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supermdguy

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Github: https://github.com/supermdguy LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-dangerfield/

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A 4x4 MIMO SDR tile for spatial RF vision and beamforming

crowdsupply.com
12 points·by supermdguy·19 hours ago·3 comments

Distributism

en.wikipedia.org
3 points·by supermdguy·12 days ago·1 comments

Why LLMs still lack taste

beyondtheprior.com
10 points·by supermdguy·last month·5 comments

Ask.com has closed

ask.com
477 points·by supermdguy·2 months ago·240 comments

The Hypercurious Mind

aeon.co
3 points·by supermdguy·3 months ago·1 comments

You can't imitation-learn how to continual-learn

lesswrong.com
11 points·by supermdguy·3 months ago·0 comments

UK startup ignites plasma inside nuclear fusion rocket

euronews.com
3 points·by supermdguy·4 months ago·0 comments

Dionne Quintuplets

en.wikipedia.org
1 points·by supermdguy·4 months ago·0 comments

Micromort

en.wikipedia.org
1 points·by supermdguy·8 months ago·2 comments

First In-Human Trial of CRISPR Shown to Safely Lower Cholesterol

newsroom.clevelandclinic.org
3 points·by supermdguy·8 months ago·0 comments

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1 points·by supermdguy·9 months ago·0 comments

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supermdguy
·9 days ago·discuss
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supermdguy
·15 days ago·discuss
> We're also launching GPT‑5.6 Sol on Cerebras at up to 750 tokens per second in July, bringing frontier intelligence to customers at unprecedented speed.

This is really exciting. I work on voice AI, and we're still using 4.1/4.1 mini since none of the frontier models come close on latency. I'm excited to be able to have more interactive experiences, I think it'll unlock new ways of working with these models.
supermdguy
·21 days ago·discuss
Agreed, there were also a few where I deduced the correct definition by comparing the options.
supermdguy
·22 days ago·discuss
One trick I’ve used is creating a folder and then adding a .gitignore inside it with *. Then nothing in that folder gets tracked, without needing to add anything to the public gitignore. Didn’t know about .git/config though!
supermdguy
·28 days ago·discuss
I agree that current memory systems are pretty bad, and I think that’s because memory is a prompted behavior instead of a learned one. In theory, if memory was an emergent behavior instead of a prompted one, it would be a lot better.

I think you’re right that changing its own harness would be bad and skew towards prompt engineering instead of learned behavior. So maybe instead it could start with a harness with memory CRUD tools and then learn how to most effectively use them.
supermdguy
·last month·discuss
I think good taste is objective to an extent, especially given a particular production context.
supermdguy
·last month·discuss
Someone posted a tool that does this recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47140042
supermdguy
·last month·discuss
There was a show HN for something similar a couple months ago[0]. Looks like they shut it down. Probably too difficult/low-margin to run as a business, but I think the co-op model you mentioned has potential.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47639779
supermdguy
·last month·discuss
It's interesting because their last model series (Phi) was based around the thesis that high-quality synthetic data is better than a large pre-training corpus.
supermdguy
·2 months ago·discuss
I think the conduit exception still applies for analog faxes. Which makes no sense, since tapping a fax line is probably way easier than compromising a data center.
supermdguy
·2 months ago·discuss
Apparently from a third party seller in New York....and tastes really bad. I was surprised steak could be safely mailed in such normal looking packaging!

https://www.delish.com/food/a70539084/temu-meat-review/
supermdguy
·2 months ago·discuss
Interesting to see this after the recent post about Chrome’s on-device model using up 4gb of storage, which frustrated a lot of people [1].

I agree local models are great, and it’s cool that Apple has models built in now. But I feel like it basically has to be an OS level feature or users are going to get upset. I’d certainly rather have a small utility call out to OpenAI than download its own model.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019219
supermdguy
·2 months ago·discuss
Better auth is great! I love how it's way more hackable than using a something like Clerk. We were able to add a plugin to allow auth via iframe postMessage (embedded in a CRM) and everything worked seamlessly.
supermdguy
·2 months ago·discuss
I've used it off and on over the last month or so. For more complicated tasks (30+ minutes) it works well, and seems to replace a lot of prompting that I'd normally need to do (e.g. asking questions about requirements, creating specs and implementation plans, staying on task). For simple tasks, it tries to do too much and gets in the way.
supermdguy
·2 months ago·discuss
There’s a really good analysis here: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/LBC2TnHK8cZAimdWF/will-jesus...

> The Yes people are betting that, later this year, their counterparties (the No betters) will want cash (to bet on other markets), and so will sell out of their No positions at a higher price.
supermdguy
·3 months ago·discuss
Overall, I'm really impressed by what you accomplished! I'm not a researcher, so not sure if this is that helpful, but here are some thoughts:

- I wonder if the "move" action is difficult for the model to learn to use well. The model sees token location as positional encodings in the embedding, not sparse character offsets. Would be interesting to see something more like "jump to next/previous [token or set of tokens]". Or maybe a find/replace like most coding harness edit tools use?

- I'd move the exact training data generation details to an appendix. Could be summarized to improve the flow of the paper.
supermdguy
·3 months ago·discuss
Cool concept! I think the hardest part will be getting people in the target audience to use it. A lot of indie hackers make software for other indie hackers, but that isn't true of most other verticals. And honestly building software for indie hackers feels like a losing battle. Any ideas of how to incentivize none-builders to rank projects?
supermdguy
·3 months ago·discuss
From the most recent comment, looks like this is a bug, triggered by the system inadvertently activating an internal release tool [0]. Still a pretty wild bug, but not as dramatic as the title suggests. Which is kind of unfortunate honestly, the chaos of every gas town instance automatically contributing to itself would be beautiful to see.

- https://github.com/gastownhall/gastown/blob/main/internal/fo...
supermdguy
·3 months ago·discuss
Next step is to build an analog scientific calculator with only EML gates
supermdguy
·3 months ago·discuss
Bizarre reading the thread, it feels like their Claude responding to the other posters’ Claudes