Hacker News: coalteddy

New comment by coalteddy in "Multi-Stream LLMs: new paper on parallelizing/separating prompts, thinking, I/O"

coalteddy — Fri, 22 May 2026 04:42:30 +0000

Do i understand correctly that this allows models to generate two contradicting tokens (Contemplating Stream: y op z = 3, Thinking Stream: y op z = 5) in separate streams at any given point, right? What would happen in such cases? Sounds like an interesting problem or quirk of this architecture.

New comment by coalteddy in "iNaturalist"

coalteddy — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:10:54 +0000

Thanks for those pointers! Very helpful.

New comment by coalteddy in "iNaturalist"

coalteddy — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:09:51 +0000

Did not realize that they publish their code. Very cool. Thanks!

New comment by coalteddy in "iNaturalist"

coalteddy — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:40:41 +0000

Does anyone know how they make their map so performant? Showing all those pins is mind blowing to me coming from leaflet maps. Marinetraffic is also a map that blows me away every time i see all the icons and how smooth and fast the loading is when zooming in. Would love to make a similar map at some point for my hobby but leaflet just does not cut it when you want to render 10million plus pins on a global map.

Tech blogs or pointers would be great

OpenAI models have gotten worse at geolocation

coalteddy — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 20:45:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2025/08/14/llms-vs-geolocation-gpt-5-performs-worse-than-other-ai-models/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45267786

Points: 6

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New comment by coalteddy in "Apertus 70B: Truly Open - Swiss LLM by ETH, EPFL and CSCS"

coalteddy — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 01:12:24 +0000

Very cool. Love this. Was the training more heavily weighted towards swiss languages and how does the model perform on swiss languages compared to others?

Are there any plans for further models after this one?

New comment by coalteddy in "RenderFormer: Neural rendering of triangle meshes with global illumination"

coalteddy — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 18:47:00 +0000

I have a friend that works on physically based renderers in the film industry and has also done research in the area. Always love hearing stories and explanations about how things get done in this industry.

What companies are hiring such talent at the moment? Have the AI companies also been hiring rendering engineers for creating training environments?

If you are looking to hire an experienced research and industry rendering engineer i am happy to connect you since my friend is not on social media but has been putting out feelers.

New comment by coalteddy in "Mistral Small 3"

coalteddy — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 21:30:18 +0000

Thanks a lot for this eval!

One question i have regarding evals is, what sampling temperature and/or method do you use? As far as i understand temperature/ method can impact model output alot. Would love to here you're thoughts on how these different settings of the same model can impact output and how to go about evaluating models when its not clear how to use the to their fullest

New comment by coalteddy in "Trae: An AI Powered IDE by ByteDance"

coalteddy — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 03:22:52 +0000

Any blogs or other writing about this topic you can recommend? I worked with gurobi in the past but haven't been keeping up with the trends and performance gains.

Love this field of CS!

New comment by coalteddy in "Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT"

coalteddy — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 18:15:04 +0000

How do I get access to this feature? I cannot find it in the normal chatgpt interface.

New comment by coalteddy in "Anthropic publishes the 'system prompts' that make Claude tick"

coalteddy — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 17:02:29 +0000

Wow this is the first time i hear about such a method. Anywhere i can read up on how the temperature multiplier works and what the implications/effects are? Is it just changing the temperature based on how many tokens have already been processed (i.e. the temperature is variable over the course of a completion spanning many tokens)?

New comment by coalteddy in "How the California forest that was Endor in 'Return of the Jedi' was obliterated (2022)"

coalteddy — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 15:23:56 +0000

This is not true. I have no idea about the US but Canada, specifically BC, still has large amounts of old growth forest that is being cut. Really sad to see and read about.

New comment by coalteddy in "California Approves Waymo Expansion to Los Angeles and SF Peninsula [pdf]"

coalteddy — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 16:43:29 +0000

US cities love their cars. Not even in city centers do they prioritize pedestrians over cars. That has nothing to do with apples or oranges. It's a priority thing and not costs. There is no reason to need cars in city centers. Makes cities ugly, loud and dangerous compared to europe or asia.

New comment by coalteddy in "Building an early warning system for LLM-aided biological threat creation"

coalteddy — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 19:12:06 +0000

How did you do this? Was the redaction done by changing the color of the font to white so that the background and text have the same color? Would love to learn how you were able to recover the text.

New comment by coalteddy in "I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video]"

coalteddy — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 06:35:30 +0000

My bad. Didnt show on mobile.

New comment by coalteddy in "I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video]"

coalteddy — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 08:25:40 +0000

This site looks very interesting but I'm not quite sure what I'm looking at. What is that map for and how does it filter sources, since it seems like it doesn't include all airports.

New comment by coalteddy in "On climbing the stat arb leaderboard, comparative advantage, and careers"

coalteddy — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 09:19:24 +0000

Did you even read the article? He clearly states it was a side project done next to his full time job...

New comment by coalteddy in "Could inflammation be the cause of myriad chronic conditions? (2019)"

coalteddy — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 10:58:20 +0000

Hijacking this comment to ask about Bryan Johnson. Anyone have any good criticism of his blueprint. The amount of supplements he takes seem really extreme. Talking about this btw: https://protocol.bryanjohnson.com/

New comment by coalteddy in "Could inflammation be the cause of myriad chronic conditions? (2019)"

coalteddy — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 10:54:09 +0000

This made me realize: What if you listening to his talks/podcasts/videos is the thing he's selling you?

What if his product/remedie is just the "content" he produces. Not much different to a quack then.

New comment by coalteddy in "Autonomous trucking is harder than autonomous rideshare"

coalteddy — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 04:02:44 +0000

The reason is probably because, in the EU, passenger rail transport is prioritised over cargo. For example in Switzwerland rail cargo is mainly transported during the night because thats the only time the network isn't working at it's limit for the passenger trains.

In Canada, to my understanding, it's the other way round where passenger trains have been reduced because of the need for more cargo train trips. The USA might be similar.