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New comment by adultSwim in "Introduction to Computer Music (2009) [pdf]"

adultSwim — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 04:03:40 +0000

I enjoyed Miller Puckette's Theory and Techniques of Electronic Music, using Pd. https://msp.ucsd.edu/techniques.htm

New comment by adultSwim in "Yann LeCun's new venture is a contrarian bet against large language models"

adultSwim — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 04:34:22 +0000

For more information about his methods, broadly termed energy based models, check out the deep learning course he co-taught with Alfredo Canziani at NYU. https://atcold.github.io/NYU-DLSP20/

New comment by adultSwim in "Show HN: Stun LLMs with thousands of invisible Unicode characters"

adultSwim — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 03:39:09 +0000

This is easily defeated by pre-processing as is commonly done before training.

New comment by adultSwim in "Qualcomm announces AI chips to compete with AMD and Nvidia"

adultSwim — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 03:49:31 +0000

Qualcomm shares are up 10% on the news.

New comment by adultSwim in "Putin Says Russia Now Has Nuclear-Powered Missile"

adultSwim — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 03:10:35 +0000

Nukes in space:

SNAP (USA) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_for_Nuclear_Auxiliary_...

US-A (USSR) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US-A

New comment by adultSwim in "Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its tech in mass surveillance of Palestinians"

adultSwim — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 04:03:30 +0000

> why the need for expensive surveillance if your chief goal was to annihilate a population?

Gaza has long been a showroom and R&D space for technologies of oppression. Field proven platforms sell.

New comment by adultSwim in "Show HN: Doxx – Terminal .docx viewer inspired by Glow"

adultSwim — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 03:42:51 +0000

Thanks for making this tool. Plenty of us have similar use case to your own.

Is .docx edit support a possibility in the future?

New comment by adultSwim in "Beyond Meat headed to Chapter 11 bankruptcy"

adultSwim — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 03:14:35 +0000

You can't get TVP at Burger King. The old veggie burgers tasted terrible.

New comment by adultSwim in "Beyond Meat headed to Chapter 11 bankruptcy"

adultSwim — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 03:13:23 +0000

Food is important. Most people don't want to stop eating all the dishes they enjoy and just switch to Indian food. People lie on a spectrum of openness to new things. Developing a high quality direct alternative to a foundational yet highly fraught ingredient of the American diet makes sense to me. Even a bit less beef mitigates the near daily amputations by workers at processing plants or horrors we are adding to with climate annihilation.

Personally, Impossible and Beyond materially improved my life by adding to it. I enjoy their products, and still make plenty of Indian food.

New comment by adultSwim in "ETH Zurich and EPFL to release a LLM developed on public infrastructure"

adultSwim — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 12:35:21 +0000

This is such a smart move for the country. Best wishes on their important endeavor.

New comment by adultSwim in "Apple's MLX adding CUDA support"

adultSwim — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 12:26:54 +0000

This is great to see. I had wrongly assumed MLX was Apple-only.

New comment by adultSwim in "Apple's MLX adding CUDA support"

adultSwim — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 12:23:22 +0000

Do you need to copy to load a model from CPU memory into GPU memory?

New comment by adultSwim in "Abrego Garcia Was Beaten and Tortured in El Salvador Prison, Lawyers Say"

adultSwim — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 01:29:41 +0000

He lost 31 pounds during two weeks in CECOT.

New comment by adultSwim in "Fine-tuning LLMs is a waste of time"

adultSwim — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 17:12:33 +0000

For medical applications, across several generations of models, we see fine-tuned models outperform base models of similar size. However, newer/bigger general base models outperform smaller fine-tuned models.

Also, as others have pointed out, supervised fine-tuning can be quite useful for teaching how to perform specific tasks. I agree with the author that RAG generally is more suited for injecting additional knowledge.

New comment by adultSwim in "Merlin Bird ID"

adultSwim — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 14:47:44 +0000

I'll try that. I like Seek by iNaturalist for plants and mushrooms. Still looking for better performance on trees.

New comment by adultSwim in "Merlin Bird ID"

adultSwim — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 14:45:37 +0000

To folks in the Finger Lakes, the lab that makes the app regularly posts tech jobs on Cornell.edu, though that is likely impacted by Cornell's current hiring freeze.

New comment by adultSwim in "Merlin Bird ID"

adultSwim — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 14:42:04 +0000

I'd love to know the backstory behind having multiple apps.

New comment by adultSwim in "Merlin Bird ID"

adultSwim — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 14:40:27 +0000

I also recommend Seek and iNaturalist, a similar pair of apps for many kinds of life (plants, fungi, animals, insects, etc). Seek relies on camera instead of microphone to make IDs.

New comment by adultSwim in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2025)"

adultSwim — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 19:27:24 +0000

Rare opportunity to hire such a strong engineer.

New comment by adultSwim in "Relational Graph Transformers"

adultSwim — Sat, 03 May 2025 05:03:12 +0000

Exciting to see end-to-end deep learning go head-to-head with XGBoost and random forest.