destructive course of action on something that is so vital for humanity.

Comment · 6 years ago

True TLDR; Yes as far as we can tell. But we'll have to see.

Comment · 6 years ago

If you like this "Life as a RPG" concept, I can't recommend Habitica [0] enough. Completely helped me structure everything I wanted to do in my life, and it's even open-source.

[0] https://habitica.com/

Comment · 6 years ago

Also available as part of the MIT OCW[0]

[0] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-098-street-fighti...

Comment · 6 years ago

Found any interesting ones? https://www.gov.uk/employment-tribunal-decisions/ms-j-mee-v-... was like reading a novel.

Comment · 6 years ago

Is there a recommended tool for BigQuery? Both this and Falcon look great, but my company's pretty wedded to BigQuery for the moment.

Comment · 6 years ago

It's a great read. I have also found a great reading list of from the University of Cambridge[0] that has a whole different range of books and websites for those who have a cursory interest in Mathematics.

[0] https://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.maths.cam.ac.uk/files/...