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sbinnee

293 karma · joined March 17, 2022

ML and AI researcher

Based in Seoul, Korea

https://sbinnee.github.io/

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sbinnee··on Spatial intelligence is AI’s next frontier
So Dr.Li starts writing a blog! I just subscribed to it. I cannot wait for other articles!
sbinnee··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
Good post. Thanks for sharing. I enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed your anime list. I agree on many.
sbinnee··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
I am finally making my own blog. I have been only planning for ages. I found that I had a lot to say for the past years working on AI, and I want to record them somewhere. I do not expect a lot of visitors or at all in fact. The blog is going to be just for me to remember stuffs and to keep track of them.

I am using hugo to build suckless static pages. LLM helped me so that I don't need to read all their docs. I haven't finished it yet nor posted a single blog. But there will be one soon.

sbinnee··on Eating stinging nettles
I enjoy exploring vegan restaurants all over the world too! I often avoid burgers because they are easy to make I guess, and I had a lot of them over 8 years of my vegan journey. I instead look for more unique menus so that I can learn things and replicate them at home. But traveling is the only time I allow myself some fish and dairy, or maybe some eggs, no meat at all though.
sbinnee··on Eating stinging nettles
I had ortie pasta (nettle in French) once when I lived in France. Then I started seeing ortie products all over, usually in a fancy bio corner in supermarkets. I suppose it is common in Europe, reading other comments?
sbinnee··on Developers are choosing older AI models
I don't get the point of this post. Personally, I think that the thinking process is essential for accurate tool usage. Whenever I interact with Claude family models, either on a web chat or via a coding agent CLI, I believe that this thinking process is what makes Claude more accurate in using tools.

It could be true that newer models just produce more tokens seemingly out of no reasons. But with the increasing number of tool definitions, in the long run, I think it will pay off.

Just a few days ago, I read "Interleaved Thinking Unlocks Reliable MiniMax-M2 Agentic Capability"[1]. I think they have a valid point that this thinking process has significance as we are moving towards agents.

[1] https://www.minimax.io/news/why-is-interleaved-thinking-impo...

sbinnee··on Amazon Demands Perplexity Stop AI Agent from Making Purchases
> Srinivas argued that agents should have “all the same rights and responsibilities” as a real human user. “It’s not Amazon’s job to survey that,” he said.

I am not against people using agents to do shopping although I won’t do that until I see a reliable agent. From the title I thought Amazon might have a point to protect users. But oh no. I should have known better that Amazon must have been cooking their own shopping agents. It’s already hilarious at this point.

Anyway, this excerpt from Perplexity has so many issues. It just looks like an ugly fight.

sbinnee··on A definition of AGI
Yoshua Bengio too. Does anyone know connections between the two? Is Schmidt supporting researches at Mila?
sbinnee··on Roc Camera
I have been happily using fujifilm x100 for about 10 years now? I bought a second hand one for about $300. You can buy a decent camera cheaper than a smartphone, as it should be.
sbinnee··on Roc Camera
I knew that Leica is generally expensive, but the model on the review is insanely expensive (over 10K USD?). It is not even comparable.
sbinnee··on DeepSeek OCR
Maybe for English. Other languages are very much not solved.
sbinnee··on For centuries massive meals amazed visitors to Korea (2019)
It was a fun reading as a Korean and my hometown Jeonju was even mentioned! My partner is non-Korean and I can definitely tell the difference in rice consumption for sure. I can eat much more much faster. But the funny thing is she can eat more bread faster than me.
sbinnee··on Tangled, a Git collaboration platform built on atproto
Cool product! Knowing a little bit of AT protocol, I can assume that the expression you used, “social-enabled”, is related to that. Does Tangled have plans for more social features or social-enabled simply means AT protocol?
sbinnee··on Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model
I think it’s related that I got an email from google, titled “ Simplifying your Gemini Apps experience”. It reads no privacy maximize AI. They are going to automatically collect data from all google apps, and users no longer have options to control access to individual apps.
sbinnee··on Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available
They settled down with chromium based browsers. Microsoft was pushing Edge and Naver, the largest Korean search engine company, also developed Whale browser based on chromium.
sbinnee··on Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available
Yes and no. They used to prefer everything on premise. Many try to move towards cloud especially newer companies. Major cloud providers you mentioned are not the usual choices though (maybe aws is the most common). They do have data centers in Seoul and try to expand their markets for South Korea. But government offers generous incentives for using domestic cloud providers like NHN which was mentioned in the article or Naver cloud. Why does this work? Because Korean services rarely target global markets mainly due to language barrier. Domestic cloud usage is sufficient enough.
sbinnee··on Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available
What a sad news as a Korean to see a post about Korea at the top of HN during one of the largest Korean holiday.

