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blog.tomjennings.technology 3y ago

Old stuff – the viability, quality and affordability of 10 year old digital tech

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medium.com 6y ago

How to teach AI to summarise news articles; a new dataset for auto summarisation

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www.theguardian.com 10y ago

Growing old the Silicon Valley way is a prescription for loneliness

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Show HN: I built a synth for my daughter 8 months ago

Nah, it just came out like that (i printed it :D)

We experimented with ironing, but you can't see it in those views. The A1 is a pretty good printer OOTB. There were a few iterations on the case design though to optimise the edges.

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A simple guide to fine-tuning Llama 2 3 years ago

large corporates, financial services. Use cases were needle-in-a-haystack style searching, internal comms, following research topics over time, external newsletters, that kinda stuff. It wasn't particularly high margin but it was a fun business.

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A simple guide to fine-tuning Llama 2 3 years ago

Sure. I worked at a company that produced tens of thousands of human written summaries of news data a year. This was costly and slow but our clients really valued them. Back in 2019 we fine tuned an LLM to help, we put a lot of effort into creating a human-in-the-loop experience, highlighting parts of speech that were commonly hallucinated and ensuring that we were allowing humans to focus on things that humans are good at.

We also released some of the data as a free dataset with a commercial option for all of it. This was more successful than I thought it would be and was hoovered up by the kind of people that buy these datasets.

It will have been surpassed by recent developments now but it was an incredibly enjoyable project.

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Estes Rockets Model Scale 1:100 Replica of SpaceX Falcon 9 3 years ago

if hypergols are allowable then some existing RCS thrusters would fit on a model rocket. Or rocketlab's curie is pretty small IIRC.

but...liquid propellents are either pretty dangerous (hydrazine et al), or impossible for an amateur to work with (cryo requirements, pressures required, complex starting sequence etc).

The plumbing, extra parts, materials required, tolerances mean that what you might consider as a "classic" liquid design ends up being pretty heavy at a small scale, so you have to build a bigger engine to cope with the extra weight. So you would end up with an engine not really that analogous to what you would consider "classic" liquid designs (gas generators/tap-offs/staged combustions).

However.... Frank Malina and Jack Parsons essentially did what you're proposing in the 1930s without any new fangled 3d printing technology, so it's possible! Just don't end up like Jack Parsons.

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Copilot Internals 4 years ago

is that not the difference in ease of understanding of answering an explicit question vs guessing at implicit intent?

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Show HN: Get answers for shell commands from GPT3 from your terminal 4 years ago

the example question is also part of the prompt

'Correctly answer the asked question. Return \'Sorry, Can\'t answer that.\' if the question isn\'t related to technology.\n\nQ - get into a docker container.\nA - `docker exec -it mongodb`\n\nQ - Check what\'s listening on a port.\nA - `lsof -i tcp:4000`\n\nQ - How to ssh into a server with a specific file.\nA - `ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa user@127.0.0.1`\n\nQ - How to set relative line numbers in vim.\nA - `:set relativenumber`\n\nQ - How to create alias?\nA - `alias my_command="my_real_command"`\n\nQ - Tail docker logs.\nA - `docker logs -f mongodb`\n\nQ - Forward port in kubectl.\nA - `kubectl port-forward <pod_name> 8080:3000`\n\nQ - Check if a port is accessible.\nA - `nc -vz host port`\n\nQ - Reverse SSH Tunnel Syntax.\nA - `ssh -R <remote_port>:<local_host>:<local_port> <user>@<remote_host>`\n\nQ - Kill a process running on port 3000.\nA - `lsof -ti tcp:3000 | xargs kill`\n\nQ - Backup database from a mongodb container.\nA - `docker exec -it mongodb bash -c "mongoexport --db mongodb --collection collections --outdir backup"`\n\nQ - SSH Tunnel Remote Host port into a local port.\nA - `ssh -L <local_port>:<remote_host>:<remote_port> <user>@<remote_host>`\n\nQ - Copy local file to S3.\nA - `aws s3 cp <local_file> s3://<bucket_name>/<remote_file>`\n\nQ - Copy S3 file to local.\nA - `aws s3 cp s3://<bucket_name>/<remote_file> <local_file>`\n\nQ - Recursively remove a folder.\nA - `rm -rf <folder_name>`\n\nQ - Copy a file from local to ssh server.\nA - ` scp /path/to/file user@server:/path/to/destination`\n\nQ - Curl syntax with port.\nA - `curl http://localhost:3000`\n\nQ - Download a file from a URL with curl.\nA - `curl -o <file_name> <URL>`\n\nQ - Git commit with message.\nA - `git commit -m "my commit message"`\n\nQ - Give a user sudo permissions.\nA - `sudo usermod -aG sudo <user>`\n\nQ - Check what\'s running on a port?\nA - `lsof -i tcp:<port>`\n\nQ - View last 5 files from history\nA - `history | tail -5`\n\nQ - When was China founded?\nA - Sorry, Can\'t answer that.\n\nQ - Pass auth header with curl\nA - `curl -H "Authorization: Bearer <token>" <URL>`\n\nQ - Filter docker container with labels\nA - `docker ps --filter "label=<KEY>"`\n\nQ - When was Abraham Lincon born?\nA - Sorry, Can\'t answer that.\n\nQ - Get into a running kubernetes pod\nA - `kubectl exec -it <pod_name> bash`\n\nQ - Capital city of Ukrain?\nA - Sorry, Can\'t answer that.\n\nQ - ';

so you would expect it to answer it "correctly"

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Vertical Flutes 4 years ago

they aren't loud enough

you clearly have not heard my child playing the recorder.

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What I don’t like about working at a remote job 4 years ago

Is it wrong that I value both of those things?

I like going in once or twice a week, catching up with my team, writing stuff on a whiteboard, having in person 1:1s, attending an all hands in person, getting a free snack from the kitchen, having a beer after work at the pub.

I also like making my own breakfast, lunch and dinner, not spending over 50 quid travelling to the office, booking out an afternoon to write something, the ability to set my own schedule, having my own screen and desk, going for a quick walk in garden, and kissing my daughter goodnight.

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Show HN: If VS Code had a data-centric IDE sibling, what would that look like? 4 years ago

This actually seems like a major leap forward in a really underloved space. Congratulations on your release.

If anyone is remotely interested in data-labelling/exploration, I would definitely recommend checking this out, it has some really exciting features, for example, built-in zero shot classification for heuristics/baselines: https://docs.kern.ai/docs/building-zero-shot-classifiers

I'm also really impressed with the architecture! Very neat.

Not affiliated with the project, just very pleased to see something like this as an open source release.

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The bottom is dropping out of Netflix 4 years ago

how much of a self-fulfilling prophecy do you think all this news about subscribers dropping off is for Netflix? I feel there a danger that, much like when people join something because in part other people were joining it (a big factor in me joining in 2011), it becomes something people are doing because they've heard others are; I know I'm definitely consciously evaluating how much I watch it now, but perhaps I'm just a sheep.

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