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he's a well known author on LLMs already.
Re:How much of F-Droid is LLM generated? on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @07:49AM (#49711106)
There's more python and typescript in the training data than bytecode.
Re:iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 on Monday September 14, 2026 @02:55PM (#49702083)
This MCP server for Safari is pretty neat. I think I'm going to start automatting some tasks for our corporate websites.
With my younger coworkers it's their defence when I push back on them.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026) on Thursday July 02, 2026 @10:45AM (#48762435)
Salary band?
source?
Re:Tesla ending Models S and X production on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @07:05PM (#46803665)
It's not like they aren't going to support any new purchases.
Re:If You Tax Them, Will They Leave? on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @07:56AM (#46794701)
Taxes are not a punishment.
Re:enclose.horse on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @07:42AM (#46511531)
That's from the Far Side. My mom has had this on her fridge for at least 30 years.
Same. two drinks and I'm done
Re:Two things LLM coding agents are still bad at on Thursday October 09, 2025 @10:24AM (#45528140)
My experience with them is that the are taught to cover as much syntax and libraries as possible, without spending time learning how solve problems and develop their own algorithms. They (in general) expect to follow predefined recipes.
Re:Meta Ray-Ban Display on Thursday September 18, 2025 @07:28AM (#45288305)
I take it they meant pre-recorded. It was definitely scripted and practiced.
Re:LLM Visualization on Friday September 05, 2025 @07:58AM (#45137538)
You might need to play around with the default settings. One of the first models I tried running on my Mac was really slow.. Turns out it was preallocating a long context window that wouldn't fit in the GPU memory, so it ran on the CPU.
Re:AR Fluid Simulation Demo on Thursday September 04, 2025 @08:09AM (#45126345)
We had this at Clemson University about 10 years ago. I think the whole design came out of an MIT lab though. There's video of it still up here: https://www.clemsongis.org/clemson-sandbox
I've noticed an uptick on emails with random mid-sentence bolding and more bullet lists.
Re:Gemma 3 270M: The compact model for hyper-efficient AI on Thursday August 14, 2025 @03:03PM (#44904296)
> and with the goal you'll all finetune it for your use case.

What use-cases are a good fit for finetuning this model? More specific instruction following, knowledge from proprietary data, response tone?

Re:Smollm3: Smol, multilingual, long-context reasoner LLM on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @01:56PM (#44502398)
We do use WebLLM and a hosted Weaviate database, but there are complaints about speed (both retrieval and time to first token as the context will get big). The Gemma 3n "nesting doll" approach sounds like it could be useful .. but haven't found anyone specifically doing it to add domain specific knowledge.
Re:Smollm3: Smol, multilingual, long-context reasoner LLM on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @01:09PM (#44501951)
Which small model is good for fine tuning to various enterprise data sets? Our business units are wanting to run small models in browser and on mobile devices, without dealing with RAG and cloud resources.
Re:Web Translator API on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @07:58AM (#44376260)
If you need to support several languages, you're going to have to have a zoo of models. Small ones just can't handle that many; and they especially aren't good enough for distribution, we only use them for understanding.
It's called the Coriolis effect.
Kinda of strange to pick an example that is just wrong. It's supposed to be written from 1840 and says Paris is the seat of Napoleon almost 20 years after he died.
Pretty basic stuff that you'd been in a blog post from 2022.

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