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Don't Try to Be Original
Re:A whale necropolis has been found
on Sunday June 14, 2026 @12:49AM (#48524272)
Warning: the photos are nightmare fuel and not safe for bedtime
Barrington's Theorem for Mortals
Re:Cohere Transcribe: Speech Recognition
on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @04:13PM (#47592823)
notable omission of deepgram models in comparisons?
Re:Ask HN: How to Be Alone?
on Sunday March 08, 2026 @05:47PM (#47301884)
+1 to running. If you run consistently, you'll learn to believe in your body as something that naturally improves if you train it well, and that belief will cross over to your mind and heart.
Mad: Watch agents do research live
On Culmination and Not yet Turning Thirty
Re:Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice
on Friday January 16, 2026 @01:08PM (#46649690)
You can use voice prompting; it's supported on ElevenLabs and Hume.
Making Sense of Memory and Attention
Re:Neural audio codecs: how to get audio into LLMs
on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @09:38AM (#45655666)
Awesome post!
Re:Candle Flame Oscillations as a Clock
on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @12:41AM (#44958678)
you might like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noether%27s_theorem
Re:Chatterbox TTS
on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @09:10PM (#44253466)
Re:Pre-Trained Large Language Models Use Fourier Features to Compute A...
on Thursday February 06, 2025 @11:22AM (#42963910)
Related work:
Interpreting Modular Addition in MLPs https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cbDEjnRheYn38Dpc5/interpreti...
Paper Replication Walkthrough: Reverse-Engineering Modular Addition https://www.neelnanda.io/mechanistic-interpretability/modula...
Free hosted Postgres, as simple as mkdir
Re:Play 3.0 mini – A lightweight, reliable, cost-efficient Multilingua...
on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @11:04AM (#41849363)
hume.ai specializes in expressive prosody for TTS (disclaimer - I work here)
Silon.ai – real-time global public figure recognition
Re:Cerebras launches inference for Llama 3.1; benchmarked at 1846 toke...
on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @05:41PM (#41373405)
Time to first token is as important to know for many use cases, rarely are people reporting it
Re:Show HN: Attaching to a virtual GPU over TCP
on Friday August 09, 2024 @02:37PM (#41204281)
this is nuts
Re:turbopuffer: Fast Search on Object Storage
on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @08:04PM (#40922580)
+1, had the fortune to work with him at a previous startup and meetup in person. Our convo very much broadened my perspective on engineering as a career and a craft, always excited to see what he's working on. Good luck Simon!
Re:Reasoning in Large Language Models: A Geometric Perspective
on Monday July 08, 2024 @03:05PM (#40908365)
https://transformer-circuits.pub/2022/in-context-learning-an...
there is a lot of evidence to suggest that they are performing induction
Re:Show HN: Porter Cloud – PaaS with an eject button
on Thursday May 23, 2024 @01:41PM (#40457639)
Had this exact problem (Heroku Postgres to RDS) at my old co. Data migration went as bad as it possibly could (dropped indices, foreign keys, everything but the data itself). This would have saved us months of pain.
Re:Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have been working on?
on Saturday April 06, 2024 @06:49AM (#39951521)
https://hootdoogs.com/ - "find food between you guys"
Browserslist/browserslist: `not and_UC all`
Re:Browserslist/browserslist: `not and_UC all`
on Monday January 29, 2024 @11:54AM (#39178627)
High integrity maintainer, big respect.
What else can we do with the Web Audio API?
Re:Llama from Scratch (or how to implement a paper without crying)
on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @11:16AM (#37063991)
Karpathy covers this in Makemore, but the tl;dr is that if you don’t normalize the batch (essentially center and scale your activations down to be normally distributed), then at gradient/backprop time, you may get values that are significantly smaller or greater than 1. This is a problem, because as you stack layers in sequence (passing outputs to inputs), the gradient compounds (because of the Chain Rule), and so what may have been a well behaved gradient at the end layers has either vanished (the upstream gradients were 0<x<1 at each layer) or exploded (the gradients were x>>1 upstream). Batch normalization helps control the vanishing/exploding gradient problem in deep neural nets by normalizing the values passed between layers.
Re:Llama from Scratch (or how to implement a paper without crying)
on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @04:23AM (#37059988)
Wow, great catch. I will update this in the morning!
Re:Llama from Scratch (or how to implement a paper without crying)
on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @03:44AM (#37059745)
edit: bearblog getting ddos'd, here's the repo https://github.com/bkitano/llama-from-scratch
Re:Llama from Scratch (or how to implement a paper without crying)
on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @03:43AM (#37059739)
working on it hehe