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This is really interesting! I created a short recently about FM synth with some cool animations that may be of interest to folks: 3 AMAZING facts about FM synthesis https://youtube.com/shorts/yrZrM2-S5mE?feature=share

Show HN: A better alternative to CLI and MCP for local tools

https://github.com/stefanwebb/named-pipes

I've created an alternative to CLI and MCP for locally running agentic tools. It uses Unix-based OS's named pipes, which means the client has quick IPC with the tool and it can have in-memory state. I created it to build components for voice agents (TTS, STT, LLM chat) but it has wide range of uses! Comes with a CLI tool, cpipe (like curl), and a Claude Code skill

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Re:Is more training data always better? on Thursday October 23, 2025 @01:54PM (#45684769)
First couple of paragraphs:

"There are many things one needs to live a rich and fulfilled life (according to AI researchers). A good initialization [Mishkin and Matas, 2015], attention-based neural networks [Vaswani et al., 2017], and a good title for your research paper [Myself, just now], to name a few.

In this post, we discuss another piece of eternal wisdom from AI researchers: “less is more.” Specifically, how foundation models can be fine-tuned for new capabilities with small data, in many cases less than one-thousand samples, and often outperform the same model fine-tuned on larger datasets. Meditate on that for a moment (suggested pose in figure above)."

Re:The Case for the Return of Fine-Tuning on Sunday October 19, 2025 @04:34PM (#45637704)
Here's a blog post I wrote last week on the same topic: https://blog.oumi.ai/p/small-fine-tuned-models-are-all-you

I discuss a large-scale empirical study of fine-tuning 7B models to outperform GPT-4 called "LoRA Land", and give some arguments in the discussion section making the case for the return of fine-tuning, i.e. what has changed in the past 6 months

Re:Small Fine-Tuned Models Are All You Need on Sunday October 19, 2025 @04:29PM (#45637669)
Seems topical given some recent front-page HN articles on fine-tuning. I discuss a large-scale empirical study from 2014 of fine-tuning 7B models to outperform GPT-4 and GPT-3.5-Turbo, as well as arguments why fine-tuning is coming back into favor
Hello Fellow Hackers, I wanted to share what my team is building. We released our open-source library for foundation model development in February and we're about to release our first Enterprise offering.

In brief, we've developed an easy-to-use platform for fine-tuning custom models. We automate data synthesis for judging and training, as well as automating the judge prompt itself. The end result is that model development times and costs are drastically cut!

Check out our Substack article above if you're interested in learning more or signing up for early access :)

Re:Voronoi map generation in Civilization VII on Monday September 29, 2025 @10:18PM (#45421252)
This is a really powerful technique in general because it lets us have some controllability over traditional PCG techniques! All you need is the right prompt and an evaluation metric - could definitely apply to Voronoi maps
Re:Voronoi map generation in Civilization VII on Monday September 29, 2025 @09:57PM (#45421129)
On a related note, I've started a blog on procedural content generation and GenAI content synthesis: https://gamedev.blog/. Would love any feedback / suggestions! I intend to cover Voronoi diagrams in the near future + a Python implementation and turning it into a 3D map with Unity
Re:Llama-Factory: Unified, Efficient Fine-Tuning for 100 Open LLMs on Thursday September 18, 2025 @11:45PM (#45297740)
There’s a similar library that also includes data synth and LLM-as-a-Judge: https://github.com/oumi-ai/oumi
Re:Avoid manual sharding in vector db or any db on Thursday March 27, 2025 @10:37PM (#43500874)
Totally relate to that! Article looks interesting :)
Re:DeepSearcher: A Local open-source Deep Research on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @04:27PM (#43177672)
There's quite a few differences between HuggingFace's Open Deep-Research and Zilliz's DeepSearcher.

I think the biggest one is the goal: HF is to replicate the performance of Deep Research on the GAIA benchmark whereas ours is to teach agentic concepts and show how to build research agents with open-source.

Also, we go into the design in a lot more detail than HF's blog post. On the design side, HF uses code writing and execution as a tool, whereas we use prompt writing and calling as a tool. We do an explicit break down of the query into sub-queries, and sub-sub-queries, etc. whereas HF uses a chain of reasoning to decide what to do next.

I think ours is a better approach for producing a detailed report on an open-ended question, whereas HFs is better for answering a specific, challenging question in short form.