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dcl··on Start Doing Graph Theory
Yep, being able to understand more complex ideas and having frameworks for thinking/abstracting things will always be helpful. Graph theory is a great example.
dcl··on Meta censored the No Kings Instagram account during a nationwide campaign
Remember when <obviously equally detestable but probably far less capable person> from <party> ran for president and had the support of <the mainstream media> to sway voters and elections?
dcl··on Timestral: Mistral's time-series foundation models
Did some on our internal datasets. It did not beat our AutoARIMA baselines, they are pretty noisy series though. Custom ML models only do a little better.
dcl··on UK Defence Startups Are Being Denied Banking Services Under ESG Rules
There's already books... Gad Saad's 'Suicidal Empathy' is one.
dcl··on UK Defence Startups Are Being Denied Banking Services Under ESG Rules
The _adversaries_ once again having a good laugh.
dcl··on Timestral: Mistral's time-series foundation models
Are they very stationary time series with not very changing dynamics over time?
dcl··on Timestral: Mistral's time-series foundation models
Any benchmarks against AutoARIMA?
dcl··on DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017
Very keen to try this out tonight. What coding harness do people like to use with these models?
dcl··on Muse Wonder
couldn't feel the AGI
dcl··on OLED burn-in test: 30-month update
Just bought a new ASUS 32" OLED with the stripe RGB subpixel pattern... Looks like I'll have be more careful with burn in than I thought.
dcl··on OLED burn-in test: 30-month update
We had a Pioneer Plasma Elite and played LOTS of PS2/PS3 games on it, we had no burn in as far as I could tell?
dcl··on Sharing AI progress in mathematics
This has always been a challenge for PhD students and researchers, it's just far more likely to occur now it seems. Getting scooped doesn't feel good, but it's a signal you've been thinking about things other people care about.
dcl··on EmbeddingGemma 2: An open, lightweight multimodal embedding model
Interesting, I'll have to check this out.
dcl··on EmbeddingGemma 2
Would be good to see how it compares to the embedding models from https://www.voyageai.com/ for text. I have used these a few times in the past and have found them superior to the Qwen models compared to here.
dcl··on Gemini 4 Argon
What harness you use? Have you tested more than 1?
dcl··on Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms
Is it though? I have found it much easier to fit/diagnose/improve simple classifiers on embeddings/hash vectorized features/etc than iterate on prompts, especially true when using the more modern LLM's (like gpt 5.6 Luna) where you can't even set the temperature to get any sense of determinism.

I do note though, that is infinitely easier to 'deploy' a Jev/LLM based solution than a data/model pipeline.

dcl··on Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms
That is indeed reasonable. But you still need a bunch of trusted data to validate the accuracy of Jev.
dcl··on Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms
I've used LLM's to classify things for numerous projects and it's always really hard to beat linear classifier/decision tree over simple embeddings or even the sklearn HashingVectorizer. However, you DO need to trust your validated data, ground truths for this to work - but you should have these anyway to validate a Jev or similar solution.
dcl··on Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms
What is...?
dcl··on What heraldry and Japanese mon can teach about visual-identity generators
no scroll bar :(
dcl··on GPT-6 Sol and Luna
Interesting. I have been asking it to review code from Opus 5 and it found tonnes of issues, Opus agreed with the findings too.
dcl··on Pentium II at 600Mhz with Voodoo 3 Emulated on 86Box with M6 Mac Mini
A bunch of PS2 cards had this effect on me. Fifa 2001, Gran Turismo 3, etc.
dcl··on GPT-6 Sol and Luna
How have you found Muse Spark 1.3? It doesn't get much mention, despite pretty good benchmarks. I've been using a bit at home and find it quite good, often finding mistakes made by Opus 5.
dcl··on Why do we need human mathematicians anymore?
the smallest problem that cannot fit in a brain would be pretty interesting
dcl··on Why do we need human mathematicians anymore?
What do you think all the PhD's and post-doc students are doing...? It's not called graduate-descent for nothing :p
dcl··on Brood War Bench
In the early days of SC2, I remember people using genetric programming to optimize build orders. I remember a slightly unorthodox Zerg Roach Rush which was _really_ fast.
dcl··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
Using AI to catch up on reinforcement learning advances, trying to 'solve' Gin Rummy. Will move on harder games after that.
dcl··on GPT-6 Astra
That's kind of wild. Our first PC was a an IBM PS/2 486SX 33Mhz, 4MB RAM, that was purchased in 1993.
dcl··on GPT-6 Astra
They overclocked well though, I think you could run the 300Mhz chips at >400Mhz.

I also believe you could get motherboards that supported 2 Celeron chips. I have no idea how effective/useful it was, but it was certainly a cheap/interesting way to get multiple CPU's.

dcl··on Muse Spark 1.3
thank you
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