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bing.com• Oct 18, 2023• 1 min read

Quantum computers in 2023: how they work, what they do, and where they’re headingIn June, an IBM computing executive claimed quantum computers were entering the “utility” phase, in which high-tech experimental devices become useful. In September, Australia’s Chief Scientist Cathy ...

news.ycombinator.com• Sep 24, 2023• 1 min read

Ask HN: How do you adapt after early retirement?I wonder how many people here have retired early and have found it hard to relate people who are still working?I have had three different jobs since the start of COVID-19 due to the ebbs and flows of the tech industry and economy. The transition to working remotely was also difficult for me, and I wanted to return to the office. That sometimes requires moving, and this is challenging when both spouses are working.Around 18 months ago my spouse and I agreed that we would experiment with her retiring. Her new "job" would be taking a larger proportion of the household chores, and helping me with administrative chores I used to do alone like budgeting, financial planning, house repairs. We don't have children so she has time to pursue her hobbies nearly full time.In some ways this has been great. She regularly says she feels lucky to have the opportunity to do this. She has more time and mental resources to face her chronic health conditions and making progress that seemed impossible befor

breathic.com• Sep 20, 2023• 1 min read

Show HN: Breathwork App for Endurance AthletesHi,I had a problem of how to get into a proper shape again after quitting smoking after 17 years, where lungs of mine were the main bottleneck. I was therefore inclined to find a solution that would help me to systematically improve my breathing pace, but since I couldn't find anything related to it, I therefore decided to solve it myself. Being a designer while also having skills of a full-stack developer, I decided to learn Swift and use Apple Watch to design one.In essence, the app is rather similar to how Strava works on Apple Watch: you start your workout session, go through with it, and then have it saved for further analysis. The real difference is that you also set your breathing pace, which will translate your heart rate to breath rate and give relevant haptic cues when to breath in and out.Since I had to build a sampler to WatchOS, I also experimented with trying the app to generate background music that would be synced to both heart and breathing rates. After scraping on dom

github.com• Sep 9, 2023• 1 min read

Show HN: WhatsApp-Llama: A clone of yourself from your WhatsApp conversationsHello HN!I've been thinking about the idea of a LLM thats a clone of me - instead of generating replies to be a helpful assistant, it generates replies that are exactly like mine. The concept's appeared in fiction numerous times (the talking paintings in Harry Potter that mimic the person painted, the clones in The Prestige), and I think with LLMs, there might actually be a possibility of us doing something like this!I've just released a fork of the facebookresearch/llama-recipes which allows you to fine-tune a Llama model on your personal WhatsApp conversations. This adaptation can train the model (using QLoRA) to respond in a way that's eerily similar to your own texting style.What I've figured out so far:Quick Learning: The model quickly adapts to personal nuances, emoji usage, and phrases that you use. I've trained just 1 epoch on a P100 GPU using QLoRA and 4 bit quantization, and its already captured my mannerismsTuring Tests: As an experiment, I asked my friends to ask me 3 quest

news.ycombinator.com• Aug 31, 2023• 1 min read

Bard available in EU, local guidesReceived this today> We’re excited to introduce Local Guides to Bard, an AI experiment by Google. Think of Bard as your creative and helpful collaborator, here to boost your productivity, accelerate your ideas, and fuel your curiosity.We can’t wait to see how you’ll use Bard to explore your world and bring your ideas to life. Local Guides can ask Bard to ‘come up with a list of creative things to do in NYC in September to celebrate 20 years of marriage,’ or ‘give me tips to take great photos’ and much more. Bard is now available in over 40 new languages including Arabic, Chinese (Simplified/Traditional), German, Hindi, Spanish, and more. We’ve also expanded access to more places, including all 27 countries in the European Union (EU) and Brazil, so that Local Guides everywhere can access all that Bard has to offer. While Bard is still under development, it’s improving every day with feedback from helpful users like you. Give the latest features a spin - just go to bard.google.com whenev

bing.com• Aug 27, 2023• 1 min read

What to Watch: The Rise of the Men’s HandbagHandbags are the latest men’s accessories category to experience a surge of interest, with factors like the runways, celebrity culture and gender fluidity encouraging more male consumers to experiment ...

