Do those questions need a foundation on which they stand to be answered? What is that foundation (are there relative foundations or are they by definition absolute?)?. Is there a moral standard that those handful of companies share? Similar to “success factors”, are there “success ethics” in your perspective?
What would be the elements of success ethics that others can learn from?
I’ve been keeping up with the classics (NCF, Wide & Deep, LightGCN), but the field seems to have shifted dramatically in the last 18–24 months toward LLM-based reasoning and graph-based retrieval at scale.I’m looking for the "state of the art" in 2026. Specifically:LLM4Rec: Beyond just using LLMs for feature engineering—who is doing generative recommendation well?Retrieval vs. Ranking: Any...
His refreshingly honest take is very relatable, humorous and encouraging.
I can highly recommend it if you’re interested in prayer life (and how to use powerful formulations in letters)
One example is a GPT version [1] fine tuned on texts of Sefaria [2].
The initiator was in direct contact with Sam Altman to kickstart it. (Personal communication).
He talks about this publicly [3]
[1]: https://github.com/Sefaria/AppliedAI [2]: https://www.sefaria.org/texts [3]: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tZkJl2fk0rc
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33047634
What makes DVC especially useful for MLOps? Aren’t MLFlow or W&B solving that in a way that’s open source (the former) or just increases the speed and scale massively ( the latter)?
Disclaimer: I work at W&B.
[1]: https://huggingface.co/Aleph-Alpha/Pharia-1-LLM-7B-control
Hi HN,I’ll be visiting San Francisco in about 4 weeks and am hoping to get some book recommendations. Here’s what I’m looking for:1. *For my kids (ages 3 & 5):* I’m particularly interested in science books for young children that are only available or easiest to find in the US. I’d love to bring back some unique and educational reads that might not be readily available in Germany.2. *For...
I’m going to watch finding NeMo now
Somehow, this time feels to me like the early days of computer science, when Don Knuth was barely known and a Turing award was only known to Turing award winners. I met Don Knuth in Palo Alto in March and we talked about LLMs. His take: „Vint Cerf told me he was underwhelmed when he asked the LLM to write a biography on Vinton Cerf.“
There are also tools being built and released for Prompt engineering [1]. Full transparency: I work at W&B
LangChain and other connecting elements will vastly increase the usability and combinations of different tools.
[1]: https://wandb.ai/wandb/wb-announcements/reports/Introducing-...
Hi HN,based on Whisper [0] and Whisper.cpp [1], I created a comparison of transcription performance (quantitative metrics such as relative speed).You can find the code in the Colab [2] and a blog post [3] containing a how-to guide and visualizations.In the future, I'd love to add WER evaluation and visualizations based on ground-truth data.Bonus: Normally you would log these results from Python...
It comes with a smart versioning approach, checks the Δ based on the checksum and has a feature to visualize the lineage.
You can also use your existing object store and link it for very large / sensitive data.[2]
Disclaimer: I work at W&B.
[1]: https://docs.wandb.ai/guides/data-and-model-versioning/model... [2]: https://docs.wandb.ai/guides/artifacts/track-external-files#...
> The truth in fact is that C. P. Snow got it wrong by at least an order of magnitude — there are many more than two cultures. I think a lot of you know the Apple Macintosh ads telling us to “think different,” but people already do. From my own corner of the academic world, I know for example that physicists think different from mathematicians; mathematicians who do algebra think different from mathematicians who do geometry; both kinds of mathematicians think different from computer scientists who work on algorithms; and so on and so forth. People often decry this lack of unity in the knowledge of the world, but let’s face it: People are different. Vive la différence.
Fun fact: PG mentions the two cultures while writing about Knuth [1]
[0]: http://web.stanford.edu/group/cslipublications/cslipublicati...
[1]: http://www.paulgraham.com/knuth.html?viewfullsite=1
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Things_a_Computer_Scientist_Ra...
I do it to encourage young people to use software to make a change in their and other’s lives.
Currently making $500 with 90min/week effort. I already got the syllabus material ready so I do not necessarily have to invest time here.
Right now they’re writing an exam.
What technology do you use today that is far from mainstream? Think Tony Stark technology. Examples are mobile phones / internet in the 80s, metal 3D printers, quantum ML, night vision device, large language models (GPT-3) for personal communication, CRISPR, manned drones.
My wife (staying at home) and I have a 2yo girl and a 7mo girl and raise them trilingually (English, Spanish, German). To our surprise, the 2yo has a better pronunciation than monolingual peers. She also has a remarkable memory and can remember names of places and people. Moreover, she discovers letters on signs and posters. Her favorite book is a visual dictionary. [3] In general, our...