Hacker News: ac1spkrbox

New comment by ac1spkrbox in "Do not download the app, use the website"

ac1spkrbox — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 03:01:05 +0000

The website is often user-hostile, in hopes of pushing you to the app.

New comment by ac1spkrbox in "LLaVA-O1: Let Vision Language Models Reason Step-by-Step"

ac1spkrbox — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 14:31:06 +0000

Multimodal models are useful for lots of things! They can accomplish a range a tasks from zero-shot image classification to helping perform Retrieval-Augmented Generation on images. Like many generative model, I find the utility comes not necessarily from outperforming a human, but from scaling a task that a human wouldn't want to do (or won't do cheaply).

General OCR Theory: Towards OCR-2.0 via a Unified End-to-End Model

ac1spkrbox — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 19:12:09 +0000

Article URL: https://huggingface.co/papers/2409.01704

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41514428

Points: 31

# Comments: 2

New comment by ac1spkrbox in "Solving the out-of-context chunk problem for RAG"

ac1spkrbox — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 12:52:04 +0000

The set of techniques for retrieval is immature, but it's important to note that just relying on model context or few-shot prompting has many drawbacks. Perhaps the most important is that retrieval as a task should not rely on generative outputs.

New comment by ac1spkrbox in "Gemini AI"

ac1spkrbox — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 19:43:43 +0000

“Any man who must say ‘I am the king’ is no true King”

Solara: Pure Python, React-Style Framework for Scaling Your Jupyter and Web Apps

ac1spkrbox — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 07:00:43 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/widgetti/solara

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36917648

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ac1spkrbox in "How to Hire Good Engineers"

ac1spkrbox — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 01:26:49 +0000

I’m much more interested in my actual work than personal projects. Is that so weird?

And it should go without saying that sharing employer code could be considered theft.

New comment by ac1spkrbox in "Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B"

ac1spkrbox — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 14:00:33 +0000

I'm confused by this comment.

To me, Garmin is the only company here that does a good job with the "hardcore fitness" market, but why does that matter in the first place? The better market to compete in is the "fitness amateur" market, which I see as being many times the former in size. Fitbit competes well here, and Google has no offering to speak of. Seems like a successful diversification move for Alphabet's portfolio. I especially like what Google's software can do to improve FitBit's offering by leveraging AI.