I can share an anecdote how slow tech adoption is in Korea. It is not exactly about tech in public section but in private companies. I assume public section has slower adoption rate than private ones in general.

Just about a year ago I had a couple of projects with insurance companies. I won't name them but they are the largest ones whose headquarters you can find in the very center of Seoul. They often called me in because I was setting up on-premise servers for the projects. Not to mention that it was hard to understand their choices of database architecture to plug it into the server I was setting up, their data team seemed just incompetent, not knowing what they were doing.

The wildest thing I found was that most office workers seemed to be using windows 2000 to run their proprietary software. To be fair, I like software UIs with a lot of buttons and windows from that era. But alas, I didn't want to imagine myself connecting that legacy software to my then project service. It didn't go that far in the end.

sbinnee··on Helium Browser
Tried Orion on mac for a week or two. I also had a few bugs when using google docs and sheets. I gave up because I couldn’t work. However I keep using the iOS app. It’s quite good although I need to restart the app from time to time because of some bugs.
sbinnee··on Why haven't local-first apps become popular?
Answer: internet
sbinnee··on Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy
It’s not for me either. I peeked at the script and repo the other day. There were choices I wouldn’t make, but it’s written opinionated in the front. That’s totally fine by me.

It is definitely making Linux more accessible. Yet still new comers to Linux will struggle when they want to do sightly more than what Omarchy offers. In that sense, the current Omarchy may not be _accessible_. But I think with this amount of users coming in, they will be able to find ways for almost anything.

It’s been having a great side effect. Hyprland is having a lot of support. I hope that many other pieces will have supports for better Linux experience. Who knows most of major software applications will have official Linux support in a few years.

sbinnee··on DeepSeek-v3.1-Terminus
> What’s improved? Language consistency: fewer CN/EN mix-ups & no more random chars.

It's good that they made this improvement. But is there any advantages at this point using DeepSeek over Qwen?

sbinnee··on I forced myself to spend a week in Instagram instead of Xcode
That is a perfect name for a notebook like that. I have one in my head and it never lets me sleep. Maybe I should keep one like yours to dump mine into it. btw 60% is incredible.
sbinnee··on The Sagrada Família takes its final shape
Same here. It was an amazing experience. I was lucky on my visit day and time that it was sunny and the sun was setting down which made spectacles of light show inside. I just stood in the middle for half an hour amazed.
sbinnee··on Slow social media
I also wish there will be a lot of diverse social media for specific interest groups. I am fine that not many people would use them. I would actually prefer that because I can at least expect people with genuine interest on the topic. Discord in this regard is pretty close to this direction I think.
sbinnee··on Read to forget
Hopping to the references right away doesn’t work for me. I prefer just going through the whole paper once and coming back. To me it’s analogous to reading a book in a language not familiar to me. You read it lengthy chuck of texts even though you come across words you don’t know. Then you can find the meaning of words and read the texts again for better understanding . This way I think is more helpful to grasp the whole topic and intention of texts faster.
sbinnee··on The biggest chat app in Korea is a roleplaying bot
While living in Korea, I have been utterly blind by this app taking over Korea. Sure, I am not a teenager, but as a person who studied AI and do research on it, I am dumbfounded by this news. I knew Ani is a thing on X, but it never caught my attention because AI has been always work-related, not an entertainment to me. This is concerning to say the least.
sbinnee··on iPhone Air
They introduced N1 network chip. I noticed "thread" technology along with wifi and bluetooth. Tbh, it's first time I heard of this tech. Could anyone enlighten me what this "thread" wireless technology is and its impact?
sbinnee··on Apple Debuts iPhone 17
I switched to 12 mini about a year ago from 1st gen SE because it broke down. I agree that it would be more than enough for years to come.

I cannot agree more on the event video. It looks like a pure TV ad for a full hour long. Also, it used to cover more diversity in terms of presenters. Where are they now? I want to hear lovely accents from people all around the world.

sbinnee··on What to do with an old iPad
I am in the same boat. I have two ipads, one is probably ipad mini 2 if I remember it correctly and another one is the first ipad pro. Ipad pro is still usable but not fully functional because I cannot upgrade the os and many apps dropped support for old os. Ipad mini on the other hand is totally unusable. I even think it’s in a better shape than the pro one. It feels snappy when navigating. But I cannot use it in any meaningful way.
sbinnee··on I'm absolutely right
I guess it wasn’t only me! Claude keeps saying this even when it’s not appropriate.
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