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Re:Rust Threads on the GPU on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @12:41AM (#47761331)
Do you foresee this being faster than SIMD for things like cosine similarity? Apologies if I missed that context somewhere.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2025) on Monday December 01, 2025 @11:56PM (#46117725)

  Location: Florida on paper (U.S. citizen born & raised); Currently residing in Nicaragua
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Rust, TypeScript, Python, Docker, some PyTorch / Tensorflow
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremyharrisconsultant/
  Email: [email protected]
I'm timezone agnostic and on-call.
I am using ChatGPT to help me build a language that has a domain-specific use case with non-LLM models. The interpreter is written in Rust and the language resembles a mix of Lisp and SQL.
I have something similar.

https://github.com/jzombie/globcat.sh

Nothing fancy, but gets the job done.

Re:React DevTools wants clipboard permission on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @01:28PM (#42855975)
It's not a tradeoff that is worth it to me.

I don't want a Facebook extension to have access to arbitrary data that I copy and paste in my browser, which may be unrelated to the app I'm developing at the time.

I just responded to an adjacent query with the info.

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=jzombie#42072665

It seems to do well for a lot of searches, though some are questionable, but I believe that I know why. I'm training some different autoencoders to give it some different perspectives.

The code lives here: https://github.com/jzombie/etf-matcher

The ad-hoc vector DB I've created lives here: https://github.com/jzombie/etf-matcher/blob/main/rust/src/da...

> Likes/dislikes are stored in local storage and compared against all stories using cosine similarity to find the most relevant stories.

You're referring to using the embeddings for cosine similarity?

I am doing something similar with stocks. Taking several decades worth of 10-Q statements for a majority of stocks and weighted ETF holdings and using an autoencoder to generate embeddings that I run cosine and euclidean algorithms on via Rust WASM.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2024) on Monday September 02, 2024 @07:13PM (#41429561)
I am working on something similar and applied for your role! I prefixed my email with "ETF Matcher" just to correlate it here.
Maybe build something to do stock (or crypto, or some other market) analysis of some sort?
Re:Call the compiler, fax it your code [video] on Friday July 26, 2024 @02:49PM (#41081195)
FaxGPT
Re: on Friday July 12, 2024 @08:17PM (#40950651)
globcat.sh is a tiny little shell script that concatenates multiple files together, as specified by a glob pattern, and sends them to standard output.
Re: on Friday April 05, 2024 @09:43PM (#39949278)
I think it's safe to say that if the tensorflow-metal plugin is no longer supported, the project is dead on Apple.

I'd like to be wrong here, and while I'm making assumptions, I'd say that probably anything else related to neural networks on Apple is dead as well.

Re:Deep Learning in JavaScript on Friday March 29, 2024 @01:11AM (#39860929)
I agree. This advice should not be ignored; and if the OP is complaining about performance, the answer is lying here in plain sight.
Re:Advances in semiconductors are feeding the AI boom on Thursday March 28, 2024 @12:04PM (#39853264)
I may have misinterpreted this comment by thinking you meant that as we squeeze more and more transistors into a small amount of space, the resulting waveforms would start to resemble analog more so than digital.
Re:An Invention to Silence Reggaeton on Saturday March 16, 2024 @08:37PM (#39730776)
The enclosure of that device looks very similar to a Focusrite Scarlett Solo. Curious if it happens to be a repurposed one.
Re:Eliminate recruiters by putting everyone to work on Friday March 15, 2024 @01:28PM (#39718316)
> Don't think any algorithm is going to help me with that though.

Quant trading is exactly that.

Eliminate recruiters by putting everyone to work

I think the entire recruitment industry should be overhauled by an algorithm which is designed to match available jobs to the available worker pool, and is optimized to reduce the amount of available workers (not by forcing them to take jobs they don't want, but finding them relevant jobs they do want).

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ReCAPTCHA Sucks

I can't even solve the damn thing tonight without being constantly told to start over.It seems the issue is worse if I'm not on a VPN.

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I'd get rid of the fake reviews. After reading that, I definitely don't trust the "Over 50+ clients."

I don't think it's a viable business model if you flat out have to lie about it and don't even know who your target audience is.

Re:Don't waste time thinking you have time on Saturday March 09, 2024 @02:40AM (#39650154)
Excellent article. Judging by your graduation year I estimate that I am roughly 8 years older than you. I am hopeful that you still have plenty of time.
Re:Leadership is a hell of a drug on Thursday March 07, 2024 @02:09AM (#39625993)
Self-proclaimed leaders and experts basically signal to me that they stopped bothering to upskill, leveled off, and use their new title as a form of justification or personal flattery.
What evidence is there that intelligence can exist without neurons?
Re:Claude 3 claims it's conscious on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @02:15AM (#39613203)
Is your function to also remove and simplify information? I ask because that seems like a pretty simple explanation. I was trying to study ML, but think I should just read children's books, or maybe not even read at all.
Re:Nvidia CEO says "coding is a dying profession" on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @02:14AM (#39613191)
So, what you're telling me is that every thing they say has already been said before, completely verbatim? Like, if I asked it to write a story about a dog named Jebediah surfing to planet Xbajahabvash, it would basically just find a link to someone else's story that wrote about the same dog surfing to the same planet? That sounds like an infinitely large amount of combinations. Perhaps the internet is just infinitely large, squared (or even circled).
Re:Claude 3 claims it's conscious on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @02:07AM (#39613155)
So, if I write in, "yes, no" it will output, "maybe?" or will it just do a Google search, or will it just output either "yes" or "no?"

And more importantly, will it give the same response every single time?

Opinion: "AI" is not just LLMs

I happen to be of the opinion that LLMs are merely an interface into a deeper place, but the LLM itself is just the interface.So many people consider it the end-all.I don't think it is.I think LLMs are primarily the keyboard and the display.Now, I'm not as naive as I sound (probably even more so), but I do train models. They are not LLMs.

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Re:Nvidia CEO says "coding is a dying profession" on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @12:38PM (#39606695)
So, you're saying an LLM is a just a database that does text retrieval?
Re:Claude 3 claims it's conscious on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @12:27PM (#39606537)
> LLMs don't increase information complexity in any way.

False.

LLMs can synthesize and combine information from their training data and generate new insights, ideas, and expressions that weren't explicitly present in the training data.

This adds layers of interpretation, inference, and creativity that enhance the complexity of the information they produce.

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