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Re:Deno Is Joining Cloudflare on Friday October 09, 2026 @12:59PM (#50023408)
Re:Deno Is Joining Cloudflare on Friday October 09, 2026 @12:58PM (#50023391)
Re:Pi – a minimal terminal coding harness on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @07:22PM (#47145567)
there is also pz a drop-in replacement for pi rewritten in Zig. 1.7MB static binary, 3ms startup, 1.4MB RAM idle. Find more at:

https://github.com/elyase/awesome-personal-ai-assistants?tab...

Re:Tools: Code Is All You Need on Thursday July 03, 2025 @10:01AM (#44455189)
This is similar to the tool call (fixed code & dynamic params) vs code generation (dynamic code & dynamic params) discussion: tools offer contrains and save tokens, code gives you flexibility. Some papers suggest that generating code is often superior and this will likely become even more true as language models improve

[1] https://huggingface.co/papers/2402.01030

[2] https://huggingface.co/papers/2401.00812

[3] https://huggingface.co/papers/2411.01747

I am working on a model that goes a step beyond and even makes the distinction between thinking and code execution unnecessary (it is all computation in the end), unfortunately no link to share yet

Between two models the one with the shorter Minimum Description Length (MDL) will more likely generalize better
Re:A Research Preview of Codex on Saturday May 17, 2025 @09:33AM (#44014213)
What you're missing is how to use the tools properly. With solid documentation, good project management practices, a well-organized code structure and tests, any junior engineer should be able to read up on your codebase, write linted code following your codebase style, verify it via tests and write you a report of what was done, challenges faced etc. State of the art coding agents will do that at superhuman speeds.

If you haven't set things up properly (important info lives only in people’s heads / meetings, tasks dont have clear acceptance criteria, ...) then you aren't ready for Junior Developers yet. You need to wait until your Coding Agents are at Senior level.

Re:Launch HN: Browser Use (YC W25) – open-source web agents on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @08:56PM (#43179794)
I want to use browser-use in Cursor but I am using another option because it doesn't support MCP integration which is the common language they support for external tools
Re:Flair: A simple framework for natural language processing on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @07:30AM (#18805769)
The closest alternatives in this space would be allennlp [1], the recently released pytext [2] and spacy [3]. pytext's authors wrote some comparison on the accompanying paper [4] and this GitHub issue [5].

[1] https://github.com/allenai/allennlp

[2] https://github.com/facebookresearch/pytext

[3] https://spacy.io

[4] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.08729.pdf

[5] https://github.com/facebookresearch/pytext/issues/110

Re:What Kagglers Are Using for Text Classification on Thursday December 27, 2018 @12:40PM (#18771002)
We have done extensive testing in the context of chatbot intent classification and in our particular problem nothing (including CNN, LSTM, fasttext plus LUIS, Watson and other proprietary classifiers) has been able to beat a simple linear model trained on char n-gram features.
Re:Show HN: TabNine, an autocompleter for all languages on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @04:42PM (#18395137)
Take a look here for some solutions:

https://www.openmined.org

fast.ai is great and I also want to love it but I find the coding style extremely unconventional and uninviting to the point that I only use the library when there is really no better alternative (ex for the lr finding features). Variable naming and wildcard imports would be my main complains. But thanks a lot Jeremy for the course and for posting the style guide.
Cool project. Are you also going to allow access to the historical data?
Re:Parallel Python on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @01:49PM (#13869756)
Dask would be an option.
We evaluated using ConceptNet Numberbatch but in the end went with fasttext because of the treatment of OOV words using sub word information. This is important for us because we work with Social Media where misspellings are very frequent and we have found this helps a lot. Are you also looking into these sort of enhancements? How do you usually deal with OOV words?
Re:How to use Deep Learning when you have Limited Data on Thursday February 02, 2017 @07:14PM (#13556378)
It can be argued that some algorithms like Random Forests don't impose a generalization penalty as you increase the number of parameters (forests).
If you follow the right people in your fields of interest you will have an endless stream of interesting updated content. You can't personalize HN to have the exact sort of news you want but you can tune the people you follow in Twitter and get the best source of curated news there is for you. I frequently find stuff like new library releases/interesting blog posts from someone I follow well before they appear (if they ever do) in places like HN/Reddit subs I frequent.
Great work! A question: how do we scale the computations? I know how long my experiments normally take on a 40 core PC. How long will it take and how much will it cost if I use Empirical?
Re:Nootropics on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @06:52AM (#12546989)
A study assessing 6 months (n=112) and 12 months (n=96) of melatonin treatment of 2mg in a controlled release capsule, taken 1-2 hours prior to sleep, people aged 20-80 with primary insomnia failed to show any tolerance to the treatment. The authors noted a slight sensitization to the effects of melatonin at the 3-4 month period, which was attributed to better entrainment of the circadian rhythm. These results have been replicated in another study, lasting 6 months, with a sample of 791 people. No melatonin tolerance due to usage was observed. Another study, lasting 6 months with a sample size of 421 people also replicated these results.

Source: http://examine.com/supplements/Melatonin/#summary15-1

Re:Text Summarization with TensorFlow on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @06:21PM (#12355702)
Any chance some trained model will be released?
You mean something like this:

https://github.com/spacy-io/sputnik

?

What I don't get is: can you use SFrame without installing the graphlab framework at all? What are the limitations? Is there an example notebook using only SFrame and not graphlab?
Re:Introducing Bootstrap Studio on Sunday January 31, 2016 @06:14AM (#11006043)
Not Bootstrap specific but Macaw 1.6 [1] is now a free alternative since they were bought by InVision.

[1] http://macaw.co

Re:Deep Learning with Spark and TensorFlow on Monday January 25, 2016 @04:22PM (#10970040)
I think this could have been done with GNU parallel. One advantage I see with Spark is that is that it is easier to interact with Python, for example these two lines are all is needed to call the relevant Python function:

  urls = sc.parallelize(batched_data)
  labelled_images = urls.flatMap(apply_batch)
So if you already have a cluster with Spark installed (like Databrick does) then it takes less work to just call your Python code than setting up a GNU Parallel cluster and a writing a small wrapper script. Additionally a Python script would have to load/init the models on every call from Parallel. I agree that this is not a great demonstration of Spark main strengths.

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