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We examine min-p sampling (ICLR 2025 oral) & find significant problems in all 4 lines of evidence: human eval, NLP evals, LLM-as-judge evals, community adoption claims

Best of N was shown to exhibit power (polynomial) law scaling (left), but maths suggest one should expect exponential scaling (center). We show how to resolve this "paradox", then …

Thanks for taking the time to explain :)

Thanks for the advice and links! Do you know of a Render tutorial that involves getting Flask and ReactJS services to communicate with one another? Your 2nd and 3rd links demonstra…

I'm a newcomer to fullstack development with no experience in infra. I want to make a web app based on a React frontend and Flask backend (with a Postgres database). What are peopl…

Can you share more about the habits you built to break that cycle of scrolling for an hour in the morning?

Quitting smoking isn't a one-time event. Anyone with an addiction will tell you that it's a lifelong struggle.

Why make people search instead of quoting the relevant section? "The human fasting mimicking diet (FMD) program is a plant-based diet program designed to attain fasting-like effect…

Then you're being far too generous with your interpretation

Does anyone know how frequently these are offered?

People frequently recommend Strang's teaching as an amazing pedagogical approach for engineers and applied mathematicians, but I find I'm frustrated every time I read his books or …

But how did their model compare against others? The article only mentions how their interpretable model compared against their own ML attempts

I just finished this fantastic class taught by Cengiz Pehlevan ( https://pehlevan.seas.harvard.edu/ ), so I thought I might share the lectures and exercises with HN.

Why is a VAE not a generative model?

Are you hiring? This looks interesting

This is going to sound cynical, but I recently invested a week in rllib for a project before discovering that much of the under-the-hood implementation was horribly confusing, poor…