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Upgrading Substack’s recommendation network

Substack • 897 implied HN points • 22 Feb 24
🕹 Technology Recommendations Network Features Improvements
  1. Recommendations feature on Substack drives significant subscriber growth, with 50% of new subscriptions and 25% of new paid subscriptions coming from it.
  2. Substack is enhancing the Recommendations feature to allow writers to curate scenes for readers, expanding the reach and enabling a peer-to-peer system of trusted endorsements.
  3. Writers can customize and recommend more publications and profiles to readers, fostering a symbiotic media ecosystem and helping each other grow their audiences on Substack.

Card Insights

Pine • 19 implied HN points • 18 Jun 24
🕹 Technology Software Data Analytics User Experience Improvements
  1. Pine now has cool analytics tools to help you understand your data better. You can break down and show your information in different ways.
  2. They've made some neat improvements, like showing summary insights and helping you create better connections between cards. This makes using the app more user-friendly.
  3. You can now open links in new tabs easily and get notifications for actions you take. These small updates improve the overall experience when using the app.
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More Agents Is All You Need

Gonzo ML • 63 implied HN points • 18 Feb 24
🕹 Technology Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Models Improvements
  1. Having more agents and aggregating their results through voting can improve outcome quality, as demonstrated by a team from Tencent
  2. The approach of generating multiple samples from the same model and conducting a majority vote shows promise for enhancing various tasks like Arithmetic Reasoning, General Reasoning, and Code Generation
  3. Ensembling methods showed quality improvement with the ensemble size but plateaued after around 10 agents, with benefits being stable across different hyperparameter values

2023 - Year in Review

trydeepwork • 2 implied HN points • 01 Jan 24
🕹 Technology Features Improvements Integration Community Productivity
  1. In 2023, over 2,000 users completed 17,000 sessions totaling 17,100 deep work hours.
  2. Highlights of 2023 for trydeepwork included new features like sign-in with Google and Twitter, weekly challenges, and more.
  3. For 2024, plans include improving platform features, growing the community, and adding social features for support in achieving personal goals.