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Ask HN: Why are desktop AI apps so heavy?
I mean they are text apps basically, they should be flying on modern PCs that can do close to a trillion ops per second. Inference is done elsewhere, so what's the deal?
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Show HN: Preloop – An MCP proxy for human-in-the-loop tool approvals
Hey HN, I’m Yannis, co-founder of Preloop. We’ve built a proxy for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) that lets you add human approval gates to your AI agents without changing your a…
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Comment #10763065
>Our brains have this giant section dedicated to nothing but recognizing characters in our native written language. Sure we have a lot of brain power going to shape recognition in …
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Comment #10761660
Interesting point. However, I'd like to argue that there is a fine line between the conventional definition of a utility function and the ability of an organism to survive in an en…
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Comment #10752236
I found the first comment to this article quite interesting: "Marcus has a point - even is some of what is said about deep neural networks is incorrect (for instance, they can lear…
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Comment #9994538
Precisely the same question I have as well. Especially given that the energy you could store in a spring or coil could be much more, and you are not limited by one's lifting capaci…
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"Do I dare to say this somehow shows the relative unimportance of design?" When design is about cramming some animation in just about everything you can show on the screen, and abo…
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Comment #9688143
"We could also take other data into account, like the user who submitted the article, and generate features indicating things like the karma of the user..." I'm wondering how helpf…
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