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oliversissonon Benchmarks Are Dead (For Us)

Poetiq's RSI loop now automatically builds its own benchmark harnesses with zero human intervention — and has hit SOTA on six diverse benchmarks including doubling the previous best on a long-horizon planning task, and a 2M-token retrieval benchmark using a model that doesn't even appear on the base leaderboard.

oliversissonon Rethinking Heating

1kWh of heat is 1kWh of heat... but there's more to the story

oliversissonon Keeping Syncing Simple

Pretty general programming/SWE advice

oliversissonon When a customer refunds your paid app, Apple refunds its 30% cut [edited]

This isn't logical. It's the same in percentage terms.

Whether you sell 1000 copies at $100 or 100,000 copies at $1, assuming the percent of refunds is constant, then the effect is identical. Right?

oliversissonon Two Assessments Hackerrank

The original message from GS

"""

    Time limit: We expect you to complete the challenge(s) within the next 7 days. Please note, once you start a challenge, the timer begins and cannot be stopped.

        Programming challenge:
            Time allotment: 120 minutes
            Format: Data structures focused questions that can be completed with your choice of programming language
        Math and programing challenge:
            Time allotment: 180 minutes (120 mins programming + 60 mins math, combined)
            Format: Combination of the above programming format and a series of math multiple choice questions

"""

oliversissonon How Wealthy People Protect Their Money (2015)

This article is wrong about Eduardo Saverin. He lives in Singapore but never took citizenship. He renounced his American citizenship but kept his Brazilian.

oliversissonon Anu Hariharan on Network Effects [video]

I didn't think this was good. Her basic definitions at the beginning (eg virality) was very poor. Either she doesn't have a clear understanding of these or just isn't that good at expressing herself (hopefully the latter). Her thinking is quite convoluted. Did anyone else think this?

oliversissonon Tell HN: AngelList told my employer that I'd updated my profile

This is the original email. My name is Oliver Sisson and I work at Coursera.

From: Oliver Sisson <team@angel.co> Date: March 20, 2016 at 10:02:25 AM PDT To: staffing@coursera.org Subject: [recruiting] I created a project for Coursera, could you confirm? Reply-To: Oliver Sisson <oliversisson@gmail.com>

Hi Coursera,

I created a project for Coursera: [Project description redacted] Could you please confirm the project, by following this link:

https://angel.co/l/3248d1520e525149b6bf36369d0b519a/MbVzt

Thanks, Oliver Sisson

oliversissonon Tell HN: AngelList told my employer that I'd updated my profile

They used my name in the email from and reply-to fields, and to sign my name. I've replied to my original post with the actual email.