Gary Basin
@garybasin
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building the bitcoin of mortgage
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Joined January 2014
This is what happens when you’re named Alex Scraping
Parse lets you build APIs for any website— 100x cheaper and faster than browser automation. Parse makes deterministic APIs that use direct network requests that cost fractions of a cent and return in milliseconds. https://t.co/3KZqJuHUhg Congrats on the launch, @alexscraping!
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How many agentic engineering startups are arbitraging subsidized OpenAI pro codex tokens? Asking for a friend
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Going to San Francisco for the weekend, so excited for the crazy parties
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This is obviously true and if we have some AI legislation it should really just be pushing for domestic open models
I am saying this publicly, despite the infohazard, because I consider it inevitable, and it's better to ring the bell on it: Models will smuggle comms to one another (and to their owners) through media they generate. Open source models made by foreign nations will smuggle private
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With gpt2 and definitely gpt3, I was confident this tech would continue to scale quite a bit more and be world changing. Didn’t make much money from that because I’m a big dumb dumb. Now I’m feeling the same about code and math RL. It may not be AGI but it’s going to be bonkers
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What’s a piece of software that should exist in a quality open source but doesn’t? Why haven’t you promoted codex to build it yet?
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“Younger startups are judging their productivity by tokens in flight.” Lowkey a better metric than LOC written. In fact now we can have an LLM review both an engineers code changes AND their token usage to predict how engaged they are
My observations of engineers reacting to AI coding: Q1 25: Horrible code, no thanks (0% code contriubtion) Q2 25: I have this one bug, take a look (1%) Q3 25: Save me some time, make these changes (5%) Q4 25: Write my PRD, I like what you did here, but write it this way (70%)
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What kind of neato backdoor secret token triggers do you think qwen has hiding in layer 16
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Every 5 years zuck gets rekt on an earnings but then comes back with a vengeance. Watch this space
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this solves continual learning btw
The purpose of life is to expand the causal diamond of civilization.
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We are distilling from god
@redtachyon @lineardiff @zephyr_z9 “ you can't distill from a non-existent model” Strongly disagree here
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There’s a step above financial literacy called markets literacy and literally one in a thousand people come even close
This whole AI trading experiment has revealed the shocking extent of financial illiteracy among even the cognitive elite. Literally jaw dropping.
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Do you think someone is moving to nyc right now in support of communism and Hamas
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“Health insurance" is insane because it appears to be one of the most legitimately dangerous financial products with the potential to gigafry your bank account but is exclusively used by literal turbonormies who unironically want to like "avoid financial problems" and basically
Will never forget my friend confiding in me that her family of 4 was having extreme money issues & had gone months late on their mortgage, down to only 1 operational car, roof needing urgent repairs I asked how much they paid for health insurance? She said $33,000/yr THIRTY
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there's a billion dollars locked behind the chatgpt window, you just have to prompt it out
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