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achandra03··on The Silicon Valley Founder Meat Grinder
A lot of people also equate "face time in the office" to "real work getting done". Especially prevalent in finance circles.
achandra03··on Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling
> with less and less freely available data

My understanding is that the labs ran out of freely available data to train on a while ago, and now primarily rely on human data vendors such as Surge and Mercor to source their data.

achandra03··on What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vimeo owner that's now public
Is it not just a private equity fund masquerading as a tech firm?
achandra03··on SWE-1.7 Reach Near GPT 5.5 and Opus Intelligence
To be fair it does seem like most AI startups are now like this (particularly when it comes to constantly mentioning how hard they work and ignoring consumer markets).
achandra03··on Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library
Bless the Maker and His water.
achandra03··on How to Build the Future: Demis Hassabis [video]
I think he's just wired differently. Raw IQ is usually overrated IMO, but this is one of the cases where I believe the significant difference is critical.
achandra03··on Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets
I don't think the author is trying to pretend this is some sophisticated strategy you should actually use (note the chudjak in the image on github)
achandra03··on Colon cancer now leading cause of cancer deaths under 50 in US
I think this is probably due to people suffering from the just-world fallacy. Most folks like to believe that if you do the right things and consume the right stuff you'll have a long and healthy life when the fact of the matter is that luck/randomness plays a much larger role in your health than most people would like to admit.
achandra03··on Launch HN: Browser Buddy (YC W24) – A recommendation system for Internet writing
congrats arnav, you've come a long way from the balz days :)
achandra03··on Show HN: A game where you invest into startups from history
Pretty fun! Only complaint is that the responses from the founders take a bit long to load.
achandra03··on Deep Reinforcement Learning: Zero to Hero
This looks really interesting! I tried exploring deep RL myself some time ago but could never get my agents to make any meaningful progress, and as someone with very little stats/ML background it was difficult to debug what was going wrong. Will try following this and seeing what happens!