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Re:Do dentists know what they're doing? on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @07:58PM (#50097355)
missing obligatory mention of mewing
Re:Do dentists know what they're doing? on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @07:50PM (#50097273)
Interestingly every time I go assuming I have a cavity my doctor (specialized in dental aesthetics) friendly explains to me that I don't have any and proceeds to not do anything. Still charges for it though. I guess that's a solution for the overprescription problem.
omp+0x-alpha beat both cc+fable and codex-sol in creating/refactoring a big eval setup. the former just knows where things should belong and completed the task all the way while the other two failed on both metrics.
Re:Midjourney Medical on Thursday June 18, 2026 @06:58AM (#48583565)
quite the opposite. it feels refreshing that ppl with talent and money can do inspiring things with it.
Re:Apple Foundation Models on Monday June 15, 2026 @12:25PM (#48543600)
ppl pay for this?
Re:Just Use Postgres for Durable Workflows on Friday May 29, 2026 @07:55AM (#48321984)
how are you handling schema updates? do you migrate jobs or handle worker deployments in a specific way?
Re:Work with Codex from Anywhere on Friday May 15, 2026 @10:19AM (#48148961)
that's because it's an acquisition (http://usegalileo.ai/)
This is broadly accurate, but if anyone feels like freaking out and quickly needs an antidote to the "high" class of sociopath grifters, perhaps could find some solitude in Wim Wenders' Perfect Days for a few hours.
Re:The Brand Age on Friday March 06, 2026 @02:56PM (#47280251)
While I mostly agree with the grim conclusion, I think there's an important aspect ignored that in every domain the very first and very best brands could leverage as good design and purpose: art and fun.

Remember winamp skins?

"The purpose of art is to impart the sensation of things as they are perceived and not as they are known. The technique of art is to make objects 'unfamiliar', to make forms difficult, to increase the difficulty and length of perception because the process of perception is an aesthetic end in itself and must be prolonged." - Shklovsky on defamiliarization

What pg is really writing about is enshittification, consumerism.

Re:Privilege is bad grammar on Monday February 16, 2026 @04:13PM (#47040412)
ppl are so sensitive. it's not impolite to be direct. why would you be wasting each other's time by "dear, sincerely etc" every single time.
Honestly this is the best way to learn about inverse problems and it's what made convolution click for me a few years ago.
Re:Moltbook on Friday January 30, 2026 @10:39AM (#46825671)
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Re:Recursive Language Models on Saturday January 03, 2026 @05:05PM (#46482173)
sub-agents that access (and manipulate) the SAME context (a file system or variables in the REPL)
Re:Open Source and Local Code Mode MCP in Deno Sandboxes on Friday November 21, 2025 @11:09AM (#46005774)
File system access is a must tho, that's where half the power of coding agents come from: efficiently managing context files.
Re:Your Data Model is Your Destiny on Friday October 17, 2025 @07:44AM (#45615590)
I 100% agree in the importance of the data model, and the examples show that it often makes more sense to start from the user's perspective of it rather than your db schema.

Interestingly AI Agents are all about disrupting the hard bounds of existing data and interaction models and it turns out the lowest common denominator is often the winner. Eg.: file system > database, grep > embeddings, markdown > pdf, generative ui > portals, computer use > api-s etc.

There simply is no need for all that abstraction / interface / infrastructure to eg. answer questions about documents or to keep track of todo lists, workflows or sending messages etc. when you have glue that can translate between the data models.

this would be useful outside of coding. could you release a benchmark so we can have more models tuned for this?
Re:The secret to great art? Finding someone else to make it on Thursday October 02, 2025 @06:26AM (#45447994)
I would
Re:Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @05:46PM (#45204349)
I thought this was pretty well known (at least in the JAX/XLA world). I've hit this many times and got batch variance explained to me before: https://github.com/google-deepmind/penzai/issues/82 and https://github.com/jax-ml/jax/issues/20047#issuecomment-1975...
If that helps, I get burnt out on just red bull already...
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025) on Monday March 31, 2025 @01:59PM (#43537824)
A simple tool to continuously vectorize your PostgreSQL tables with the flexibility of your own embedding pipelines.

https://github.com/BarnacleLabs/RAGmatic

Re:Trapping misbehaving bots in an AI Labyrinth on Saturday March 22, 2025 @04:53PM (#43448531)
> No real human would go four links deep into a maze of AI-generated nonsense.

sure... sure nobody.

Re:TinyKVM: Fast sandbox that runs on top of Varnish on Friday March 14, 2025 @07:31AM (#43361597)
yes that's the durable objects ~ durable agents model that cloudflare is building
To be fair, it's more likely they just looked you up on FB.
Re:Gemini Robotics brings AI into the physical world on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @05:37PM (#43347914)
inference speed of the models is probably the bottleneck
Re:Gemini Robotics brings AI into the physical world on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @05:31PM (#43347870)
just pet bottle recycling by itself is a multi-billion dollar industry globally [1]

[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PET_bottle_recycling)

Re:Yoke Is Cool on Thursday March 06, 2025 @04:48AM (#43278268)
or you could just compile pulumi js to webassembly?
Re:Hard problems that reduce to document ranking on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @09:52PM (#43180085)
What if u embed `askLLM("5 thins this Diff could fix" + chunk)` instead of `chunk`? That should be closer in the latent space.
Re:Ingesting PDFs and why Gemini 2.0 changes everything on Thursday February 06, 2025 @07:28AM (#42961722)
I have seen numbers come differently in JAX just depending on the batch size, simply because the compiler optimizes to a different sequence of operations on the hardware.

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