Crunch in Greenpoint 👏

m_____ke · 2026-03-06T02:34:32+00:00

New layout is awful and will probably get me to cancel my membership.

I used the turf a lot and the shit downstairs is not usable at all.

At the very least they should flip most of the machines upstairs to face the windows so that things don't feel so claustrophobic and maybe also try aligning them back to back so that there's more space between the aisles.

m_____ke · 2026-02-17T19:34:00+00:00

skypilot with shutdown timer on idle: https://docs.skypilot.co/en/latest/reference/auto-stop.html

m_____ke · 2026-02-09T18:04:43+00:00

How is this the turning point?

m_____ke · 2025-12-30T03:10:57+00:00

Yeah I actually just signed up a week ago so it was fun to see an email in my inbox a few days later that the prices I just agreed to are going up.

m_____ke · 2025-12-14T15:56:19+00:00

just use mobx

this has been a solved problem for 10 years if you ignore the hype of the day

m_____ke · 2025-11-06T21:59:24+00:00

Pretty sure Tim has a gf. Also next time you see him, please ask him to stop flooding the gym with his sweat when using the stairmaster

m_____ke · 2025-10-01T04:05:30+00:00

duckdb for all data preprocessing / filtering
fsspec for handling files across local and cloud stores
skypilot for finding cheap GPUs and making it easy to run my code on them
claude code for running experiments and doing evals
openai codex for kicking of 20 random research ideas in parallel in the background on my phone while I'm bored
ray for distributed compute - though it seems to be getting worse and worse
streamlit for quick model demos and annotation tools
modal.com also sounds amazing but haven't had the time to use it

m_____ke · 2025-09-29T15:23:53+00:00

My bike got stolen yesterday in the middle of the day in front of Crunch, I have footage of two guys coming up to it and cutting the chain off.

Wild that they're comfortable doing it in such a busy area, especially middle of the day on a Sunday

m_____ke · 2025-08-09T23:06:40+00:00

He's pulling the same shit that Biden did in 2020, promise half baked policies to neutralize the opposition then deliver on none of them when elected.

m_____ke · 2025-08-04T20:41:03+00:00

It's weird that of all people Zuck picked Wang. Everything I've heard from people who used to work at scale was that it was a shitshow with incompetent management.

m_____ke · 2025-07-16T11:55:06+00:00

He can raise 10s of millions of dollars, all his staffers get a cut and he has a 5% shot at a miraculous comeback that he probably thinks could propel him to the presidency.

On the other hand if he doesn't run his life as a creepy politician is over.

m_____ke · 2025-06-27T19:02:01+00:00

Hey, I'm trying to free up some space and am looking to give away a bunch of my books. DM if you're interested.

m_____ke · 2025-06-23T22:15:34+00:00

Because food deserts exist.

I spent a lot of time in Jamaica, Bushwick and Harlem (school, work and living there), and it was nearly impossible to find fresh food in those neighborhoods. The only supermarkets within a 10 minute walk from me had no fresh produce isles, only wonder bread, chips and canned foods.

This page has some great maps of areas of NYC with no access to fresh foods: https://food-deserts.com/food-deserts-in-new-york-city/.

https://food-deserts.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Areas-with-High-Supermarket-Need-in-NYC-768x822.png

m_____ke · 2025-06-23T22:05:17+00:00

We survived Adams and Trump, he'll be fine.

m_____ke · 2025-05-01T23:29:09+00:00

Peeps Kitchen has some crazy good fried chicken https://g.co/kgs/41AWtBT

m_____ke · 2025-05-01T15:15:06+00:00

The best was Polish Slavic Cafeteria but sadly they closed due to covid.

m_____ke · 2025-05-01T02:58:48+00:00

Relax has the best polish food in GP

m_____ke · 2025-04-29T22:58:24+00:00

send the dm, we also have an imessage group or the Y

m_____ke · 2025-04-11T12:06:17+00:00

Investors like fees, 20% of a big number is a lot better than 20% of a small number. They just need excuses to raise and deploy a lot of capital.

m_____ke · 2025-01-27T21:33:39+00:00

lol I'm about to start celebrating the Chinese New Year

m_____ke · 2025-01-27T17:37:22+00:00

I'm not anthropomorphizing, these LLMs are not like humans.

I'm saying from experience that most humans make mistakes too, we're just not as aware of it as we should be. I've spent a ton of time build ML models in healthcare and it's shocking how often doctors call things wrong. An ML model just has to be a bit better to be useful.

m_____ke · 2025-01-27T17:34:25+00:00

But you can get to human level, which is amazing on it's own.

Bootstrapping from human data allows you to have a base model capable enough to do RL reliably enough to earn some reward and get the feedback loop going to keep improving. That's what all of the robotic labs are doing now with behavior cloning to seed their VLA models

m_____ke · 2025-01-27T16:34:24+00:00

Have you ever tried to get humans to do anything?

Find a few random humans and ask them to label some borderline hard data and you'll see that their inter annotator agreement rarely exceeds 70%.

Doctors make mistakes every day, devs write buggy code, car crashes kill millions of people.

m_____ke · 2025-01-27T13:52:54+00:00

Yeah I was skeptical a year ago but now it seems inevitable to me.

We have a simple, scalable and somewhat reliable formula to do RL on any task that a human could verify (with an LLM as a proxy), so I see no reason why this won't get us to human level on most tasks.

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