Hacker News: messel

New comment by messel in "A Hacker's Guide to Machine Learning: MLUtils"

messel — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 17:11:55 +0000

Long time ycombinator news member sharing my latest book. It's designed for devs who can hit the ground running with python, and it's what I wished I had back in 2017 when I started building ML applications professionally for clients and startups. The book source code is OS and available here https://github.com/victusfate/HackersGuideToMachineLearningS...

ps I used to share blog posts here 14 years back from victusspiritus

A Hacker's Guide to Machine Learning: MLUtils

messel — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 17:11:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Guide-Machine-Learning/dp/B0C6421GPT

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39682072

Points: 1

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New comment by messel in "A Hacker's Guide to Machine Learning"

messel — Wed, 17 May 2023 20:00:10 +0000

Greetings! Long time ycombinator news member sharing my latest book. It's designed for devs who can hit the ground running with python, and it's what I wished I had back in 2017 when I started building ML applications professionally for clients and startups.

I leveraged chatGPT as an assistant for descriptions and ideas about ML models. The book source code is open source and available here https://github.com/victusfate/HackersGuideToMachineLearningS...

A Hacker's Guide to Machine Learning

messel — Wed, 17 May 2023 20:00:10 +0000

Article URL: https://812142374009.gumroad.com/l/xlhtbn

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35980478

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by messel in "Show HN: Tripnotes.ai: Intelligent Travel Planner"

messel — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 17:37:19 +0000

Yeah it's updated regularly with third party data + fresh crawlers. We do miss closures/relocations sometimes. We also sometimes mix up the content for place descriptions on multipage pages (saw that recently with a friends test recommendation for Peking duck, at a place that didn't carry it).

New comment by messel in "GitHub Copilot X – Sign up for technical preview"

messel — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 19:32:21 +0000

I've got LLM fatigue

New comment by messel in "GPT-4"

messel — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 09:34:50 +0000

AP English - the last hold out for human intelligence

New comment by messel in "Ask HN: Anybody working on personal data plumbing?"

messel — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 16:04:41 +0000

Bonus points if you tie this to a cryptocurrency that is "staked" by data owners (you and I). Sounds like a reasonable core idea to build on, good luck!

We do a ton of data plumbing at my current startup https://welco.me/ . Ps we launched our 2.0 app today

New comment by messel in "Show HN: Welcome Makes Travel Easier"

messel — Tue, 11 Jun 2019 14:29:39 +0000

Welcome's a travel app (iOS currently) which helps navigate new destinations on the fly. You can leave tips, ask your friends for tips, skip boring stuff, or lock in your favorites to have Welcome sweat the planning while you wander and enjoy. If you go off plan, no biggie. The app adjusts to wherever you are and picks out the best venues.

Here's a writeup on Techcrunch with more details https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/11/welcome-launch/

Show HN: Welcome Makes Travel Easier

messel — Tue, 11 Jun 2019 14:24:54 +0000

Article URL: https://welco.me/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20155668

Points: 5

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New comment by messel in "Ask HN: What to do after $8M (all cash, post tax) exit?"

messel — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 14:52:51 +0000

I'd go with 1 brokerage, Index fund most of it, keep 20% cash for misc investments (ethereum). Hire a trustworthy accountant.

It's only money. Now you have some, congratulations. Get back to focusing on the things that matter!

New comment by messel in "Lambda School Announces $14M Series A Led by GV"

messel — Tue, 09 Oct 2018 11:40:14 +0000

I like to think of what you folks are doing as the evolution of universities which often lead to inverted outcomes (massive debt, no work).

How can I best get a friendly dev involved (he has shipped a c# VR game and worked a bunch of custom js scripts)?

New comment by messel in "Life is Short (2016)"

messel — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 08:41:29 +0000

Just thinking about how many simultaneous breakthroughs occur, and expertise in so many areas is mind boggling. In contrast there are slower periods/cultures too, ie hunter gatherer societies.

You could spend one life to become an expert doctor only to have all that knowledge made obsolete by time.

New comment by messel in "Studying how the brain relinquishes childhood memories"

messel — Mon, 12 Mar 2018 07:46:08 +0000

I believe I remember potty training but my parents said I learned at 13 months. I'm likely misremembering using a tiny plastic toilet in the bathroom from that age to 2-3.

I can almost certainly remember the daunting climb onto a full sized toilet between age 3-4.

New comment by messel in "Show HN: Graphite – A decentralized and encrypted Google Docs alternative"

messel — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 10:40:20 +0000

Brilliant. Physical ownership is still a thing.

New comment by messel in "I Was a Bank Robber Until I Read Kant"

messel — Sat, 20 Jan 2018 08:39:00 +0000

I last read Kant in an intro to philosophy course in 1991, but a quick search shows Prolegomena as a good intro. https://www.amazon.com/Prolegomena-Future-Metaphysics-Immanu...

New comment by messel in "Fifty Years of Shannon Theory (1998) [pdf]"

messel — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 12:55:01 +0000

Focused on Information Theory in grad school at Stony Brook in 1996/97, and enjoyed Nam Phamdo's courses. Sadly after reading 8-9 pages I feel like much of this review is over my head now. The words make sense but the concepts are pretty dense.

I do remember the algorithms (Huffman coding), but the high level concepts are harder to remember - information being directly correlated to randomness (entropy). Information is the unknown (random?) message, that sounds more like noise. Channel capacity makes sense: based on noise there's an upper limit on how fast you can communicate bits and groups of bits.

New comment by messel in "Show HN: Tool for visualizing GitHub profiles"

messel — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 13:03:54 +0000

When I review GitHub usage like this, I can't help but feel the statistics don't represent which language I can best express my ideas with, and which are my most important projects (ie many work repos have very few stars)

New comment by messel in "The Uncanny Resurrection of Dungeons and Dragons"

messel — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 09:00:15 +0000

I'll give these a look, I also highly recommend Amber diceless (based on Zelazney's books)

New comment by messel in "The Myth of a Superhuman AI"

messel — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 09:07:50 +0000

Squirrel super memory: it's a combination of scent and memory http://jacobs.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Animal...

Possibly enhanced by smelling their own saliva? Just guessing