Boris N

18 | applied math & ieor @ucberkeley

all opinions are those of my employer. I am currently unemployed

[Boris N @b_nezlobin]

I voted for the first time today, though I struggled a bit with figuring out how to submit my ballot. I believe I did so successfully, I even got the "I voted" sticker!

Does anyone know when the grades will be posted so I can know how well I did?

[Boris N @b_nezlobin]

Claude Duet has an awfully smug air about it this morning, especially for someone who a) caused the build failures and who b) will be fixing the build failures

[Boris N @b_nezlobin]

@fromyizu @brendangiang @IImzihao @AnthropicAI @Microsoft @CalHacks @usemoss @apify @convex thank you for the recognition! couldn't have made the project without moss!

[Boris N @b_nezlobin]

went to the largest collegiate hackathon in the world (Cal Hacks 13) and won a record-breaking 6 prizes

my awesome team: @brendangiang, David Wu, and @IImzihao!!

thank you to @AnthropicAI, @Microsoft, @CalHacks, @usemoss, @apify, and @convex for the recognition :)

[Boris N @b_nezlobin]

@apollo_ullah @brendangiang @IImzihao @AnthropicAI @Microsoft @CalHacks @usemoss @apify @convex 18 if you use @brendangiang's count, where one award is actually three :)

[Boris N @b_nezlobin]

@ChampCNV @brendangiang @IImzihao @AnthropicAI @Microsoft @CalHacks @usemoss @apify @convex thank you so much! we had a blast building it and the awards totally took us by surprise :)

[Boris N @b_nezlobin]

@angadsinghjosan @brendangiang @IImzihao @AnthropicAI @Microsoft @CalHacks @usemoss @apify @convex thanks angad!

[Boris N @b_nezlobin]

read about it & see funny screenshots at https://t.co/7CIQijgpRn

[Nemil Dalal @nemild]

Awesome to host @CalBlockchain at @ycombinator last night.

Excited to see the stablecoin, tokenization, agentic finance startups this room is going to build in the next few years.

[Boris N @b_nezlobin]

wait... I don't have a debit card account with capital one, because I don't have an account with capital one, but they seem to think I do? with a phone number I've never seen?

GTM tip: make it possible for users to sign up. looks like BofA will get my money

4/4

[Boris N @b_nezlobin]

capital one has a huge opportunity to make money: make it possible to sign up and open an account (!!)

unfortunately at the moment it is literally impossible for me to do that because they seem to think my phone number is ***-***-4850, which I've never seen in my life

1/

[Boris N @b_nezlobin]

calling their support phone number (1-877-383-4802) gives me some shitty TTS voice agent that doesn't even list "online accounts" as an option.

and then it asks for my debit card number, which—

3/

[marimo @marimo_io]

Our cheminformatics competition has officially wrapped, and we are excited to announce our winners!

[Boris N @b_nezlobin]

since starting college this number has gone up to 70.2b... hmm

[Boris N @b_nezlobin]

have used 25.8b tokens in claude code in the last 9 months. on one machine. and for three of those I had the $20 plan. and that's not counting codex usage. or my other laptop (another 30b).

now ask me how many useful things I've shipped

[Boris N @b_nezlobin]

you will find me in da club

[Boris N @b_nezlobin]

having fun using Jev to choose a noun & description based on the user's input as they're typing... really cheap so hopefully will use it for more things!

(I'm also using openrouter to research the company/job provided & write a latex resume)

https://t.co/nXyzglOMEx

[Boris N @b_nezlobin]

update: my LoRA on a 8B qwen model now writes in a way eerily similar to me and passes pangram humanity test! (and more importantly my own sniff test)

to be clear I didn't use pangram as an adversarial metric, just as a nice to have

might do a writeup (needs some polish first)

[Boris N @b_nezlobin]

training an AI model to write like me (w/lots of (RL)HF-ish from me).

I already can't tell the difference between my own text messages & its messages (>1,000,000 training samples, lol). now working on fiction & essay writing

progress is being made 👀

[Boris N @b_nezlobin]

training an AI model to write like me (w/lots of (RL)HF-ish from me).

I already can't tell the difference between my own text messages & its messages (>1,000,000 training samples, lol). now working on fiction & essay writing

progress is being made 👀

[Boris N @b_nezlobin]

at a hackathon. building things, but they're irrelevant for the project we're submitting.

make your own at https://t.co/OuXY4Wtbwi!