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Anton Kulikalov

Software Engineer

San Francisco

anton.kulikalov@gmail.com

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kulikalov··on OpenAI sold its soul for $1B (2021)
It seems like most fundamental researches were published by Google, not openai. Transformers architecture is also designed by Google…

These are superficial observations, so feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.

Also, they bought ai.com recently if that makes you feel better :) maybe they will drop the “open” part of their name soon.

kulikalov··on GPT-4
I think we are introducing too much context to the question that sums up to "is it capable of reasoning?"

To answer this question one needs to remove unnecessary context.

GPT-4 can’t sum two unusually big integers.

This is as context-free as it gets. Ability to pass this test wouldn’t be conclusive, but the inability seems to be conclusive that it isn't capable of reasoning.

With this fact in mind explaining why it can't solve a logical riddle is pointless.

kulikalov··on GPT-4
You can as well ask it to add up two unusually big integers and it'll fail.
kulikalov··on GPT-4
> If you don't know the subject, how can you be sure what it's telling you is true?

That applies to any article, book, or a verbal communication with any human being, not only to LLMs

kulikalov··on ChatGPT powered GitHub code review app
It's a huge endeavour, because the company would have to convince their stakeholders that this is not harmful for the company competitive advantage. Try to convince your company executives to opensource their code. If it's easy - then share your reasoning, maybe the world will listen, but most likely not, as secrecy is generally perceived as competitive advantage.
kulikalov··on ChatGPT powered GitHub code review app
Open sourcing something requires extra work.
kulikalov··on Ask HN: What’s the hardest part of your work?
I’m a data engineer in Private Equity. Probably one of the hardest things in my day to day work is to know what information (datasets) is available out there. It takes time and effort To discover data sources, often talk to data vendors sales, evaluate their data quality and so on.
kulikalov··on Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun
The finance folks have this term: "Intangible Assets", it affects the valuation big time.
kulikalov··on Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun
that's a labor intensive business
kulikalov··on Katana: A crawling and spidering framework
Hi

Could contact me? We may have some interests in common. Check my profile.

kulikalov··on The hiQ vs. LinkedIn case update. Scraping public data is still legal [pdf]
So, Linkedin's blog and a bunch of people on twitter are saying that LinkedIn won this case, but I doesn't seem to be true? Nothing changed really. Scraping public data is still legal, scraping behind a logged-in account is still a grey area, hiQ is still dead.
kulikalov··on BuiltWith: $14M ARR, no employees
it's actually very much feasible nowadays with all the cloud computing solutions. Cheap too. You don't need an army of developers for maintenance, a single system architect can manage huge projects if designed correctly.
kulikalov··on BuiltWith: $14M ARR, no employees
Because it's one thing to find a niche and another thing is to make money in it.

For instance, I make software that help Private Equity firms find deals. I can't use it myself, because it requires a completely different set of skills.

kulikalov··on Show HN: I made a local development, debugging and hotreload tool for AWS Lambda
You are missing the point. Lambda functions are made for tiny scripts or relaying events that barely need any debugging. Also, they are highly integrated with other cloud services so it doesn’t make much sense to bother about complex dev tools for them.
kulikalov··on Download the full collection of Paul Graham essays in ePub for easy reading
Would be nice to have it in audio format
kulikalov··on Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?
For those with doomsday predictions I’d really recommend reading “the beginning of infinity”. Fascinating book that, among other things, demonstrates how humanity was solving “inevitable” catastrophes.
kulikalov··on Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?
They are continuously improving the taste, particularly after 2020
kulikalov··on Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?
Agree with the cultural value of dinners. I do that too, just eating the dead packaged food 2 out of 3 meals. I don’t need to go grocery shopping every day, don’t need to count nutrients and so on.
kulikalov··on Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?
https://hn.algolia.com/
kulikalov··on Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?
How do you know that a lot of people want that? I personally see a few people in a few communities with a confirmation bias. I’m not saying that you are wrong, just genuinely asking
kulikalov··on Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?
Are you working in this/ related to this industry?
kulikalov··on Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?
I wonder what’s the use case would be for this technology?
kulikalov··on Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?
Not a particularly big big thing, but here in the EU people are massively buying electric bicycles as the main transportation mean. I guess it comes along with the dropping batteries cost.
kulikalov··on Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?
Been on it since 2018. Also watching my health closely with tons of lab tests. I’ve never been in a better shape. I’m 29.

As for the taste - not sure about Soylent, but JimmyJoy is very tasty.

kulikalov··on Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?
How about just decentralized social media driven by open source without the crypto
kulikalov··on Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?
What do you think about food replacements like US Soylent or EU JimmyJoy?

It looks to me like a big deal, but I don’t see much enthusiasm from other people and these products have been around for a while.

kulikalov··on Whatever hit the Moon in March, it left a double crater
That other thing wouldn’t have enough energy to make a comparable crater
kulikalov··on We will never have enough software developers (2020)
> Programming-related jobs have high rates of skill turnover

True, but there are fundamental patterns that remain the same. And if we are talking about the level-of-abstraction type of change, then having experience in the underlying techs certainly helps.

kulikalov··on How to create a dashboard in Python with Jupyter Notebook
Still limited to 2-dimensional data. Data warehouses support structs and arrays, but it's not easy for a human to read.
kulikalov··on How to create a dashboard in Python with Jupyter Notebook
Non-techies wielding SQL is a big advantage for sure, but a moderately complex dataset sends SQL aggregations complexity through the roof. While modern data warehouses can handle such queries, I can hardly imagine non-technical person being able to write it.

That's where dashboards come in handy.

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