Hacker News: grandma_tea

New comment by grandma_tea in "Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones [video]"

grandma_tea — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 20:21:26 +0000

My understanding is that battery degradation is not linear with time.

New comment by grandma_tea in "Show HN: Tattoy – a text-based terminal compositor"

grandma_tea — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 15:20:04 +0000

Oh wow, now I can finally have terminal that creates fire effects the faster I type! (if I ever get the time to make the plugin)

Is there anyway for plugins to interact with shaders?

New comment by grandma_tea in "Show HN: Python at the Speed of Rust"

grandma_tea — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 14:42:32 +0000

I'm with you. I thought this was going to be an article about Numba.

New comment by grandma_tea in "Robust autonomy emerges from self-play"

grandma_tea — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 04:45:34 +0000

Can you expand on that? Efficient in what way?

New comment by grandma_tea in "PyVista"

grandma_tea — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 01:53:48 +0000

I mostly use tools like this for data exploration in Jupyter notebooks and PyVista was fine when I tried it out last year. However, I found I could get results much faster with Vedo[0].

No hate though, I'm so glad there are options in this space!

[0]https://vedo.embl.es/

New comment by grandma_tea in "Show HN: Pyper – Concurrent Python Made Simple"

grandma_tea — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 03:10:40 +0000

Nice! I'm looking forward to trying it out. This seems very similar to https://github.com/cgarciae/pypeln/

New comment by grandma_tea in "GitHub Copilot is now available for free"

grandma_tea — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 01:35:00 +0000

Do you have any example prompts or suggestions for coming up with them?

New comment by grandma_tea in "The withering dream of a cheap American electric car"

grandma_tea — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 20:28:04 +0000

Absolutely! I just picked up a 2023 for $17k. It's basically the perfect commuter car.

New comment by grandma_tea in "Gen AI doesn't have a coherent understanding of the world, researchers suggest"

grandma_tea — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 20:27:24 +0000

Your point aside, counting letters is not a good task for LLMs since they aren't trained on letters. They are trained on tokens which represent words or parts of words.

New comment by grandma_tea in "OSI readies controversial open-source AI definition"

grandma_tea — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 15:54:02 +0000

> Preferred by anyone who's actually using and modifying the work.

> ...fine tuning is preferred by everyone

How do you know this? Did you take a survey? When? What if preferences change or there is no consensus?

> The only people I've seen who've asserted otherwise are random commenters on the internet who don't really understand the tech.

There are lots of things that can be done with the training set that don't involve retraining the entire model from scratch. As a random example, I could perform a statistical analysis over a portion of the training set and find a series of vectors in token-space that could be used to steer the model. Something like this can be done without access to the training data, but does it work better? We don't know because it hasn't been tried yet.

But none of that really matters, because what we're discussing is the philosophy of open source. I think it's a really bad take to say that something is open source because it's in a "preferred" format.

New comment by grandma_tea in "OSI readies controversial open-source AI definition"

grandma_tea — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 13:41:52 +0000

Preferred by who? It sounds like these people have a strong say in what constitutes open source.

New comment by grandma_tea in "Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture (2022)"

grandma_tea — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 13:03:06 +0000

It's tough because proprietary software also has risks.

See the Unity license change fiasco. https://www.engadget.com/unity-apologizes-and-promises-to-ch...

New comment by grandma_tea in "Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses"

grandma_tea — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 21:09:20 +0000

I dunno, it seems pretty clear to me that's what they're trying to do.

New comment by grandma_tea in "Facebook scraped every Australian adult user's public posts to train AI"

grandma_tea — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 17:37:37 +0000

I have a very different memory of my time on Facebook 10 or so years ago... It felt like every two weeks some update would change my settings to "public" in some way.

New comment by grandma_tea in "Hacker Purity Test (1989)"

grandma_tea — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 23:19:08 +0000

Language changes. Adapt or be cringe.

New comment by grandma_tea in "Transcribro: On-device Accurate Speech-to-text"

grandma_tea — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 01:54:57 +0000

Oh, that's lame.

New comment by grandma_tea in "Transcribro: On-device Accurate Speech-to-text"

grandma_tea — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 22:23:33 +0000

FUTO and Transcribro are open source.

New comment by grandma_tea in "A pure NumPy implementation of Mamba"

grandma_tea — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 06:09:54 +0000

That's a fair criticism of many open source projects, however this one does link to the Mamba paper at the bottom of the (short) readme.

New comment by grandma_tea in "Microsoft's Emissions Spike 29% as AI Gobbles Up Resources"

grandma_tea — Sun, 19 May 2024 21:29:34 +0000

Perhaps my question was worded poorly. I'm saying is: the premise of the article is wrong. It attributes the 29% figure to AI but the source attributes the 29% to new datacenters. It seems unlikely to me that 100% of new datacenter usage would go to AI.

New comment by grandma_tea in "Microsoft's Emissions Spike 29% as AI Gobbles Up Resources"

grandma_tea — Sun, 19 May 2024 02:59:16 +0000

I tried to find the source of the 29% figure, but it's defined as data center usage. I understand machine learning is resource intensive but how much is it really? Are the numbers for this available to the public?