alexcannan

22 karma · joined August 17, 2022

alexcannan··on OpenAI is Visa – Buttering up the government to retain a monopoly

Nothing in this article is anti-tech. Anti-monopoly, yes.

alexcannan··on Spotify demonetizes all tracks under 1k streams

Computers are very good at doing these calculations

alexcannan··on Yale will again require standardized test scores for admission

Surrounding yourself with the smartest people possible, during the most formative years of your life, is always a good idea. Get into the best school you can

alexcannan··on American Universities Are Post-Truth

I think any kind of decision by a university that can be framed as "social justice" will be, and then be amplified by the media without end, no matter how small. Our institutions are so much more than a handful of decisions at the executive level (which are probably aligned with popular support of people who actually attend the university, go figure).

alexcannan··on Turo Wants Customer to Pay $35,000 After Vandals Smash His Rented Car's Windows

I had a similar experience with Turo. The owner instructed us to leave the car unlocked in some parking lot. The following day they sent pictures of pot on the floor of the car; they charged me an extra $100 and handed me a lifetime ban. I was really enjoying using the app too...

alexcannan··on xVal: A continuous number encoding for large language models

I'm personally excited about LLMs becoming more number-fluent for regression tasks, e.g. read this paper and give it a grade 0-100

alexcannan··on We don’t need a new Twitter

Zero mention of the increasingly popular federated alternatives just seems like bad, corpocentric journalism

alexcannan··on Show HN: Scribbler – Podcast Summaries Using GPT

Very cool! I'm curious--I'd imagine that some long tail podcasts have transcripts that are too long to fit within a standard context window. Do you have some strategy for handling these?