Hacker News: callmekit

New comment by callmekit in "Brood War Bench"

callmekit — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 23:01:39 +0000

It plays from a special API. Some things that are impossible with normal UI are possible with API, like selecting a unit under other units. Invisible units are also reported via the API.

TorchFix 0.6.0 – a linter for PyTorch-using code with autofix support

callmekit — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 17:56:55 +0000

Article URL: https://pypi.org/project/TorchFix/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41583263

Points: 1

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TorchFix – a linter for PyTorch-using code with autofix support

callmekit — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 18:06:24 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/pytorch-labs/torchfix

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40090108

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by callmekit in "PaLM 2 Technical Report [pdf]"

callmekit — Thu, 11 May 2023 03:33:11 +0000

I don't see which model generated each request, where exactly do you see this?

New comment by callmekit in "I played chess against ChatGPT-4 and lost"

callmekit — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 06:45:37 +0000

So yesterday we had a post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35200267) that you need a special "play as a grandmaster" prompt to reduce the number of illegal moves for GPT3.5, and that "GPT4 sucks" at chess completely compared to GPT3.5.

Now we have this post that GPT4 plays good and doesn't make illegal moves at all. What changed? What was the prompt? Is it just random noise?

New comment by callmekit in "‘Excuuuuse me, Princess ’: An oral history of The Legend of Zelda cartoon"

callmekit — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 08:12:22 +0000

What's controversial about Sim City?

New comment by callmekit in "Ask HN: Why there are no large scale programs to synthesize a cell?"

callmekit — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 02:28:47 +0000

Thanks, but on the first glance this doesn't seem to be about bottom-up approach of synthesizing a cell from amino-acids, but about modifying existing cells.

New comment by callmekit in "Ask HN: Why there are no large scale programs to synthesize a cell?"

callmekit — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 02:25:43 +0000

What exactly are you referring to on that page?

Ask HN: Why there are no large scale programs to synthesize a cell?

callmekit — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 01:07:23 +0000

Synthesizing a cell/protocell from amino-acids would be one of the greatest scientific achievements. Yet it seems that there are no large programs (comparable to Human Genome Project, for example) to actually achieve this. Wikipedia article on Abiogenesis lists only several smaller experiments. Why is that? Is it considered not feasible with the current state of science and technology?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31149805

Points: 1

# Comments: 5

New comment by callmekit in "Vast.ai – marketplace for renting out your GPU, or renting someone else's GPU"

callmekit — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 08:35:18 +0000

Technically it's not ToS to GPU, it's a license to the software: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/geforce-license/ So using a completely open source or third party driver and no CUDA is fine.

New comment by callmekit in "Vast.ai – marketplace for renting out your GPU, or renting someone else's GPU"

callmekit — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 07:24:38 +0000

The customer use license specifically talks about datacenters, not "cloud": "The SOFTWARE is not licensed for datacenter deployment, except that blockchain processing in a datacenter is permitted" https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/geforce-license/

New comment by callmekit in "Competitive Programming with AlphaCode"

callmekit — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 00:26:11 +0000

There were numerous issues. First one (somewhat mitigated lately) was extremely large number of actions per minute and (most importantly) extremely fast reaction speed.

Another big issue is that the bot communicated with the game via a custom API, not a via images and clicks. Details of this API are unknown - like how invisible units were handled, but it was much higher level than a human would have (pixels).

If you look at the games, the bot wasn't clever (which was a hope), just fast and precise. And some people far from the top were able to beat it convincingly.

And now the project is gone, even before people had a chance to really play against the bot and find more weaknesses.

New comment by callmekit in "I Spent Hundreds of Hours Working in VR"

callmekit — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 08:42:02 +0000

I bought Oculus Quest 2 about a month ago. The games I play the most probably wouldn't be even possible (or at least fun) without VR - Pistol Whip (you need to evade slow-moving bullets) and Thrill of the Fight (boxing simulator). It's more of a fitness device for me now.

New comment by callmekit in "Solving Advent of Code Puzzles with GitHub Copilot: Day 1"

callmekit — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 09:31:58 +0000

Does Copilot use other files open in the editor? Are they becoming a part of the prompt?

New comment by callmekit in "Solving Advent of Code Puzzles with GitHub Copilot: Day 1"

callmekit — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 07:18:12 +0000

The exact answers to leetcode questions are probably included many times in the Copilot dataset, in many programming languages. Fresh Advent of code problems are much more interesting.

New comment by callmekit in "Solving Advent of Code Puzzles with GitHub Copilot: Day 1"

callmekit — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 04:40:48 +0000

That's already mentioned in the blog post: the author first wrote a solution in a normal way, and only then decided to try copilot.

New comment by callmekit in "Solving Advent of Code Puzzles with GitHub Copilot: Day 1"

callmekit — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 04:25:25 +0000

I think you need to actually get the new data from Github and finetune the model. Maybe it's done very frequently, but unlikely.

New comment by callmekit in "Solving Advent of Code Puzzles with GitHub Copilot: Day 1"

callmekit — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 04:02:53 +0000

I would think the today's code is not a part of the Copilot yet...

New comment by callmekit in "The Inherent Limitations of GPT-3"

callmekit — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 02:09:38 +0000

Do you know how previously unseen numbers in the prompt are encoded, probably the same way? Then GPT3 can not do any math at all, unless the specific numbers were seen before?

New comment by callmekit in "Elizabeth Ann, the First Cloned Black-Footed Ferret"

callmekit — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 19:30:13 +0000

From the article: "ViaGen created embryos and implanted them into a domestic ferret surrogate".

I wonder how the "created embryos" step can be done?