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knrz

508 karma · joined May 11, 2014

https://linkedin.com/in/knouroozi / https://twitter.com/CyrusNewDay

Hey! I'm Cyrus!

I've been an autodidact all my life, on the journey of being a polymath.

I believe in leading with kindness, compassion, and love, and am driven by growth, play, and service.

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knrz··on Show HN: A LinkedIn / X CLI for your agents
Cost of remote browser automation w/ residential proxies
knrz··on Show HN: A LinkedIn / X CLI for your agents
I'm using the X pay per use API and they charge :(
knrz··on Show HN: Oxyde – Pydantic-native async ORM with a Rust core
Lowkey hope this replaces Django ORM
knrz··on Tech for Iran – An open letter from founders, investors, and operators
Hey HN! I got inspired, locked in, and built this yesterday.
knrz··on Mistral OCR 3
Those are tricky! We've found https://www.datalab.to/ to be good for this @ thesynthesis.company
knrz··on Hermes 4
I used to, that's their whole vibe
knrz··on Show HN: Context42 – capture your coding style from across your projects
I'm not sure what you mean by "same amount of time"

You can check out the full prompt here, maybe this answers your question: https://github.com/zenbase-ai/context42/blob/main/src/lib/ge...

This prompt is used to synthesize subdirectories

knrz··on Ask HN: Are you using a GPT to prompt-engineer another GPT?
You should check out https://x.com/lateinteraction's DSPy — which is like an optimizer for prompts — https://github.com/stanfordnlp/dspy
knrz··on Show HN: I built an open source AI video search engine to learn more about AI
This is cool! Learned about JigsawStack.

Curious, can you share your decision making for adding Hasura on top of Supabase? I used Hasura a couple of years ago, recently started using Supabase and it seems to cover my Hasura use case in a simpler way.

knrz··on Show HN: uDSV.js – A faster CSV parser
Super cool! Great work on making it fast and having clear benchmarks.

I had some fun looking through them and seeing how comma-separated-values — a package I authored ~9 years ago and posted to Show HN as well fared.

knrz··on Bringing the power of AI to Windows 11
I was also thinking about how they could've integrated this into every app, but I figured that simple tasks would be more reliable across all apps if they did AI-recognition on screenshots of the desktop + injecting data like "Installed Apps", then by the end of it output virtual keyboard event or a virtual click at an X/Y coordinate.

Just some afternoon postulating haha

knrz··on Show HN: Agent Actors – Plan-Do-Check-Adjust with Parallelized LLM Agent Trees
I found modelling them as humans made it easier to imagine how to structure them, but there's nothing saying that's it's a better way to model your agent tree. Would be curious for somebody to use this to run some experiments with different names/traits for the fractal agent tree.
knrz··on $570M worth of Binance’s BNB token stolen
samczun has a thorough Tweetthread explaining how this hack worked, if you’re looking to dive deep into the nerdy rabbit hole https://twitter.com/samczsun/status/1578167198203289600?s=46...
knrz··on I was messing around with img2img and I created this monstrosity
The redditor was using img2img to do style transfer frame by frame, which is why we have the jumping faces all the time (“instability”).

This isn’t a limitation of neural nets, as early as 2018 we’ve had stable style transfer for videos, see https://medium.com/element-ai-research-lab/stabilizing-neura...

knrz··on Shopify lets staff decide cash-stock pay mix as shares dive
When people ask about what it’s like doing tokenomics for crypto projects, well, it’s an exercise in applied systems design. Bravo on this system man! Any plans on open sourcing some of the stuff, like the math?
knrz··on Memorizing Transformers
Dude your repo’s are great, marvellous code quality too for cutting edge papers. Keep it up!
knrz··on Ask HN: Where are you finding freelance/fractional work?
DAOs
knrz··on MetaMask now has over 8M users
10M MAU https://consensys.net/blog/press-release/metamask-surpasses-...
knrz··on Taliban entering Kabul 'from all sides'
I chose “ideology” because it captured religious fundamentalism (in all flavours), specific state ideologies, critical theory, “communism” (as implemented by various countries)…

Many bright things have dark sides to them.

knrz··on Taliban entering Kabul 'from all sides'
It amazes and saddens me how much harm ideology can justify inflicting on others.

The impact on women and girl’s lives is shameful.

My prayers are with them.

knrz··on Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'
I’ve been doing a lot of research in the space and the most damning part of it all is that our civilization’s carbon capture capacity is not there yet. We don’t have the technology to do that — yet. That’s why one of the most impactful things we can do is support the technology companies in developing this technology.
knrz··on Young, Dumb, and Broke: Why Outdoorsy Types Suck at Money
As someone also on the younger side, I want to echo what you've said: I've also felt feelings of not belonging, things are hard, but you'll probably be fine.

More like the GP, however, I've gotten there not through identification with others but instead through the cultivation of a spiritual life philosophy.

Like GP, I also grow tired of hearing these voices too often. I have a little sister, who is 13 now, and she feels submitted to her fate. More often than not she feels like a candle in the wind (queue Elton John) instead of a captain at the helm.

But you're right, it is something to pay attention to. These little instances all add up to be statistically relevant and a source of knowledge for collective social truth-finding.

One thing I must insist on, philosophically, however, is that we are not often served by identifying with sub-par things. Personal identification is very useful for aspiring and evolving, but personal identification with the present or the past can unnecessarily keep you anchored to bad habits.

knrz··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2021)
Mission driven product minded system design software architect growth hacker

Claim to fame: Creator and founding CTO of Wombo.ai, which in its first 3 months was downloaded by 50MM+ people to spread funny lip synced AI memes to their friends.

Looking for: Creative outlet, fuck you money by 30, happy, bright talented people. Leadership (opportunities).

Location: SF/NYC (Canadian in Canada right now).

Remote: Depends.

Willing to relocate: Hell yeah.

Technologies: TypeScript, Elixir, SQL, excited to learn Scala.

LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/knouroozi.

Email: knouroozi at gmail dot com.

knrz··on Google drops engineering residency after protests over ‘inequities’
The solution isn’t more rationalizing, but ceasing the thought :)
knrz··on Onboarding to Elixir
Said another way, why would I reach out to K8s or ECS if I can handle all that within the runtime?

In my experience with Elixir, bringing everything into the code reduces the surface area of complexity and makes it much easier to model in your head.

knrz··on Tracking Micro-Rhythmic Variation in Jazz Performances (2017)
No, but now I'm curious! Do you have somewhere I can learn more about this? Couldn't find anything from Googling
knrz··on How to Boost Self Esteem and Stop Procrastinating
I think you’re onto something that I’ve been practicing more and more as well… that there exists this calm, knowing but wordless, essence of mind.

I call it the Tao, Loch Kelly calls it Level 3 (of 5), and I think you call it G-d.

As someone who was raised with a light touch of Islam, defected the Atheism only to circle back to Zen and Taoism, I’m looking for the “link” between Abrahamic religions and (my Western interpretation) of Eastern practices.

knrz··on Definitive Guide to Ruby's C API
I’m curious what the work load was like and the work... IO, concurrent connections, etc.
knrz··on TikTok Remix Culture
I heard their algorithm is quantized — first your video is “piloted” with a small set of people that are guaranteed to see it.

Then, if it passes a metric, it graduates to a bigger pool of people.

And then one more level.

knrz··on Show HN: Cloud GPUs for Deep Learning – At 1/3 the Cost of AWS/GCP
For others who may have been confused, like me, in order of GPU power:

(Least) P100 < V100 < A100 (Most)

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