Yajirobe (u/Yajirobe)

Yajirobe commented on Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding reuters.com/technology/mi... · Posted by u/spenvo

JCM9 · 2 months ago

On Shark Tank if you walk in and say “I have no revenue, no viable business model, and an idea that’s easily copied in a space that’s rapidly marching towards commoditization. I’m asking for $5 billion for 25% of my company.” You’d be laughed off the set.

In the increasingly frothy world of GenAI that’s a Wednesday and you get the cheque.

If it looks like a bubble and smells like a bubble…

The tech is cool, but investors are about to lose their shirts in this space.

Yajirobe · 2 months ago

> If it looks like a bubble and smells like a bubble…

People have been saying this for the better part of 10 years

Yajirobe commented on Are we the baddies? geohot.github.io//blog/je... · Posted by u/AndrewSwift

LeafItAlone · 2 months ago

I generally avoid George’s non-technical posts because they are… let’s say uninspired.

But here is one that actually makes sense. Of course the self-reflection with who he otherwise praises and spends his time with will never set in, but at least others may take the time to look inward and do something differently.

Something has to change. Even HN seems to have had an increase in sentiment like this in the past few years. Maybe I’m just noticing it more myself. Maybe it’s not just the existence of the Grape, but rather where it came from.

Yajirobe · 2 months ago

Ah yes geohot. The same guy who used LLMs in advent of code to get on the leaderboard

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cco · 7 months ago

Having slaughtered my fair share of chickens on a relatively small but not back yard operation, there is a much easier way!

Buy a t-post (any 3-5 foot rigid metal pole will do but a t-post has perfect geometry). Next, you'll grab your chicken, lay her down on her back or stomach [1], once she has settled down you're going to lay the t-post gently across her spine just a bit behind her skull.

Now place your feet on either side of the t-post to secure it, grab her legs, and in one swift motion pull and stand up.

You will very quickly decapitate the hen and once you do it a couple times it'll be very low stress for both you and the chicken. This latter part is key, if you're stressed, unsure etc, the animals will be the same.

You can improve this further by keeping an upside down traffic cone around, drop the bird into it once slaughtered and that'll contain the flapping/running around you mention.

In my experience, for novices, this is the easiest method for all parties and reduces the risk of slips, mistakes etc.

[1] Back is sometimes easier, they'll often go into a trance. Sometimes you can lay them on their stomach and trace a line to relax them, there are youtube videos of this.

Yajirobe · 7 months ago

This is all so brutal. I can’t believe you people are discussing such things so nonchalantly

Yajirobe commented on Andrej Karpathy: Deep Dive into LLMs Like ChatGPT [video] youtube.com/watch?v=7xTGN... · Posted by u/leroman

vimgrinder · 7 months ago

So much respect for this guy. He is like Neo of the matrix, bridging the gap between humans and machines. I have so far learned the following for free from his repos/videos:

1. minGPT, nanoGPT (transformers)

2. NLP (make more series)

3. tokenizers (his youtube)

4. RNN (from his blog)

There are many domains which don't have a karpathy and we don't hear about them. So glad we have this guy to spread his intuitions on ML.

Yajirobe · 7 months ago

5. How to solve a Rubick’s cube

Yajirobe commented on Bun 1.2 Is Released bun.sh/blog/bun-v1.2... · Posted by u/ksec

e3bc54b2 · 7 months ago

I despise Python's tooling and never touch it willingly.

That said, Python's 'mistake' also made it one of the most used languages ever. For nearly 2 decades, you could just type `python` in terminal and get rolling, and that was invaluable.

The only real 'mistake' that Python did was breaking backwards compatibility so spectacularly that single greatest feature was rendered useless.

Yajirobe · 7 months ago

> single greatest feature was rendered useless.

Which feature are you referring to?

Yajirobe commented on The new science of controlling lucid dreams scientificamerican.com/ar... · Posted by u/cainxinth

pentagrama · 8 months ago

As a kid, I was so happy to "discover" that I could be mildly awake and control my dreams. It happened by mistake: I fell asleep while listening to loud music. I was in a middle state, half-awake because of the loud music, and half-asleep, dreaming. In the dream, I was an observer, aware that it was a dream. The music in the background was annoying me, and it was stressful. Later, I "improved" the technique and learned to control the dream while blocking out the annoying music.

Disclaimer: My message before ChatGPT correcteded because my English isn't good enough to me:

As a kid I was so happy to "discover" that I can be mildly awake and control my dreams. It happen by mistake, I fall at sleep while listening music loudly, I was in a middle state of being awake because the loud music, and being sleep dreaming, in the dream I was as a observer, knowing that that was a dream, and with the music on the backround annoying me, it was stresfull. Later I "improved" the technique and was able to control the dream, and discard the annoying music.

Yajirobe · 8 months ago

Up until I was around 10, most of my dreams were lucid - I didn’t have to do anything special to ‘enter’ them. Then they became less and less frequent. The last one was when I was 15 or so.

Yajirobe commented on Spotify has shut down several API endpoints developer.spotify.com/blo... · Posted by u/leecoursey

leecoursey · 9 months ago

Unfortunately, this breaks a lot of custom python programs I was using to facilitate music discovery and to generate playlists for myself.

Yajirobe · 9 months ago

It doesn’t affect existing apps

> Applications with existing extended mode Web API access that were relying on these endpoints remain unaffected by this change.

Yajirobe commented on Fans quitting Spotify to save their love of music (2022) theguardian.com/music/202... · Posted by u/edu

TomSwirly · a year ago

A system where musicians are not adequately compensated will always be more attractive to the listener.

Yajirobe · a year ago

I don't think pirating mp3s is more attractive to the listener than Spotify.

Yajirobe commented on Day 20: My favourite problem from Advent of Code 2023 mliezun.github.io/2023/12... · Posted by u/nickdevx

Yajirobe · 2 years ago

> But if we multiply the numbers together we get a number that is divisible by every number in the table.

Wouldn’t LCM be the correct/more general approach? The periods could have common factors, right?