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Diego Basch
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Diego Basch writes I Am Not a Robot, a personal blog at iamnotarobot.substack.com about ai, philosophy and culture. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Why I am starting a hardcore tech company in my 50s”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters discuss Diego Basch's posts on the "gzip beats BERT" paper's numbers and on his plan to start a hard-tech company in his 50s. The comments do not judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The darkest side of the technological toast, with some philosophical butter.
Most-linked posts?
- Why I am starting a hardcore tech company in my 50s2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-07-26
- You probably shouldn't use OpenAI's embeddings2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-03-30
What Hacker News says?
Really happy to see this: KNN + classification task + doing classification that's based on pure text similarity is a recipe for stacked results. Schaudenfreude responses to this paper misunderstand that the natural language stuff is crucially important for embeddings: sure, phrases that share words will classify well and GZIP well, so GZIP can be used as ersatz classification. The miracle of BERT / embeddings is _no…
Comment linking /p/should-you-use-openais-embeddings
on “Bad numbers in the “gzip beats BERT” paper?”Submitted Why I am starting a hardcore tech company in my 50s as a story · 36 points
HN discussionThis link works: https://iamnotarobot.substack.com/p/why-i-am-starting-a-hard...
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on “Why I am starting a hard core tech company in my 50s”Submitted Why I am starting a hard core tech company in my 50s as a story · 25 points
HN discussioncorrect link, @dang please fix https://iamnotarobot.substack.com/p/why-i-am-starting-a-hard...
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on “Why I am starting a hard core tech company in my 50s”Submitted Generating SQL with LLMs for fun and profit as a story · 12 points
HN discussionhttps://iamnotarobot.substack.com/ Lately I've been writing about AI because it's impossible not to. But I generally write shower thoughts about tech and my experiences in the industry.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted AGI Doom and the Drake Equation as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted You probably shouldn't use OpenAI's embeddings as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why is Mark Zuckerberg building the Metaverse? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Job Pays Much More Than a Salary as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The path to autonomous intelligent agents: what needs to happen as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted ChatGPT plugins: OpenAI's attempt to kill Google as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What is artificial intelligence and what isn't? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Text-to-image software: a piano or a digital camera? as a story · 1 points
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