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ersiees··on Ember-1
It’s same price for lower latency.
ersiees··on Grok 4.6
Sub two hour marathon is a more recent example of this
ersiees··on Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2
Meta, please go back to publishing weights. Your models aren't top-tier, this wouldn't hurt you at all at your current position in the rankings. They wouldn't have the best open-weight models, but the best western open-weight models.
ersiees··on Poison Fountain
Isn’t it too late for that? Won’t that rather cement the oligopoly we have right now?
ersiees··on Splash-free urinals: Design through physics and differential equations
I think the European urinals already follow the proposed designs closely. They only compare to very old chunky designs.
ersiees··on Why Fennel?
I don’t love fennel, it usually dominates the whole taste of a dish for me
ersiees··on How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia?
So, 100$ Nike shoes will soon be 125$.
ersiees··on Show HN: TabPFN v2 – A SOTA foundation model for small tabular data
Author here!

Thanks :)

1. Only for the first version, not for this version. I am sorry! 2. Yeah ours is guaranteed ok, as we wrote code to generate it basically just from plain torch ops. The code to run inference is available, just not the training code and data generation. 3. We have put it to work on time series data, which is very business relevant for example https://github.com/liam-sbhoo/tabpfn-time-series, and we have a table in the Appendix with all datasets we evaluate on in our main analysis to give you some ideas for possible datasets.

ersiees··on Show HN: TabPFN v2 – A SOTA foundation model for small tabular data
Yes, there are normalizations applied before the features are fed to the neural network. Additionally, the neural network is trained on a very diverse set of artificial datasets.
ersiees··on Show HN: TabPFN v2 – A SOTA foundation model for small tabular data
Author here: The new introduction of attention between features did make a big impact compared to the first variant of TabPFN. The old model handled every feature like it was completely different to be feature 5 vs 15, but actually features are typically more-or-less permutation invariant. So the logic is similar to why a CNN is better for images than an MLP.
ersiees··on Show HN: TabPFN v2 – A SOTA foundation model for small tabular data
To put it very simply, the trick is that while the others train a new model for each problem, TabPFN is pre-trained to handle any kind of problem on the fly.

To draw a parallel to NLP: previously people trained a neural network for each kind of text classification they wanted to do, but then LLMs came around that pre-trained to learn to perform new tasks on the fly. Similarly, TabPFN learns to do new tasks on the fly just from the context (dataset) given.

Training and prediction in these models is by default one and the same, similar to how the prediction of the next token in an LLM is not split into learning from context and then doing the actual prediction. There is a way to split this even up, though, then the predictions, I believe, take something like 1/10s for medium-sized datasets.

ersiees··on Show HN: TabPFN v2 – A SOTA foundation model for small tabular data
Tuned per dataset
ersiees··on Show HN: TabPFN v2 – A SOTA foundation model for small tabular data
No, it is *much* stronger, a different architecture and scales to 10x the number of examples. It can also do regression now, and handle categorical features. Please, have a quick look at the abstract before making such claims.
ersiees··on Explaining Large Language Models Decisions Using Shapley Values
Another clue: there is no way to download the latex, while you can if someone uploaded the latex on arxiv.
ersiees··on Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day
What is the alternative to AI twitter? Is there some incumbent where it moves?
ersiees··on Λ-2D: An Exploration of Drawing as Programming Language
And there is scratch right?
ersiees··on I couldn't find a free, no-login, no-AI checklist app–so I built one
Why is it only for 7 days available?
ersiees··on Care Doesn't Scale
I think this is also interesting to keep in mind when thinking about the changes to the job market that are possible due to technology (e.g. AI).

Most of care will not be automated any time soon. And it is a huge part of the economy.

ersiees··on We avoid effort even though it can improve our well-being
Someone having a non paywall link?
ersiees··on Ask HN: Is there an open source (maybe torrent-based) alternative to YouTube?
I think I was not very specific, but I think there is a lot of video on YouTube that does not make any money for the producers and in the past YouTube also did not show ads for these videos, but now they show Ads even if the producers of the content don't receive any money. I watch mostly lectures and niche videos on YouTube, I am pretty sure for most of these videos, the only entity getting Money out of it is YouTube.
ersiees··on Ask HN: Best Use Cases for LLMs
Check out Lektor.lol an open source wrapper around ChatGPT I created just for that :)
ersiees··on Why flying insects gather at artificial light
more of a rural myth, I guess ;D
ersiees··on Attention Is Off By One
This trick “they found” is part of the standard torch implementation of multi head attention, namely it is called, add_zero_attention. They add a zero to the logits, resulting in a one in the denominator as e^0=1 https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/generated/torch.nn.Multihead...
ersiees··on Cerebras-GPT: Open Compute-Optimal Language Models Trained on Cerebras Cluster
Very interesting that someone finally tries out muP in the real world. Do I understand the usage correctly:

MuP is only used to get around choosing an lr for each size? Here I wonder how it compares to standard heuristics like the one in the OG scaling laws paper by OAI and tricks like back winding a few steps after loss explosion.

For some reason muP was not trusted with the largest trainings? Why is that?

ersiees··on Leaving China
Why do we call people expats and not rich migrants or something like that?
ersiees··on Launch HN: Kalshi (YC W19) – A regulated exchange for trading on events
What about inside trade? Isn’t there a big risk that people at institutions you use as source take bets last minute before they announce the critical information? Or maybe even change what they publish (maybe pretending it to be an honest mistake, which is corrected the next day) to win?
ersiees··on Launch HN: Kalshi (YC W19) – A regulated exchange for trading on events
Can I also trade “Will Chelsea win against Barcelona next weekend?”
ersiees··on A Few Words About Bullshit
I can’t stand this twitter behaviour: something new comes out, they try to find examples where it fails and say it is generally bad because of these failures. Have some respect for the work of others.
ersiees··on Ask HN: How do you manage your important personal documents and other data?
Not
ersiees··on TabPFN: Transformer Solves Small Tabular Classification in a Second
We did try it a bit a while back, but did not have conclusive results. I expect you can bend it to perform better for larger datasets, too, but how exactly I cannot say for sure. The bootstrapping is definitely a good candidate for this.
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