mchinen

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by mchinen 5mo ago
It's special for sure. For those on the fence, it has some writing and direction flaws, especially with minor characters, like the disgruntled neighbor and IP theft bit in the first season. But it grows as a show over time, and the 5 l
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by mchinen 6mo ago
Thanks, I missed that.
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by mchinen 6mo ago
Bowed instruments are very cool to model because of the nonlinear slip of the bow against the string. A bit curious why bowing was not discussed or used in the example of a violin, just plucking. Do luthiers test violins more by plucking th
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by mchinen 6mo ago
This a more aggressive form, the app redirect existed for a while, but there was the option to dismiss and continue using the browser. On the other hand, I'm hopeful that this will help me get out of bed just a bit faster.
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Reddit seems to be blocking mobile browser access for some users(piunikaweb.com)
1 points by mchinen 6mo ago|1 comments
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by mchinen 6mo ago
Thank you for wording it better than I could. On the computational side, the integral as a function that measures how the another function accumulates intuitively lets you measure the area under the curve between two points only requires tw
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by mchinen 6mo ago
I've studied the proofs before but there's still something mystical and unintuitive for me about the area under an entire curve being related to the derivative at only two points, especially for wobbly non monotonic functions. I f
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by mchinen 6mo ago
Jeff is a cool guy to make a reasonable and level headed post like this. I would be struggling to not be more resentful. He was also nice and approachable in person, which to be honest I didn't expect from the utilitarian no chit chat
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by mchinen 6mo ago
Does it run for you? I can select it this way but it says 'There's an issue with the selected model (claude-opus-4-7). It may not exist or you may not have access to it. Run /model to pick a different model.'
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by mchinen 6mo ago
These stuck out as promising things to try. It looks like xhigh on 4.7 scores significantly higher on the internal coding benchmark (71% vs 54%, though unclear what that is exactly) > More effort control: Opus 4.7 introduces a new xhigh
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NVIDIA's Audio Flamingo Next: Open audio-language models(afnext-umd-nvidia.github.io)
2 points by mchinen 6mo ago|0 comments
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by mchinen 6mo ago
I've been feeling the squeeze too. I've tried switching between different models as a test, I can at least say it feels like the limits are about half of what they used to be a few months ago. I'd be totally willing to conced
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by mchinen 7mo ago
This is similar to my experience. I find many people on the forums that can't resolve the crashes in Red Dead Redemption 2, so I suspect a lot of it depends on the specific games you've picked. It is clearly getting better globall
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by mchinen 7mo ago
Thanks for breaking it down in a balanced way.
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by mchinen 7mo ago
He also was on Dwarkesh's podcast last week ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Fkpi18QXU ). I enjoyed the human->depth vs AI->breadth discussion and the waterline rising slowly to fill the 50 lowest hanging Erdos
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by mchinen 7mo ago
I haven't seen any negative sentiment toward Terence Tao before. Coming from outside the academic math sphere, genuinely curious if there's a real issue or if this comment is just spam itself.
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by mchinen 8mo ago
This has clearly triggered a lot of people, with the full spectrum of arguments for and against having kids below. I'm bookmarking this as an example of driving engagement by taking a fairly benign topic ('helping others was rewar
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Trends in US Construction Productivity(construction-physics.com)
1 points by mchinen 8mo ago|0 comments
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by mchinen 8mo ago
I wrote a bit about how the kind of tech culture in HACF feels more relevant in light of the LLMs even 2 years back before I heard of mourning a craft. Here's an excerpt: One thing I liked about HACF is despite using a decent amount of
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I Let an AI Agent Migrate My Server While I Ate Dinner (Unsupervised)(michaelchinen.com)
1 points by mchinen 8mo ago|1 comments
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by mchinen 10mo ago
If you liked the first half of this site and want an extension, Cell Biology by the Numbers (2015, Milo, Phillips, https://book.bionumbers.org/ ) is great and has a similar intuition-building fun sense about size as well as
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by mchinen 11mo ago
Down, but the linked status page shows mostly operational, except for "Support Portal Availability Issues" and planned maintenance. Since it was linked, I'm curious if others see differently. edit: It now says "Cloudflar
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Music Flamingo: Scaling Music Understanding in Audio Language Models(research.nvidia.com)
2 points by mchinen 11mo ago|0 comments
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by mchinen 1y ago
Definitely! This makes me think of petrichor, the earthy smells released during rain, in urban environments is very local and memory triggering because it's tied to bacterial soil/rock/plant composition. There's somethin
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by mchinen 1y ago
Scott Alexander has a similar 1-page horror story from 2012 where an earing that gives advice consumes the user: https://gwern.net/doc/fiction/science-fiction/2012-10-03-yva...
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by mchinen 1y ago
I recorded myself trying it out to port some old apps of mine using Claude code as a first time user of it. I'm not even a youtuber and make these to keep myself accountable, so it's not that fun to watch, but it might be in the d
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by mchinen 2y ago
Claude Shannon was interested in this kind of thing and had a paper on the entropy per letter or word of English. He also has a section in his famous "A Mathematical Theory of Communication that has experiments using the conditional p
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by mchinen 2y ago
This is really one of the best things I've seen on HN in 15 years. The mixed presentation of plug and play components interspersed with EE problems and solution really helped make it more accessible. It also got me excited about the p
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by mchinen 2y ago
[Edit: I suppose the correct answer was for the full model]. What I got was much worse when I ran with hf.co/unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B-GGUF:Q8_0. (I think the glyph-based reasoning is especially hard for models though
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by mchinen 2y ago
All the 'founder attitude' book recs are probably a good idea, but I would recommend supplementing with some VC and investing vehicle stuff, such as Secrets of Sand Hill Road and The Power Law, especially if that seems unimportant

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