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shreezus

2,095 karma · joined June 23, 2013

AI & Product Nerd.

Get in touch at: hn(at)shree.io

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Interests: Machine Perception/AI/Healthcare/Technology/Space/Early Stage Investing

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shreezus··on Higher potassium intake at dinner linked to fewer sleep disturbances – study
I know this isn't related to potassium directly, but anecdotally I have had success using magnesium supplements for insomnia/improving general sleep quality. I have also been consuming electrolyte mixes containing potassium to help with muscle recovery from training, and have found them to help with physical soreness & general well-being.
shreezus··on LA wildfires force thousands to evacuate, NASA JPL closed
Google, Oracle, many many others.

I live in the area and have never seen a fire move this rapidly. The high winds were a major culprit.

shreezus··on Llama 3.1 405B now runs at 969 tokens/s on Cerebras Inference
This is seriously impressive performance. I think there's a high probability Nvidia attempts to acquire Cerebras.
shreezus··on Launch HN: Integuru (YC W24) – Reverse-engineer internal APIs using LLMs
Just wanted to say this is super neat! Looking forward to playing with it.
shreezus··on Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US
I see multiple Cybertrucks every day driving around LA.

I'll admit the design has grown on me, and we need more mainstream vehicles challenging the boring design "norms".

I would love to see a cross between the Model Y and Cybertruck in the future.

shreezus··on Apple No Longer in Talks to Invest in ChatGPT Maker OpenAI
Apple is well aware of Altman's intent to build consumer AI hardware (additionally, Altman is allegedly collaborating with Jony Ive on the project).
shreezus··on NotebookLM's automatically generated podcasts are surprisingly effective
I think it’s “impressive” the first time you use it, but with subsequent runs it’s evident how formulaic it is. The end result, the personalities of the podcast “hosts” and their interactions are similar regardless of the context of inputs.

Basically it’s a neat party trick at the moment. I do hope to see it improve however!

shreezus··on OpenAI as we knew it is dead
Just an example of unapologetically going “Founder Mode”.
shreezus··on OpenAI is closing in on raising $6.5B. Largest VC raise in history
If ASI is on the horizon & is bound by compute, compute effectively is the new oil.
shreezus··on OpenAI as we knew it is dead
One could argue reclaiming a company from a multinational corporate conglomerate back into founder hands is hardly “evil”.
shreezus··on OpenAI threatens to revoke o1 access for asking it about its chain of thought
Meanwhile folks have already found successful jailbreaks to expose the chain of thought / internal reasoning tokens.
shreezus··on Learning to Reason with LLMs
Advanced reasoning will pave the way for recursive self-improving models & agents. These capabilities will enable data flywheels, error-correcting agentic behaviors, & self-reflection (agents understanding the implications of their actions, both individually & cooperatively).

Things will get extremely interesting and we're incredibly fortunate to be witnessing what's happening.

shreezus··on Study shows 'alarming' level of trust in AI for life and death decisions
>"A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision".

Ultimately it's algorithmic diffusion of responsibility that leads to unintended consequences.

shreezus··on Avante.nvim: Use Your Neovim Like Using Cursor AI IDE
With that argument, it would be reasonable to assume Microsoft will just clone the key features (Composer etc) and bake them into the next generation of Copilot on VSCode.

Microsoft has its top-tier distribution advantages, plus they can build native integrations with Github/Azure etc to take things to a new level - think one-click deployments built into VSCode.

In fact, given the rising popularity of Replit/Vercel/etc I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft is cooking as we speak.

shreezus··on Avante.nvim: Use Your Neovim Like Using Cursor AI IDE
I really like Cursor, however I think ultimately a good open-source alternative will likely overtake it soon.

Keep in mind Cursor is just a fork of VSCode, with AI features that are pretty much just embedded extensions. Their product is great, but many users would prefer a bring-your-own-key & selecting their own model providers.

shreezus··on 6th-generation Waymo Driver
> not having to interact with anyone is pretty great.

Anecdotally, most of my female friends here in LA prefer Waymo over Uber for this reason (safety), especially when leaving bars late at night.

shreezus··on Ask HN: What are your favorite index ETFs for Investing?
Disagree with this entirely. Stocks only go up, the powers that be will literally print money and pump the market if needed.

