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by mkaic 2y ago
This reminded me of Bishop's Castle in Colorado, USA — an incredible project built almost entirely by one man (who sadly died last year) working on it nonstop for 40 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop_Cast
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by mkaic 2y ago
As a queer person who hasn't used Grindr but has heard about it from others, my understanding is that it has a reputation for being more for hookups than actual dating. Heard a story about a gay male friend-of-a-friend setting up an ac
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by mkaic 2y ago
Hell yeah. They do strike me as opening up some exciting possibilities—the fact that we can now do math on semantic information (something that has famously evaded prior attempts to do math on it) is really intriguing.
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Ask HN: What "fundamental" research efforts are you excited about?
2 points by mkaic 2y ago|2 comments
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by mkaic 2y ago
This reminds me of the antics of streamer DougDoug, who often uses LLM APIs to live-summarize, analyze, or interact with his (often multi-thousand-strong) Twitch chat. Most recently I saw him do a GeoGuessr stream where he had ChatGPT assum
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by mkaic 2y ago
I seem to be going in the opposite order lol—I've been getting my facial hair removed for almost a year now, but am only barely starting to become comfortable with the idea of actually transitioning. And if I did transition, I think I&
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by mkaic 2y ago
As someone pondering the exact same sentiment of "I like women so much that I kinda want to be one" but who hasn't fully committed to it yet, I really appreciated your vulnerability and lucid writing. I hope folks are kind
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by mkaic 2y ago
Starlink satellites are placed in extremely low orbits specifically to avoid their becoming dangerous space-junk — their orbits are intended to decay after around 5 years, at which point they burn up in the atmosphere and leave no debris
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by mkaic 2y ago
Monk and Robot is such a wonderful series. I have often wondered about the "now what" part of living in a hypothetical utopia, and Chambers explores that existential question really thoughtfully.
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Prefer If Statements to Polymorphism(htmx.org)
3 points by mkaic 2y ago|1 comments
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by mkaic 2y ago
A friendly reminder: if you have tech-illiterate people in your life (parents, grandparents, friends, etc), please reach out to them and inform them about advances in AI text, image, audio, and (as of very recently) video generation. Many
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Enhanced Image Search and Open Sourcing FastFeedParser(kagi.com)
5 points by mkaic 2y ago|0 comments
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by mkaic 2y ago
Anecdotally, I feel like I've heard "powerhouse" used somewhat regularly when describing impressive people, i.e.: "Such-and-such is an absolute powerhouse on the field", or "That person is so productive, they
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The Best Things in Life Are Model-Free (2018)(archives.argmin.net)
2 points by mkaic 2y ago|0 comments
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Vector math library codegen in Debug(aras-p.info)
2 points by mkaic 2y ago|0 comments
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Goldbach's Conjecture(en.wikipedia.org)
6 points by mkaic 2y ago|0 comments
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by mkaic 2y ago
Counterpoint: the hidden state at the beginning of ([the][cat][is][black]) x 3 is (probably) initialized to all zeros, but after seeing those first 4 tokens, it will not be all zeros. Thus, going into the second repetition of the sentence
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by mkaic 2y ago
> there would be a massive amount of redundant information stored in hidden activations Is there a way to prove this? One potential caveat that comes to mind for me is that perhaps the action of lerping between the old state and the new
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by mkaic 2y ago
The counterargument here is that you can just scale the size of the hidden state sufficiently such that it can hold compressed representations of whatever-length sequence you like. Ultimately, what I care about is whether RNNs could compete
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by mkaic 2y ago
I strongly enjoy the simplicity of their "minGRU" architecture. It's basically just: class MinGRU(nn.Module): def __init__(self, token_size, hidden_state_size): self.token_to_proposal = nn.Linear(token_size, hid
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by mkaic 2y ago
Haven't written anything up about it, but the code is here: https://github.com/mkaic/dagnabbit . I haven't gotten it to work particularly well yet, so I don't have any demos posted. If I ever get it to a
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by mkaic 2y ago
This is fascinating—I've recently been experimenting with something spookily similar after coming across the same paper as OP, only I'm trying to make random DAGs of logic gates reconstruct images rather than audio signals. Gr
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by mkaic 2y ago
Liberty costs 1,009 gallons of water per day :P
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by mkaic 2y ago
I have used Comic Mono as my coding font for the past 2 years and unironically love it. I installed it as a joke so I could take some screenshots and get funny reactions out of my friends, but found myself genuinely enjoying the readability
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by mkaic 2y ago
Regarding "What makes people fat?", I feel like there are few charts as damning as the one [0] halfway through TFA showing a spike in obesity rates that coincides nearly perfectly with the introduction of the modern USDA Food Pyra
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NVLM: Open Frontier-Class Multimodal LLMs from Nvidia(nvlm-project.github.io)
4 points by mkaic 2y ago|0 comments
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by mkaic 2y ago
My intention was less to imply " I'll just spin it up" and more to imply "Some competitor of Mistral's will spin it up". I agree that from my perspective as a casual user, Mistral's API is quite convenien
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by mkaic 2y ago
I guess I was just under the impression that cloud inference is such a competitive market that it'd be nigh-on-impossible to compete with the major players.
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by mkaic 2y ago
As much as I love their work, I can't be the only one who really struggles to see a path to profitability for Mistral, right? How do you make money selling API access to a model which anyone else can spin up an API for (license is Apac
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by mkaic 2y ago
> "...they're not capable of thinking or coming up with novel ideas." This claim is unfalsifiable given common definitions of "thinking" and "coming up with novel ideas".

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