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Re:Open-ended data is a bottleneck for AI systems tackling real knowle... on Thursday October 01, 2026 @10:12AM (#49921957)
I think the issue with open endedness has been getting reliable training signal in the first place. Not sure how easy it is to systematically capture that signal, but cool to see teams are working on this
Re:Frontier Reasoning Agents Fail on Interactive 2D Mazes on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @10:10AM (#49449564)
Hey HN, I’m one of the co-authors of this work. Very excited to see it here

We’ll actually be publishing a full paper soon, but happy to answer any questions in the meantime!

Re:Show HN: Poozle – open-source Plaid for LLMs on Saturday August 19, 2023 @12:34PM (#37190488)
Hey, very cool work! How does your solution compare to directly building the context in a framework like LangChain?

I’m an AI researcher, so am a little further from this area, but am very curious.

Re:Academic Ranks Explained or What on Earth Is an Adjunct? on Saturday April 29, 2023 @11:13AM (#35753667)
Enlightening. Another far less covered topic is the role of Non Tenure Track “Research Faculty”, often titled Research Scientist, Research Professor, etc.

I occupy one of those positions, and their forward mobility and relation to traditional TT positions is strange, and I’d like to see it covered in more depth.

Ask HN: Feasible to build open-source GATO Foundation Model?

Posted by hsikka on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @08:22PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I run a small distributed research community, and recently have been considering building a GATO (https://openreview.net/forum?id=1ikK0kHjvj) equivalent model.This would be extremely challenging, but I think could be a very interesting project, if only from the perspective of all the tacit knowledge you build in trying to build a SOTA Foundation model.Details are extremely limited in the paper,...

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Ask HN: ICOs/DAOs as a Service?

Posted by hsikka on Saturday October 23, 2021 @12:55AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Hey HN,I'm just now getting into Blockchain and Web3, so forgive my ignorance in advance.Are there any startups working on ICOs as a service? I know that in 2017 many shady ICOs occurred, and there must have been many shady ICO consultants/builders, but the value of raising funds and building communities in a decentralized way seems enormous.Are there any companies working as a sort of...

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Re:Jacksonpollock.org (2003) on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @04:54PM (#24287160)
What a wonderful surprise! I remember playing with this back in 3rd and 4th grade during our computer lab, it was an absolute pleasure. I haven't seen it in over 15 years, and am just floored by how timeless this is. It just so happened that I walked by my old elementary school on Monday of this week. What a strange coincidence.

Truly a joyful memory.

Re:OpenAI should now change their name to ClosedAI on Monday July 20, 2020 @05:17AM (#23896132)
A bunch of fellow researchers and I started Manifold Computing (https://manifoldcomputing.com), were we’re hoping to do live, open source research and build open source tools. As you said, time will tell but I hope we can do good work this way.

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