Mac Allen

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[Mac Allen @_macallen]

@528vibes It’s just the moon…

[Mac Allen @_macallen]

@levie @elonmusk let us customize the prompt for this feature. Personally I want to include 2 key instructions. Include the current scientific consensus for the claim made in the post and argue both for and against the claim. Game changer for rooting out disinformation and bias.

[Mac Allen @_macallen]

@ryangerritsen This map is only for Peel regional police events. Naturally the reported events are all concentrated in one area, Peel. The few sparse events outside of Peel do not reflect total events outside Peel. In order to draw conclusions we need the same data for every other region.

[Mac Allen @_macallen]

@Jason @DavidSacks @GavinSBaker @JTLonsdale @Jason I’m not arguing for or against your stances. But my opinion is All in Pod is great b/c you argue both sides. Lately I think you’re getting sucked into the echo chamber. No judgement, I would too. But you and friedberg must explore more search space. Kick the tires.

[Mac Allen @_macallen]

Does anyone think shoedog is actually the story of a person that had PMF and despite their sheer unlikelihood to be great the market pulled it out of themanyway?

[Mac Allen @_macallen]

@awilkinson You’ve already got tech in your stack at Tiny that can do this and it’ll be secure with the ability to use diff LLM models. Technically chatgpt will use your prompts for training their models unless you’re on an ent edition. @awilkinson shoot me a DM and I can help out!

[Mac Allen @_macallen]

@neelesh_salian Because it’s an open source foundational model some builders will leverage it to train their own fit for purpose LLM using it as a base. StackLlama is an example of a further trained version of Llama. The graphic you shared is relevant for those use cases.

[Mac Allen @_macallen]

@laurenbalik Love the idea. I’ve always thought it’s stupid that we can’t tune our own preference profiles. Why the heck does @Meta not expose who it *thinks* I am? That would be a very cool feature. May be enlightening to compare who you think you are with what the algo thinks.

[Mac Allen @_macallen]

@neelesh_salian @neelesh_salian I’ve seen Snowpark data frame POCs come in at about 2x+ faster and 2x+ cheaper than Glue, EMR, and dbx with 0 overhead/cluster management. Curious whether there’s a reason not to check it out - I like hearing from the market. Disclaimer I work at snow

[Mac Allen @_macallen]

@SpriterTeam Companies that work there all year round is a weird flex

[Mac Allen @_macallen]

@UFCFightPass Boom @tommytheo93!

[Mac Allen @_macallen]

@neelesh_salian I got you @neelesh_salian and agree there. I was under the impression you meant the engineering org as a whole. What you’re saying is analogous to salesforce sdrs calling front line sales reps trying to hawk CRM. No business doing that.

[Mac Allen @_macallen]

@tunguz Fine tuning would work for this right now. Extract the text from your corpus, upload it to a fine tuning model with no prompt just completions and then you can use the fine tuned model just like ChatGPT. Easy as pie.

[Mac Allen @_macallen]

Raw activity metrics are useless. Want to learn something? Run a competition to see who can hit the monthly quota with the least activities.

For ppl stuck with raw metrics: To hit 50 dials, simply call a big corporation's main line and leave a VM for extensions 101, 102, 103...

[Mac Allen @_macallen]

@paulg @levie Make it elective. Don’t want to wait on a wait list for CA/NY to come over? Go to AL, LA right now - no wait list. (Obv exception for those with a need to immigrate)

[Mac Allen @_macallen]

Children are just NLP algorithms with an early but growing set of training data.

[Mac @Macsamilli]

This guy made a tiktok saying his niece called an aquarium a “water zoo,” and the comments lmk kids are not from earth

[Mac Allen @_macallen]

@Jason IRL is still superior for quality of engagement, no doubt. but why are you indicating that VR means you can’t hang and have a fun time there? I want to hang with friends in other cities and have an opportunity for more types of fun times depending on mood/current interests.

[Mac Allen @_macallen]

@patrick_oshag Wheel of time hands down. Best fantasy series in history.

[Mac Allen @_macallen]

Is being on time not a norm anymore? I interviewed 5 ppl this week and not one of them was waiting on the zoom by the time I opened it. 2 of them didn't show up until 7+ minutes later. Competitive advantage for job seekers seems to be pretty easy...be on time.