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I am more focused on Rem'mie Fells than Lea Thomas.

This is my sincere response.

> Won't stop Platner.

That's unfortunate. Choosing a leader who lies constantly and boasts of enjoying killing people seems like an unnecessary mistake. He is attacked by people who have defended far worse and are quite cynical. That doesn't mean he should be defended. He should be attacked by a left comfortable enough in its future vision as to not compromise on basic principles.

The attacks against Mamdani were disingenuous. This suspicion has heightened when the other candidates being artificially propped up had such huge flaws. I hope we can learn to see when that dynamic pops up in other places.

I enjoyed Miller Puckette's Theory and Techniques of Electronic Music, using Pd. https://msp.ucsd.edu/techniques.htm

For more information about his methods, broadly termed energy based models, check out the deep learning course he co-taught with Alfredo Canziani at NYU. https://atcold.github.io/NYU-DLSP20/

This is easily defeated by pre-processing as is commonly done before training.

Qualcomm shares are up 10% on the news.

Nukes in space:

SNAP (USA) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_for_Nuclear_Auxiliary_...

US-A (USSR) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US-A

> why the need for expensive surveillance if your chief goal was to annihilate a population?

Gaza has long been a showroom and R&D space for technologies of oppression. Field proven platforms sell.

Thanks for making this tool. Plenty of us have similar use case to your own.

Is .docx edit support a possibility in the future?

You can't get TVP at Burger King. The old veggie burgers tasted terrible.

Food is important. Most people don't want to stop eating all the dishes they enjoy and just switch to Indian food. People lie on a spectrum of openness to new things. Developing a high quality direct alternative to a foundational yet highly fraught ingredient of the American diet makes sense to me. Even a bit less beef mitigates the near daily amputations by workers at processing plants or horrors we are adding to with climate annihilation.

Personally, Impossible and Beyond materially improved my life by adding to it. I enjoy their products, and still make plenty of Indian food.

This is such a smart move for the country. Best wishes on their important endeavor.

This is great to see. I had wrongly assumed MLX was Apple-only.

Do you need to copy to load a model from CPU memory into GPU memory?

He lost 31 pounds during two weeks in CECOT.

For medical applications, across several generations of models, we see fine-tuned models outperform base models of similar size. However, newer/bigger general base models outperform smaller fine-tuned models.

Also, as others have pointed out, supervised fine-tuning can be quite useful for teaching how to perform specific tasks. I agree with the author that RAG generally is more suited for injecting additional knowledge.

I'll try that. I like Seek by iNaturalist for plants and mushrooms. Still looking for better performance on trees.

To folks in the Finger Lakes, the lab that makes the app regularly posts tech jobs on Cornell.edu, though that is likely impacted by Cornell's current hiring freeze.

I'd love to know the backstory behind having multiple apps.

I also recommend Seek and iNaturalist, a similar pair of apps for many kinds of life (plants, fungi, animals, insects, etc). Seek relies on camera instead of microphone to make IDs.

Rare opportunity to hire such a strong engineer.

Exciting to see end-to-end deep learning go head-to-head with XGBoost and random forest.

There is an upcoming paper about a difficult pair of prompts.

What is the first digit of the following number: 01111111111111111...1111

What is the last digit of the following number: 11111111111...111111110

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As a reader, which do you imagine to be harder? For both, with arbitrary length, they always get it wrong. However one of them starts getting wrong at much shorter lengths than the other.

"Attention is all you need" is an outlier. They backed up their bold claim with breakthrough results.

For modest incremental improvements, I greatly prefer boring technical titles. Not everything needs to a stochastic parrot. We see this dynamic with building luxury condos. On any individual project, making that pick will help juice profit. When the whole city follows that , it leads to a less desirable outcome.

"I default to using the MIT license as it is simple and permissive."

He already gave them permission. I think he is overemphasizing the meeting they had and under-emphasizing already giving away his work.

I recommend one of his books, The Name of God is Mercy

The Trump administrations attacks are able to go so far now, because institutions already rolled over under a Democratic administration.

Take for instance University of Pennsylvania. In 2023, student anonymously projected "Let Gaza Live" onto a building. The next day then-college president Liz Magill publicly called in the FBI to investigate this as an "antisemitic hate crime". She was later forced to resign for "not doing enough" to combat alleged antisemitism.

It bothers me how frequently these Jewish students and organizations are erased.

Previous discussion a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31060265