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badFEengineer commented on Sixteen bottles of wine riddle   chriskw.xyz/2025/08/11/Wi... · Posted by u/chriskw
badFEengineer · 4 days ago
nice! an alternative solution I came up with (it's the same intuition as divide and conquer, just a flattened out version, same value of 49):

Just go left to right on each bottle, and keep track of how often each prefix has appeared (i.e. on the first bottle, if you get 1, 0, 0, 1), we'd keep track of: {"1": 1, "10": 1, "100": 1}. Now, if a prefix of length 1 appears 7 times, or a prefix of length 2 appears 3 times, we stop measuring (because there's only 1 left).

In all cases, for 8 bottles you will need 4 measurements, for 4 bottles you will need 3 measurements, 2 bottles will require 2 measurements, and 2 bottles will require 1 measurement. (4 * 8) + (4 * 3) + (2 * 2) + (2 * 1) = 32 + 12 + 4 + 2 = 50. But for the very last bottle, you can just do 0 measurements, by way of process of elimination. so 50 - 1 = 49.

badFEengineer commented on OpenAI's Stargate project struggling to get off the ground, due to tariffs   techcrunch.com/2025/05/12... · Posted by u/speckx
badFEengineer · 3 months ago
Stargate is $500 billion, not $500 million - surprised the article is off by a factor of 1000x
badFEengineer commented on Devin is now generally available   cognition.ai/blog/devin-g... · Posted by u/neural_thing
waldenyan20 · 9 months ago
hey guys - Walden here, one of the founders. Excited to have you try out Devin. Reach out here if you have any questions!
badFEengineer · 9 months ago
The price seems reasonable, but my main hesitation is on data storage + third party providers- there doesn't seem to be much available information on:

* will you store my code + train on workflows that Devin does for me? * are you piping data to other third party providers (i.e. anthropic, openAI)?

badFEengineer commented on USCIS announces strengthened integrity measures for H-1B program   uscis.gov/newsroom/news-r... · Posted by u/angott
CPLX · 2 years ago
This is interesting. Does anyone know what tactics they’re trying to stop? Sounds like something specific.
badFEengineer · 2 years ago
yeah, I've heard a bit about this- basically, it is technically legal right now to have multiple job offers from separate employers to get multiple H1B lottery tickets. The abuse comes from some shady operations, that will basically give you 3-10 "offers" from various consulting firms, where you'll be paid way less than market rate to work at any of them, with the idea being if you win a ticket from any then you trade off your potential salary for the H1b.
badFEengineer commented on Benchmarks and comparison of LLM AI models and API hosting providers   artificialanalysis.ai... · Posted by u/Gcam
badFEengineer · 2 years ago
nice, I've been looking for something like this! A few notes / wishlist items:

* Looks like for gpt-4 turbo (https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/gpt-4-turbo-1106-previe...), there was a huge latency spike on December 28, which is causing the avg. latency to be very high. Perhaps dropping top and bottom 10% of requests will help with avg (or switch over to median + include variance)

* Adding latency variance would be truly awesome, I've run into issues with some LLM API providers where they've had incredibly high variance, but I haven't seen concrete data across providers

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badFEengineer commented on Groqchat   chat.groq.com/... · Posted by u/izzymiller
badFEengineer · 2 years ago
This was surprisingly fast, 276.27 T/s (although Llama 2 70B is noticeably worse than GPT-4 turbo). I'm actually curious if there's good benchmarks for inference tokens per second- I imagine it's a bit different for throughput vs. single inference optimization, but curious if there's an analysis somewhere on this

edit: I re-ran the same prompt on perplexity llama-2-70b and getting 59 tokens per sec there

badFEengineer commented on Show HN: Vocal timing conditioned audio diffusion in real-time   riffusion.com/record... · Posted by u/haykmartiros
badFEengineer · 2 years ago
I've been pretty bearish on gen AI for music, but this is the most fun I've had playing with an AI tool in a long time- the filters remind me of the OG Instagram filter effect, where even shitty photos from phones could "magically" be enhanced.

This + the Music ControlNet post from yesterday gives me some hope that audio AI will go the direction of creative tools, rather than dystopian full song generation.

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