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vermorelon Introduction to Supply Chain (Book)

Full text at: https://www.lokad.com/document/book-introduction-to-supply-c...

vermorelon Ask HN: Impact of LLMO (SEO for LLM) on software vendors?

It's safe to assume that anything publicly available on the web is being scraped.

vermorelon Ask HN: Impact of LLMO (SEO for LLM) on software vendors?

Is-it though? Hyperbolic praise of a vendor on the web is quite transparent, hence, a casual reader is hardly going to be fooled. LLM distortion would be just as severe BUT much harder to spot.

vermorelon Don't study or work on LLMs

The other comment stating "Yann LeCun is the Paul Krugman of AI" does resonate with me. There is a lot to be criticized about his takes on AI in general, and the need for a "worldview" in particular.

The longer version at: https://www.lokad.com/blog/2024/3/18/ai-interview-with-yann-...

vermorelon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2024)

Lokad.com | Full stack, Backend, Frontend, Compiler | REMOTE or ONSITE | Paris, France | Full-time | https://www.lokad.com Lokad is a bootstrapped profitable software company - 60 employees and growing fast - that specializes on predictive supply chain optimization. We are based in France, but the majority of our clients are outside France.

Supply chains remain wasteful and poorly resilient to tail risks (as demonstrated by present day situation). We’re talking about roughly 15% of the worldwide economy: supply chains are vast, and double-digit improvements remain possible. We want to put supply chains on AI autopilot, and deliver above-human performance while doing so.

Technologies used: C#, F#, Typescript, .NET Core, Linux

Find out more: https://www.lokad.com/software-engineering

vermorelon Moirai: A time series foundation model for universal forecasting

Our basic low-dimensional parametric model landed No1 at the SKU level at the M5, see my lecture https://www.lokad.com/tv/2022/1/5/no1-at-the-sku-level-in-th... (more references at the bottom)

vermorelon An opinionated review of the Yann LeCun interview with Lex Fridman

While there is some obvious US-centric left wing bias in most major LLMs, I am not sure this is what is at play here. I routinely end-up with similar behaviors on all sort of subjects.

vermorelon The Terrifying A.I. Scam That Uses Your Loved One's Voice

As a CEO, this is one of the many reasons why I do not do money transfers myself.

Ps: your insights are spot on. Been plagued by this issue for years. Deep fake is merely a refinement of a pre-existing fraud pattern.

vermorelon Claude 3 model family

With 1M tokens, if snapshotting the LLM state is cheap, it would beat out-of-the-box nearly all RAG setups, except the ones dealing with large datasets. 1M tokens is a lot of docs.

vermorelon Claude 3 model family

Agreed, some problem here.

vermorelon Claude 3 model family

The "cost" is storing the state of the LLM after processing the input. My back-of-the-envelop guesstimate gives me 1GB to capture the 8bit state of 70B parameters model (I might be wrong though, insights are welcome), which is quite manageable with NVMe storage for fast reload. The operator would charge per pay per "saved" prompt, plus maybe a fix per call fee to re-load the state.

vermorelon Claude 3 model family

Does any of those LLM-as-a-service companies provide a mechanism to "save" a given input? Paying only for the state storage and the extra input when continuing the completion from the snapshot?

Indeed, at 1M token and $15/M tokens, we are talking of $10+ API calls (per call) when maxing out the LLM capacity.

I see plenty of use cases for such a big context, but re-paying, at every API call, to re-submit the exact same knowledge base seems very inefficient.

Right now, only ChatGPT (the webapp) seems to be using such those snapshots.

Am I missing something?

vermorelon Ask HN: Can GPT improve itself ala AlphaGo Zero?

