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arjun_krishna1

112 karma · joined February 15, 2022

Engineering Student @ UWaterloo https://twitter.com/TheOneAndArjun

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arjun_krishna1··on Show HN: Runner – A Better Claude Cowork
Built in Automations in Runner with Gmail integration, excited!
arjun_krishna1··on Drug trio found to block tumour resistance in pancreatic cancer in mouse models
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arjun_krishna1··on Gemini 2.5
I've been using Gemini Pro for my University of Waterloo capstone engineering project. Really good understanding of PDF documents and good reasoning as well as structured output Recommend trying it out at aistudio dot google dot com
arjun_krishna1··on Show HN: An open source SOTA SQL Agent in 1k lines of code
"Snowflake Cortex didn’t manage to answer any of our questions" :))
arjun_krishna1··on Kimi K1.5: Scaling Reinforcement Learning with LLMs
At some point this becomes No True Scotsman. They have disclosed a lot
arjun_krishna1··on Zetamac iOS App: Are you faster than a quant?
My friend Joseph made this app based on the "Zetamac" math game. Please give it a try! I'll pass on any feedback/comments to him (he's not on hackernews)
arjun_krishna1··on Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
Last week I made my first contribution to an open-source LLM vulnerability scanner Garak: https://github.com/leondz/garak

I'm working on adding some more probes checking for package hallucination in ruby gems and npm packages

I'm also starting my final year of engineering at the University of Waterloo :)

arjun_krishna1··on Ask HN: How can I set scope of my web app which I am making?
Good idea! Have you asked your customers what features they want that are missing?
arjun_krishna1··on Ask HN: What songs do you listen to over and over again?
Wow this is actually really good I'm a huge fan of Colter Wall Have you heard Kate McCannon by Colter Wall?
arjun_krishna1··on EMO: Emote Portrait Alive
Does anyone know how we can run this ourselves?
arjun_krishna1··on Zuckerberg Spent $187M Buying 1600 Acres of Hawaii and Now Is Building a Bunker
The article mentioned shell companies "The methods to acquire the land also give rise to issues and speculation. Zuckerberg initially hid the purchases of land using shell companies and brokers to disguise them. Those shell companies are now involved in several lawsuits claiming they pressured locals with ancestral land rights to sell the land or get into a bidding war at auction with one of the richest men in the world"
arjun_krishna1··on How Euler Did It, by Ed Sandifer
Karpathy! Carmack!
arjun_krishna1··on Ask HN: What are the important problems in your field?
Wow and what do we use synthetic DNA for? Creating organisms with a modified genome?
arjun_krishna1··on Ask HN: What are the important problems in your field?
Revenue / # of devs Guess it's lagging indicator and can lead to short-term decision making
arjun_krishna1··on Ask HN: What are the important problems in your field?
Making all educational content available to speakers of any language. Open-source voice cloning and multilingual tts models
arjun_krishna1··on Laion Took Down Its Datasets After Discovery of Child Sexual Abuse Material
This is how nuclear was killed.
arjun_krishna1··on AI’s big rift is like a religious schism
I'd like to bring up that most people in the developing world (China, India, Pakistan) are absolutely thrilled with AI and ChatGPT as long as they are allowed to use them. They see it as a plus
arjun_krishna1··on You do need a technical co-founder [video]
salesforce, many fintech software that haven't been updated since the 90's, adtech
arjun_krishna1··on Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?
Making money
arjun_krishna1··on Greg Rutkowski was removed from Stable Diffusion; AI artists brought him back
based
arjun_krishna1··on Neuralink faces federal probe, employee backlash over animal tests
Pigs are really smart.
arjun_krishna1··on How sustainable are fake meats?
Ethical/morally it is probably way better. Less so than plant-based.
arjun_krishna1··on How sustainable are fake meats?
Buying local and small batch generates more carbon dioxide and is less sustainable. https://worksinprogress.substack.com/p/notes-on-progress-an-...
arjun_krishna1··on How to Do a Handstand
its fun though
arjun_krishna1··on Ask HN: Which algorithms based on biological ideas do you know?
Epidemic/Gossip protocol (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossip_protocol) Uses peer-to-peer communication to disseminate data to all members of a group A node starts with a piece of data, shares it with its neighbors. Then the neighbors repeat this. The spread of data is inspired by the spread of a disease or gossip among a group of organisms.
arjun_krishna1··on Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors
Ummm... This is still up? https://twitter.com/ElonJet
arjun_krishna1··on Ask HN: What is the most important thing you could be working on?
Building a long-term human settlement in space (i.e. moon, mars).

I love the human experience and I believe that we need to get many more people and many more resources to extend the life-span of humanity. And currently the biggest blocker to that is that all long-term human settlements are on Earth.

I'm currently kind of working on it by working at a startup to collect capital (money/network) towards this.

To actually start getting traction on this I need to collect a lot of money, get investor trust and actually figure out how to make it profitable (i.e. what technology is needed, etc).

arjun_krishna1··on Misadventures of an early engineer
great post!