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by sota_pop 10mo ago
I for one have been trying to use the term “ad tech” in lieu of “big tech/faang/etc.” for a couple of years now hoping it will catch.
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by sota_pop 10mo ago
All commenters here missing the big picture/long game…. Apple just doing their part to poison the well for future LLM training data across the internet. With enough typos littered about the Internet, that’ll really grind foundation LLM
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by sota_pop 11mo ago
Interesting thought. However, the author starts with “In business…”, then immediately goes on to shoehorn the idea to people. The logic tracks if your underlying assumption is that the core purpose of a human life is to “be productive” (sic
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by sota_pop 11mo ago
I haven’t read in detail, but based on sheer speculation, this may be relevant: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/demo... Many retirement accounts/managers may already be channeling
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by sota_pop 11mo ago
It’s possible the model architecture influences the effectiveness of utilizing pretrained weights. i.e. cnns might be a good fit for this since the first portion is the feature extractor, but you might scrap the decoder and simply retrain t
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by sota_pop 11mo ago
I’m no expert in Rust, but have done a couple of very minimal weekend projects. In the time I’ve read up on Rust, I’ve always looked at the borrow mechanism like an extreme/overactive implementation of RAII from C++, that is triggered
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by sota_pop 11mo ago
Exactly this… seeing ads on a service for which I’ve already paid makes me absolutely irate. Almost as bad as having to purchase content on a service I already pay for (Apple comes to mind although more do this as well). And there is absolu
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by sota_pop 11mo ago
While “stochastic parrot” is obviously an over-simplification, and the way the phrase was originally coined in context was likewise obviously intended to be dismissive, I think the analogy holds. I see them as a lossy storage system. I thin
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by sota_pop 11mo ago
The Empty Boat poem comes to mind. Accountability-As-A-Service.
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by sota_pop 11mo ago
I could be aging myself, but what about the back-office software that’s been driving business operations for at least two decades that utilize SVMs and other techniques unrelated to the transformer architecture or even deep learning?? I hav
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by sota_pop 11mo ago
I thought I read specifically with the intention of putting it into OpenAI directly, but yes they said they wanted to “pursue other ventures in the area of AI”.
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by sota_pop 11mo ago
100% is a serious move. Taken alone, I might not think much, but given the SoftBank exit recently, Jensen’s trading activity, Gates selling so much MSFT, Buffett’s recent trading activity, Trump’s recent trading activity, and the interestin
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by sota_pop 11mo ago
> openly lied Surely he merely hallucinated based on a fine-tuned distribution, and had no ulterior motive for projecting a level of growth in technical sophistication beyond their current capability onto a somewhat lay, highly speculati
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by sota_pop 11mo ago
The point is that next-token prediction produces output by sampling from distributions assembled by text it has seen previously (hence stochastic). The “ding” or claim is that - like a parrot - LLMs can’t produce responses which are truly n
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by sota_pop 11mo ago
There is no particular reason necessitates it. It merely depends on your end goal; is your highest priority to maximize profits or to strengthen the foundation of your academic/scholastic institution? There’s a perspective where those
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by sota_pop 11mo ago
So hysterical levels of investment still comes back to the Kelly Criterion… at the risk of sounding apophenic; the influence Bell Labs continues to have on our world amazes me more every day.
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by sota_pop 11mo ago
Not only whispr, so much of the computer vision area is not as in vogue. I suspect because the truly monumental solutions unlocked are not that accessible to the average person; i.e. industrial manufacturing and robotics at scale.
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by sota_pop 11mo ago
Dangit, now I’ll have to start buying fuses for my electrical panel.
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by sota_pop 11mo ago
“This year, we’ve completely redesigned your governmental doctrines from the ground up - increasing governmental synergies by 700% compared to the M1 chip…”
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by sota_pop 1y ago
Not sure the other responses caught the reference there, Tyler.
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by sota_pop 1y ago
I started my deep learning journey circa 2018 hand crafting autoencoders with Matlab cells. Pretty quickly moving on to Python, I remember reading about PyTorch and TensorFlow. Back then, TF lacked dynamic graphs which made PT way more favo
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by sota_pop 1y ago
Engineer is to scientist as builder is to engineer. Scientists take reality observations and make theories/models/principles. Engineers take scientific principles and make technological designs. Builders take available technologie
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by sota_pop 1y ago
All of the ones with Arnold are actually good.
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by sota_pop 1y ago
I absolutely don’t “read the text all at once” and do read “left to right”. Could be why I usually find that my reading speed is slower than most. Although I’ve never really had a hard time with comprehension or remembering details.
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by sota_pop 1y ago
As an EE, once upon a time had a rep pitch PoE lighting fixtures. Cool idea, like allowing each individual fixture to be addressable/ controllable on a BAS, but they just had too many gotchas like coupling lighting (and by extension li
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by sota_pop 1y ago
Amazon devs to ClaudeCode: “That didn’t fix it. The service is down, pls fix. Make no mistakes. pls.”
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by sota_pop 1y ago
Very nice viz. it reminds me of the visualizations people used to do of the mnist data set in the days when the quintessential ML project was “training a hand writing digits classifier”: https://projector.tensorflow.org/
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by sota_pop 1y ago
“The proof is self-evident, and been left as an exercise for the reader.”
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by sota_pop 1y ago
Interesting idea, but should probably revise the title to be prefixed with “Show HN:”.
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by sota_pop 1y ago
Why not release an editorial format designed to be printed, and you could just print it yourself?

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