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New comment by hooloovoo_zoo in "Carnegie Mellon University Announces Historic $3B Gift from Ken Griffin"

hooloovoo_zoo — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:48:36 +0000

In my experience students will just keep using the old name (sometimes even the name before the old name) in perpetuity. With regard to the new campus, satellite campuses never carry the prestige of the mothership, for schools or companies.

New comment by hooloovoo_zoo in "Sonnet 5.5"

hooloovoo_zoo — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 22:13:48 +0000

I feel the fact that these models always modify the body design of a pelican to fit the bike rather than the other way around represents a fundamental issue with AI.

New comment by hooloovoo_zoo in "California's new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year"

hooloovoo_zoo — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 04:27:59 +0000

I’d be much more interested in particulate pollution limits for tires.

New comment by hooloovoo_zoo in "Karpathy’s Pelican"

hooloovoo_zoo — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 20:06:50 +0000

I suspect LotR is a singularly unrepresentative choice here considering how much info exists about it.

New comment by hooloovoo_zoo in "Fields Medals 2026"

hooloovoo_zoo — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:41:55 +0000

Anything morality-related is going to be subjective, but I think there are just too many practical problems with LLMs as coauthors. For me, in a scientific context 'chatgpt' is too vague, and I think it would be logically inconsistent to have LLMs as coauthors and not other forms of Monte Carlo. I also think LLMs are just too mechanical to be ascribed 'people words' (in the same way I don't consider my automated coffee machine a barista).

New comment by hooloovoo_zoo in "Fields Medals 2026"

hooloovoo_zoo — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:03:45 +0000

Tool-assisted proofs typically already get a description of the tool usage. Even if one wanted to start giving authorship credit to llms, they’re too non-atomic (did it have web search, which mcp?, etc.)

New comment by hooloovoo_zoo in "Claude Science"

hooloovoo_zoo — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 01:27:38 +0000

Doesn’t seem like much value-add beyond pointing Claude code at org mode.

New comment by hooloovoo_zoo in "Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods"

hooloovoo_zoo — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:17:04 +0000

Except the Waymo can do 150 mph bumper to bumper with other Waymos if you let them.

New comment by hooloovoo_zoo in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

hooloovoo_zoo — Tue, 12 May 2026 06:47:02 +0000

Mm, the code is constrained to run inside a game 'tick'?

New comment by hooloovoo_zoo in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

hooloovoo_zoo — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 01:24:59 +0000

They also have to replace 20%+ of their satellite network every year.

New comment by hooloovoo_zoo in "Embarrassingly simple self-distillation improves code generation"

hooloovoo_zoo — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:18:13 +0000

They are training the model to 1. Produce code (as opposed to answer a question, write a poem, etc.) 2. Produce long enough output to be a valid solution. So they are doing exactly what I said. Cheers.

New comment by hooloovoo_zoo in "Embarrassingly simple self-distillation improves code generation"

hooloovoo_zoo — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:53:54 +0000

One sentence summary: We fine-tuned a general-purpose model to produce valid benchmark code results and it got better at producing benchmark code results; we didn't bother to evaluate it on anything the model used to be good at.

New comment by hooloovoo_zoo in "Claude Code Cheat Sheet"

hooloovoo_zoo — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:47:55 +0000

Proposition: Every power user feature added lowers Anthropic’s market cap $1B and OpenAI’s $10B.

New comment by hooloovoo_zoo in "Walmart fires OpenAI in playbook-changing move"

hooloovoo_zoo — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:50:27 +0000

If you ask the agent a product question you can trigger it into web search mode where it provides web links and autocomplete suggestions. You can follow the a/c suggestions down some pretty elaborate chains of questions but eventually it hits a rate limit and reverts to the default dumb bot.

New comment by hooloovoo_zoo in "Walmart fires OpenAI in playbook-changing move"

hooloovoo_zoo — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 20:02:15 +0000

Well, they seem to be using 3rd party LLMs for websearch.

New comment by hooloovoo_zoo in "Roblox is minting teen millionaires"

hooloovoo_zoo — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 21:58:29 +0000

Traffic for his game has declined by 90% from its peak already though.

New comment by hooloovoo_zoo in "Alleged Distillation Attacks by DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax"

hooloovoo_zoo — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 23:24:30 +0000

That would be an interesting paper actually; what is the optimal sampling technique given you only have access to the token outputs. Surely someone has already done it.

New comment by hooloovoo_zoo in "Alleged Distillation Attacks by DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax"

hooloovoo_zoo — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 23:19:05 +0000

Sampling repeatedly gives them an estimate of the probability distribution in any case though.

New comment by hooloovoo_zoo in "14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight"

hooloovoo_zoo — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 21:59:13 +0000

Looks kinda like an egg carton to me. So if an empty egg carton weighs 50g, that's like saying you could stack 500kg on top. Pretty impressive.

New comment by hooloovoo_zoo in "Show HN: I made a memory game to teach you to play piano by ear"

hooloovoo_zoo — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 01:24:13 +0000

Huh thanks that works but that’s not how silent mode is supposed to function. Still a bug imo.