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Re:How does Shazam work? (2022) on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @07:07PM (#38538749)
tbh for tools like Shazam there's no fundamental difference between a database + hashing algorithm and a self-supervised model; both are great indexing & compression solutions, just for different scales of data.
Re:ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram Superpowers” on Thursday March 23, 2023 @01:52PM (#35278630)
Wow. Can't wait for the lean theorem prover integration.
Re:1Hz CPU made in Minecraft running Minecraft at 0.1fps [video] on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @01:59AM (#32908171)
My first thought exactly. This essay by Hans Moravec is also a great exposition for similar idea: https://frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/project.archive/general.articles...
Re:Infinite Stable Diffusion Videos on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @09:25PM (#32745336)
This post https://twitter.com/madebyollin/status/1566838643771457536 is a step in such direction. I quite like the author's vision about neural nets eating through the graphics pipeline, given there are work like Gancraft (https://nvlabs.github.io/GANcraft/) and GTA photorealistic GAN (https://isl-org.github.io/PhotorealismEnhancement/) have produced stunning results.
Re:Carmack: The code for AGI will be simple on Thursday September 01, 2022 @10:19AM (#32676580)
Make sense. A fun argument for why brain's underlying "algorithm" should be simple is that evolution didn't take that long to go from creatures with primitive cognitive functions to thinking-talking humans. The sensible solution, just like the way evolution solved many other problems, is to replicate what's working in a massive scale, similar to how we build artificial neural networks. This argument was popularized by jeff hawkins in his thousand brains theory, I believe.
Re:Ask HN: Are you leaving Heroku? on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @12:04PM (#32581299)
Honestly you should checkout open source + self-host alternatives like porter (https://github.com/porter-dev/porter). I tried it in a project before and the developer experience was surprisingly good.
Re:The Wisdom in Kung Fu Panda on Wednesday March 23, 2022 @10:33AM (#30778834)
Eric Weinstein also wrote an excellent analysis of Kung Fu Panda on Quora.

https://www.quora.com/In-Kung-Fu-Panda-how-does-Po-end-up-de...

This is super impressive, would definitely pay for it if more polished. Maybe integrate with tldraw? Anyways, amazing job.