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New comment by freedmand in "The Day ChatGPT Went Cold"

freedmand — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 15:08:11 +0000

Gift link (no subscription needed): https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/business/chatgpt-gpt-5-ba...

The Day ChatGPT Went Cold

freedmand — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 15:07:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/business/chatgpt-gpt-5-backlash-openai.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44973734

Points: 4

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The Chatbot Updated. Users Lost a Friend

freedmand — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 17:42:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/business/the-chatbot-updated-users-lost-a-friend.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44954165

Points: 2

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Chatbots can go into a delusional spiral. Here’s how it happens.

freedmand — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 13:44:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/technology/ai-chatbots-delusions-chatgpt.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44876116

Points: 2

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New comment by freedmand in "Are You Smarter Than A.I.?"

freedmand — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 20:15:43 +0000

Here's a gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/26/business/ai-s...

New comment by freedmand in "The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE"

freedmand — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 00:26:09 +0000

Do you think that there are security or data exfiltration risks with their approach, e.g. putting classified documents/emails into private company's LLMs to summarize information or identify certain ideological motivations? I don't see how they could begin to understand the scope of what they're working with without A.I. assistance.

New comment by freedmand in "Show HN: A Marble Madness-inspired WebGL game we built for Netlify"

freedmand — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 05:04:47 +0000

This will probably be my last run (2:49): https://youtu.be/zIyZJjyPy8U

Kudos on a great game! If you ever expand or open source this, let me know. The mechanics and design are great and could really blossom into something fun and expansive (especially if users could submit levels).

New comment by freedmand in "Show HN: A Marble Madness-inspired WebGL game we built for Netlify"

freedmand — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 22:23:43 +0000

Oh wow, looks like someone uploaded a 2:55 yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6yExxPR1vI

New comment by freedmand in "Show HN: A Marble Madness-inspired WebGL game we built for Netlify"

freedmand — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 22:17:12 +0000

I'm by no means a speedrunner but decided to record my runs in case I got a sub-3. Just uploaded the 2:57: https://youtu.be/0THaZ61sCmg

I challenge someone to beat it!

New comment by freedmand in "Show HN: A Marble Madness-inspired WebGL game we built for Netlify"

freedmand — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 06:35:05 +0000

I got 2:57 — required a near-perfect run but still room for improvement

New comment by freedmand in "Show HN: A Marble Madness-inspired WebGL game we built for Netlify"

freedmand — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 06:31:29 +0000

I got 2:57 after discovering a few shortcuts

New comment by freedmand in "Show HN: LLM-aided OCR – Correcting Tesseract OCR errors with LLMs"

freedmand — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 02:41:55 +0000

Can't say it'll solve all your problems, but try Florence-2. It's worked well on some handwritten documents for me when all the text is a relatively uniform size.

Model: https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Florence-2-large

Demo space: https://huggingface.co/spaces/gokaygokay/Florence-2

New comment by freedmand in "SQLite: 35% Faster Than the Filesystem"

freedmand — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 05:06:32 +0000

If you play ten note chords — one for each finger — in quick succession, that can rack up a lot of inserts in short time period (say, medium-worst case, 100Hz, for playing a chord like that five times per second, counting both “on” and “off” events).

It’s also worth taking into consideration damper pedal velocity changes. When you go from “off” (velocity 0) to fully “on” and depressed (velocity 127), a lot of intermediate values will get fired off at high frequency.

Ultimately though you are right; it’s not enough frequency of information to overload SQLite (or a file system), probably by several orders of magnitude.

New comment by freedmand in "SQLite: 35% Faster Than the Filesystem"

freedmand — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 04:54:54 +0000

Would you expect SQLite performance to degrade per insert once a table is very large (in a way that, say, an append-only log file wouldn’t)?

New comment by freedmand in "SQLite: 35% Faster Than the Filesystem"

freedmand — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 13:58:32 +0000

I recently had the idea to record every note coming out of my digital piano in real-time. That way if I come up with a good idea when noodling around I don’t have to hope I can remember it later.

I was debating what storage layer to use and decided to try SQLite because of its speed claims — essentially a single table where each row is a MIDI event from the piano (note on, note off, control pedal, velocity, timestamp). No transactions, just raw inserts on every possible event. It so far has worked beautifully: it’s performant AND I can do fun analysis later on, e.g. to see what keys I hit more than others or what my average note velocity is.

New comment by freedmand in "How Does GPT-4o Encode Images?"

freedmand — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 14:11:49 +0000

Agreed. Tesseract is not able to handle handwriting or text that is distorted well, e.g. colored text over an image background — to the point that it would hurt any downstream LLM trying to make sense of the contents. It won’t even pick out bounding boxes.

I doubt they are running an OCR model, but if they actually were it would likely be an in-house one trained with more modern techniques.

New comment by freedmand in "Mixtral 8x22B"

freedmand — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 15:25:39 +0000

I just found this on HuggingFace: https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mixtral-8x22B-Instruct-v0.1

New comment by freedmand in "Bloomberg's analysis didn't show that ChatGPT is racist"

freedmand — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 23:51:25 +0000

The article from Bloomberg never said "racist" — it said tests revealed racial bias. The "racist" term is from the title refutation piece.

New comment by freedmand in "Show HN: Library to visualize and inspect PyTorch models"

freedmand — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 15:39:10 +0000

Each box is a torch module[1], which can technically encapsulate any amount of computation or contain sub-modules. The smallest boxes or leaf nodes are those that contain no sub-modules. They can still run an arbitrary number of functions depending on the node.

[1] https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/generated/torch.nn.Module.ht...

Show HN: Library to visualize and inspect PyTorch models

freedmand — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 05:08:27 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/freedmand/interpogate

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39332791

Points: 4

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