shyish | 2 years ago | on: What the interns have wrought, 2023 edition
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shyish | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2022)
Location: Saint Paul, MN
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Python, TypeScript, GCP, MongoDB, Postgres, OCaml, Rust, LaTeX, misc dabbling
Résumé/CV: https://icalculated.github.io/quartz/2022-08Resume.pdf
Email: [email protected]
GitHub: https://github.com/iCalculated
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shydrie/
I have practical experience with ML from competing in several hackathons this past year.[1] Most recently, my team won the education track at HackMIT with a VSCode extension that revises the user's code with an LLM and explains the changes.[2] (We also pitched the idea to YC in their sponsor event and won an anytime interview so that's cool.)
I am currently working through fast.ai and am taking several graduate-level courses on ML theory to solidify my fundamentals. Areas of interest are LLMs, reinforcement learning, multi-modal models, manifold learning, and evolutionary strategies.
Feel free to reach out for anything, even just to chat.
[1]: projects can be seen here, don't mind the goose theme: https://devpost.com/iCalculated [2]: don't expect anything cutting edge here, it was a 24-hour hackathon: https://spectacle.hackmit.org/project/118
shyish | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2022)
Location: Saint Paul, MN
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Python, TypeScript, GCP, MongoDB, Postgres, OCaml, Rust, LaTeX, misc dabbling
Résumé/CV: https://icalculated.github.io/quartz/2022-08Resume.pdf
Email: [email protected]
GitHub: https://github.com/iCalculated
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shydrie/
I have practical experience with ML from competing in (and winning!) several hackathons this past year.[1] Most recently, my team won the education track at HackMIT with a VSCode extension that revises the user's code with an LLM and explains the changes.[2] (We also pitched the idea to YC in their sponsor event and won an anytime interview so that's cool.)
I am currently working through fast.ai and am taking several graduate-level courses on ML theory to solidify my fundamentals. Areas of interest are LLMs, reinforcement learning, multi-modal models, manifold learning, and evolutionary strategies.
Feel free to reach out for anything, even just to chat.
[1]: projects can be seen here, don't mind the goose theme: https://devpost.com/iCalculated [2]: don't expect anything cutting edge here, it was a 24-hour hackathon: https://spectacle.hackmit.org/project/118
shyish | 3 years ago | on: Learning to think critically about machine learning
Out of curiosity, what was the video?
shyish | 4 years ago | on: Why Bitcoin is not a socialist’s ally (2020)
I believe that he is referring more broadly to forms of governance in DAOs (though I believe they're all on turing complete chains). For example, OpenZeppelin provides some quickstart governance contracts[1] that are all coin-based voting systems. There are some simple ways around this, like to make voting power proportional to the square root of token ownership but obviously one address != one human voter.
Vitalik wrote about some alternatives[2] on his blog, such as proof of humanity, proof or participation or staking based solutions primarily but most significant projects are still using coin-voting.
shyish | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2021)
Location: Saint Paul, MN
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Python, TypeScript, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, React, OCaml, Rust, LaTeX, misc dabbling
Résumé/CV: https://quartz.defyingentropy.ml/2021-10Resume.pdf
Email: [email protected]
GitHub: https://github.com/iCalculated
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sasha-hydrie-917743183/
Feel free to reach out for anything, even just to chat.
shyish | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2021)
Location: Saint Paul, MN
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Python, TypeScript, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, React, OCaml, LaTeX, misc dabbling
Résumé/CV: https://quartz.defyingentropy.ml/2021-10Resume.pdf
Email: [email protected]
GitHub: https://github.com/iCalculated
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sasha-hydrie-917743183/
Feel free to reach out for anything, even just to chat.
shyish | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2021)
Location: Saint Paul, MN
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Python, TypeScript, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, React, LaTeX, misc dabbling
Résumé/CV: https://quartz.defyingentropy.ml/2021-8Resume.pdf
Email: [email protected]
GitHub: https://github.com/iCalculated
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sasha-hydrie-917743183/
Feel free to reach out for anything, even just to chat.
shyish | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2021)
Location: Saint Paul, MN
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Python, JavaScript, MongoDB, Express, Node, LaTeX, misc dabbling
Résumé/CV: on request
Email: [email protected]
GitHub: https://github.com/iCalculated
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sasha-hydrie-917743183/
Feel free to reach out for anything, even just to chat.
shyish | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2021)
Location: Saint Paul, MN
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Python, JavaScript, MongoDB, Express, Node, LaTeX, misc dabbling
Résumé/CV: on request
Email: [email protected]
GitHub: https://github.com/iCalculated
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sasha-hydrie-917743183/
Feel free to reach out for anything, even just to chat.
shyish | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Have you found a good desk chair?
