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olaird25

10 karma · joined April 5, 2024

MS student studying ML @ GATECH olaird25@gmail.com
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olaird25··on We must pace the frontier
Vitalik Buterin: “...But currently, I see zero plans for how to deal with an ASI transition that are not naive. Perhaps humanity is stuck with a choice between naive and naive squared (or maybe even naive squared and naive cubed), so I feel inclined to cut some slack to people who are trying.”
olaird25··on Show HN: Drift – an embedding-model upgrade should be a rotation, not a reindex
Interesting. But if you are upgrading your embedding model, wouldn't you want to re-embed to get its benefits on old entries?
olaird25··on Show HN: RainBreak App – The AI doesn't need a break. But you do
Very nice! How did you implement your rain effect?
olaird25··on Show HN: Formally verified polygon intersection – Opus 4.8 oneshots, prev failed
Nice. So is the js/lean interface using exact rationals?
olaird25··on Show HN: Formally verified polygon intersection – Opus 4.8 oneshots, prev failed
Is the web demo compiled from the lean?
olaird25··on Tokenization Is the Bottleneck You're Not Measuring
Have you tried just using a faster tokenization library?

Github's BPE crate (https://crates.io/crates/bpe) advertises >10x speedup relative to HF, as do others.

olaird25··on AI Killed Stack Overflow (and why that sucks)
"Writing the question WAS the lesson" Indeed!
olaird25··on Code Mode: the better way to use MCP
This seems exactly right. Its pretty common to watch your agent making the same mcp tool call again and again as it works through a list. These kinds of cases are solved by letting the agent just call any of its mcp tools in a script.