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Re:Jev-Leftpad on Monday September 21, 2026 @07:50AM (#49786066)
I’d be curious to see how reliable it is in practice, it sounds like a cheap and (hopefully) easy benchmark
Re:Bend 2 and the Vibe-Coding Trap on Friday September 18, 2026 @10:36AM (#49755036)
I fully agree with this quote, it really crystallized something i felt but couldn’t put into words.
Re:Intellectual Fly Is Open on Sunday September 06, 2026 @06:18PM (#49591499)
I don’t think it’s a good analogy.

Having your fly open is a harmless mistake that has little impact on your peers. People may or may not mention it to you but it’s not something they’ll hold against you.

Posting LLM slop under your name is a deliberate act. You decide to damage your message by taking a shortcut.

The obvious analogy was speaking while chewing.

Re:Karpathy's Pelican on Sunday August 02, 2026 @02:43PM (#49147145)
I don't think this is bad. I want tools that deliver what I envision. The fact that given the same input, I get similar output is something I would rather consider a positive. The imagination should come from the human at the wheel.
Re:Generative AI floods and dilutes the market for books on Sunday August 02, 2026 @09:27AM (#49144517)
> he just read out something like "You're right to push back on this. If you'd like, I can reword this..." and didn't even flinch

Can you please provide sources for this? My understanding is that he used the expression "I appreciate the pushback" in a context in which it made sense (responding to criticism), and people flagged that it sounded LLM-like.

There’s some poetry seeing people complaining about how LLM provide unreliable information in a confident tone, who then go on to share incorrect information in a confident tone.

Re:Generative AI floods and dilutes the market for books on Sunday August 02, 2026 @07:46AM (#49143561)
I don’t see how this market ("mostly" AI-written books) won’t get arbitraged to death with the cheaper and open-weight models that keep coming out
Re:Claude Opus 5 on Friday July 24, 2026 @05:17PM (#49041693)
Damn the pelican guy can’t get no sleep
> xAI is renting out their DC space. I think I read that Google is, too.

You’re probably thinking of Meta. Google renting GPUs is a less recent phenomenon, to say the least.

From HF:

> The practical lesson for defenders: have a capable model you can run on your own infrastructure vetted and ready before an incident, both to avoid guardrail lockout and to keep attacker data and credentials from leaving your environment.

This sounds like a reasonable measure. Any recommendations regarding the most suitable models for this? GLM? Kimi?

How is what you describe "YC-ish"?
Playing backward is actually a great idea for testing generalization
Would be a great idea to see how much we could manipulate the latent space and whether it has some internal structure w.r.t the physical state. I guess the only unknown is how the world model would show robustness to latent states that are transformed through this network
Hey all, happy to see this here! This was a colab between General Intuition (that I’m part of), Kyutai and Epic Games.

You can read plenty of details in the blog post and tech report but the TLDR is that we trained a multiplayer world model on 10k hours of Rocket League data. We optimized it to be playable at 20fps on a single GPU.

So what you see in the demo is fully generated: there’s no graphics or physics engine. Instead it’s a 5b neural network that takes actions in and gives pixels out.

We're happy to release MIRA, a collaboration between General Intuition, Kyutai, and Epic Games.

Mira was trained on 10k hours of Rocket League data. The model has 5B parameters and runs 4-player games at 20 fps on a single B200 GPU.

We've released a playable online demo, an in-depth technical report as well as a 1k hour dataset of 4-players gameplay:

Technical report: https://mira-wm.com/paper Repo: https://github.com/mira-wm/mira

The checkpoint also weights half less than the game install! ;-)
This sounds like a strong statement with little backing. The author does infra at DeepSeek if his LinkedIn is to be trusted, and is the author of Foyer.
Re:Machines Don't Press Play on Thursday June 04, 2026 @03:27PM (#48403458)
This is exactly what i would have needed 6 months ago
I have mixed feelings (as in, I'm unsure how to feel) about projects where the code, the README and the HN/Reddit posts are mostly AI-generated.

I feel the frustration of reading "slop", but on the other hand the projects that surface do usually bring something useful to the table.

Should we simply judge the submission based on its technical merit? Why do I feel annoyed that an otherwise cool project uses typical LLM prose? For how long will we be able to recognize LLM-generated text, and what happens when we can't?

Re:Claude Opus 4.7 on Thursday April 16, 2026 @01:19PM (#47796582)
and so does OpenAI
Clearly they need more datacenters!
Re:OpenAI set to discontinue Sora video platform on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @07:16PM (#47510948)
> As we focus and compute demand grows, the Sora research team continues to focus on world simulation research to advance robotics that will help people solve real-world, physical tasks.

— https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-discontinues-sora-vid...

So yeah, focusing on world models

Re:iPhone 17 Pro Demonstrated Running a 400B LLM on Monday March 23, 2026 @02:37PM (#47493418)
This has a simple pragmatic solution though:

https://duckdb.org/2024/12/06/duckdb-tpch-sf100-on-mobile#a-...

Re:Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine) on Monday March 02, 2026 @06:13AM (#47216468)
Are you saying Carmack isn't a "talented and successful developer"?

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