Hacker News: dcl

New comment by dcl in "Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years"

dcl — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 04:22:55 +0000

Anyone else think Britain is going to eject the Royal Family within 100 years?

New comment by dcl in "Voxtral Transcribe 2"

dcl — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 03:34:59 +0000

Because it's a 4gb download?

New comment by dcl in "De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)"

dcl — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 22:58:41 +0000

S&P gets you dividends though, so the interpretation of that chart is tricky. Holding the S&P, you can still do better than holding gold, even when the GOLD/S&P ratio is positive.

New comment by dcl in "Nova Launcher added Facebook and Google Ads tracking"

dcl — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 02:23:47 +0000

How much am I missing out by using the standard launcher my Pixel comes with? I haven't played with different launchers since the Nexus 4 and Android 2/3 (I think).

New comment by dcl in "New magnetic component discovered in the Faraday effect"

dcl — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 04:51:10 +0000

Are you getting confused with the photoelectric effect experiment?

New comment by dcl in "Marble: A Multimodal World Model"

dcl — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 03:16:40 +0000

What happens when you prompt one of these kind of models with de_dust? Will it autocomplete the rest of the map?

edit: Just tried it and it doesn't, but it does a good job of creating something like a CS map.

New comment by dcl in "A bug that taught me more about PyTorch than years of using it"

dcl — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 22:57:52 +0000

Is this why I cannot seem to fine tune YOLO models on a Apple M4? The loss hits nan after a few batches. Same code using Windows PC and Google Colab CPU and GPU is fine...

New comment by dcl in "Generalized K-Means Clustering"

dcl — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 22:44:32 +0000

At a previous $dayjob at a very large financial institution, it's however many clusters are present in the strategy that was agreed to by the exec team and their highly paid consultants.

You find that many clusters and shoehorn the consultant provided categories on to the k clusters you obtain.

New comment by dcl in "DeepSeek OCR"

dcl — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 23:16:09 +0000

Is there any 'small' OCR models around?

Say I only care about reading serial numbers from photos in a manufacturing process, not whole document parsing. Using a 3B param model to do this seems like a bit of overkill...

New comment by dcl in "The Burrows-Wheeler Transform"

dcl — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 04:08:11 +0000

A friend doing bioinformatics told me about this at uni, it was definitely one of those "i can't believe this is doable" sort of things.

New comment by dcl in "Open models by OpenAI"

dcl — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 23:52:40 +0000

Anyone tried the 20B param model on a mac with 24gb of ram?

New comment by dcl in "Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding"

dcl — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 04:36:27 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_Machines_Corporation for the reference

New comment by dcl in "How large are large language models?"

dcl — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 00:30:05 +0000

ML algorithms are compression algorithms, the trained models are compressed data.

New comment by dcl in "Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds"

dcl — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 00:50:10 +0000

Ahh rightio. That's a shame.

New comment by dcl in "Build and Host AI-Powered Apps with Claude – No Deployment Needed"

dcl — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 23:53:34 +0000

"Bring your own AI" or "Provide your AI API access key" will probably be coming to a lot of services/apps that we want 'our' AI's to interact with.

I can see this also bringing strongly tiered AI's, there will be commodity/free AI's a and expensive ones for rich people/power users.

New comment by dcl in "Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds"

dcl — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 23:44:04 +0000

Doesn't support NVIDIA GPU's!? Is this a display or gaming specific thing?

All the ML people are using NVIDIA GPU's on Linux.

New comment by dcl in "[dead]"

dcl — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 23:29:15 +0000

That is what made me click.

New comment by dcl in "Understanding LucasArts' iMUSE System"

dcl — Tue, 13 May 2025 05:01:40 +0000

You have awakened some incredible memories. I know exactly what you are talking about.

New comment by dcl in "New material gives copper superalloy-like strength"

dcl — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 01:10:42 +0000

Rearden metal...?

New comment by dcl in "4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak"

dcl — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 23:43:40 +0000

thank you for this laugh