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Re:Cloud Infrastructure as SQL on Thursday September 16, 2021 @05:11PM (#28557669)
Being able to check in a SQL file to our repo to manage all of our infra sounds like a dream. Added myself to the early access.

Show HN: The ML API for engineers who don't have time for ML

Posted by econti on Thursday August 05, 2021 @11:51AM
from the show-hn dept.

Hey HN - spending time adding machine learning to your product is almost never worth it for startups.Formulating the problem, managing training data, training models, serving them, etc... for a 10% increase in some metric just isn't worth the time. Using rules + heuristics, although not optimal, does a pretty good job for a long time.There should be a better solution between rules &...

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Re:Run fewer, better A/B tests on Saturday June 26, 2021 @03:54PM (#27645234)
Author here! I implemented every method I described in the post in the pip library I used in the post.

In case you missed it: https://github.com/banditml/offline-policy-evaluation

Deprecating A/B tests with offline policy evaluation

Posted by econti on Thursday May 27, 2021 @04:48PM
from the self-post dept.

I recently read about a technique in statistics/ML called "offline policy evaluation".The idea is that you can evaluate how new policies will perform by using historical data generated under a previous policy. For example, rather than testing a new fraud policy in an A/B test, you can use historical logs to determine if the new policy will outperform the existing one. This seems like it could...

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Show HN: Refinery (YC S20) – edit your website in-browser, push changes live

Posted by econti on Thursday May 06, 2021 @11:38AM
from the show-hn dept.

Hey HN, I'm Edo, one of the co-founders of Refinery (https://www.refinery.so/). We founded Refinery to make it simple to edit your website's frontend without needing to write code. Refinery is a chrome extension that lets you edit your website in-browser and then lets you push the changes live instantly.After building a Shopify app, there were so many times when we wanted to quickly change some...

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Re:Launch HN: Refinery (YC S20) – Edit your React app in-browser and g... on Friday April 09, 2021 @12:25PM (#26752553)
Definitely. We use a combination of source maps, manual rules, and right now, human review. Source maps let us go from the JS running on the page back to original source code that generated it. It's not perfect which is why we also have some manual rules + still do human reviews when we aren't sure if we got it right. There has been some amazing progress using GPT-3 for code generation as well (check out https://debuild.co/) which is something we are also trying to use.

More on source maps here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Debugger/How_...

Launch HN: Refinery (YC S20) – Edit your React app in-browser and generate code

Posted by econti on Friday April 09, 2021 @12:04PM
from the self-post dept.

Hey HN, I'm Edo, one of the co-founders of Refinery (https://www.refinery.so/). We founded Refinery to make it simple to change your React frontend without needing to write code.Refinery is a chrome extension that lets you edit your React app in-browser and then generates the corresponding code changes automatically. To do so, we are using metaprogramming techniques and a healthy dose of human...

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Re:Show HN: I built the antithesis of Zoom. Add GIFs, stickers, BGs. T... on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @02:33PM (#25661268)
Compare reslash's UI/UX to here's and you'll see it's more than just "similar". They literally copied the control bar at the bottom identically.
Re:Show HN: I built the antithesis of Zoom. Add GIFs, stickers, BGs. T... on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @01:59PM (#25660904)
This is a shameless copycat of here.fm.

I've been using here.fm for several months and it is awesome. I'd highly recommend you check here.fm out before supporting a company that rips off other people's work.

Re:Show HN: Alan – An implicitly parallel programming language on Friday August 21, 2020 @04:04PM (#24238375)
Interesting idea. Are there any performance benchmarks that you've run and can share? I'd really like to get a sense for what kind of improvements you've seen for computationally heavy tasks vs. a language like Go or Python.
Re:How to play board games online with your friends on Friday April 24, 2020 @06:18PM (#22973503)
I just gave it a shot to play codenames and it worked great for us. Are there restrictions on the max number of participants per game at this time? I'm thinking this could be fun for a work happy hour.
Re:Ask HN: What healthcare options exist for entrepreneurs? on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @06:49PM (#20035184)
I assume that is per month?
Re:Ask HN: What healthcare options exist for entrepreneurs? on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @04:17PM (#20033936)
Have you tried healthcare.gov?
Re:CS229 Materials (Autumn 2017) on Monday January 15, 2018 @10:58PM (#16155698)
The Autumn 2017 materials have a lot of breadth - notes now cover deep learning, reinforcement learning, and gaussian processes.
Re:Show HN: PDF Otter – Fill in PDFs Online and API on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @01:37PM (#14806157)
I second this.
Re:See all of the offensive things you've ever said on Facebook in one... on Monday November 18, 2013 @11:51AM (#6755220)
Would love for some of you guys to try it out and let me know what you think

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