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arkano

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About arkano

You can also find me on twitter under @kgourg

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    Comment #43465831

    Thank you, I love this app.

  2. story
    Show HN: Chess-LLM, using constrained-generation to force LLMs to battle it out

    As I was playing with the Outlines library ( https://outlines-dev.github.io/outlines/ ), I discussed with my friend Maxime how funny it would be if we set up a way to pair LLMs in …

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    Comment #39363159

    If you liked this, you may also enjoy: "Back Propagation is Sensitive to Initial Conditions" from the early 90's. The discussion section is fun. https://proceedings.neurips.cc/pape…

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    Comment #38036135

    It would be valuable if the filtering conditions are up to the user.

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    Comment #36776979

    I appreciate that the playground frontend is just a streamlit app.

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    Comment #35654859

    Flax, a big neural network JAX library, is developed and used by Brain. TF will stay around for boilerplate / data-loading, but JAX support probably isn’t going anywhere.

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    Comment #30911779

    My job used to be about developing ML models for diagnostics (not vision, but other modalities). It mattered to me, it was fun and informative, and aspects of that company were a n…

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    Comment #30911565

    Does it look like it would be possible to run locally?

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    Comment #30175434

    > This attempt is better than any that I've seen so far. Have you seen arXiv Vanity? - https://www.arxiv-vanity.com

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    Comment #28473869

    But don't lots of people live without one though?

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    Comment #27709339

    The comments are similar, but the energy is different. One of them read to me like "go and strive to be great in one of the million directions possible" and the other was "you won'…

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    Comment #25553691

    That's really cool! Reminds me of calca.

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    Comment #23845233

    Not to be confused with element.ai

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    Comment #21898719

    Complex analysis is why I stopped taking so many software engineering courses and turned to math.

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    Comment #21805487

    > Just because it's there in the contract doesn't mean it's legal. No, but should be likely that it is, right? Not worth the risk to put such clauses in there otherwise. And I was …

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    Comment #21789664

    It can be the same thing in Europe, at least the contracts I've seen say so.

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    Comment #21780703

    > It can also take significantly less time. Strong opinion, but I think that if you want to learn facts, you can learn them faster on your own. If you want to learn a new skill, yo…

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    Comment #21780692

    >I pretty much never learned anything of note directly from a teacher. I've learned things after being corrected by a teacher, and then I practised on my own until the next mistake…

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    Comment #21780447

    > Having a paper written in 10 days accepted in the best conference of the field increased both my imposter syndrome, and the feeling that we are writing useless crap. Are you sure…

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    Comment #21780437

    I agree with everything, but > Anything you learn in school, you can in principle learn on your own. I think this statement is lacking some truth. We can rewrite it as: > Anything …

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    Comment #21614368

    It's curve-fitting with a few extra steps. You can do a lot with curve-fitting though.

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    Comment #21043194

    There's at least one book that explores this. Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence https://g.co/kgs/xr1eHw

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    Comment #20976228

    > I've coded through pure muscle memory plenty of times How many lines of code though? :D

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    Comment #20913363

    As a mathematician, I have noticed that people that like to build something that, for example, can fly, start from a paper plane; they don't get discouraged because they can't yet …

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    Comment #20913201

    This raises the interesting question; how much is our attention really worth, say, per month, when it comes to ads? Per this vox article, https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/6/24/18715…