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New comment by zarkenfrood in "Show HN: I built an AI that turns GitHub codebases into easy tutorials"

zarkenfrood — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 04:29:53 +0000

Really nice work and thank you for sharing. These are great demonstrations of the value of LLMs which help to go against the negative view on the impacts to junior engineers. This helps bridge the gap of most projects lacking updated documentation.

New comment by zarkenfrood in "DeepSeek releases Janus Pro, a text-to-image generator [pdf]"

zarkenfrood — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 04:09:40 +0000

It's essentially the same tactic as META have employed and one of the key pillars of a free market. They also are making important contributions to efficiency sure to their hardware limitations which hopefully has a strong impact on reducing the long term power consumption of these models

New comment by zarkenfrood in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

zarkenfrood — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 10:54:58 +0000

Accomplished politician wouldnt be a compliment though would it. One of the recent issues is bureaucratic bloat caused by career politicians. In that sense she would be less appealing.

New comment by zarkenfrood in "Exploiting CI / CD Pipelines for fun and profit"

zarkenfrood — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 07:30:45 +0000

It was deployed using a Bitbucket pipeline which does have a secret scanner available. However the scanner would need to be manually configured to be fully effective.

New comment by zarkenfrood in "Llama 3.1 in C"

zarkenfrood — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 10:05:37 +0000

It's really interesting and a great piece of work that you have put in what looks like a huge amount of effort. You should definitely be proud of this.

New comment by zarkenfrood in "GPT in 500 Lines of SQL"

zarkenfrood — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 06:50:01 +0000

Thanks, this is a fantastic article and it would be a shame to be lost.

New comment by zarkenfrood in "Fewer people are buying electric cars in the US"

zarkenfrood — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 08:26:00 +0000

Netherlands and mainland Europe is hardly indicative of the types of road trips you would experience in Africa, Americas, Australia

New comment by zarkenfrood in "Fewer people are buying electric cars in the US"

zarkenfrood — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 08:24:05 +0000

This is purely your behaviour though, the more general case is that most people dont have to micromanage their ICE vehicles or be concerned about range. Especially in the case where they are doing extended driving trips where even fuel can be scarce jerry cans are easy enough to pack.

New comment by zarkenfrood in "Show HN: Made a forum for depressed founders to confide"

zarkenfrood — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 07:57:16 +0000

This is good. As others mentioned replies would definitely help but even as it is it helps people see that others have gone/ are going through similar situations. Often knowing you aren't alone can help greatly.

New comment by zarkenfrood in "Sutskever: OpenAI board doing its mission to build AGI that benefits all"

zarkenfrood — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 07:11:16 +0000

one thing that has apparent through this saga is how many people think Sam was a driving force behind the development and engineering. His departure may impact capital raising but not model development. Ilya is the driving force there and his commitment to the original idea l may bring OpenAI closer to the original investors aims.

New comment by zarkenfrood in "Seeing like a bank"

zarkenfrood — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 09:31:13 +0000

>I personally think there is a reasonable model of the world where customers explicitly pay a hundred dollar fee to have a highest-tier escalation to the office of the CEO/equivalent troubleshooting team and have them take a look at your case, but this is a model that has not yet been developed or in wide use anywhere.

This already exists in a sense. High net worth clients/well established business clients with long term relationships do get priority remediation and troubleshooting. The cost is just much higher than $100.

New comment by zarkenfrood in "Julia and Mojo Mandelbrot Benchmark"

zarkenfrood — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 09:15:59 +0000

I think in the long run the real difference will be if mojo gets accepted into industry usage given it initially looks like it is closer to python. Julia has struggled getting wider industry adoption and mojo is currently selling itself as minimal uplift from existing python which will help the sell in industry.

New comment by zarkenfrood in "JDF.jl – Julia DataFrames serialization format"

zarkenfrood — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 08:53:55 +0000

Looks interesting and the syntax appears to be very similar to R data.table. It will be interesting to keep an eye on once it gets to v1.0.

New comment by zarkenfrood in "Google I/O and the Coming AI Battles"

zarkenfrood — Mon, 15 May 2023 12:59:31 +0000

Google are taking the time to make sure that there is not much that comes back. With being the incumbent leader comes the greater risks of regulatory problems an reputational damage. OpenAI get something wrong is annoying Google do it and it damages the business much more significantly. They will attract regulator scrutiny far harder than other operators will.