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topherjaynes

859 karma · joined October 27, 2009

CSO @petscreening. Formerly {@redventures @Olpaic,@Salesforce, @Google}, Married, father of two and living in Charlotte.
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topherjaynes··on Show HN: Criterion Closet as a website – pull any of 1,247 films off the shelf
Also, which haven't been picked, I would be curious to see those.
topherjaynes··on I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it
Great call out on the guardrails actually making this not a good use case to test for vulnerabilities.
topherjaynes··on Scaffold a 1990s Geocities-themed static website
Clicked on the demo, and was immediately transported back to middle school trying to hack the marquee scroll.
topherjaynes··on Cursor Camp
Well, lads, 10 laps, been a day, going to sleep.
topherjaynes··on Show HN: An interactive map of Tolkien's Middle-earth
One doesn't simply vibe code into Mordor!(but seriously love this)
topherjaynes··on Why The Jetsons still matters (2012)
Reminds me of a Rosenfeld book "Make It So: Interaction Design Lessons from Science Fiction." Sci-fi is able to push interface design because they're unconstrained... It's been a while, so I need to dust off.
topherjaynes··on Ask HN: Who do you follow via RSS feed?
https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
topherjaynes··on Ask HN: Who do you follow via RSS feed?
SwissMiss https://feeds2.feedburner.com/Swissmiss
topherjaynes··on Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?
I still check https://www.swiss-miss.com/ to this day, more of this please!
topherjaynes··on Hosting a website on a disposable vape
It let out one last valiant puff of smoke after it succumbed to load.
topherjaynes··on The Internals of PostgreSQL
Check out the CMU history of the DB class, Andy Pavlo is an amazing teacher and you really get a feel for DBs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWS8LEQAUVc&ab_channel=CMUDa... same class from 5 years ago is great because he's like well I can't get in my hotel room so I'll just record from the street https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdW5RKUboKc&t=797s&ab_channe.... Tons of good videos to go through on their youtube channel.
topherjaynes··on Stone Soup AI (2024)
Gopnik is a great writer, and this is a very good take. She has a great sense of how to bring psychology to tech. Also fun fact: She's married to Alvy Ray Smith for all the computer graphics/pixar fans out there. I'd love to here them debate tech takes!
topherjaynes··on Anthropic, thinking like a model by closing your eyes
There was a very interesting comment at 4:30 from Barry Zhang where they didn't know how the model was making a decision so they would close their eyes for a min and blink for a min and think what would I do with this information. I was blown away by this idea but really simple concept to think about the information. Is there more to read about looking through the lens of the model itself? Is this just a different way to think about Prompt Engineering?
topherjaynes··on Elon Musk's Team Now Has Full Access to Treasury's Payments System
Thanks
topherjaynes··on Note on the Relationship Between Artificial Intelligence and Human Intelligence
I get your point, but also 1) It helps me focus on the themes first, like scanning a good non-fiction book to know what I am diving into 2) I'm not catholic, but would love some context going in on it. 3) It's a lot of individual blocks and I'd like to know does that mean they're leary, pro, what are the guidelines so helping find the themes or key topics like is there a benefit to AI and maybe using it to summarize and getting to this parapgrah quickly: 0. In light of the foregoing discussion, the differences between human intelligence and current AI systems become evident. While AI is an extraordinary technological achievement capable of imitating certain outputs associated with human intelligence, it operates by performing tasks, achieving goals, or making decisions based on quantitative data and computational logic. For example, with its analytical power, AI excels at integrating data from a variety of fields, modeling complex systems, and fostering interdisciplinary connections. In this way, it can help experts collaborate in solving complex problems that “cannot be dealt with from a single perspective or from a single set of interests.”[64]
topherjaynes··on Antiqua et Nova: Note on the relationship between AI and human intelligence
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topherjaynes··on Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs
That's my worry too, I'd like one or two, but 1) will either never be in line for them 2) or can only find via secondary market at 3 or 4x the price...
topherjaynes··on Sora is here
yea just that that too. Did anyone get in or did they get overwhelemed?
topherjaynes··on Writing in Pictures: Richard Scarry and the art of children's literature
that and the toy with wires and blocks you could move around.
topherjaynes··on Writing in Pictures: Richard Scarry and the art of children's literature
Richard Scarry’s books were such a cozy universe growing up, I'd still like to live in "What people do all day." I wonder what that book would look like if he made it today.
topherjaynes··on Show HN: A maid of honor speech generator
Awesome!
topherjaynes··on Show HN: Which Animal Shares Your Body Fat Percentage?
Whoa, I was shocked that an elephant was sub 10% body fat...now to call some one an elephant and explain it's a compliment!
topherjaynes··on Dick Costolo how the best product teams focus on quality
Part of a series from Linear: Conversations on Quality
topherjaynes··on Show HN: A maid of honor speech generator
Interesting, do you think it would also be useful for Bestmen? I love the tone functionality.

Also, wonder if there is a cheaper "toast" option? < 1min. I'd pay 5 dollars to help refine a toast I've done in the pas.

topherjaynes··on MVCC – the part of PostgreSQL we hate the most (2023)
You should check out Andy's History of Databases (CMU Databases / Spring 2020) on youtube. He does the entire first class from the streets of Amsterdam because he can't get in his hotel... he's an interesting character and he's insanely good at explaining the ins and out
topherjaynes··on Zen, CUDA, and Tensor Cores – Part 1 [video]
good call, was going to drop a thanks at the very least!
topherjaynes··on Zen, CUDA, and Tensor Cores – Part 1 [video]
Fair enough, I figured his high quality content would lead to good conversations, but I guess no one is immune to comment garbage!
topherjaynes··on Zen, CUDA, and Tensor Cores – Part 1 [video]
I really enjoyed the details, just curious why he has comments turned off on the video? Looks like all his videos have comments turned off... feels like there is a story there?
topherjaynes··on How Postgres stores data on disk – this one's a page turner
Honestly, I couldn't click this link quick enough and it delivered. Looking forward to the "oversized values" follow-up!
topherjaynes··on Stalin, Eisenstein, Walt Disney and Ivan the Terrible (1992)
Oh wow this threw me back to film school. There is a great book by Ester Leslie called Hollywood Flatlands: Animation, Critical Theory and the Avant-Garde that walks through the overlap in animation and the avant-garde movement. It's very in-depth read if you liked this article
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