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New comment by cttet in "The architecture of “not bad”: Decoding the Chinese source code of the void"

cttet — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 06:44:39 +0000

In modal logic sense, Chinese is inherently more □ oriented while the language in US is using ◇ more. so in Chinese ¬(□¬A) can be used to represent a possibly concept ♢A

New comment by cttet in "[dead]"

cttet — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 09:47:33 +0000

Yep, all users are logged out automatically...

New comment by cttet in "Generative AI Image Editing Showdown"

cttet — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 03:33:38 +0000

A "worst image" instead of best image competition may be easy to implement and quite indicative of which one has less frustration experience.

New comment by cttet in "When is it better to think without words?"

cttet — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 10:59:19 +0000

I rarely think with words, when I think with words it is like 20x slower, it is more robust, but in that case I would use pen and paper for that.

New comment by cttet in "The Spherical Cows of Programming"

cttet — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 01:43:46 +0000

At least most functional language tutorial claim to be based on abstract machines, not like the C language, which is a spherical cow that people not often aware of. https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479

New comment by cttet in "Show HN: I invented a new generative model and got accepted to ICLR"

cttet — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 06:28:33 +0000

Thanks! Really like your intuition!

New comment by cttet in "Show HN: I invented a new generative model and got accepted to ICLR"

cttet — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 06:01:52 +0000

Oh it is selected output, yes I meant that I was a bit confused. So in the initial design when you first tried it, you passed both to the next layer? or it is part of where you find out to perform better?

New comment by cttet in "Show HN: I invented a new generative model and got accepted to ICLR"

cttet — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 04:13:33 +0000

It seem to have both feature and a discrete number passed into next layer, which one did you think of first? or it is both by design?

New comment by cttet in "Typed languages are better suited for vibecoding"

cttet — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 02:29:18 +0000

It may be a Claude specific thing. I tried to ask Claude to various tasks in machine learning, like implement gradient boosting without specifying the language, thinking it will use Python since it is the most common option and have utilities like Numpy to make it much easier. But Claude mostly choose Javascript for the language and somehow managed to do it in JS.

New comment by cttet in "François Chollet: The Arc Prize and How We Get to AGI [video]"

cttet — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 14:13:19 +0000

Maybe it is a cultural difference aspect, but I feel that "supermarket workers, gas station attendants" (in an Asian country) that I know of should be quite capable of most ARC tasks.

New comment by cttet in "François Chollet: The Arc Prize and How We Get to AGI [video]"

cttet — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 14:07:19 +0000

The point is not that having a high score -> AGI, their ideas are more of having a low score -> we don't have AGI yet.

New comment by cttet in "NoProp: Training neural networks without back-propagation or forward-propagation"

cttet — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 03:03:07 +0000

In all their experiments, backprop is used for most of their parameter though...

New comment by cttet in "Stop using the elbow criterion for k-means"

cttet — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 07:43:08 +0000

Since a long time ago, and I found a trend that in more theoretical fields, the more 'clickbaity' the titles are, e.g. TCS, machine learning theory, etc.

New comment by cttet in "Ask HN: Is Clean Code a waste of time?"

cttet — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 11:14:44 +0000

Never read his books. But I found good architectures is very helpful for LLM-assisted coding, if I keep things nicely named and decoupled.

New comment by cttet in "Fire-Flyer File System from DeepSeek"

cttet — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 02:48:36 +0000

If NIH syndrome boosts morale of the team, it should be helpful on overall team progress though.

New comment by cttet in "Show HN: Marmite – Zero-config static site generator"

cttet — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 02:54:03 +0000

> people like me can't stop commenting on it

Yeah this loop will go on with this comment, it seems.

New comment by cttet in "Google Scholar PDF Reader"

cttet — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 08:30:01 +0000

Paper enables non-vision based(scroll bar) random access to content, when you keep going back an forth between two pages, it is very annoying on all current devices except paper. Vision pro/VR/AR or a particular multi-screen set-up can achieve that, but so far all alternatives are not as good.

New comment by cttet in "Show HN: Personal Knowledge Base Visualization"

cttet — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 07:08:07 +0000

For me bookmarking does not mean that I want to read the article, it usually mean that I think it may be useful for certain task in the future want it to be in my search result some times. Since sometimes I want to read in depth about something that I read briefly long ago, it is really hard for me to find it back.

New comment by cttet in "Show HN: Personal Knowledge Base Visualization"

cttet — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 06:58:32 +0000

Looks great! I wonder is it API based or utilising a local LLM?

New comment by cttet in "Generating Income from Open Source"

cttet — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 09:33:34 +0000

'source available' also implies the case the source is only available upon request. e.g. Microsoft provided the full source code of Office to China, it is also "source available".