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Re:A short explainer on how El Niño works [video] on Sunday November 15, 2026 @02:13PM (#50509736)
I find the Climate Reanalyzer graphs very instructive - at a glance one can see how extreme the situation is:

https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily

Re: on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @10:03AM (#50366563)
No DLSS 5
Re:Nanbeige/Nanbeige4.3-33B - stronger coder than Qwen 3.8 on Monday November 02, 2026 @10:31AM (#50338201)
The actificial analysis post shows that it does not perform well at all on its newer benchmarks. So probably very benchmark focussed, but still, worth a try for local coding.
Re:Beam Seriously, This Model Is Ridiculous [video] on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @01:42PM (#49981715)
Very clickbaity title, but interesting analysis of Reflection AI's Beam model.
Re:Jev introduces a new shape of LLM on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @03:44AM (#49797860)
To get calibrated probabilities sounds like a very good feature, if they are indeed well calibrated.

And in my experiments even Qwen 3.8 has a hard time to consistenly conform to a schema, requiring retries, JSON cleanup etc, so to have a model of similar quality (SemIf et al) that simply cannot deviate from the schema by construction could be very helpful.

But I still need to experiment with either Jev/SemIf myself.

Re:Navigation App for People with Blindness and Low Vision on Monday August 31, 2026 @01:35PM (#49512450)
A friend of mine founded a startup with much the same concept several years ago - while it has matured in many ways the initial concept was to provide the user with spatial audio "sound beacons" / breadcrumbs they could intuitively follow: https://www.dreamwaves.io/
Re:Functional Programmers need to take a look at Zig on Thursday April 30, 2026 @12:39AM (#47958172)
Optionals handle this in zig:

  var value: ?T = null;
Write:

  value = 10;
Read:

  if (value) |x| x+=1
A few more details + map on Aviation Herald:

https://avherald.com/h?article=5345bfac&opt=0

Re:Meditation as Wakeful Relaxation: Unclenching Smooth Muscle on Thursday January 08, 2026 @07:40AM (#46540360)
Autogenic training [1] is exactly a relaxation technique focussing on the progressive relaxation of body regions. It is very easy to learn and a body-first approch to approach meditative states, which can then be used for auto-suggestion.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autogenic_training

The Aviation Herald has more technical details:

https://avherald.com/h?article=52f1ffc3&opt=0

Re:Why 'rocks as big as cars' are flying down the Dolomites on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @04:48PM (#45045034)
Asianomics released a video on how withdrawing groundwater can dramatically lower the elevation of entire cities — I was surprised by how large an effect just a couple of years of human activity can have.

China's sinking land problem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu_Y4hJmqGE

Re:Ask HN: What projects do you donate to? on Tuesday May 27, 2025 @02:40AM (#44104455)

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