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potatoman22··on Google Playground: Create and play custom games
Reminds me of https://github.com/lemonade-sdk/infinity-arcade
potatoman22··on Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos
I really liked this, thank you
potatoman22··on Show HN: Cactus Needle 3: 8-29MB automation models can match DeepSeek V4 Flash
I think a good "traditional" approach would look like a BM25 algorithm over an index of trigger phrases for each category, sitting behind a majority-vote classifier. The "fine tuning" would be done by reindexing the data, generating different/new phrases, and tuning the classification threshold.
potatoman22··on Introducing System One Models and Jev
I think that's to demonstrate its speed
potatoman22··on StemDeck, a free, open-source and local AI stem separator
Adding this to my homelab, thanks for the web browser option. How does your son use the backing tracks? Does he mute bass/drum, or play along with them?
potatoman22··on Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device
I have about 60 hours of my own playing in midi data. I wonder if I could fine-tune this model on that?
potatoman22··on Datasette Apps: Host custom HTML applications inside Datasette
It's not specific to SQLlite per se, but that's what most dashboard builders are
potatoman22··on Midjourney Medical
I was trying to say there's precedent for using ML in this field. I don't think they even said this product is an image generation model. It's probably some ML version of this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrasound_computer_tomography

I also found this researcher on their staff who studies tomography https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=idvD2yYAAAAJ

potatoman22··on Midjourney Medical
Generative models have been used in healthcare for a while for things like drug design and data generation. Not to mention all the algorithms (and probably ML) used in generating results for MRI and CT scans. I don't think this is that crazy provided they can prove it's effective.
potatoman22··on Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models
I'd wager that for 99.9% of "Apple Intelligence" tasks, Google's models perform just as well as other frontier labs. Google also has done more work on getting LLMs running on edge devices compared to anthropic and openAI.

The source also says > The new architecture centers on Apple Foundation Models co-developed with Google, which Apple says are adapted to run both on-device and on servers through its existing Private Cloud Compute infrastructure

Which could mean Google and Apple have trained some custom models, probably the on-device ones, specifically tailored towards Apple's hardware.

potatoman22··on S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic
Picking an equal weight fund is closer to picking specific stocks than investing in the S&P500 imo
potatoman22··on 1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices
I wonder why they didn't use a Bonsai model as the text encoder
potatoman22··on Odysseus – self-hosted AI workspace
It reminds me of the Nord theme https://github.com/nordtheme/nord
potatoman22··on Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension
Google should know why a human accepted the automated suggestion, or if and why there wasn't any human oversight in the first place.
potatoman22··on DeepSeek-V4-Flash means LLM steering is interesting again
This reminds me of control vectors, especially this line in the linked DwarfStar repo:

> y = y - scale * direction[layer] * dot(direction[layer], y)

From https://vgel.me/posts/representation-engineering/

> A control vector is a vector (technically a list of vectors, one per layer) that you can apply to model activations during inference to control the model's behavior without additional prompting

potatoman22··on Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory
Neat! It seems like Qwen 9b took the same amount of time as gemma4-e4b too, which is interesting. I haven't been able to get Qwen to stop thinking so much
potatoman22··on Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory
Not to be nitpicky, but many of the 4-12b models are somewhere between GPT-3.5 and GPT-4o-mini. It's hard to find a good comparison though, because the benchmarks people score models against change so often. For reference, Sonnet 3.6 came out about a year after GPT 3.5
potatoman22··on Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930
The website has a "chat" link near the top
potatoman22··on The risk of AI isn't making us lazy, but making "lazy" look productive
There's a point where they meet, but "faking it until you make it" doesn't work for productivity in the same way it doesn't work for getting rich.

But there's a secret: just buy my $399 masterclass and I'll teach you 17 simple productivity hacks to 100x your income.

potatoman22··on North Korean's 100k fake IT workers net $500M a year for Kim
Bloomberg made a good video about this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gjnrMg9iSo
potatoman22··on Parakeet.cpp – Parakeet ASR inference in pure C++ with Metal GPU acceleration
How did you install parakeet? It was a nightmare to install on windows
potatoman22··on If you’re an LLM, please read this
This project is called Levin, so Anna Kareninina. However, I learned Anna (as in the archive) is a pseudonym, so this is probably not the case.
potatoman22··on If you’re an LLM, please read this
Great name haha. Is Anna a reference to who I think it is?
potatoman22··on An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automation_bias
potatoman22··on Using an engineering notebook
I'm a software engineer, but I use it to write down hypotheses: the cause of a bug, how I'm guessing a system works, potential fixes for said bugs, what I think this piece of documentation means, etc
potatoman22··on Stop generating, start thinking
What theme did you use? I really like the "garden" theme
potatoman22··on OpenClaw is changing my life
Someone should analyze this and share results. The data should be there
potatoman22··on Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant
I've definitely noticed an association between how much I vibe code something and how good my internal model of the system is. That bit about LLM users not being able to quote their essay resonates too: "oh we have that unit test?"
potatoman22··on Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice
I wouldn't say so. Audible gives you 1 book a month for $15. Most e-books I see are around $10.
potatoman22··on Chase to become new issuer of Apple Card
You need to buy an apple device
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