Hacker News: mayapugai

New comment by mayapugai in "The Posse Comitatus Act Explained"

mayapugai — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 01:36:25 +0000

Well, there's no way we don't watch that scene from The West Wing. I'll let the inimitable CJCS Admiral Percy Fitzwallace briefly explain the concept: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=841qG6VM0UI&t=79s

New comment by mayapugai in "Launch HN: Miyagi (YC W25) turns YouTube videos into online, interactive courses"

mayapugai — Tue, 13 May 2025 18:50:09 +0000

This is really cool!

Prof. Steve Brunton's YT channel is a treasure trove of material for you folks, with course-like playlists for controls, data-driven engineering, and dynamical systems: https://www.youtube.com/@Eigensteve/playlists

He should be a featured creator, much like 3b1b is for math!

New comment by mayapugai in "The Community Corrosive Effects of CLAs (2021)"

mayapugai — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 03:41:00 +0000

Agreed! The term CLA wasn't even defined in the article. I had to look it up.

PSA: CLA is Contributor License Agreement

New comment by mayapugai in "Measuring CPU core-to-core latency"

mayapugai — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 00:29:11 +0000

This is a fascinating insight into a subsystem which we take from granted and naively assume is homogeneous. Thank you so much for sharing.

A request to the community - I am particularly interested in the Apple M1 Ultra. Apple made a pretty big fuss about the transparency of their die-to-die interconnect in the M1 Ultra. So, it would be very interesting to see what happens with it - both on Mac OS and (say, Asahi) Linux.

New comment by mayapugai in "Mechanical Watch"

mayapugai — Thu, 05 May 2022 20:40:33 +0000

This is a wonderful article! Thank you to the author for taking the time to write and animate all this.

I want future generations to have access this so I have to ask - how can I back up this page with all of the interactive 3D animations still operational? Simply saving the HTML file doesn't seem to work.

New comment by mayapugai in "Biological underpinnings for lifelong learning machines"

mayapugai — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 06:36:58 +0000

I am part of a 40+ author team that published this perspective article. In this work, we discuss and recommend bio-inspired approaches that we believe are crucial to in our quest to create machine learning techniques that are capable of learning throughout their operational lifetime. This desired approach is much the same way humans learn as opposed to most current ML algorithms which having training and inference phases.

It would be a thrill to hear the HN community's opinions and ideas as I continue this research.

Disclaimer: We came together as part of the DARPA Lifelong Learning Machines (L2M) program.

Biological underpinnings for lifelong learning machines

mayapugai — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 06:26:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-022-00452-0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30903802

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

DeepMind's curated list of free ML resources is still awesome [pdf]

mayapugai — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 02:57:09 +0000

Article URL: https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/research/New_AtHomeWithAI%20resources.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30202247

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by mayapugai in "Zotero Scihub: plugin to automatically download PDFs from Sci-Hub"

mayapugai — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 06:34:15 +0000

I came here to post this, but searched to be sure that no one else had posted it. Ha! No idea is unique I suppose.

For anyone looking to get serious about bookmarking, Zotero is a serious alterntaive to traditional bookmarking since it snapshots webpages being stored as a reference. Then, I considered writing about using it as a bookmarking tool, but someone else has written about that too: https://copingmechanism.com/2021/using-zotero-as-a-bookmarki...

New comment by mayapugai in "Anarchists making their own medicine (2018)"

mayapugai — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 21:56:00 +0000

Even in academia, where most research originates and matures before being sold to corporations, the vast majority of research is tax-payer funded. I wholeheartedly agree with you stance. It's unsurprising that these regulatory barriers keep all but the wealthiest corporations out of the market considering that big pharma and insurance account for significant share the donor-base of most politicians in the United States.

Tax base funds the work, donor base collects the rewards.

New comment by mayapugai in "Circuit Design and Applied Optimization (Part 1)"

mayapugai — Fri, 31 Dec 2021 20:17:31 +0000

I'm just here to say this article was such a pleasure to read. I've always relied on intuition to pick good-enough values based on experience. So this rigorous analytical approach to viewing the objective space and picking a reasonable value is refreshing. It's ironic and rightfully hilarious that you still had to take a gander and pick a "close-enough" value.

I look forward to part 2 where you incorporate the resistor choices that you had. Perhaps also include the statistics of the tolerance into the mix to find the optimal values that we should all be picking for our future 555 timer hijinks.

Your academic research work is also very interesting. Suffice to say I'll be following you on GitHub :)

Cheers and happy (almost) new year!

New comment by mayapugai in "DeepCreamPy- Decensoring Hentai with Deep Neural Networks (2018)"

mayapugai — Thu, 30 Dec 2021 18:21:17 +0000

Long story short, these algorithms aren't recovering information that was lost. They reconstruct the images by guessing what should've been there. So, you're not violating any information theoretic concept.

But this means the guesses can be incorrect, although the likelihood of that happening can be greatly reduced with good training data.

New comment by mayapugai in "Scamp CPU: A homebrew 16-bit CPU with a homebrew Unix-like-ish operating system"

mayapugai — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 00:49:14 +0000

Congratulations on getting this amazing machine working IRL. I think the best takeaway for me was the resources section of your README. It's veritable goldmine for anyone who wants to do something even remotely similar!

New comment by mayapugai in "Finishing my first game while working full-time"

mayapugai — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 18:29:20 +0000

Congratulations! It's always refreshing to see someone use simple, readily available tools to level-up.

I don't know how many people will relate to this, but while I've known that scheduling time will help me get things done, I keep avoiding actually getting around to it. It's as though I am afraid to face my own impending success.

You've motivated me to try and get things done though - thank you and congrats once again!.

New comment by mayapugai in "Show HN: I built a CNC-machine from scratch, using 40x 3D-printed parts"

mayapugai — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 23:40:15 +0000

Hey, this is a great project. I am working on a project that involves both hardware and software much like your CNC project.

I especially like how the README.md is exquisitely well-written, complete with images. May I ask - did you manually link the pictures and links while writing the README or did you use a program that let you generate the source md file from a WYSIWYG editor?

PS. I am a newbie here. So, I really hope this question isn't against the code of conduct here.