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smus··on Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model
What do you mean World Cup debut? haven't they won 5?
smus··on Ask HN: Not treated respectfully by colleague – advice?
What source can you possibly be looking for lmao
smus··on The “Wow!” signal was likely from extraterrestrial source, and more powerful
Iphones are created by low wage workers with poor working conditions
smus··on Good EU regulations
You think a motorcycle will do serious damage to a car driver when rear ending?
smus··on Diffusion language models are super data learners
Can you explain how CoT is a form of diffusion or models bidirectional attn?
smus··on Denver rent is back to 2022 prices after 20k new units hit the market
Many people have places to live without owning a house. Me for example!
smus··on Felix Baumgartner, who jumped from stratosphere, dies in Italy
Is there anything you do that ends up being more dangerous? Genuinely curious
smus··on Kiro: A new agentic IDE
Are you implying frontier models are running on a100s? Certainly not
smus··on Is Gemini 2.5 good at bounding boxes?
We benchmarked Gemini 2.5 on 100 open source object detection datasets in our paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20612 (see table 2)

Notably, performance on out of distribution data like those in RF100VL is super degraded

It worked really well zero-shot (comparatively to the foundation model field) achieving 13.3 average mAP, but counterintuitively performance degraded when provided visual examples to ground its detections from, and when provided textual instructions on how to find objects as additional context. So it seems it has some amount of object detection zero-shot training, probably on a few standard datasets, but isn't smart enough to incorporate additional context or its general world knowledge into those detection abilities

smus··on A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs
You are still being incredibly reductionist but just going into more detail about the system you are reducing. If I stayed at the same level of abstraction as "a brain is just proteins and current" and just described how a single neuron firing worked, I could make it sound equally ridiculous that a human brain might be conscious.

Here's a question for you: how do you reconcile that these stochastic mapping are starting to realize and comment on the fact that tests are being performed on them when processing data?

smus··on Is an Intel N100 or N150 a better value than a Raspberry Pi?
The point is this is a problem you have on ARM. Your choices are select ARM, have this problem, or didn't select ARM and don't have this problem.
smus··on Effectiveness of trees in reducing temperature, outdoor heat exposure in Vegas
You understand that factoid strengthens the point of the person you're replying to right
smus··on Guess I'm a rationalist now
The comment I replied to conceded wrongness and smugness but is still somehow confused why otherwise intelligent ppl dislike the movement. I was hoping to clear it up for them

Extra points for that comment's author implying that people who don't like the wrong and smug movement are unintelligent and protecting their egos, thus personally proving its smugness

smus··on Guess I'm a rationalist now
Feels like "they are wrong and smug" is enough reason to dislike the movement
smus··on Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft and people are paying anyway
Even in cities with good public transit, it will not take me home at 3 AM, with possibly few exceptions like cities that have good public transit.
smus··on Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft and people are paying anyway
What's your Venmo?
smus··on I have reimplemented Stable Diffusion 3.5 from scratch in pure PyTorch
Nope, they all depend on x and the same is true in this scenario
smus··on A new class of materials that can passively harvest water from air
You are super confident a thing that exists can't exist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_well_(condenser)

Check out the passive section of the above

smus··on Four years of sight reading practice
60bpm of random notes!
smus··on Is Winter Coming? (2024)
Have you been to San Francisco?
smus··on Starcloud
It's a bit demoralizing people talk about AI training as if it were even 1/100th the environmental impact of the personal automobile or frequent airplane trips
smus··on June Huh dropped out to become a poet, now he’s won a Fields Medal (2022)
What school you attend super measurably affects future earnings
smus··on Show HN: I taught AI to commentate Pong in real time
I wouldn't say you taught the ai anything so much as wired some API calls together
smus··on Bethesda Thinks Fan Remaster of Oblivion Is 'Very Special' and Supports It
Nintendo sent cease and desists to streamed super smash Brothers melee tournaments during covid. Buncha free advertising to their IP by a group of their most passionate fans
smus··on CosAE: Learnable Fourier Series for Image Restoration
Convolutional neural networks are pretty big
smus··on Why drinking coffee in Iran has become so complicated
So many straws were grasped at in the making of this article
smus··on Cozy video games can quell stress and anxiety
Smushi come home if the most similar I've played
smus··on Hasochism: The pleasure and pain of dependently typed Haskell programming [pdf] (2013)
Yes, it's phd students there's an oversupply of, not mediocre web devs at ad companies
smus··on Bored of It
Alphafold doesn't exist
smus··on Deep Learning Is Not So Mysterious or Different
the AdamW optimizer (basically the default in DL nowadays) is doing exactly that
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