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Re:Jev in 25 Lines of Python on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @04:59AM (#49813373)
not sure if true, but if you look at laya they use BERT type models. If jev is also using a BERT-type model it is autoregressive and therefore can't reason in the way that GPT-type models can. However, you get the advantage of being able to attend in both directions.
Re:Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @08:29AM (#45965588)
Luckily for everyone including Guilhermo he can't dunk on the situation since x.com is down as well.
Re:Ultra high-resolution image of The Night Watch on Saturday September 21, 2024 @08:47AM (#41609627)
Feels like you could make a fun game out of guessing where in the image you in the most zoomed in level.
Re:The News Is Information Junk Food (2022) on Thursday August 08, 2024 @08:01AM (#41190565)
I think reading weekly news instead of daily news helps you stay in the loop, but cuts out a lot of information junk.

That being said I’m still looking for some good weekly news(papers) in English.

Would love some recommendations.

Re:Visidata 2.0 on Saturday October 17, 2020 @09:40AM (#24809894)
great tip! Thanks :)!
Re:Visidata 2.0 on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @10:25AM (#24776867)
I haven't even thought about using it that way. Super cool, will do in the future.

> Load X, histogram, filter, sort is probably 90% of my use-cases.

Exaclty! Same for me.

Re:Visidata 2.0 on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @10:17AM (#24776761)
Seems like the brew tap has not been updated yet btw.
Re:Visidata 2.0 on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @09:22AM (#24776205)
My main use case for this is: I get some random data file thrown at me. Could be json, csv, xlsx anything that has data that can somehow be interpreted somewhat tabular and I want to find out quickly what's going on.

You can really go from not knowing what's in a file to a decent understanding in less than a minute.

Re:Cool URIs Don't Change (1998) on Friday July 17, 2020 @08:02AM (#23869600)
It's kind of fun to see that this has been posted several times on hn before, but never took off.

e.g.: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8454570 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10086156 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=803901

In this one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1472611 the URI is actually broken - not sure if it changed or if it just was a mistake of OP back then.

Hey,

Recently I have been working a lot with semantic sentence encoding. For example for some semantic search use cases or semantic clustering.

As a sort of demo and way to explore the potential and limitations of semantic encoding, I thought it would be fun to build this small side project together with a colleague.

It's basically a HN clone based of VueJS' HN clone with the small twist of having the top 3 semantically most similar together with the current HN stories.

I have been using this for some time for myself now and I find sometimes some fun stories come up. It doesn't always work so great, but see for yourself.

I added a feature for ranking how similar you perceive the story to be. If enough people make use of the ranking feature it could be possible that a dataset of similar HN-stories title pairs would come together (I'm thinking of sth. like the GLUE STS-B dataset).

If that was the case I would, of course, make it available publicly.

Thanks for reading and please let me know your thoughts :)

/Philipp