Thanks! The interesting thing is that my casual observations indicate that GPT itself might already be good enough to self-arbiter itself. Just like a human writer can improve its own writing by iterating over it. In a sense, having humans in the loop were what it took (past) to gain the possibility to reach self-arbitration capacity.

vermorelon The world has more trees than it did 35 years ago (2021)

Original paper (2018) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0411-9

vermorelon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2022)

Lokad is a bootstrapped profitable software company - 50 employees and growing fast - that specializes on predictive supply chain optimization. We are based in France, but the majority of our clients are outside France.

Supply chains remain wasteful and poorly resilient to tail risks (as demonstrated by present day situation). We’re talking about roughly 15% of the worldwide economy: supply chains are vast, and double-digit improvements remain possible. We want to put supply chains on AI autopilot, and deliver above-human performance while doing so.

Technologies used: C#, F#, Typescript, .NET Core, Linux

Find out more: https://www.lokad.com/software-engineering

vermorelon Ask HN: Career advice for a 17 year old Russian computer prodigy

Agreed. As a software employer, solid public code contributions weight a lot more than degrees.

vermorelon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2022)

Lokad.com | Full stack, Backend, Frontend, Compiler | REMOTE or ONSITE | Paris, France | Full-time | https://www.lokad.com Lokad is a bootstrapped profitable software company - 50 employees and growing fast - that specializes on predictive supply chain optimization. We are based in France, but the majority of our clients are outside France.

Supply chains remain wasteful and poorly resilient to tail risks (as demonstrated by present day situation). We’re talking about roughly 15% of the worldwide economy: supply chains are vast, and double-digit improvements remain possible. We want to put supply chains on AI autopilot, and deliver above-human performance while doing so.

Technologies used: C#, F#, Typescript, .NET Core, Linux

Find out more: https://www.lokad.com/software-engineering

vermorelon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2022)

Lokad is a bootstrapped profitable software company - 50 employees and growing fast - that specializes on predictive supply chain optimization. We are based in France, but the majority of our clients are outside France.

Supply chains remain wasteful and poorly resilient to tail risks (as demonstrated by present day situation). We’re talking about roughly 15% of the worldwide economy: supply chains are vast, and double-digit improvements remain possible. We want to put supply chains on AI autopilot, and deliver above-human performance while doing so.

Technologies used: C#, F#, Typescript, .NET Core, Linux

Find out more: https://www.lokad.com/software-engineering

vermorelon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2022)

Lokad is a bootstrapped profitable software company - 50 employees and growing fast - that specializes on predictive supply chain optimization. We are based in France, but the majority of our clients are outside France.

Supply chains remain wasteful and poorly resilient to tail risks (as demonstrated by present day situation). We’re talking about roughly 15% of the worldwide economy: supply chains are vast, and double-digit improvements remain possible. We want to put supply chains on AI autopilot, and deliver above-human performance while doing so.

Technologies used: C#, F#, Typescript, .NET Core, Linux

Find out more: https://www.lokad.com/software-engineering

vermorelon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2022)

Lokad is a bootstrapped profitable software company - 50 employees and growing fast - that specializes on predictive supply chain optimization. We are based in France, but the majority of our clients are outside France.

Supply chains remain wasteful and poorly resilient to tail risks (as demonstrated by present day situation). We’re talking about roughly 15% of the worldwide economy: supply chains are vast, and double-digit improvements remain possible. We want to put supply chains on AI autopilot, and deliver above-human performance while doing so.

Technologies used: C#, F#, Typescript, .NET Core, Linux

Find out more: https://www.lokad.com/software-engineering

vermorelon Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work

It might be too late, but for others, PeerTube, open source replacement of YouTube, is the solution. Longer discussion https://blog.vermorel.com/journal/2021/4/30/peertube-to-repl...

vermorelon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2021)

Lokad.com | Full stack, Backend, Frontend, Compiler | REMOTE or ONSITE | Paris, France | Full-time | https://www.lokad.com Lokad is a bootstrapped profitable software company - 50 employees and growing fast - that specializes on predictive supply chain optimization. We are based in France, but the majority of our clients are outside France.

