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Re:Gemini 4 Argon on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @06:42PM (#49915424)
I use 3.8 Flash for daily troubleshooting tasks e.g. help me find out why certain app crashes or certain website does not load normally with playwright-cli. Sure it's not as capable but it's fast and almost free (sufficient quota with pro account). The only thing that bugs me is that I need to use `--dangerously-skip-permissions` as it does not have auto review.
Re:Show HN: YouTube Guitar Tab Parser on Monday July 13, 2026 @07:06PM (#48900133)
As far as I know, there still isn’t a tool that can reliably produce usable transcriptions out of the box, although the results for solo piano can be reasonably good. A lack of high-quality labeled training data, especially for instruments other than piano, is probably part of the reason. But the problem is also more complicated than it might initially seem: you have to handle polyphony, overlapping harmonics, timing and articulation. And in the case of guitar tabs, it's even more complicated as one needs to determine what tuning is used (if not standard), which string and fret produced each note. Or separately rearrange the tab.
Re:2025 MacArthur Fellows on Thursday October 09, 2025 @03:51PM (#45532256)
Wow Madison, WI got 2!
Re:Integer Programming (2002) [pdf] on Monday September 08, 2025 @12:37PM (#45170420)
There is a textbook for this in case you don't know. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-11008-0
Re:Xiaomi MiMo Reasoning Model on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @12:20PM (#43847379)
I suppose you probably were visiting some university districts/CBDs where people likely to have received higher education. Elsewhere, aside from basic "hello"/"how are you", locals in general are not able to communicate in English.
Re:GPT-4.1 in the API on Monday April 14, 2025 @04:03PM (#43685699)
4.10 > 4.5 — @stevenheidel

@sama: underrated tweet

Source: https://x.com/stevenheidel/status/1911833398588719274

Re:Effort – a possibly new algorithm for LLM Inference on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @02:42PM (#40068589)
Could you explain the pseudo code in your equations page? Is the second approxMul call a typo (also the capitalized V)?

def precompute(W): W = W.T probes = get_probes(W) W_idx, W_val = sortMatrixRows(W)

def approxMul(v, W_idx, W_val, probes): cutoff_chart = v * probes cutoff = topK(cutoff_chart, effort) approxMul(V, W_idx, W_val, cutoff)