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Apparently, the French typically start with "no" because it leaves them room to say "yes" later, which is harder to go back on. > “Answering ‘non’ gives you the option to say ‘oui’…

Cool doc, thanks for sharing. Amazingly, a quick search brought up one of the articles they were shown setting (from the few words mentioned): https://www.nytimes.com/1978/07/01/ar…

worth noting you don't usually read _that_ many books in your lifetime. e.g. 20 a books a year for 40 years is just 800 books side note: i've noticed people writing with no caps, u…

Did the ycombinator podcast which included giving advice to startup founders just a few days ago: https://www.ycombinator.com/library/Vy-jeff-dean-the-1-rule-...

The article is heavily leaning on the paper "The Illusion of Thinking" [1]. It could be boiled down to: in 2025 this paper showed that "thought traces" in the models of the time co…

I was wondering whether this might have an explanation for why I don't really like major music, preferring minor / modal / non-functional harmony... it does: > Throughout this deri…

Fun, and enjoyed the track it uses: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=-tJ23mRbmps

Hmm, there's a difference between unnecessary arguments about every tiny detail, and productive arguments. I've seen many healthy technical disagreements; often leading to new insi…

> Then cite them as blog posts My point is it's still useful to have a somewhat authoritative place to cite (high quality) blog post level content. arXiv has formatting requirement…

Well, some blog posts are worth citing.

Isn't the directionality important. I.e. it is currently possible to run useful / great models locally, but on high end machines; and in a few years we will likely be able to run e…

"why not alternative", would be better framed as, "here's a fun variation" — because both approaches are just playing around with technology, for fun / curiosity / exploration. Sto…

Ever considered second hand slightly older gens? Even M1 is still great for many use cases. E.g. often corps are selling them on Ebay, in pretty good condition.

Reminds me of this [1] HN post from 9 months ago, where the author trained a neural network to do world emulation from video recordings of their local park — you can walk around in…

Originally wrote this in 2022 to improve my understanding of deep learning internals. Recently refreshed it, removing CuPy to keep it lighter and educational. (Plus modernized the …

For an example of an AI generated song that's gone viral in the last few days, getting millions of views on Spotify / Youtube, see this post from earlier today: "Tell HN: Viral Hit…

Yep, it is convincing. And it seems the video is performed by a human, although I did think it could be AI. They say in the description: > I couldn't resist putting a face to this …

The song is an unofficial cover of Stromae's Papaoutai. The author has stated it's AI in their YouTube video descriptions [1] [2], e.g. > Disclaimer: I do not own the rights to the…

As a hobbyist, shaders is up there as one of the most fun types of programming.. Low-level / relatively simple language, often tied to a satisfying visual result. Once it clicks, i…

bulk_send( generate_expiry_email(user) for user in db.getUsers() if is_expired(user, date.now()) ) (...Just another flavour of syntax to look at)

Incorrect Pytorch gradients with Apple MPS backend... Yep this kind of thing can happen. I found and reported incorrect gradients for Apple's Metal-backed tensorflow conv2d in 2021…

Agreed, and its larger context window is fantastic. My workflow: - Convert the whole codebase into a string - Paste it into Gemini - Ask a question People seem to be very taken wit…

At your own risk — one place is ebay sellers with a large number of positive reviews, (and not much negative), who are selling lots of the same type of MacBook pros. My assumption …

On the contrary; now might be a good time to get an M1 Max laptop. A second hand one, ex-corporate, in good condition, with 64Gb RAM, is pretty good value, compared to new laptops …