Supply chains remain wasteful and poorly resilient to tail risks (as demonstrated by present day situation). We’re talking about roughly 15% of the worldwide economy: supply chains are vast, and double-digit improvements remain possible. We want to put supply chains on AI autopilot, and deliver above-human performance while doing so.

Technologies used: C#, F#, Typescript, .NET Core, Linux

Find out more: https://www.lokad.com/software-engineering

vermorelon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2021)

Lokad is a bootstrapped profitable software company - 50 employees and growing fast - that specializes on predictive supply chain optimization. We are based in France, but the majority of our clients are outside France.

Supply chains remain wasteful and poorly resilient to tail risks (as demonstrated by present day situation). We’re talking about roughly 15% of the worldwide economy: supply chains are vast, and double-digit improvements remain possible. We want to put supply chains on AI autopilot, and deliver above-human performance while doing so.

Technologies used: C#, F#, Typescript, .NET Core, Linux

Find out more: https://www.lokad.com/software-engineering

vermorelon SshRun, run .NET code remotely over SSH

Back story: Lokad has been a long time client of Microsoft Azure since 2009 even before the production release of (Windows) Azure. Unfortunately, the story of deploying over Azure has been a mess for more than a decade now. Five years ago, I was posting half a dozen of competing solutions to deploy code https://blog.vermorel.com/journal/2016/8/29/the-sad-state-of... Now, there would be a couple more entries. SshRun is our response to sanitize our own deployments, almost exclusively over Linux VMs nowadays.

vermorelon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2021)

Lokad is a bootstrapped profitable software company - 50 employees and growing fast - that specializes on predictive supply chain optimization. We are based in France, but the majority of our clients are outside France.

Supply chains remain wasteful and poorly resilient to tail risks (as demonstrated by present day situation). We’re talking about roughly 15% of the worldwide economy: supply chains are vast, and double-digit improvements remain possible. We want to put supply chains on AI autopilot, and deliver above-human performance while doing so.

Technologies used: C#, F#, Typescript, .NET Core, Linux

Find out more: https://www.lokad.com/software-engineering

I am the founder and CEO, you can contact me directly at j.vermorel@lokad.com.

vermorelon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2021)

Lokad.com | Full stack, Backend, Frontend, Compiler | REMOTE or ONSITE | Paris, France | Full-time | https://www.lokad.com Lokad is a bootstrapped profitable software company - 50 employees and growing fast - that specializes on predictive supply chain optimization. We are based in France, but the majority of our clients are outside France.

Supply chains remain wasteful and poorly resilient to tail risks (as demonstrated by present day situation). We’re talking about roughly 15% of the worldwide economy: supply chains are vast, and double-digit improvements remain possible. We want to put supply chains on AI autopilot, and deliver above-human performance while doing so.

Technologies used: C#, F#, Typescript, .NET Core, Linux

Find out more: https://www.lokad.com/software-engineering

I am the founder and CEO, you can contact me directly at j.vermorel@lokad.com.

vermorelon Ask HN: Optical Hardware Displacement Law?

Thanks! It helps a lot.

vermorelon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2021)

Lokad is a bootstrapped profitable software company - 50 employees and growing fast - that specializes on predictive supply chain optimization. We are based in France, but the majority of our clients are outside France.

Supply chains remain wasteful and poorly resilient to tail risks (as demonstrated by present day situation). We’re talking about roughly 15% of the worldwide economy: supply chains are vast, and double-digit improvements remain possible. We want to put supply chains on AI autopilot, and deliver above-human performance while doing so.

Technologies used: C#, F#, Typescript, .NET Core, Linux

Find out more: https://www.lokad.com/software-engineering

I am the founder and CEO, you can contact me directly at j.vermorel@lokad.com.

vermorelon C# 9 Pattern Matching

The 'Who is hiring' monthly posts on HN are a good source. There are a couple of companies hiring F# talent (shameless plug: Lokad does).

vermorelon Ask HN: List of failed Smart Fridge startups?

Awesome idea!