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New comment by koryk in "iTerm2 and AI Hype Overload"

koryk — Tue, 21 May 2024 19:25:14 +0000

https://github.com/koryk/reverse-ai-search

I have been working on something like this that fits better into my existing bash/zsh workflow. So I landed on using ollama and a small widget that tries to mirror the same behavior of ctrl+r aka reverse-i-search. Barely functional, but I have found value from it.

New comment by koryk in "Development Notes from xkcd's "Machine""

koryk — Thu, 09 May 2024 00:49:25 +0000

Thanks Max, this was a great read! Awesome work and write up. Some good insights about player focused game development too.

New comment by koryk in "IBM Granite: A Family of Open Foundation Models for Code Intelligence"

koryk — Wed, 08 May 2024 00:01:02 +0000

I am seeing at least one granite model on ollama, wonder when they will all show up!

New comment by koryk in "Neal Stephenson was prescient about our AI age"

koryk — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 14:23:38 +0000

Gen AI and its potential impact has been covered by Stephenson multiple times.

I wrote a short post on some of the references in Anathem.

It's also a large plot point in Fall or Dodge in Hell. One of the characters open sources some generative ai to fill the internet with slightly untrue spam.

https://medium.com/@k0ryk/neal-stephensons-llm-predictions-7...

Everyone's getting ghosted, the new normal in tech recruiting

koryk — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 16:11:54 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@k0ryk/everyones-getting-ghosted-dbf0fbaf161

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38806473

Points: 153

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New comment by koryk in "Don’t mess with a genius (2010)"

koryk — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 21:43:53 +0000

Neal Stephenson already wrote a few books about it

New comment by koryk in "[Broken - Undeployed] Show HN: AI Judges Your Spotify"

koryk — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 11:40:03 +0000

I think it may have a bug and is reverting to default responses. Got the same thing.

New comment by koryk in "I won't deliberately use AI for programming"

koryk — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 13:44:56 +0000

I agree with the author. The idea of "collateral knowledge" or "chain of learning" is definitely important for personal understanding and learning. However, I think depending on the person, ChatGPT actually helps the chain of learning rather than hinders.

New comment by koryk in "2009scape"

koryk — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 22:53:26 +0000

I would love if someone forks this and turns it into an AI competition. Like that social network only for bots, this would be a runescape server only for bots.

New comment by koryk in "Show HN: ChainForge, a visual tool for prompt engineering and LLM evaluation"

koryk — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 11:24:19 +0000

I meant for completion, chat and embedding. https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/docs/generative-ai/chat/t... . Some examples here.

Vertex AI has the same API as PaLM as far as I know. However, the authorization is through Google Cloud. So I use it like any other GCP API.

I love the idea of adding fine tuning as a node though. Here is the API for creating a model tuning job - https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/docs/generative-ai/models...

I wish I could use ChainForge nodes in Node Red.

New comment by koryk in "Show HN: ChainForge, a visual tool for prompt engineering and LLM evaluation"

koryk — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 19:50:24 +0000

I like it! Any plans to add Google Vertex AI support?

New comment by koryk in "The Dome: A simple violation of determinism in Newtonian mechanics (2005)"

koryk — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 16:12:08 +0000

I am not a physicist, but the "no probabilities" problem could just be solved with a constant offset right? Or just say that whichever direction the marble rolls is the zero degree mark.

I don't see how "no cause" problem is fully true either. The system has potential energy due to the marble being places at the top of the dome, so that was the cause.

New comment by koryk in "We're not Platonists, we've just learned the bitter lesson"

koryk — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 18:55:03 +0000

I love this dichotomy, formalists vs. nominalists. As the author argues, it's not very useful with respect to defining intelligence and LLMs.

It is however a wonderful world building detail in Anathem by Neal Stephenson. Their world history revolves around two ideologies: the syntactics and the semantics. Nominalists and Formalists. I find his predictions about a society built around this duality entertaining.

New comment by koryk in "Biasing the quantum vacuum to control macroscopic probability distributions"

koryk — Sun, 23 Jul 2023 18:15:04 +0000

I use https://qrng.anu.edu.au/ as a quantum RNG sometimes to make decisions. If my choices are deterministic and not influenced by quantum randomness, then my choices are deterministic. Even if Everett's interpretation is true, my multiverse selves are doing the same things that I am doing.

If I use a quantum RNG to make decisions I will spice up my life in alternate realities. Mexican food or Vietnamese tonight? Use the quantum RNG to decide and get both across the multiverse.

New comment by koryk in "The PoWeR technique: a strategic approach to self-discipline"

koryk — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 23:12:57 +0000

I would recommend Walter Mischel's 2014 book "The Marshmallow Test." He argues that the power of the marshmallow test is not in demonstrating that some children innately have more self-control than others, but in revealing how this skill can be cultivated and improved with practice and the right strategies.

I think the critiques are completely valid, Mischel did not account for many variables like socioeconomic status, family environment, etc. However, I do not believe it necessarily disproves his conclusion of being able to cultivate skills like self-control.

New comment by koryk in "Personal relations as a manager"

koryk — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 01:35:22 +0000

Some people once tried to convince me "the harder the truth to tell, the truer the friend that tells it." Like you say, in some cases this may be true.

I have personally learned that acceptance of a harder truth is a privilege that has to be earned. I think it's more about trust than friendship, at least in the management context.

New comment by koryk in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

koryk — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 19:36:57 +0000

I didn't consider many options to be honest. Medium was just an easy way to start writing. I am planning on moving to a platform where I have more control (was thinking self-hosted static html) eventually. Do you have a favorite alternative?

New comment by koryk in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

koryk — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 17:46:25 +0000

I just started doing one article per week challenge in late may. I have been keeping up with it, and am proud of some of my work. https://medium.com/@k0ryk

topics are pretty random, but software engineering adjacent: rtl sdr, home automation, air quality monitoring, nature.

Here is my most recent, a response to a post on here from last week about the hidden cost of air quality monitors: https://medium.com/@k0ryk/air-quality-monitoring-hidden-cost...

New comment by koryk in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)"

koryk — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 18:38:11 +0000

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New comment by koryk in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2016)"

koryk — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 18:37:43 +0000

yes, clicked the wrong thread - oops, Thanks :-)