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Re:Show HN: Fitness MCP on Thursday March 19, 2026 @10:37AM (#47440285)
Did you try asking it that? The example in the video was beyond what the typical apps provide (pulling race data from the BAA, adding temperature data from other sources Claude is familiar with). There are definitely limits with the amount of data you want to send Claude, but giving it some access is a start.

https://youtu.be/xejH8YcIGFE?t=146&si=r3HVfFl8g4Fwz1O0

Did you use Cursor with Gemini and GPT?
Re:Leaving Meta and PyTorch on Friday November 07, 2025 @04:05AM (#45844737)
I personally believe TF1 was serving the need of its core users. It provided a compileable compute graph with autodiff, and you got very efficient training and inference from it. There was a steep learning curve, but if you got past it, things worked very very well. The distributed TF never really took off—it was buggy, and I think they made some wrong earlier bets in the design for performance reasons that they should have been sacrificed in favor of simplicity.

I believe some years after the TF1 release, they realized the learning curve was too steep, they were losing users to PyTorch. I think also the Cloud team was attempting to sell customers on their amazing DL tech, which was falling flat. So they tried to keep the TF brand while totally changing the product under the hood by introducing imperative programming and gradient tapes. They killed TF1, upsetting those users, while not having a fully functioning TF2, all the while having plenty of documentation pointing to TF1 references that didn’t work. Any new grad student made the simple choice of using a tool that was user-friendly and worked, which was PyTorch. And most old TF1 users hopped on the band wagon.

Re:Leaving Meta and PyTorch on Friday November 07, 2025 @01:42AM (#45844081)
As a loyal JAX user, I hope they can play catchup. PyTorch has dominated the AI scene since TF1 fumbled the ball at 10th yard line. What Matt Johnson has done turning Autograd into JAX is hopefully going to be worthy of as much praise as what Soumith has received.
Re:US Chemical Safety Board at risk of being defunded on Monday June 23, 2025 @09:22PM (#44361977)
I see your point, but not totally buying it. The US innovates for a global population, one that’s still growing.

The best way to infer causality is through experimentation. If regulation does go away, we’ll measure and learn if it actually worked.

Re:US Chemical Safety Board at risk of being defunded on Monday June 23, 2025 @09:10PM (#44361906)
How are so confident in causality here?
Re:Ask HN: Anyone making a living from a paid API? on Saturday May 31, 2025 @11:28AM (#44144891)
Similarly curious if anyone has an API, that they ultimately subsidize through some other service or product.
M, N, O, P, …
Re:Transformers Without Normalization on Saturday March 15, 2025 @02:10AM (#43370370)
Need to read the details, but removing the norm can be big. It’s always a pain to make sure that your network is normalized properly when trying new architectures. Likely there will still be other implications of the tanh, since the norm is sometimes solving a conditioning problem, but IMO more alternatives are welcome
Re:Show HN: Spotify and Apple Health Data as Art on Saturday December 21, 2024 @02:10PM (#42481540)
This is awesome—nice job! It was so cool to see when I started running and what year I started to get injured :/
What did the line represent? It’s always surprising how predictable it is to estimate people’s race times given what you know about their fitness. That said, about 10% of the time someone surprises you with a time you wouldn’t expect.
Re:Show HN: Will I run Boston 2025? on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @07:13PM (#41573892)
Try adjusting the slider! Gives us hope.
Is this similar to the Universal Approximator Theorem?
Re:Google Predicts the Flu Again on Monday July 01, 2024 @11:45PM (#40853362)
Google stopped providing predictions about 9 years ago.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Flu_Trends#:~:text=wi....

Re:Training Deep Networks with Data Parallelism in Jax on Friday February 24, 2023 @03:51PM (#34929959)
A nice simple walkthrough in this post, but would be nice if it was updated to show how to do this with sharding and the new jax.Array type introduced not too long ago

https://github.com/google/jax/pull/11233/files

Re:Show HN: Google's New ML Algorithm for Unlabeled Data on Thursday February 23, 2023 @02:40PM (#34915367)
Re:Non-Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning on Monday February 13, 2023 @01:05AM (#34770644)
From Google. We did most of our studies on tabular data, which has been a less studied area in SSL.