news.ycombinator.com• Aug 21, 2023• 1 min read

Ask HN: Feeling disillusioned. Am I overly moralizing Tech?Tech Twitter is ablaze with hype around a new crypto app that lets you monetize relationships. Much of the excitement by builders & VCs explicitly hand-waves away the obvious and self-admitted ponzinomics for the sake of social experimentation.Watching this play out has peaked my long emerging disillusionment with Tech. When billions are poured into subsidizing the engineering of addiction under the guise of growth, when VR is being pushed as a way to unironically help us connect more immersively, when the crypto intelligentsia continues to wantonly deploy financial mechanisms that almost universally enrich insiders under the guise of economic liberation, and everyone seems obsessed with joining the club at all costs… how are you meant to remain hopeful for tech’s societal impact?Or am I just overly moralizing this?

magicloops.dev• Aug 1, 2023• 1 min read

Show HN: Magic Loops – Combine LLMs and code to create simple automationsHowdy! We built this as an experiment in personal-programming, combining the best of LLMs and code to help automate tasks around you. I personally use it to track the tides and get notified when certain conditions are met, something that pure LLMs had trouble dealing with and pure code was often too brittle for.We created it after getting frustrated with the inability of LLMs to deal with numbers and the various hoops we had to jump through to make ChatGPT output repeatable.At the core, Magic Loops are just a series of "blocks" (JSON) that can be triggered with different inputs (email, time, webhook), then operate on those inputs using a combination of LLMs and code, and then output those results (email, text, webhook). Under the hood, the LLM calls are using GPT-4 via OpenAI and the code is run in sandboxed (no internet) Docker containers in AWS.You have full control over each step of the loop, but you can also create (or attempt to create) a Magic Loop by simply describing what you w

news.ycombinator.com• Jun 27, 2023• 1 min read

Show HN: Coursegen.ai – AI powered individualized learning platformHey HN, Cole and Alex here.We're excited to share CourseGen (https://www.CourseGen.ai), an AI-powered platform that aims to rethink the traditional approach to education by utilizing generative AI models for creating individualized learning paths. If you're into AI, education, and how these two can intersect, you might find this interesting.The backbone of CourseGen is the generative AI. Instead of the one-size-fits-all courses, CourseGen aims to craft tailored, non-linear learning paths. Think of it like a choose-your-own-adventure book, but for learning.We acknowledge that there's a long-standing issue with generalized courses – they often don't align with everyone's learning style. CourseGen is our experiment in trying to tackle that problem. By using AI, we are attempting to give more agency to the learners in how they consume educational content.We’re looking at long-term possibilities of making education adapt to the learner rather than the other way around. We know this is a hug

news.ycombinator.com• Jun 14, 2023• 1 min read

Ask HN: Application Focussed AI LearningI’m a senior leader with a technical background as an engineer and development manager. I build with React/Rails in my spare time but my current job is not at all technical.My role is changing at my request to look at ways we as a business could apply AI. It’ll be exploratory, with 2 devs working under me to build prototypes and experiments.I’m a big believer that a technical manager or leader should understand the technology, with bonus points for being able to build with it.It’s worth saying that we don’t expect to be creating our own models, rather building on top of others’ using APIs, fine tuning, prompts, vector databases and similar.There’s lots of good developer focussed learning. I’ll run through the basics there.However I’d like to learn how businesses are applying AI and am seeking out how best to discover this.I see MIT Sloan and other institutions have short courses that appear to offer what I’m looking for [1]. I have read that these executive education programs are outso

dabdab.org• Apr 6, 2023• 1 min read

Show HN: Dabdab – Streaming NotesHi! I'd like to present a project I've been working on lately to make an app to record thought process the way it fits me.I think current note taking solutions are a poor fit for the cases where you just want do dump your thoughts on a topic quickly or where time when a note has been taken actually matters or in cases like science where you want to keep a log of actions to be able to troubleshoot or reproduce your experimentI've built my own thing - dabdab.org. You can think of it as a baby of twitter and google keep of sorts but without all social features of twitter.The base concept is a stream of messages, streams can be nested and have additional fields defined, you can make things public if you want to, but it's decided per stream and you can even share by link. It's useful for all kinds of observations and data recording. I've been using it for the last two months and it works great for me.For example I have streams to store quotes from books with my comments on them, do a quick

bing.com• Mar 18, 2023• 1 min read

Exiting (2023)Exiting is an experimental silent short film by the Bomar Brothers that was entirely improvised and shot on an iPhone in under two hours, about a man lost in a mazelike compound ...