Do you have any recommendations for finding refurbished Aerons? Are there any things that I should look out for when purchasing one?
shyish | 5 years ago | on: One Year of Excalidraw
You can click the lock icon to the right of the toolbar.
shyish | 6 years ago | on: Show HN: Flash replacement
Under a different comment he said his email is "leisenming AT protonmail DOTcom"
shyish | 6 years ago | on: A Good Year for “A Programmer’s Introduction to Mathematics”
One of my favorite calculus textbooks that I've ever read is (Calculus Made Easy)[http://calculusmadeeasy.org/], available in entirety at the link. The book does a great job of not being pretentious about the subjects, the subtitle is even "What one fool can do, another can."
shyish | 6 years ago | on: The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company (2018)
He says that he uses Stripe to get money from his users, specifically noting the API as a source of income.
Here is the pricing page: https://www.listennotes.com/api/pricing/
shyish | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Are you ok?
I"m not doing too well. Obligatory I'm doing better than many here, but I still feel that I have my own problems.
For one, I'm younger than many people here, so about a year from now I've got all of the fun of the college application process to look towards. This year I've started taking all of my classes at my state's university, which has been a very good experience academically, so for the first time there is a real feeling that my grades matter. This stems from two roots, first I have a feeling of imposter syndrome when it comes to learning and also I'm worried about being a class in which I have a hard time following the professor or the assignments seem unclear, which I am currently experiencing in one of my classes. Also, I still have activities at my high school before and after university, so I spend over two and a half hours every day commuting.
That ties into another of my problems, I feel like I over-invest in everything I do and it often hurts, though I have yet to be entirely burned by anything. Currently I'm on an FRC team, and have lead an initiative to put rookies through FTC and I'm the main student coordinator on that while feeling that I myself don't know enough or have the time to learn.
This post in itself has been disconcerting for me, I've always felt that my mindset is very similar to others on HN, just a decade or two younger, and I very much imagine being in similar situations to many here a few years from now. I'm struggling with questions such as whether I'll be able to get into top colleges, or even the worth of getting into such programs assuming that financial aid is hard to come by.
shyish | 6 years ago | on: Hiring Is Broken: What Do Developers Say About Technical Interviews?
I have yet to enter the workforce, but as someone who has done a bit of programming for fun and really liked programming-interview type websites I think I'd be decently prepared for a whiteboard interview.
The thing is, I have barely any (read as: no) software engineering knowledge and don't know how to build any sort of programming product.
shyish | 6 years ago | on: YouTube’s LGBTQ Problem Is a Business-Model Problem
It would be interesting to advertisers put out competing adds and users having the choice to watch them. Potentially some lesser known names could emerge, because larger companies already have recognition and would be less motivated to create voluntary ads.
shyish | 6 years ago | on: Student hacks high school software and finds “SQL injections galore”
As a current high school student I know that my school's software has similar weaknesses. I talked to our IT "department" (we only have one active person that I know of) and he said the district does not really have anywhere to bring up the issue.
shyish | 6 years ago | on: AI startup claims to automate app making but actually just uses humans
I'm always amazed by the funds that companies manage to acquire from VCs without a (developed) product. Having recently read Bad Blood it's horrifying to see how often similar situations arise.
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Many of my colleagues and fellow interns were skilled programmers, but very few—if any—inherently possessed something that you or I don't have. The intern class was primarily composed of individuals with a curiosity for technology and circumstances that enabled their exploration.
I recognize the ease of feeling dissatisfied with one's own achievements; I doubt that receiving an offer from Jane Street for you or gaining admission into a elite school for myself would quell our insecurities. You've accomplished a lot, though I don't know how to help you recognize that.