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8thcross··on Ask HN: Is this the year (2025) the four-day workweek takes effect?
many of the indian tech leaders have been saying just that...70-90 hrs a week!
8thcross··on Looking for a good pair of over ear headphones
i like sony WH-XM1000 series. I have 3, but it works great. turn off NR is easy, it even comes with a cord to use when it runs out of power. if you like audiophile quality - 300 is not going to cut it.
8thcross··on LLM Engineer's Handbook
wrong question. depends on who you ask. The right question is if you think based on TOC, you like it, buy it. I have been reading the author's newsletter for a while now, and know he is doing a hell lot of work educating himself and us in the process. the book is mostly a work about his experience, which he has mostly shared already, but some new things obviously (which i think he will share over time). unless you do this for a living, you cannot match this reference. So, these were my 2 cents worth of shit talk.
8thcross··on Learning to Reason with LLMs
This is a brilliant hypothesis deconstruction. I am sure others will now be able to test as well and this should confirm their engineering.
8thcross··on FDA Declines to Approve MDMA Therapy, Seeking More Study
it didn't take them long or much to approve those damn vaccines!
8thcross··on A.I. May Save Us, or May Construct Viruses to Kill Us
next gen soup manifesto
8thcross··on Launch HN: Undermind (YC S24) – AI agent for discovering scientific papers
is there a way to configure sources used for research? what about ability to search through paywalled journals?
8thcross··on GPT-4o's Memory Breakthrough – Needle in a Needlestack
These benchmarks are becoming like the top 10 lists you find on the internet. I agree that everything has a space, but frankly how many of us need a test that tells you that this is great at limericks?
8thcross··on How well can LLMs write COBOL?
wow! thats a memory lane i hope never revisit!
8thcross··on Novo Nordisk facing pressure as study finds $1k drug can be made for $5
this is the conundrum the US Pharma is facing. GLP1 took NN 10+ years of investment to come up. Acquired podcast has a great story about them. The middleman is what is different between the various country healthcare systems. USDOJ is trying/tried going after but one word - lobby. The regulation required is for consumer to directly buy from pharma skipping all middlemen. my 2cents.
8thcross··on Ask HN: If you've used GPT-4-Turbo and Claude Opus, which do you prefer?
i am getting better more cohesive results with claude.
8thcross··on What we are doing today with CAR-T cell therapy against cancer seems like SciFi
what a fantastic read! wow.
8thcross··on Embeddings: What they are and why they matter
can someone explain on best means to embed large text? does the techniques matter (averaging vs. concat vectors)?
8thcross··on Social media decline: Users are shifting to messaging apps and group chats
we are just in the beginning of a new trend; that will evolve over the next few years. we just don't know it yet.
8thcross··on Princeton ‘AI Snake Oil’ authors say GenAI hype has ‘spiraled out of control’
such a title!
8thcross··on Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video]
There was a JWST doc on netflix; that explained a NASA technique for Points of failure strategy. ISRO may be using similar.
8thcross··on The Sad Bastard Cookbook
Thanks!
8thcross··on Efficient data transfer through zero copy
is there a python library for this?
8thcross··on Turning my hobby into a business made me hate it
many years ago, i wanted to turn my passion in photography to my career. I did a few professional gigs and found out that it was turning out to be a job; and i was enjoying less of what i loved. in fact, it was making me hate it. I was wise enough at that time to stop it.
8thcross··on “Don Knuth Plays with ChatGPT” but with ChatGPT-4
thats a shitload of difference between its previous version!
8thcross··on Ask HN: Can someone ELI5 transformers and the “Attention is all we need” paper?
This is an awesome explanation. You guys are the real heroes
8thcross··on Launch Lamini: The LLM Engine for Rapidly Customizing Models as Good as ChatGPT
looks great...looking forward to trying it out
8thcross··on Exploring the Supply Chain of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna Covid-19 Vaccines
most interesting post in a while.
8thcross··on Dieselgate: How exactly did the software know the car was being tested?
As per what i have read, its a simple combination of front wheels turning, while back wheel at rest plus no steering wheel activity. There may be other factors - but this is good enough to say that car is being tested.
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