I fully expect 20+ trillion $ companies by the end of this decade.

shreezus··on GraphRAG is now on GitHub
This is great - I have been interested in KG-enhanced RAG for some time and think there is a lot of potential in this space!
shreezus··on Y Combinator, AI startups oppose California AI safety bill
AI "safety" is nothing but an elaborate ruse toward deliberate regulatory capture.
shreezus··on Waymo the Leapfrog
I have been riding Waymo around LA for over a year with no issues. To me, it's just an Uber with an invisible driver, and more predictable experience.

Riding it is now a mundane experience, and that's a marvel in itself. Every time I'm forced to get an Uber in another city (or do airport rides as Waymo doesn't do pickups/dropoffs in LAX yet), I feel like I went 5 years back in time.

My Tesla has FSD and that has gotten progressively better the last few updates, however Waymo still feels ahead. I can truly "relax" in a Waymo, where FSD still makes me uneasy at times, like I'm supervising a teenage driver.

shreezus··on Nvidia Becomes Most Valuable Public Company, Topping Microsoft and Apple
Also Nvidia's capex is insanely low relative to the other big techs. They are literally printing money.
shreezus··on Amazon fined $5.9M for breaking labor law in California
$5.9M is not even a rounding error for a $2T corporation.
shreezus··on The number of CS grads who don't even know basic Git commands is astounding
Anecdotally, some of the best engineers I have worked with were entirely self-taught.
shreezus··on Ask HN: Are you still using your Vision Pro?
No, I found it uncomfortable for extended periods of wear - to the point where I would rather just use a normal display on my Mac etc. I look forward to the second-generation with comfort, weight, & FOV improvements (hopefully!).

It also still hasn't found the "killer apps" just yet, but it's clear Apple is still heavily invested into this considering there's nearly 30 sessions on VisionOS at WWDC this week.

shreezus··on Apple's On-Device and Server Foundation Models
This is great, however Apple needs to be explicit on what it, and what isn't relayed to third party services, and provide the ability to opt-out if desired. It's one thing to run inference on-device, and another to send your data through OpenAI's APIs. The partnership details are not entirely clear to me as a user.
shreezus··on Largest Autonomous Ride-Hail Territory in US Now Even Larger
I have been using Waymo in LA since 2023 and prefer it to Uber - however it still doesn’t do airport pickup/dropoffs here just yet. Eagerly looking forward to expansion of the service area so I can take it to/from LAX!
shreezus··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2024)
If you're building autonomous agents / tooling for agentive tasks, let's work together.

Location: Los Angeles, CA

Remote: Preferred (Hybrid OK)

Willing to relocate: Not really (Bay Area OK)

Technologies/Skills: Python, SQL, AWS etc. Strong experience with data science & ML frameworks, computer vision & gen AI implementation.

Email: hn [@] shree.io

I’m a director of product & Gen AI with over a decade of experience working in tech as a SWE, founder, and technical product manager. I’ve built and scaled products & teams for companies in all sorts of industries (most recently in the healthcare space), and thrive in startups & fast-paced environments where I'm able to drive product & engineering initiatives. I'm a problem solver & hacker at heart, and passionate about applied AI & AGI.

I’m predominantly interested in senior product/engineering opportunities at companies in the AI space whose mission values I align with - ideally centered around leveraging technology for accelerating human progress.

shreezus··on Tell HN: Google's new summarize SMS just read another person's messages to me
A few months ago I built a custom GPT to summarize commits from a repository. It glitched out and started spewing details for unrelated private repos on the "OpenAI" account by OpenAI employees, and I assume it was just hallucinating.
shreezus··on xAI announces series B funding round of $6B
Nvidia just added $6B in revenue.

We’re witnessing an arms race for compute, as compute will likely be the primary constraint for building AGI.

shreezus··on Nvidia announces financial results for first quarter fiscal 2025
Here's the thing - compute/semiconductors will be the substrate for superintelligence.

If you believe AGI/ASI is imminent, the demand curve for compute will far exceed supply for the foreseeable future.

(Disclaimer: I am heavily biased, as a longtime investor in Nvidia + semiconductors, since 2014+).

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