Eric Florenzano

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Eric Florenzano

@ericflo

Building assistance! Used to make AR/VR. Before that made mobile apps. Before that made web things. People first, then products, systems, data. he/him

San Francisco, CA Beigetreten Mart 2008
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Eric Florenzano
Eric Florenzano@ericflo·
In case it wasn't obvious by the fact that I haven't posted here since October, I want to say for the record and so that I can pin it, that I'm still posting, but now mainly on the email-like alternative to this place (currently on .xyz, being coy in case they ban refs to it)
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Eric Florenzano@ericflo·
@trq212 Why did my `claude -p` loop stop counting against my MAX plan and instead charge expensive API prices? This seemed to start happening in the middle of the night last night alongside these wording changes :(
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Thariq@trq212·
We want to encourage local development and experimentation with the Agent SDK and claude -p. If you’re building a business on top of the Agent SDK, you should use an API key instead. We’ll make sure that’s clearer in our docs.
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Andrej Karpathy@karpathy·
@shazow Very good questions imo experienced devs have a real advantage but only if they rapidly progress through their grief cycle and adapt, now and onwards. Categorically rejecting or ignoring the new layer would be a mistake.
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Eric Florenzano@ericflo·
@DavidSHolz @nearcyan Random but seeing this interaction in the TL reminded me of your old SVVR talk that for me was one of the more inspirational of that era - hard to believe it's been 10 years, 2015. Things did get weird but differently than predicted youtu.be/xAUG6prB2nA
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David@DavidSHolz·
@nearcyan what do you think gets it to take off?
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near@nearcyan·
strong feeling that VR/AR is where AI was in 2019 rn
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Daniel Beauchamp@pushmatrix·
This is three.js running on the Exosphere. 🤯 Rendering in realtime from a browser at 8K / 60fps. Here’s how Shopify just pulled it off 👇
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John Schulman
John Schulman@johnschulman2·
Tinker provides an abstraction layer that is the right one for post-training R&D -- it's the infrastructure I've always wanted. I'm excited to see what people build with it. "Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them" -Whitehead
Thinking Machines@thinkymachines

Introducing Tinker: a flexible API for fine-tuning language models. Write training loops in Python on your laptop; we'll run them on distributed GPUs. Private beta starts today. We can't wait to see what researchers and developers build with cutting-edge open models! thinkingmachines.ai/tinker

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SwiftOnSecurity@SwiftOnSecurity·
This Jimmy Kimmel FCC threat thing is full anti-speech fascistic nonsense and is a huge breach of the republic. I do not talk like this lightly.
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Azad Balabanian
Azad Balabanian@Azadux·
imo self driving cars are unsafe they need to be able to protect their riders against external malicious actors. I'm sure at some point, they'll need to be equipped with weapons, or some sort of deterance device
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Daniel Beauchamp
Daniel Beauchamp@pushmatrix·
Today @Shopify is open sourcing the tool we use for optimizing glTF 3D models. 🔧 Tweak compression settings per texture ⚡ See changes immediately 🧰 Mesh compression options 🌐 Hosted online & free 👇 Check the thread for details
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kalomaze@kalomaze·
GRPO doesn't seem to collapse at higher LRs if you clip all negative advantages to zero. it takes longer to reach the same point, but in a markedly more stable way
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Daniel Beauchamp@pushmatrix·
That means that it's possible to send byte sequences directly to the steering wheel in the format it expects. Logitech doesn't seem to publish this spec anywhere, but with Wireshark + USBCap I was able to reverse engineer the exact bytes to send to the wheel to rumble.
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Ilya Grigorik
Ilya Grigorik@igrigorik·
This is a GIANT sleeper feature. Every Shopify storefront now exposes an MCP endpoint with tools to query merchant's catalog, look up store info, build a cart, and order status! Docs: shopify.dev/docs/apps/buil… — this instantly turns any MCP-capable agent into authoritative commerce agent.
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Use the global Shopify Catalog to build apps and agents that search products across millions of Shopify businesses. New MCP tools enable store chatbots to find products and make purchases, and the Knowledge Base app lets merchants edit FAQs given to buyers in AI shopping chats.

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Sam Altman
Sam Altman@sama·
people loved the GPT-4.5 podcast! what would you like to see one on next?
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Eric Florenzano@ericflo·
@kalomaze I run an indie Beat Saber alternative called Soundboxing where all the maps are user generated (it predates Beat Saber) and have something like 4TB+ of user generated beatmap data & replays. Have always wondered about doing something like this. Please keep sharing what you find!
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Eric Florenzano@ericflo·
@jazzychad App Clips sound like a great idea, and are convenient for the user, but will tank your app installs - nobody ever converts from app clip to full app - so not usually wise from a business or customer acquisition POV
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Chad Etzel@jazzychad·
My game could easily fit in an AppClip… is there *any* advantage to spending time on this (when I’m also planning to make a playable web version…) ?? The entire app itself is well below 10MB
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kalomaze@kalomaze·
it's time for open source to start picking the biggest low hanging fruit. verifiable, automatically generated, yet non-mathematical or programming-based reasoning. it can be done.
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kalomaze@kalomaze·
there is absurd untapped alpha in GRPO verifiable rewards, except determined by a bespoke rubric model that judges individual yes/no criteria (in this case, you'd judge the translation to another language and back as a proxy for retaining meaning across languages)
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kalomaze@kalomaze·
@rosmine "so how does the softmax bottleneck actually work? what's it actually do, i don't understand the criteria for something to be bottlenecked by the activation function or why it's named what it is"
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Rosmine@rosmine·
I got ChatGPT Pro to try out Deep Research. Do you want a summary of ML research in a particular subfield? Give me your query and I'll run it
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Simo Ryu@cloneofsimo·
Ahhh ok so to make the output not shit, you have to use cfg =,,,,,,,,, ofc wait this is actually kinda sad #text-to-image-generation" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">github.com/deepseek-ai/Ja…
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Simo Ryu@cloneofsimo·
Its my first time training autoregressive image model Why is the loss so high? like what the hell bro also why are my samples so shit?
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Daniel Beauchamp
Daniel Beauchamp@pushmatrix·
It also works in VR 🤯 Grab a Quest or Apple Vision Pro and step into the immersive cockpit. Got to love WebXR and the amazing react-three/xr.
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