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nfcamposon I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago

Isn’t this post comparing zero shot Jev to fine tunes of this model for each of the datasets it is tested on? If so seems like fairly impressive results for Jev

nfcamposon The Coming Loop

That commit happens to be a find replace because i usually write for my company’s blog (we)

nfcamposon The Coming Loop

No, they really are my thoughts, I've been doing this stuff pretty much every day for the past 6 months

nfcamposon The Coming Loop

My own thoughts on this, with examples https://github.com/nfcampos/loop-dev/blob/main/README.md

nfcamposon Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?

I think the same will be true of the ‘popular science’ category of nonfiction

nfcamposon Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?

For what it’s worth, I personally discovered something similar with another category of nonfiction books - economics and business. I read a lot of these circa 10-15 years ago and the rate of new signal id get from each new one eventually became low enough that I stopped reading in that category altogether.

nfcamposon Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?

He does mention audiobooks, see quoted below

> But what about ebooks and audio? Looking at all formats (print + ebook + audio) for the catalog in 2025, the second half of the year was down ~45% versus the first half.

This compares to 46% on print only

nfcamposon Job Postings for Software Engineers Are Rapidly Rising

The title of the submission is an almost comical example of hn navel-gazing - of the many interesting things in the article surely the job prospects of hn readers should not be near the top of the list

nfcamposon Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found

Anthropic marketing (and even supposedly technical write ups) sadly has become more hyperbole and less substance over time imo. This technology is so impressive on its own, really feels like shootings themselves in the foot in the long run, but what do I know

Case in point here where they conveniently fail to report the false positive rate, while also saying that if it wasn’t for Address Sanitizer discarding all the false positives this system would have been next to useless

nfcamposon Claude is an Electron App because we've lost native

But on the other hand the claude app is garbage… https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/22543 obviously native apps can be garbage too, but I must say electron apps have a surprisingly high incidence of terrible performance issues, unsure if it’s a correlation or causation issue

nfcamposon We chose LangGraph to build our coding agent

LangGraph implements a variant of the Pregel/BSP algorithm for orchestrating workflows with cycles (ie. not DAGs) and parallelism without data races. You can design your graph as a state machine if you so desire

nfcamposon Small plane crashes in Northeast Philadelphia

Should be merged with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42895466

nfcamposon Ask HN: How's LangGraph for Prod?

Hi do you mind sharing more what you mean by "the api makes excessive calls"?

nfcamposon Should I Use a Framework to Build an Agent? Code vs. LangGraph vs. Workflows

Hi, you don't have to use langchain tools or ToolNode with langgraph, you can absolutely write your custom tool handling logic. In langgraph nodes are just functions that can do whatever you want, seems to be some misconception somewhere?

nfcamposon Ask HN: Is it just me or LangChain/LangGraph DevEx horrible?

FWIW we have first class support for subgraphs in the library, would love to know what issues you faced there. Support for subgraphs in the studio is coming soon.

nfcamposon LangGraph Engineer

A topological sort can't be used for graphs with cycles

nfcamposon LangGraph Engineer

Fwiw we didn't start with Pregel, but instead reached for it when we saw issues (described elsewhere in this thread) with the previous approach

nfcamposon LangGraph Engineer

https://github.com/elastic/kibana/tree/main/x-pack%2Fplugins...

one I saw recently, obvs not the only one

nfcamposon LangGraph Engineer

The value of using pregel is supporting cyclical graphs, with concurrent tasks, but completely deterministic behavior (eg. doesn't matter that task A this time happens to finish before task B, its results will be applied in a predetermined order, etc)

nfcamposon LangGraph Engineer

Pregel actually doesn't require the structure of the graph to be declared ahead of time, the next set of tasks (functions) to run is computed at the beginning of each step, so in theory the graph topology could be entirely dynamic. Langgraph supports dynamic topologies too, ie. don't declare any hard edges, add a conditional edge after every node

nfcamposon LangGraph Engineer

I'm one of the authors so my opinion would be biased ha

nfcamposon LangGraph Engineer

Langgraph is not a no-code tool for visual programming, it's an implementation of the Pregel algorithm for execution of cyclical computation graphs (ie not DAGs)

nfcamposon College deans suspended after ChatGPT used to email students about mass shooting

Not sure where I stand on this, but “do not judge a book by its cover” comes to mind

nfcamposon Install a server in your house, get free hot water!

So what do people do with these things in summer? Won’t it then heat up their house excessively

nfcamposon Hampstead Heath

A park you can get (a little) lost in is a wonderful thing

nfcamposon Stock market charts you never saw (2021)

Revised follow-up paper https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3805927

nfcamposon The UK is wasting a lot of wind power

This reminded me of https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/09/mining-for-cryptocurr...

(I know this isn’t storage, jk)

nfcamposon ChatGPT: How many letters has the string “djsjcnnrjfkalcr”?

Interestingly both “halves” of the word as it split it have the same number of tokens

nfcamposon ChatGPT won’t replace search engines any time soon

This post reads like Nokia/Microsoft reacting to the first iPhone — myopic