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Re:Show HN: Mini-AGI – Dynamic continual learning model trai... by ilaksh on Monday September 21, 2026 @08:39AM (#49786523)
You can't claim it "works" if it hasn't produced any coherent responses and is still early in your first training attempt.
Re:Show HN: Mini-AGI – Dynamic continual learning model trai... by volotat on Monday September 21, 2026 @09:15AM (#49786893)
It is a goalpost that is easy to move. By "works" I mean learning from a continuous single (meaning batch-1) stream of data. The fact that it produces full words and full coherent phrases instead of a random stream of characters that would any typical LM produce if trained under the same training regime.
Re:Show HN: Mini-AGI – Dynamic continual learning model trai... by ilaksh on Monday September 21, 2026 @09:33AM (#49787089)
I would be okay if you shared it as a potential idea and possibly interesting early result, but the language you are actually using to characterize it is misleading or delusional.

Please get a model to the point where it seems like it has some natural language understanding and then share again with reasonable characterization.

Re:Show HN: Mini-AGI – Dynamic continual learning model trai... by volotat on Monday September 21, 2026 @09:48AM (#49787261)
For sure. As it will pass through the whole corpus I will share the weights, run it through established benchmarks for small models and share all of this as an update. I am also planning on making a Youtube video explaining in detail how it works on a deeper level and the whole reasoning behind why it is built the way it is. But no promises here.
Re:Show HN: Mini-AGI – Dynamic continual learning model trai... by fuzzfactor on Monday September 21, 2026 @07:38PM (#49794900)
Nothing to be ashamed of if you end up pushing back the release date of your feature film :)

I had ideas not completely unlike this so long ago, but one big difference can be summed up in one of your parameters.

>Directories are walked, binaries are skipped . . . and each file is read from its beginning to its end because a document has an order.

For me it was binaries being walked because text and anything approaching a language model was so much further out-of-reach having such limited computer power.

Re:Show HN: Mini-AGI – Dynamic continual learning model trai... by bigbadfeline on Monday September 21, 2026 @01:59PM (#49790860)
Is "AGI" the language that bothers you? Well, one has to keep his eyes on the prize and I see a bright idea which could lead to AGI, so, why not describe it as such? I also see the inspiration and hard work necessary to move that idea further along, so fingers crossed.