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allenz commented on Show HN: Anki/Duolingo-like app using educational YouTube videos platoedu.org... · Posted by u/kirill5pol

puzzydunlop · 2 years ago

This is very cool! I'm trying to do something technically similar by using LLMs to summarize the meeting transcript from youtube (https://parths-newsletter-78dbcb.beehiiv.com/).

Right now I'm doing this manually by copy/pasting into ChatGPT but I want to automate this aspect. I'm not very technical so any guidance you could provide would be helpful :)

allenz · 2 years ago

https://www.videogist.co was mentioned previously on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38555629

allenz commented on Tesla factory reported hundreds of Covid-19 cases after reopening engadget.com/tesla-fremon... · Posted by u/scottbucks

aaaxyz · 4 years ago

Are Tesla employees a representative sample of the Californian population?

allenz · 4 years ago

No, Tesla probably has very few employees older than 65 and no employees in nursing homes.

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allenz commented on SEC charges Robinhood $65M for misleading customers about revenue sources sec.gov/news/press-releas... · Posted by u/ericliuche

allenz · 5 years ago

To add a bit of context: brokerages like Robinhood send buy/sell orders to national exchanges and to private trading firms e.g. high-frequency traders. Private firms provide price improvement: orders that execute at prices better than the national exchange. All brokerages have a duty of best execution, including a duty of price improvement. Brokerages can also receive payment for order flow from private firms, as long as it does not interfere with best execution. However, "Robinhood explicitly offered to accept less price improvement for its customers... in exchange for receiving a higher payment for order flow," which is illegal.

Full order: https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2020/33-10906.pdf

allenz commented on AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology deepmind.com/blog/article... · Posted by u/momeara

jeffbee · 5 years ago

Pretty interesting that they only used about $15k worth of resources (retail price) to achieve this. It's not a technique that would have been out of reach for other organizations based only on not being able to afford the compute.

allenz · 5 years ago

That’s only for the final model. To find it, they’d need to run 1,000 experiments, trying many high-level approaches, many architectures for each component, hyperparameter search, and multiple seeds. Large machine learning projects need $10M in capital.

allenz commented on JavaScript is now required to sign in to Google security.googleblog.com/2... · Posted by u/amaccuish

OrderlyTiamat · 7 years ago

He's not the only one. It's a recurring comment here on hacker news and a problem I've encountered as well, and I'm running the latest stable release.

allenz · 7 years ago

Same here, I run the latest Firefox on both Windows and Linux. Gmail always takes at least 5 seconds to load.

allenz commented on YouTubers Will Enter Politics buzzfeednews.com/article/... · Posted by u/crunchiebones

paulcole · 7 years ago

I’m assuming you mean Trump?

If so, you’re doing yourself a disservice by dismissing him as a joke. I hate the guy as much as anyone but he does deserve some credit.

He saw the way he could win when everyone else thought he was a joke. By the time anyone realized he was going to win it was way too late.

allenz · 7 years ago

Perhaps he wasn't prescient, just lucky.

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allenz commented on Am I logged in or not? GDPR case study on the example of Chrome browser change blog.lukaszolejnik.com/am... · Posted by u/krahmakt

manigandham · 7 years ago

Yes, but as I said, most people probably do consider it a single gateway to all of their Google services, browser included.

The big difference is that your Chrome account is your Google account, unlike any of the other sites you mention.

allenz · 7 years ago

People are perfectly capable of distinguishing between browsers and websites. For example, users have no problem logging into Facebook with Chrome.

Auto-signin only adds confusion. Many (most?) users have no reason to associate their browser with a Google account. This is something that Google is pushing unilaterally, just like Google+/YouTube integration. As an advertising company, they stand to benefit from more accurate user tracking.

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