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New comment by jameslevy in "Do AI detectors work? Students face false cheating accusations"

jameslevy — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 18:49:56 +0000

The only longterm solution that makes sense is to allow students to use AI tools and to require a log provided by the AI tool to be provided. Adjust the assignment accordingly and use custom system prompts for the AI tools so that the students are both learning about the underlying subject and also learning how to effectively use AI tools.

New comment by jameslevy in "Drasi: Microsoft's open source data processing platform for event-driven systems"

jameslevy — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 18:42:36 +0000

Does it require Azure to work? Or could the Azure steps be relatively easily be swapped out for AWS/GCP/etc?

New comment by jameslevy in "Squiggle: One line code change to add insights to the OpenAI Realtime API"

jameslevy — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 19:04:31 +0000

Squiggle is an extension of the OpenAI Realtime API that generates insights (summarization, highlights, structured data, and content flags) in realtime as the conversation occurs. You can use Squiggle with a one line code change, no account setup needed.

The website has a link to a simple demo and an embedded video of the demo in action.

I originally built this for something I'm working on, but figured I should make it available as an independent service that anyone can use.

The insight-generation features do incur additional costs utilizing the OpenAI API, with the same OpenAI API key you are using for the Realtime API, and you can configure how often the insights are generated and thus how many extra API calls are being made.

Any feedback is very appreciated!

Squiggle: One line code change to add insights to the OpenAI Realtime API

jameslevy — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 19:04:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.squiggle.ai/introduction

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41802240

Points: 7

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New comment by jameslevy in "Why you should not apply to YC"

jameslevy — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 20:22:25 +0000

First money in at a 40M valuation? Assuming this is pre-seed, that seems like the investor is taking on a lot of risk based on the distribution of outcomes.

New comment by jameslevy in "Tesla recalls all cybertrucks for faulty accelerator pedals"

jameslevy — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 20:11:29 +0000

"Show me the incentive, I'll show you the outcome". I do not know anything of the culture of Tesla and am not commenting on it specifically, and that quote could apply just as much to a company like Boeing. But at companies working on safety-critical products, the problems usually arise from employees acting in their own self interest to do what will get them rewarded for shipping on time, or to avoid punishment for causing delays.

New comment by jameslevy in "Summers: Inflation Reached 18% in 2022 Using the Government's Previous Formula"

jameslevy — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 01:05:10 +0000

Goodhart's law applies to how inflation measures have ceased to be an accurate measure: "when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

New comment by jameslevy in "Yes, social media is a cause of the epidemic of teenage mental illness"

jameslevy — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 03:47:25 +0000

It's surprising how many parents I know who are in denial about this. It must be because they themselves are constantly using social media and don't want to accept what it is doing to their own mental health.

New comment by jameslevy in "The lifecycle of a code AI completion"

jameslevy — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 22:50:55 +0000

These types of tools should exclude all files and directories in the .gitignore as standard operating procedure, unless those files are specifically included. Not just because of secrets, but also because these files are not considered to be part of the repository source code and it would be unusual to need to access them for most tasks.

New comment by jameslevy in "The curious side effects of medical transparency"

jameslevy — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 23:26:32 +0000

It's amazing to me how often Goodhart's Law can be observed in the wild, and I've come to believe it is an important enough concept that it should probably be something (along with logical fallacies and other concepts related to critical thinking) that should be prioritized above a lot of other things taught in high schools.

New comment by jameslevy in "U.S. regulator set to take over First Republic"

jameslevy — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 05:47:39 +0000

What about the MMT concept of just taxing the rich and "burning" their funds as a targeted method of reducing the money supply?

New comment by jameslevy in "Launch Lamini: The LLM Engine for Rapidly Customizing Models as Good as ChatGPT"

jameslevy — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 20:23:56 +0000

Perhaps prompting the model to first describe its approach to answering the question. This type of chain-of-thought technique can yield better results.

New comment by jameslevy in "OpenAI has applied for “GPT” trademark with USPTO"

jameslevy — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 20:49:19 +0000

Hopefully they will publicly commit to only using this trademark defensively if granted. In other words, to give OpenAI the benefit of the doubt here, they may just want to prevent someone else from trademarking "GPT" and taking legal action against them.

New comment by jameslevy in "Nikola: How to Parlay an Ocean of Lies into a Partnership with GM"

jameslevy — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 22:48:48 +0000

At least he's talking about the infotainment system, and not an internal system or something where there's no conceivable use for HTML/JS.

New comment by jameslevy in "Remote work is reshaping San Francisco, as tech workers flee and rents fall"

jameslevy — Sun, 16 Aug 2020 22:49:55 +0000

And cash that disappears from your bank account? Great for going long in the stock market.

New comment by jameslevy in "Gold price rises above $2k for first time"

jameslevy — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 23:27:27 +0000

The thing that really gets me is that even once you hear these conversations, the price might 2x or 3x from there. I felt this way about Bitcoin by the summer of 2017 but obviously it still had some room to run.

New comment by jameslevy in "‘Mulan’ is coming to Disney+ on September 4, for an additional price of $29.99"

jameslevy — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 23:50:08 +0000

These streaming services need some way to identify the number of viewers. I'm sure there'll always be some ways around this (there already is via piracy), but they'd want something better than just asking you how many people are watching and charging $10 per person.

I can't think of any ways that aren't big problems from a basic privacy perspective such as a camera in your TV watching you.

New comment by jameslevy in "Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0"

jameslevy — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 02:32:03 +0000

As us engineers like to say, the goal is to automate ourselves out of a job.

New comment by jameslevy in "GitHub abandons 'master' and 'slave' terms to avoid row"

jameslevy — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 19:04:46 +0000

"Master" is similar to the master copy of a work. It is used as a reference to base branches from.

New comment by jameslevy in "GitHub abandons 'master' and 'slave' terms to avoid row"

jameslevy — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 18:56:48 +0000

"Slave" is not a term used by Git or Github, and its use of "master" is not related to the vocabulary of "master/slave". Not the first to say this, but the media seems to be getting this all wrong.