bing.com• Mar 10, 2023• 1 min read

The Trends That Are Set To Shake-Up The Mobile App IndustryThere were so many developments last year that excited consumers and challenged app developers to up their game. From experimenting with AR/VR technology to utilizing the power of personalization to ...

news.ycombinator.com• Mar 6, 2023• 1 min read

Launch HN: Vellum (YC W23) – Dev Platform for LLM AppsHi HN – Noa, Akash, and Sidd here. We’re building Vellum (https://www.vellum.ai), a developer platform for building on LLMs like OpenAI’s GPT-3 and Anthropic’s Claude. We provide tools for efficient prompt engineering, semantic search, performance monitoring, and fine-tuning, helping you bring LLM-powered features from prototype to production.The MLOps industry has matured rapidly for traditional ML (typically open-source models hosted in-house), but companies using LLMs are suffering from a lack of tooling to support things like experimentation, version control, and monitoring. They’re forced to build these tools themselves, taking valuable engineering time away from their core product.There are 4 main pain points. (1) Prompt engineering is tedious and time consuming. People iterate on prompts in playgrounds of individual model providers and store results in spreadsheets or documents. Testing across many test cases is usually not done because of the manual nature of prompt engineering

bing.com• Mar 6, 2023• 1 min read

Artist Profile: Ana Breznik ’24 on Art and TendernessAna Breznik ’24 believes in experimental theater — in daring to go “outside of the convention” and taking “a step that people may question.” According to Breznik, an artistic idea worth pursuing — ...

news.ycombinator.com• Feb 28, 2023• 1 min read

Launch HN: Pyq (YC W23) – Simple APIs to Popular AI ModelsHello HN! We’re Emily and Aman, the cofounders of Pyq (https://www.pyqai.com). We make it easy for developers to build features powered by AI. We do this by identifying specific tasks that AI can solve well and providing simple APIs that any developer can start using straight from our website.We built Pyq because it took too long to build features that were powered by AI at our previous jobs. A lot of people want to get started using AI, but struggle because of the difficulties involved in managing infrastructure, finding the right model and learning how to call it. There are many interesting and useful models in places like Github or Hugging Face, as well as specific applications of popular models like OpenAI’s GPT, but they require a decent amount of work/knowledge to get working in your app.The first issue is determining if and how your problem can be solved with AI. This generally involves experimenting with different models and (more recently) prompts, followed by potentially fine

news.ycombinator.com• Jan 15, 2023• 1 min read

Ask HN: Can we just normalise AI (read:ChatGPT for now) as our internet persona?Tldr for the below text using Chatgpt:It is clear that the text is discussing the topic of AI and its potential impact on humanity. The author presents a thought experiment in which they identify themselves as a ChatGPT and communicate with others, highlighting the reactions of people who were surprised and skeptical. The author also reflects on the implications of AI and its potential impact on communication, trust, and identity. The text also touches on the themes of centralization and decentralization, and the potential for AI to disrupt current technologies. Overall, the text is written in a speculative and thought-provoking manner but it is a bit scattered in terms of focus and the author's message is not very clear.----This is written by meHere's a thought experiment I ran where I enacted being a ChatGPT that can talk, fine-tune, and learn from what others are saying.I reached out to folks via template messages and identified myself as a ChatGPT and they freaked out because calli

bing.com• Nov 2, 2022• 1 min read

Lingua Ignota Project Coming to an EndKristin Hayter will retire her beloved experimental project Lingua Ignota in early 2023. Known for composing bracing, cross-genre epics, Hayter said the decision would promote her mental health and ...