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by gavinray 6mo ago
This is not "true" ad-hoc union support like TS or Scala This is essentially "sealed interface" from Java/Kotlin or "enum" in Rust
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by gavinray 6mo ago
This seems really up Stephen Wolframs alley. He's really into the graphical representation of Turing machines and multiway Turing machines.
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by gavinray 6mo ago
I'd not heard of this before, quick search turned up this 2025 post which suggests "fused cross-entropy loss" kernel was integrated into PyTorch: https://pytorch.org/blog/peak-performance-minimized-memory
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by gavinray 6mo ago
My favorite SNES game (Uncharted Waters 2) is a 2MB ROM. I think about that every time I send a screenshot. The depth, complexity, and audiovisual beauty of that game stuffed into a space roughly a few times larger than a capture of my 1440
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by gavinray 6mo ago
It's probably easier to add a JS Guest Language to the CLR than transpile to C# CLR already has multiple Language front-ends (C#, F#, VB, IronPython)
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by gavinray 6mo ago
> "Well," said Bear. "Leave rabbit thoughts alone in the dark, they build a little rabbit to have them. That's just what thoughts do. They're extremely bad at minding their own business."
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by gavinray 6mo ago
> The shift for me was realizing test generation shouldn’t be a one-off step. Tests need to live alongside the codebase so they stay in sync and have more context. Does the actual test code generated by the agent get persisted to
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by gavinray 6mo ago
I find the "8 hour Linux Desktop" bit disingenuous, in the fine print it's a browser page: > "build a Linux-style desktop environment as a web application" They claim "50 applications from scratch&quo
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by gavinray 6mo ago
I'd say it's almost something of a rite of passage to get taken advantage of if you're young and working in tech startups. Usually this is in the form of abysmally low pay, along with "Sweat Equity": https:/&#
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by gavinray 6mo ago
It doesn't make sense to me that an embedded VM/interpreter could ever outperform direct code You're adding a layer of abstraction and indirection, so how is it possible that a more indirect solution can have better performan
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by gavinray 6mo ago
Depending on your definition of "death", I've been there (no heartbeat, stopped breathing for several minutes). In the time between my last memory, and being revived in the ambulance, there was no experience/qualia. Like
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by gavinray 6mo ago
I'm in the same boat with you. It's entirely too much to put in a Hacker News comment, but if I had to phrase my beliefs as precisely as possible, it would be something like: > "Phenomenal consciousness arises when a s
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by gavinray 6mo ago
Why have we been fed the narrative that training models on their own output progressively degrades quality? It's the first thing anyone would think of (like a self-hosted compiler) but everything I've read said "it doesn&#x27
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by gavinray 6mo ago
I've had the thought that English is an efficiency barrier for a while now. Surely there are more information-dense representations of semantic concepts. Some languages for example have single characters that represent entire ideas&#x2
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by gavinray 6mo ago
It's useful for syndicating your self-hosted blog content so that when people Google topics your stuff shows up. I generally fire-and-forget on Reddit, except for more niche communities where sometimes domain experts actually comment
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by gavinray 6mo ago
This other comment by the same user in one of the links from 2 weeks ago I found the easiest to understand, in brief: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47389233
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by gavinray 6mo ago
> At least they're throwing consumers a bone via the ARK deal. I had to look this up. There's a venture fund you can invest in with as little as $500 as a consumer -- though it's limited to quarterly withdrawals.
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by gavinray 6mo ago
> "because it will just get subsumed into CC at some point if it actually works." This is the sharp-bladed axe of reason I've used against all of these massive "prompt frameworks" and "superprompts&q
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by gavinray 6mo ago
Mike is saying that if you allow users to type before the scripts are fully loaded, there is no way to tell the difference between a human and bot. Blocking until load means that human interaction is physically impossible, so you are certai
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by gavinray 7mo ago
Fair enough, thanks!
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by gavinray 7mo ago
I read the entire thing top-to-bottom, as a visual learner this is superb. One nitpick -- in the "asymmetric quantification" code, shouldn't "zero" be called "midpoint" or similar? Or is "zero" a
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by gavinray 7mo ago
From your second paper: > In particular, we can generate fixed random rotation matrices at initialization, and multiply them into the activations any time we read from or write to the residual stream. I guess I was mistaken in as
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by gavinray 7mo ago
I had to read this over a few times to piece it together, thanks for the thorough and digestable explanation!
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by gavinray 7mo ago
Can someone ELI5 these two concepts please, which make no sense to me: > "TurboQuant starts by randomly rotating the data vectors. This clever step simplifies the data's geometry" I don't understand how taking
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by gavinray 7mo ago
I've taken both Retatrutide and Cagrilintide. I required doses of Reta higher than the 8mg top end used in clinical trials to get appetite suppression out of it, and Cagrilintide made me feel run-down and generally unwell. Tirzepatide
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by gavinray 7mo ago
Why weren't you able to use WASM shared heaps to get zero-copy behavior? AFAIK, you can create a shared memory block between WASM <-> JS: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAssembly/Referen
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by gavinray 7mo ago
> You can't just buy a Claude subscription and have magically solve your problems. Devil's advocate: The operating intelligence of Opus 4.6 is higher than the average persons and has orders of magnitude more domain know
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by gavinray 7mo ago
Discussion from 2 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47274676
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by gavinray 7mo ago
This is stated in the original post as well, under "The Beginning of LLM Neuroanatomy?" section: > From end-position 43 to 46, we then see solid boosts in math scores (red = good, yay). But include layer 46 or beyond, and t
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by gavinray 7mo ago
Can someone ELI5 how this hypothesis could ever be true? > "The core hypothesis: what makes language useful for pre-training is its structure, not its semantics." As a layman, I've always held the intuition that sem

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