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New comment by bonoboTP in "Pre-2022 Books"

bonoboTP — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 23:22:28 +0000

In good hands, it can be a great tool, but you usually don't notice that. The issue is that AI allows for a superficial appearance of quality and it takes time to discover that the content is void of deeper insight.

New comment by bonoboTP in "Pre-2022 Books"

bonoboTP — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 23:19:33 +0000

HN is social media. And yes, let's get off it too. It's true.

New comment by bonoboTP in "Pre-2022 Books"

bonoboTP — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 23:18:13 +0000

Controversial, but I think photography is still nowhere close in artistic value to paintings. Yes, I've seen the award winning ones etc. Not impressed. It's fine I guess, but not more. Same with laptop music vs instrument music even before AI.

New comment by bonoboTP in "Pre-2022 Books"

bonoboTP — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 23:15:04 +0000

What makes you think you'd recognize it? Do you work a lot with LLMs for fiction writing?

New comment by bonoboTP in "The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows"

bonoboTP — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 22:54:02 +0000

If you released it under a free software license, then all they seem to have not done properly is putting an attribution text in their software. But you did not specify what license you used which already makes me doubt if you have the correct mental model around free software and it's ethos. Who makes money on what is not the main concern in free software ideology. It's a side question. It's the four freedoms that are the main points. Then there is the question of copyleft but you didn't specify your license so I won't elaborate on that. But even that doesn't block a rebranded release for sale.

New comment by bonoboTP in "I Stored a Website in a Favicon"

bonoboTP — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 13:31:16 +0000

Not just the length but the structure, the way the headlines are phrased, the use of "honestly", the "not X but Y", many things cumulatively, not one particular thing in itself. If you work a lot with LLM writing, you notice. Same way you recognize the writing style of famous authors. It's never one particular thing but many.

New comment by bonoboTP in "I Stored a Website in a Favicon"

bonoboTP — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 13:26:34 +0000

Agreed. Disappointing that more people don't notice it's AI.

New comment by bonoboTP in "DeepSeek Introduces Vision"

bonoboTP — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:11:47 +0000

These are vibes. ViT has been shown to work fine on small data with proper hyperparam and most of what you mention is actually doable just fine with the other architecture as well.

New comment by bonoboTP in "DeepSeek Introduces Vision"

bonoboTP — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:09:34 +0000

Exactly. Most of the comparison papers are useless. This is hard stuff, only few people have the chops it takes to even attempt this. You can of course train some models and then post the numbers, that's not the hard part.

New comment by bonoboTP in "DeepSeek Introduces Vision"

bonoboTP — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:07:49 +0000

What's the use case enabled vs running a ConvNeXt or EfficientNetV2 and using the resulting strided features as you would the resulting tokens of a ViT? I'm not saying that ViT is worse. Just saying that the scholarship around comparing them is very bad or nonexistent. You have to properly tune the hyperparam enters on both sides in a fair way, and use all the general modern training tricks also on the CNN side to make it fair.

New comment by bonoboTP in "DeepSeek Introduces Vision"

bonoboTP — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 07:40:39 +0000

Yes but not based on rigorous comparison. I'm not saying ViT is bad. But it took over mainly because it's the shiny new thing. It very bandwagon-Y even among PhD students.

New comment by bonoboTP in "DeepSeek Introduces Vision"

bonoboTP — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:11:31 +0000

There's a dearth of research properly comparing them.

New comment by bonoboTP in "DeepSeek Introduces Vision"

bonoboTP — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:11:03 +0000

You can run a CNN and use the downsampled feature map the same way as patch tokens.

New comment by bonoboTP in "DeepSeek Introduces Vision"

bonoboTP — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:55:43 +0000

CNNs are fine when trained with a good recipe. There are very few good studies comparing them with proper hyperparam search and all the training tricks applied consistently. Transformers are good but ViT vs CNN is not some settled issue. Transformers are more hyped and more popular with the tech enthusiasts who just read forums and news, but if you need stuff done, CNNs are still great.

New comment by bonoboTP in "Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly"

bonoboTP — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:10:14 +0000

Why are you not on thunderbird yet? Why do you get Windows notifications? Are you using Windows? I don't understand how there are people who can notice such things but still use windows in 2026. Also, please don't write with AI. This post was written with AI.

New comment by bonoboTP in "I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware"

bonoboTP — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:08:13 +0000

Exactly. All these ideals work in theory but then in reality banks are also incompetent and will use all kinds of domains.

Same with meta and Google where they often direct you to domains that aren't under their main one and it's actually legit, but there's no way to know. It's impossible to teach family members to pay attention if it's really that domain because it's often legit not that domain.

New comment by bonoboTP in "Automating myself out of development"

bonoboTP — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:49:36 +0000

Why can't it do that? How do you do it then? An LLM-based agent can execute any commands in a terminal, including running whatever commands that will send commands to an external device through whatever wires you have set up. Is the claim that you need to have hands-on access to fiddle with the embedded device? That there is no way to just send wire signals out from the workstation towards the device that could load the program, see the results etc?

New comment by bonoboTP in "Automating myself out of development"

bonoboTP — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:35:03 +0000

Ok but it takes weeks of trial and error for expert humans. If you allow the llm to run the code and see the results and do trial and error, it will also likely figure it out, no?

New comment by bonoboTP in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

bonoboTP — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 23:33:32 +0000

Yes. We will likely have a heavily policed narrow line to some kind of AI during the phase when we as employees will still have value in this centaur configuration, so we'll be allowed to steer the largely autonomous models for our employers, direct them a bit when they do something wrong, if we can convince the guard-AI. All this will be logged and constantly audited by your employer and by the government and the AI companies.

For hobby use, only simple models will be allowed. The models of the future will be so large that the huge data centers being built right now will be necessary for training them. Open sourcing will be a strategic nation state level decision. Regular people won't have it. We will have toys, we will have infinite AI generated entertainment and the rest isn't exactly planned out I guess.

New comment by bonoboTP in "Automating myself out of development"

bonoboTP — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 21:20:28 +0000

Did you try this by giving it access to the materials? Human programmers also don't memorize all this stuff. If this is the reason for your calmness it's quite shortsighted.

There are problems when you rely too much on AI generated code, but these shallow dismissals are quite annoying.