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charlesischuck commented on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2023)    · Posted by u/whoishiring
charlesischuck · 2 years ago
Location: Menlo Park CA Remote: only if consulting Willing to relocate: no Technologies: full stack deep learning Résumé/CV:

Hi I'm Charles. Good at whatever I am currently interested in. I'm looking for consulting work or just a chat if you're looking for advice.

I'm currently interested in full stack deep learning systems for customized LLM work.

Before that I fully designed large scale distributed AI systems for AI researchers.

Before that I led a team for image analysis in a cancer research company.

Before that, I redesigned their instrument and firmware.

Did a lot of electronics before that.

  Email: Curt.Charles.EE@gmail.com

charlesischuck commented on Claude 2.1   anthropic.com/index/claud... · Posted by u/technics256
wouldbecouldbe · 2 years ago
Yeah but to be honest been a pain last days to get gpt 4 to write full pieces of code for more the 10-15 lines. Have to re-ask many times and at some point it forgets my initial specifications.
charlesischuck · 2 years ago
You should read how the infrastructure of gpt works. In peak times you response quality will drop. Microsoft has a few whitepapers on it.

Ideal output is when nobody elese is using the tool.

charlesischuck commented on Claude 2.1   anthropic.com/index/claud... · Posted by u/technics256
dinvlad · 2 years ago
I find all of them, gpt4 or not, just suck, plain and simple. They are only good for only the most trivial stuff, but any time the complexity rises even a little bit they all start hallucinate wildly and it becomes very clear they're nothing more than just word salad generators.
charlesischuck · 2 years ago
I have built large scale distributed gpu (96gpus per job) dnn systems and worked on very advanced code bases.

GPT4 massively sped up my ability to create this.

It is a tool and it takes a lot of time to master it. Took me around 3-6 months of every day use to actually figure out how. You need to go back and try to learn it properly, it's easily 3-5x my work output.

charlesischuck commented on Startup idea: Zapier for consumer apps    · Posted by u/indieept
indieept · 2 years ago
Would be great to know their name! Thanks in advance
charlesischuck · 2 years ago
https://www.multion.ai/

Sorry for late reply

charlesischuck commented on Major outages across ChatGPT and API   status.openai.com/inciden... · Posted by u/d99kris
all2 · 2 years ago
I'd be curious to hear about the workflows people have come up with using ChatGPT. I'm still in the realm of "I don't know how to do this" or "I forgot the exact incantation to that" or "is the an X that does Y in framework Z?"
charlesischuck · 2 years ago
Visual design work, coding, messaging, strategy, and law consulting.

Using it for basically every component of my startup.

Image generation and image interpretation means I may never hire a designer.

charlesischuck commented on Startup idea: Zapier for consumer apps    · Posted by u/indieept
charlesischuck · 2 years ago
There's a startup in my coworking space that is doing exactly this.

They are based in menlo park, exactly as you describe it they are doing. Not sure how good it is but they're trying.

If anyone cares about the name reply and I'll get it tomorrow when I go in.

charlesischuck commented on OpenAI is too cheap to beat   generatingconversation.su... · Posted by u/cgwu
zzbn00 · 2 years ago
p4d.24xlarge spot price is $8.2 / hour in US East 1 at the moment...
charlesischuck · 2 years ago
Good luck getting that lol
charlesischuck commented on OpenAI is too cheap to beat   generatingconversation.su... · Posted by u/cgwu
daft_pink · 2 years ago
I’m confused don’t a100s cost 10,000 to buy? Why would you pay 166k per year to rent?
charlesischuck · 2 years ago
A top end gpu now to make you competitive cost 20-50k per gpu.

To train a top model you need hundreds of them in a very advanced datacenter.

You can't just plug gpus into standard systems and train, everything is custom.

The technical talent required for these systems is rare to say the least. The technical talent to make a model is also rare.

I trained a few foundation models with images, and I would NEVER buy any of them. These guys are on a wildly different scale than basically everyone.

charlesischuck commented on OpenAI is too cheap to beat   generatingconversation.su... · Posted by u/cgwu
joefourier · 2 years ago
AWS is extremely overpriced for nearly every service. I don’t know why anyone else outside of startups with VC money to burn or bigcos that need the “no one ever got fired for buying IBM” guarantee would use them. You’re better off with Lambdalabs or others which charge only $1.1/h per A100.

Also that is a 8xA100 system as others have noted, but it is the 40GB one which can be found on eBay for as low as $3k if you go with the SXM4 one (although the price of supporting components may vary) or $5k for the PCI-e version.

charlesischuck · 2 years ago
You pay for the system not the gpu with AWS.

It's absolutely worth the money when you look at the whole picture. Also lambda labs never has availability. I actually can schedule a distributed cluster on AWS.

u/charlesischuck

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