Ben Hamner

Sumble co-founder and CTO. Learning high-quality, structured data about the world. Formerly @kaggle

[Ben Hamner @benhamner]

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[Ben Hamner @benhamner]

Why did I run out of local disk space? oh thanks @claudeai

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@MeganRisdal @leo_linsky @GertLabs that sounds like a fun one

[Ben Hamner @benhamner]

Right now, AGI looks more feasible than more housing in San Francisco

[Ben Hamner @benhamner]

if they cared about student outcomes would’ve spent the $557m on gpus

[Jonas @jonaasw1]

new uc berkeley data science building

[Ben Hamner @benhamner]

Can you add a “proof of ownership” mechanism to a system to verify that you are the owner of the system that you want astra to explore vulnerabilities on, to turn off safeguards for defensive use?

eg. publish a public key on DNS, as a response to a specific api request on a port, etc. that you then provide the private key for to verify you own the system

[Ben Hamner @benhamner]

@NWischoff Fox & Kit in San Rafael had these vibes, at least when we went there for a friends kids birthday. Nice coffee shop with a nice contained indoor kids play space. Unsure what it’s like in normal public hours

[Ben Hamner @benhamner]

@bernhardsson @j_schottenstein @generalcatalyst @Redpoint Congrats!

[Ben Hamner @benhamner]

@tunguz I’ve spent a lot more time, not less, writing code with the latest generation of coding agents

[Ben Hamner @benhamner]

@jasonlk What volume of contacts? (total, and then the # of C-suites / champions that you especially care about having up-to-date)

[Ben Hamner @benhamner]

The “AI escape the box” experiment was comically naive in hindsight. There is no box. Instead, there’ll be embedded access to every critical system in the world

[Ben Hamner @benhamner]

What will engineering productivity look like in a year once a high fraction of codebases are written by Claude Code/Codex and no human has a detailed understanding of these parts anymore?

[Ben Hamner @benhamner]

if country==“AU”:
await asyncio.sleep(0.52)

[Shreya @Oblivious9021]

Interviewer:
Your page loads in 80 ms in Australia but 600 ms in India. Same backend. Same code. What would you use to fix this?

[Anthony Goldbloom @antgoldbloom]

Excited to share more publicly what @benhamner and I have been working on:
https://t.co/QXvodhsM5e

We are building a knowledge graph for GTM data & have early customers such as @elastic, @figma and @Snowflake

[Ben Hamner @benhamner]

english in 2030 : python :: python in 2020 : assembly

[Ben Hamner @benhamner]

WOW - cold inbound hiring processes are the worst I've ever seen it:

- Huge volume of applications (probably triggered automatically)
- Large volume of fake resumes
- Extensive use of AI assistants in phone screens

[Ben Hamner @benhamner]

@MeganRisdal eke, hope you fully recover quickly

[Ben Hamner @benhamner]

@Xfinity @XfinitySupport -

1. Internet has been down whole day in Palo Alto
2. Your outage map for Palo Alto is also not working ("address not found")
3. Your support page doesn't actually provide support

[Ben Hamner @benhamner]

@yanda @merci congrats!

[Ben Hamner @benhamner]

You could release a crazy stat on the number of times (and number of employees) ClosedAI companies have downloaded open models from HuggingFace

[clem 🤗 @ClementDelangue]

All closed-source frontier labs use tons of open-source all over the stack, starting from python, @PyTorch, @huggingface all the way down to RoPE, GQA, flash-attention, or any tiny improvements released by open-source players.

The whole transformers architecture (the T in gpT) comes from an open research paper and open-source model from 2017: https://t.co/01WrQqeKiU

This is ok but would be much nicer if they would acknowledge the contributions & contribute back more!