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New comment by Bayes7 in "In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life"

Bayes7 — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 18:18:09 +0000

>"The first species of Paulinella was discovered on Dec. 24, 1894, in the sediments of a backwater of the Rhine River by the German biologist Robert Lauterborn. He named the genus after his stepmother, Pauline."

How can they say this without providing more background?

New comment by Bayes7 in "I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst"

Bayes7 — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 06:07:04 +0000

| „[…] was a friend telling me his LaTeX thesis took 90 seconds to compile towards the end“

Sure, but in order to iterate you won’t have to compile the whole document but can just keep the chapter you are working on by structuring it with \includes

New comment by Bayes7 in "Show HN: Torch Lens Maker – Differentiable Geometric Optics in PyTorch"

Bayes7 — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:08:58 +0000

Its a thing: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41377-024-01590-3

New comment by Bayes7 in "Lemma for the Fundamental Theorem of Galois Theory"

Bayes7 — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 16:26:03 +0000

Would you mind sharing how it turned out useful?

New comment by Bayes7 in "PhotoDNA"

Bayes7 — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 07:17:43 +0000

thanks!

New comment by Bayes7 in "PhotoDNA"

Bayes7 — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 06:22:27 +0000

Is there any good article/paper that describes how it actually works or is implemented not just in high-level and hand-waving terms?

New comment by Bayes7 in "Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely"

Bayes7 — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 20:04:27 +0000

great project!

New comment by Bayes7 in "Foliate: Read e-books in style, navigate with ease"

Bayes7 — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 06:08:48 +0000

Check out sioyek, it’s great and can open epubs like normal pdfs:

https://sioyek.info/ https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek

New comment by Bayes7 in "Beating NumPy matrix multiplication in 150 lines of C"

Bayes7 — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 14:46:43 +0000

This was a great read, thanks a lot! One a side note, any one has a good guess what tool/software they used to create the visualisations for matrix multiplications or memory outline?

Sioyek: PDF Reader for Papers

Bayes7 — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 12:56:25 +0000

Article URL: https://sioyek.info

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39777938

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Supercharge your PDF reading

Bayes7 — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 08:50:46 +0000

Article URL: https://scholar.googleblog.com/2024/03/supercharge-your-pdf-reading-follow.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39753926

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by Bayes7 in "Self-Consuming Generative Models Go MAD"

Bayes7 — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 07:31:50 +0000

Summarised by https://xkcd.com/2494

New comment by Bayes7 in "Simplifying Transformer Blocks"

Bayes7 — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 11:47:12 +0000

Okay, I see that for inference. But for training it shouldn't matter because I need to hold on to all my activations for my backwards pass anyways? But yeah, fair point!

New comment by Bayes7 in "Simplifying Transformer Blocks"

Bayes7 — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 08:41:29 +0000

"[...] modern neural network (NN) architectures have complex designs with many components [...]"

I find the Transformer architecture actually very simple compared to previous models like LSTMs or other recurrent models. You could argue that their vision counterparts like ViT are conceptually maybe even simpler than ConvNets?

Also, can someone explain why they are so keen to remove the skip connections? At least when it comes to coding, nothing is simpler than adding a skip connection and computationally the effect should be marginal?

New comment by Bayes7 in "Show HN: Terminal Based Wikipedia"

Bayes7 — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 11:57:03 +0000

ah I see, cool thanks!

New comment by Bayes7 in "Show HN: Terminal Based Wikipedia"

Bayes7 — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 22:47:02 +0000

hey, off topic but can you explain or link a post which explains what the benefits of the alias -> function definition are over just defining the function directly? Thanks!

New comment by Bayes7 in "Anki and GPT-3"

Bayes7 — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 08:01:10 +0000

Very cool! However, I often feel like the process of generating the question/answer necessary for the Anki card is an important part of the learning process because it forces you do deeply think about the material and reflect on it. So I think there is a trade-off involved

New comment by Bayes7 in "Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen?"

Bayes7 — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 07:35:55 +0000

Robert Sapolsky's Human Behavioural Biology [0] It's like a (good) netflix series you can binge watch!

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNnIGh9g6fA&list=PL150326949...