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by rossant 1y ago
Tiny language model.
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by rossant 1y ago
One billion for a childish change name. Great use of public money.
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What the American Academy of Pediatrics has to do with a Texas man on death row(jenniferblockauthor.substack.com)
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Video-gaming mice reveal how decisions take shape in the brain(thetimes.com)
4 points by rossant 1y ago|0 comments
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by rossant 1y ago
Now do it without imports.
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by rossant 1y ago
A linear algebra course without graphics? When I learnt it at school almost 25 years ago, the teacher made schematics all the time to explain the visual intuition behind each concept. I was totally confused when he introduced the abstract d
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by rossant 1y ago
There are so many frameworks in this fast-moving space that I need mnemonics to keep track of which ones are well-regarded and which aren’t. Looks like this one is easy. Next.js? Next.
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by rossant 1y ago
I was exploring the OpenAlex database [1] when I discovered that paper abstracts were not stored in plain text but as an inverted index, e.g.: "abstract_inverted_index": { "To": [ 0 ], "determine":
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Storing abstracts of academic papers as inverted indexes for legal reasons(law.stackexchange.com)
2 points by rossant 1y ago|2 comments
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by rossant 1y ago
Maybe he meant "I'll be very old..." the second time.
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Polish CEO's company review bombed after stealing hat from child at tennis game(dexerto.com)
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by rossant 1y ago
Like in soccer: https://www.hudl.com/blog/psg-recruitment-strategy-2025
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by rossant 1y ago
Same. Like what to take in my luggage. Grocery list. To do list. And everything else. I use Dynalist. Great tool. My secret super power, by those who also made Obsidian.
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by rossant 1y ago
Unpopular opinion, but I find it wild how much people dislike CSS around here. I learned it over 25 years ago and loved it. I still use it regularly and appreciate the constant evolution of the language. Like every language, it has its quir
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by rossant 1y ago
Great write-up! It looks we’re heading toward a world with many different models of varying sizes—some local, some cloud-based, some general-purpose, and some specialized—rather than relying on a single massive, expensive, energy-hungry mod
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by rossant 1y ago
Love Linux. Finally moved over it more than 10y ago and never looked back. Still a few minor issues though. Sleep doesn't work well with Ubuntu on a desktop PC with an Nvidia card. It frequently wakes up immediately, or the screen rema
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by rossant 1y ago
Totally. As a C developer, I really suffer whenever I need to touch anything C++.
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by rossant 1y ago
The first commenter on this site introduces himself as "a physician who did a computer science degree before medical school." He is now president of the Ray Helfer Society [1], "an honorary society of physicians seeking to pr
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by rossant 1y ago
Interesting initiative but I wonder if the mode provides sufficient granularity. For example, what about an original human-generated text that is entirely translated by an AI?
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by rossant 1y ago
Should ChatGPT have the ability to alert a hotline or emergency services when it detects a user is about to commit suicide? Or would it open a can of worms?
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by rossant 1y ago
That may well be the main reason, actually.
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by rossant 1y ago
Zelensky in the oval office last February certainly reminded me the school yard.
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by rossant 1y ago
I imagine local LLMs are almost as dangerous as remote ones as they're prone to the same type of attacks.
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by rossant 1y ago
Oh wow. What a read. Thank you.
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by rossant 1y ago
I'm a white guy working in science and tech, and I only avoided jail by sheer luck (believe it or not, one day my 4-month-old baby vomited at the nanny’s, and if it had happened a few hours earlier I would have been the one arrested by
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by rossant 1y ago
Yes, and it's a fallacy to imagine you'll never end up there if you don't ever do anything wrong. The proportion of totally innocent people in prison is all but negligible. Hard to believe but true.
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by rossant 1y ago
Great article, but the entire website is excellent too. Definitely worth exploring.
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by rossant 1y ago
My blog post reached #1 on HN two years ago. The 1000+ comments were extremely interesting and encouraging. I learned a lot and engaged in highly insightful discussions. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37650402
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by rossant 1y ago
That was... not that bad, actually.
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by rossant 1y ago
Is it good for text translation and summarization?

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