Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — yellowflash

yellowflash

HN member
Joined
Thu, Mar 10, 2016, 11:34 AM UTC
HN karma
86
Public activity
39 items

About yellowflash

In Chennai. 16 years engineering, mostly Scala/JVM, distributed systems. On leave from TCS PhD at Chennai Mathematical Institute.

Currently co-founder/CTO at Quantman (algorithmic trading).

Interests: type systems, algorithmic information theory, category theory, the mathematical foundations of ML.

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #49249451

    But the training data is "predominantly" human written sentences or even interaction. It's like asking you to use non dominant hand to do something. Won't they do better with human…

  2. story
  3. story
  4. story
  5. story
  6. comment
    Comment #47655763

    Kernel is a bad analogy, if you understand how it behaves you can understand how its built. LLMs don't have that, their behaviour is not completely defined by how they are built. E…

  7. comment
    Comment #47611962

    Today I learned, Stockfish moved to neural network on 2023. I knew that it was just a minmax with alpha beta pruning and a really good eval function. Now its not.

  8. story
  9. comment
    Comment #47276283

    Very good question. This is totally dependent on the starting point of the search. The entire domain is not a contraction in such cases, there are sub sets of domains where it is a…

  10. comment
    Comment #47273498

    Sorry, can you check now?

  11. story
  12. comment
    Comment #45350080

    I was wondering if I could get a different way of thinking about reasoning machines as such. Reasoning models are trying to just externalize the reasoning through chain of thought …

  13. comment
    Comment #45349868

    I am trying to get a better understanding of what reasoning could possibly mean. So far, I am thinking that more we are able to compress knowledge more it's an indicator for reason…

  14. story
  15. story
  16. comment
    Comment #34486021

    I think observable notebooks like Pluto.jl is something like his vision though not exactly. It's just more general and useful ?

  17. comment
    Comment #32566969

    "Once, Zhuang Zhou dreamed he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering about, happy with himself and doing as he pleased. He didn't know that he was Zhuang Zhou. Sudden…

  18. comment
    Comment #32561888

    My understanding is rudimentary, but it doesn't alter the system. But it fixes what state the system should have to produce the given observation, retroactively. Which is counterin…

  19. comment
    Comment #32303331

    One of them is per family and other per person (family of size 1). Is it even comparable? I am not saying it is lesser, it's pretty high, probably 200% not 560% if I am right.

  20. comment
    Comment #32188137

    That's how mongodb geospatial indexes work IIRC

  21. comment
    Comment #32188091

    Very interested in your idea. How does concurrent updates work with the augumented trees? I have been thinking about the same for a while something like CouchDB but segment aggrega…

  22. comment
    Comment #31975354

    The probability of the `b` being chosen for A is 1 (No other choice) and for B it is 1/2. The probability of `b` being chosen for both (The only common token), is |{(b,b)}| / |{(a,…

  23. story
  24. story
  25. comment
    Comment #30486859

    It would be Graham Hutton's Programming in Haskell. That one little chapter on parser combinators was totally worth it. If I can include this functional pearl "A play on regular ex…