Hacker News: astrobiased

New comment by astrobiased in "Agents need control flow, not more prompts"

astrobiased — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:26:42 +0000

It's the right direction, but control flow introduces limitations within a system that is quite adaptable to dynamic situations. The more control flow you try to do, the more buggy edge cases that pop up if done poorly.

Still have yet to see a universal treatment that tackles this well.

New comment by astrobiased in "What is an elliptic curve? (2019)"

astrobiased — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 15:56:21 +0000

John is not only smart and knowledgeable, but an incredibly great person to know in general. I worked with him on a project briefly back in 2012 and he stood out as a champion for science, coding, and education. His posts clearly reflect him well.

New comment by astrobiased in "Toucan Wireless Split Keyboard with Touchpad"

astrobiased — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 04:42:08 +0000

Absolutely love these type of keyboards. But ... with how much security I work with for logins, etc, the fingerprint button on my Mac keyboards are amazing time savers that I don't want to live without. Has anyone found a workaround?

New comment by astrobiased in "19% of California houses are owned by investors"

astrobiased — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 22:08:44 +0000

What I find odd is that definition of "investor" is not that clear. When you click through the links you get blocked at the data provider with no context. There's also a link to another post by the same news provider. When clicking through reference to the data source, the link doesn't work.

A foundation model to predict and capture human cognition

astrobiased — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 15:53:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09215-4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44594707

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by astrobiased in "Define policy forbidding use of AI code generators"

astrobiased — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 01:13:47 +0000

It would need to be more than that. A prompt for one model can have different results vs another. Even when the model has different treatment for inference, eg quantization, the same prompt for the unquantized and quantized model could differ.

The Power of Bayesian A/B Testing

astrobiased — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 17:30:53 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/convoy-tech/the-power-of-bayesian-a-b-testing-f859d2219d5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16215356

Points: 10

# Comments: 0

The Postmodern Tailor: Size Personalization Beyond Labels

astrobiased — Thu, 03 Mar 2016 22:00:21 +0000

Article URL: http://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2016/03/03/size-personalization/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11220389

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

A Fontastic Voyage: Generative Fonts with Adversarial Networks

astrobiased — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 20:14:26 +0000

Article URL: http://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2016/02/02/a-fontastic-voyage

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11022153

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Making Causal Impact Analysis Easy

astrobiased — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 18:28:24 +0000

Article URL: http://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2016/01/13/market-watch/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10903296

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Chainer: Neural Networks in Python

astrobiased — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 18:35:06 +0000

Article URL: http://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2015/12/09/intro-to-chainer/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10712383

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Bear Your WOEs on CRAN – If Only Shakespeare Had Known R

astrobiased — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 20:51:34 +0000

Article URL: http://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2015/11/19/woes-on-cran/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10597552

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Strength in Numbers: Why Golden State Deserved to Win It All

astrobiased — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 18:51:25 +0000

Article URL: http://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2015/11/05/nba/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10515332

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

An Introduction to Linear Models for Data Science

astrobiased — Mon, 12 Oct 2015 22:19:24 +0000

Article URL: http://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2015/10/12/intro-linear-models/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10377253

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Rapid Development and Performance in Spark for Data Scientists

astrobiased — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 19:52:05 +0000

Article URL: http://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2015/10/06/spark-for-data-science/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10341824

Points: 19

# Comments: 6

Quantifying My Transition from Academia to Data Science

astrobiased — Tue, 22 Sep 2015 15:53:21 +0000

Article URL: http://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2015/09/22/quantifying-my-transition-from-academia-to-data-science/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10259378

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Deep Style: Inferring the Unknown to Predict the Future of Fashion

astrobiased — Thu, 17 Sep 2015 18:03:04 +0000

Article URL: http://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2015/09/17/deep-style/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10235032

Points: 11

# Comments: 0

Data Exploration with Weight of Evidence and Information Value in R

astrobiased — Thu, 13 Aug 2015 18:16:18 +0000

Article URL: http://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2015/08/13/weight-of-evidence/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10056154

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by astrobiased in "GravityLight: Generate light with gravity"

astrobiased — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 18:54:38 +0000

Regarding the energy of lifting a 10KG weight 2 KM high is not a 1:1 comparison with the tech here. It's using an LED which much more efficient than a Kerosene powered flame, since most of the energy in the flame is spent in infrared.

GAM: The Predictive Modeling Silver Bullet

astrobiased — Thu, 30 Jul 2015 17:23:27 +0000

Article URL: http://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2015/07/30/gam/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9976464

Points: 3

# Comments: 0