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gregsadetsky

9,927karma·1,664submissions·November 7, 2010
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Cofounder of a web mapping startup acquired by Apple.

Received awards from the US Coast Guard and the Governor General of Canada for creating a map that helped rescue 1,700 people during Hurricane Harvey.

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Currently refurbishing laptops with robots! https://www.reviserobotics.com/ (YC W25).

Also worked on Disco, an open source self-hosting software: https://disco.cloud/

See my talk about it at the Recurse Center: https://youtu.be/z2lP7C8VT6M

And this (slightly less chaotic) Devtools FM episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr3JJpbCRP0

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And even more stuff that's wildly out of date - https://greg.technology

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Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45984143
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I'm very grateful! Thanks a lot
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Yeah, great point. I was considering working on the ability to dynamically generate eval questions whose solutions would all involve problem solving (and a known, definitive answer). I guess that this…
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Interesting, yeah! Just tried "summarize this story and list the important figures from it" with Gemini 2.5 Pro and 3 and they both listed 10 names each, but without including Yudkowsky. Ask…
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It does! I redacted them, but yes. This was a 3-person call.
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You're correct of course - LLMs may get better at any task of course, but I meant that publishing the evals might (optimistically speaking) help LLMs get better at the task. If the eval was actua…
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I just tried "analyze this audio file recording of a meeting and notes along with a transcript labeling all the speakers" (using the language from the parent's comment) and indeed Gemin…
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I asked a semi related question in a different thread [0] -- is the basic idea behind your benchmark that you specifically keep it secret to use it as an "actually real" test that was defini…
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I'm new/uninformed in this world, but I have an idea for an eval that I think has not been tried yet. Can anyone direct me towards how to ... make one? At the most fundamental level, is it a…
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Mozzi (for Arduino) is also great! https://sensorium.github.io/Mozzi/
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Just to make sure I'm not misunderstanding: The relay click sound you're hearing should only happen when a relay turns on, and when it turns off. There is no sound when a button is pressed -…
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Amazing! I don’t think I’ve heard of anyone owning many..! 1) Are any of them for sale? :) 2) Would you be open to recording a clean sound of one of its relays turning on and off? And helping me figur…
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Thanks! The Enigma-cracking Bombe (on display at the extraordinary Bletchley Museum of Computing) also used relays https://www.tnmoc.org/bh-10-bombe-description And the Z3 as well! h…
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More…?! :) I totally feel you - the one reservation is that I’m using (gasp) not the original Minivac Relay sound. I need to go to a Computer Museum that will let me record one to offer a more authent…
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Ha, I really get the sentiment! I do recommend perusing the Book 1 manual [0], towards the end there are a number of small problems (on page 30). They're worth tinkering with :-) [0] https:/…
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The Rotary Switch - which is both input and output in the real Minivac - is absolutely wild yeah. One of the crucial things I didn't get to yet is making that wheel controllable - some circuits i…
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Thank you so much everyone, this is something I've worked on for a few years on and off -- I posted about it here in a Show HN a few hours ago [0] The biggest unlock was finding Willy McAllister&…
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Discussion happening over at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45950396 !
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Thank you, I really appreciate it!
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Tangential question: does anyone know if there's a ~similar device to replace/upgrade a Toshiba T1100's floppy drive? A friend found a T1100 for me and I'm just trying to think of …
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There seems to be https://notbyai.fyi/ and https://no-ai-icon.com/ ..!…
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For sure! Just for the record, it's not my project. But your point stands - if I were to run an instance of it anywhere where the Japanese wordplay wasn't obvious (and "black market&quo…
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