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xinan··on Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen
I’m more surprised by how many commenters here just go hyping and vibing without actually reading the article.
xinan··on Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
Those are simply what the clients wanted to do themselves but they needed someone else to be accountable for their stupid ideas, or to resolve an internal conflict. A good consultant company doesn’t actually provide consultancy, but they’re good at figuring out what the client wants and propose the exact same thing as the solution, so the client can take it to their boss and say “look, …”
xinan··on On social reality in China
Fresh grocery is a luxury. It really tastes much better. It’s the same in America too.

Try it out.

xinan··on Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy
Ironically: https://imgur.com/a/xHyiUzW
xinan··on AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog
I for one, wish they don’t change what they’re doing, and that people don’t give them advice—let them use AI to generate anything that want.

That will help me easily distinguish and avoid bad bloggers (or any kind of merchants).

xinan··on Zuckerberg 'Admits' Meta's Layoffs Were Ineffective
It’s interesting to see how all these big techs are going from “hiring with best with attractive comp package” directly to “saving the most by replacing employees with something that sometimes does the right thing”.
xinan··on A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking
I wish it knows that I absolutely hate dark modes with such low contrast.
xinan··on Good ideas do not need lots of lies in order to gain public acceptance (2008)
So, why does Anthropic need so much aggressive marketing lately?
xinan··on A sufficiently detailed spec is code
I’ve noticed that the so-called industry is always fixated on the most crappy language. First it was JavaScript, then Python, now English. They have the common problem of being too flexible and ambiguous, causing bugs that are incredibly hard to find. Yet somehow they always become the most popular, and there’s always a cult about it, mostly consist of people who aren’t real computer scientists.

“This time is different” are the famous last words.

xinan··on Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands,Norway,Sweden,UK
Police in China would at least identify themselves, and never wear a mask.
xinan··on xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B
If I overpay for a house, shouldn’t it be taxed as a gift too? :p
xinan··on Firing programmers for AI is a mistake
What the AI bull Wall Street analysts didn’t realize is that AI will replace their job much sooner than replacing programmers.
xinan··on Soulver – Notepad, meet calculator
I feel that with non-standard syntax like $100 + 25% tip it become very confusing whether the answer would be 100.25 or 125. I’ll end up spending a lot of time trying to verify the answer.
xinan··on Gpu.js – GPU Accelerated JavaScript
I have a ray tracer build on it on http://xinan.github.io/ray-tracer/