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One I spent a few months working on was pathfinding for trucks. The goal is to find dominant solutions over {shortest time, lowest cost (tolls + fuel), avg road speed variance - tr…

social media is a completely different market though - since there are massive returns to scale, it's incredibly hard for a new entrant to break in. model training and inference is…

Is Gemini really doomed? I'm still bullish on Google: 1) they have more free cash flow and capital than God due to the ads business 2) they have data - intent from web searches, yo…

I think that's backwards. Anything that changes the performance of a model deserves a minor version bump. A new model has to be qualified before being pushed to production; but we …

News to me. What do you call mixture-of-experts and model distillation?

ironically, any frontier LLM will easily generate a tutorial at any detail you like explaining what these are. if don't have time for that, just know that these are technical param…

It's more rare, and definitely less lucrative, but there are opportunities in software engineering for non-profits, open-source, and smaller non-tech companies. If you've made your…

Slight tangent: a long time ago when I was into this hobby, Oshpark was usually the go-to instead of JLCPCB. What happened to them? Macrofab too if anyone's used them.

> The catch is that for image resolutions >=700x700pixels (most production usecases) Citation needed? 2XL looks like you go up to 800x800 pixel inputs. This isn't the dealbreaker y…

More than just your commute. Any downtime where you are doing a mindless chore is prime podcast time.

I've heard of people using anythingllm for this purpose. Basic rag is almost stupid in how easy it is, though. You grep for keywords, take the surrounding paragraph, then stuff it …

Don't post generated comments or AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated

I went and looked at the code. It's AI bots and a few confused trend followers all the way down. There's no way anything in there works.

What AI actually does Mutinex has built what it describes as a “multi-agent system,” where each agent acts as a domain specialist. For example, one agent understands marketing econ…

You can go your entire career without recursing, or using a tree data structure in its raw form (i.e. you only use it as part of a library)

which city is that? I want to move there with my children. If you desperately want mediocre chromebook instruction for your children; where your classmates turn in ChatGPT essays a…

Lots of sensors these days will give you 10 or 12 bits of data per color channel. You may want ordered dithering when previewing on an 8 bit display.

Is the code actually good though? Not seeing any benchmarks vs numexpr, numba, or Jax

Sublime Text? Sure, doesn't have the long tail of extensions, but surely most people don't need those. The biggest issue with ST being the fact that it costs money...

Paying customers use docker desktop.

Even if you don't like the current administration, the rank and file are still out there doing valuable work. The government is more than ICE; it also administers welfare, funds re…

So? If the goal was to attract corporations you'd release under a BSD license.

Why? Is Scotland innocent?

This post makes me sad for two reasons: 1) kids k-5 are using laptops 2) websites are so bloated today that browsing on a Chromebook is causing agitation Otherwise I don't have any…