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2025 Year in Review
Re:Still using Firefox – but not because of its vision
on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @11:00AM (#46434625)
Native since v146, about:config -> browser.tabs.splitView.enabled
Re:Kimi K2 Thinking, a SOTA open-source trillion-parameter reasoning m...
on Thursday November 06, 2025 @01:01PM (#45838179)
Which in turn lets the people at Moonshot AI worry about that for them, the only provider for this model as of now.
Re:Who invented deep residual learning?
on Saturday October 18, 2025 @04:29PM (#45630134)
I think what you're referring to is also known as Stigler's law of eponymy [1], which is interestingly self-referential and ironic in its own naming. There's also the related "Matthew effect" [2] in the sciences.
Re:Procedural Knowledge in Pretraining Drives Reasoning in Large Langu...
on Sunday December 01, 2024 @05:46PM (#42291313)
I think GP was probably referring to "Scaling Data-Constrained Language Models" (2305.16264) from NeurIPS 2023, which looked first at how to optimally scale LLMs when training data is limited. There is a short section on mixing code (Python) into the training data and the effect this has on performance on e.g. natural language tasks. One of their findings was that training data can be up to 50% code without actually degrading performance, and in some cases (benchmarks like bAbI and WebNLG) with improvements (probably because these tasks have an emphasis on what they call "long-range state tracking capabilities").
For reference: In the Llama 3 technical report (2407.21783), they mention that they ended up using 17% code tokens in their training data.
Re:What Made Dostoevsky's Work Immortal
on Saturday November 23, 2024 @09:06AM (#42220929)
Most likely "The Brothers Karamazov".
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Re:NetBSD Bans AI-Generated Code from Commits
on Saturday May 18, 2024 @08:07AM (#40398317)
For context: https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2401.3/04208.html
HN discussion (4 months ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39191899
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Re:What Is Applied Category Theory? (2018)
on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @10:42PM (#26022332)
It is not that the HN community is diminishing your credentials in applied category theory or in any other fields, more so the inherited snarkiness in your short comment provides no one a favor and surely doesn't add any value to the discussion.
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Re:Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?
on Friday December 25, 2020 @09:57PM (#25540979)
Funnily enough, someone tells am after a minute he should "slow down and breath a little bit".
Re:Life Lessons from a 97-Year-Old Lobsterman (2019)
on Saturday November 21, 2020 @06:22PM (#25173495)
Out of curiosity, what was your first act and what made you transition to software engineering?
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Re:Physicists Pin Down Nuclear Reaction from Moments After the Big Bang
on Thursday November 12, 2020 @07:38AM (#25069156)
Your comment reminds me of a study [1] published in 2019, demonstrating that people with the strongest views against genetically modified foods know the least about science but believe they know the most.
Implicating that the Big Bang Theory enjoys its popularity because it "sells" is, I think, showing complete arrogance to landmark discoveries made in the past century - such as the cosmic background radiation [2] (for which the Nobel Prize 1978 was awarded), supporting the thesis of the Big Bang.
[1] Extreme opponents of genetically modified foods know the least but think they know the most. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-018-0520-3 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_microwave_background
Re:YouTube Down
on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @08:20PM (#25065238)
Maybe speedtest.net downloads a YouTube video to measure your speed /s