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zanek | 1 year ago | on: Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon

Silk Road was a neutral marketplace ? What kind of drugs are you on ? Or are you just completely not aware of what happened

Ross willingly sold weapons, body parts, etc on it. He personally ok'ed the sale of these things (text proof from the prosecution)

zanek | 1 year ago | on: Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon

your argument is actually quite dumb, because they have messages from Ross giving the OK to sell most of these things.

He wasnt some hands off executive who had no idea. Smart people should be able to not equate an illegal market place with a legal market place

zanek | 1 year ago | on: Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills reading the comments on this thread. Multiple teenagers (one in Australia) died from the drugs distributed on Silk Road. Ross was ok with selling grenades, body parts, etc on there. But everyone is saying he served his time ???

zanek | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2023)

Location: Menlo Park, CA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies:

- Scaled a company from 0 to a $50 million contract with software I wrote from scratch

- Wrote a trading system from scratch that traded up to $30 million a day after trading 24/7 for 11 years

- Able to work with a team from 2 to 50+ people or work by myself to develop full stack, complete systems in a short amount of time

- 13 years of NLP development, including local LLMs, GPT, BERT, Pinecone, Langchain, LSTM, vector databases, sentence transformers and summarizers.

- 20 years of C# , ASP.NET Core (using .Net Core 8) - expert level

- 20 years of Java, Javascript, HTML, Redis, Kafka

- 7 years of Kubernetes experience scaling , Docker, Helm

- Python, including Pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib, Scikit-Learn, and TensorFlow.

- C++ and Rust development, including the Standard Template Library (STL), Boost C++ Libraries, Qt and native Win32.

- GPU computing, including Vulkan, OpenCL, OpenGL, WebGL and WebGPU.

- 20 years of Linux experience (development, deployment, etc)

- 15+ years of Postgres, Oracle, ElasticSearch, SQLite, etc

- 13 years of expert knowledge of graph databases (MarkLogic, Neo4j, etc)

- 9+ years of Azure, AWS, GCP - Blob storage, VMs, replicating across availability zones, deployment pipelines, etc

Email: dan (at) automatictrade.xyz

Resume: On request by email

Open to full time, part time or hourly contract work

zanek | 2 years ago | on: ChatGPT cut off date now April 2023

Bing's chatGpt does most of this, but their usage seems to not growing that much. I think people's learned behaviors are entrenched with Google paying for default search access (Safari, Firefox, etc)

zanek | 2 years ago | on: Llama 2

Thanks for posting this ! I actually laughed outloud at the response

zanek | 3 years ago | on: Galactica: an AI trained on humanity's scientific knowledge (by Meta)

Looks like its just matching words near other words. It doesnt understand NOT in sentences or what anything actually means. I'm not impressed

Q: What is a protein that does NOT work with cholesterol? Answer: Niemann-Pick C1 protein

Q: What is a protein that does work with cholesterol? Answer: Niemann-Pick C1 protein

zanek | 3 years ago | on: SoftBank’s losses reveal Masayoshi Son’s broken business model

This reminds me of counterfeit capitalism https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/wework-and-counterfeit-ca...

"Engaging in such a strategy used to be illegal . Capitalism works because companies that thrive take a bunch of inputs and create a product that is more valuable than the sum of its parts. That creates additional value, and in such a model companies have to compete by making better goods and services.

What predatory pricing does is to enable competition purely based on access to capital. Someone like Neumann, and Son’s entire model with his Vision Fund, is to take inputs, combine them into products worth less than their cost, and plug up the deficit through the capital markets in hopes of acquiring market power later or of just self-dealing so the losses are placed onto someone else."

zanek | 3 years ago | on: Coping with Copilot

I agree, I just disabled it today. I'd say 3 out of 10 times it produced a good result. Most of the time the structure looked ok but the variable names were wrong, or the types were wrong, or it had logic issues. Surprisingly, I thought it did great with autocompleting the comments. In Visual Studio, it would block function autocomplete which was really annoying also

zanek | 4 years ago | on: Quitting Dgraph Labs

yea, that's my biggest fear right there (in terms of raising money). I doubt he walks away with anything after pouring his life into the company for years. I get that they raised $15 million, but to lose your code, company and time is horrible. He ended up being powerless at his own company
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