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New comment by Chirono in "BusyBeaver(6) Is Quite Large"

Chirono — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 17:35:56 +0000

Exactly. This number is so so much bigger than 10^100000 or however many grains of sand would fit, that dividing by that amount doesn’t really change it, certainly not enough to bring it down closer to 9,999,999sub10

New comment by Chirono in "Differential Transformer"

Chirono — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 15:43:24 +0000

The two other changes they mention have been widely adopted, and are included in at least some of the models they benchmark against. It seems they list them for completeness as changes to the original transformer architecture.

New comment by Chirono in "Artificial intelligence is losing hype"

Chirono — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 22:28:53 +0000

This is just an artefact of tokenisation though. The model simply isn’t ever shown the letters that make up words, unless they are spelled out explicitly. It sees tokens representing groups of words. This is a little like saying a human isn’t intelligent because they couldn’t answer your question that you asked in an ultrasonic wavelength. If you’d like to learn more this video is a great resource: https://youtu.be/zduSFxRajkE?si=LvpXbeSyJRFBJFuj

Photorealistic reconstruction in static and dynamic scenes

Chirono — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 16:32:19 +0000

Article URL: https://wayve.ai/thinking/prism-1/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40707592

Points: 9

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New comment by Chirono in "Arthur Whitney releases an open-source subset of K with MIT license"

Chirono — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 12:49:21 +0000

I used to use K professionally inside a hedge fund a few years back. Aside from the terrible user experience (if your code isn’t correct you will often just get ‘error’ or ‘not implemented’ with no further detail), if the performance really was as stellar as claimed, then there wouldn’t need to be a no benchmark clause in the license. It can be fast, if your data is in the right formats, but not crazy fast. And easy to beat if you can run your code on the GPU.

Lingo-2: Driving with Natural Language

Chirono — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 10:27:41 +0000

Article URL: https://wayve.ai/thinking/lingo-2-driving-with-language/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40062679

Points: 2

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New comment by Chirono in "Enhancing Factorio with SAT solvers"

Chirono — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 13:24:19 +0000

For anyone wondering what this does, it looks like it produces optimal configurations for belt balancers given a specified number of input and output belts. Belt balancers evenly distribute items between belts: https://wiki.factorio.com/Balancer_mechanics

New comment by Chirono in "Why is machine learning 'hard'? (2016)"

Chirono — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 08:25:16 +0000

In some cases you can directly test hypotheses like that, but more often than not, there isn’t a way to test without just trying.

New comment by Chirono in "Depth Anything: Unleashing the Power of Large-Scale Unlabeled Data"

Chirono — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 00:48:57 +0000

Nice paper. I particularly like how they talk through the ideas they tried that didn’t work, and the process they used to land on the final results. A lot of ML papers present the finished result as if it appeared from nowhere without trial and error, perhaps with some ablations in the appendix and I wish more papers followed this one in talking about the dead ends along the way.

New comment by Chirono in "Code is run more than read"

Chirono — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 11:31:24 +0000

That’s only true for linearly ordered structures, but isn’t true for partially ordered ones.

For example, set inclusion. Two different sets can be neither greater than not smaller than each other. Sets ordered by inclusion form a partially ordered lattice.

New comment by Chirono in "Show HN: A Dalle-3 and GPT4-Vision feedback loop"

Chirono — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 10:03:57 +0000

Interesting! Do you have a link to that research?

New comment by Chirono in "Understanding Deep Learning"

Chirono — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 09:09:27 +0000

From reading this book you’d have a very good grasp of the underlying theory, much more than many ML engineers. But you’d be missing out on the practical lessons, all the little tips and intuitions you need to be able to get systems working in practice. I think this just takes time and it’s as much an art as it is a science.

New comment by Chirono in "Gaia-1 a 9B parameter generative world model for autonomous driving"

Chirono — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 07:13:19 +0000

Wayve is developing their own autonomous vehicle system, so I think they are their own target audience here.

New comment by Chirono in "Getty made an AI generator that only trained on its licensed image"

Chirono — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 16:56:14 +0000

The other angle on ‘Corporate AI’ is when we’ll start to see product placement and adverts inside generated content. Create an image of coffee, and you’ll find Starbucks logos everywhere. Ask an LLM about a topic and see it work in an advert about a particular brand of beer. I’m sure people are working on this already, but I really hope it never happens.

New comment by Chirono in "Gaussian Splatting: The next big thing in 3D [video]"

Chirono — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 18:53:54 +0000

It’s entirely static for now. I’m sure we’ll see techniques for dynamics objects eventually though.

New comment by Chirono in "AttentionViz: A Global View of Transformer Attention"

Chirono — Mon, 08 May 2023 21:43:49 +0000

Link seems to be dead?

New comment by Chirono in "Emergent abilities of large language models"

Chirono — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 15:30:43 +0000

What would you propose instead?

Elon Musk says he'll resign as head of Twitter

Chirono — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 12:51:26 +0000

Article URL: https://abcnews.go.com/Business/elon-musk-hell-resign-head-twitter/story?id=95630793

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34080052

Points: 6

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New comment by Chirono in "Talking About Large Language Models"

Chirono — Sat, 10 Dec 2022 23:57:37 +0000

out of interest, is there anything specific you think humans will always be better at than AI?

New comment by Chirono in "Talking About Large Language Models"

Chirono — Sat, 10 Dec 2022 23:18:15 +0000

Of course they’re different. But so what? That’s not exactly proof of anything, unless you’re suggestion biological neurons are the only configuration in the universe capable of thought? Maybe that’s true, but it seems unlikely to me.

The pressure of natural selection can lead to the phenomenon of consciousness. Why not the process of training llms? Perhaps developing the machine equivalent of consciousness helps that particular configuration of weights survive the otherwise destructive process of gradient descent.