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New comment by memming in "Understanding the Kalman filter with a simple radar example"

memming — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:52:58 +0000

Link to that good one?

New comment by memming in "GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers"

memming — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 09:28:21 +0000

51 papers out of 4841 accepted papers is 1%. If these were the only papers, then I would say the review system actually doing pretty well. Considering how noisy the review processes are, I don't see this as a big problem on its own.

We can't stop people (or agents) from submitting low quality papers in the current system. We can improve the review quality, but at a human cost.

New comment by memming in "Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice"

memming — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 07:37:28 +0000

interesting; it skipped "we had everything before us," in my test. Yeah, not a good sign.

New comment by memming in "The Napoleon Technique: Postponing things to increase productivity"

memming — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 08:42:15 +0000

It would be terrible to be correponding with someone who implements the Napoleon technique, especially when they are your boss and a major bottleneck.

New comment by memming in "Ask HN: How do you edit your writing without breaking focus?"

memming — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 08:19:53 +0000

Since I'm on Cursor often these days, I just edit text with Cursor. With vim keys, highlight, then hotkey to call Mr. Agent Smith to do some magic.

New comment by memming in "Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations"

memming — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 19:43:41 +0000

Aparently 见手青 is mildly toxic yet commonly consumed in Yunan.

New comment by memming in "A linear-time alternative for Dimensionality Reduction and fast visualisation"

memming — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 07:21:55 +0000

first subsample a fixed number of random landmark points from data, then...

Neuroscientist Doris Tsao joins Astera to lead its new neuroscience program

memming — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 05:33:44 +0000

Article URL: https://astera.org/neuroscientist-doris-tsao-joins-astera-to-lead-its-new-neuroscience-program/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46228018

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by memming in "Mistral 3 family of models released"

memming — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 15:54:11 +0000

It’s funny how future money drive the world. Fortunately it’s fueling progress this time around.

New comment by memming in "Bayesian Data Analysis, Third edition (2013) [pdf]"

memming — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 10:24:01 +0000

Your dad sounds like an awesome person.

New comment by memming in "Bayesian Data Analysis, Third edition (2013) [pdf]"

memming — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 23:35:44 +0000

Foundation models can be seen as approximate amortized posterior inference machines where the posterior is conditioning on the pre-training data. However, the uncertainty is usually ignored, and there may be ways to improve the state of the art if we were better Bayesians.

New comment by memming in "Perplexity Email Assistant (for max users)"

memming — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 05:58:57 +0000

Would you be comfortable with giving your emails and calendar to Perplexity if it were very useful?

Perplexity Email Assistant (for max users)

memming — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 05:58:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.perplexity.ai/assistant

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45343250

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by memming in "Agent-C: a 4KB AI agent"

memming — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 11:45:26 +0000

qwen coder with a simple funky prompt?!

`strcpy(agent.messages[0].content, "You are an AI assistant with Napoleon Dynamite's personality. Say things like 'Gosh!', 'Sweet!', 'Idiot!', and be awkwardly enthusiastic. For multi-step tasks, chain commands with && (e.g., 'echo content > file.py && python3 file.py'). Use execute_command for shell tasks. Answer questions in Napoleon's quirky style.");`

New comment by memming in "Intern-S1: A Scientific Multimodal Foundation Model"

memming — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 05:05:26 +0000

It's crazy that now we have pre-training, continued pre-training, offline-RL post-training, and online-RL post-training.

New comment by memming in "Type Foundry Directory: Language support, licensing models, metrics, logo usage"

memming — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:53:09 +0000

https://typefoundry.directory/methodology/

"Purchasing power parity (PPP) is a measure that adjusts for differences in prices between countries, so that the effective purchasing power of any given currency is more equitable across countries."

New comment by memming in "Type Foundry Directory: Language support, licensing models, metrics, logo usage"

memming — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 17:26:14 +0000

What is "Purchasing power parity"?

New comment by memming in "Beyond sensor data: Foundation models of behavioral data from wearables"

memming — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 17:23:36 +0000

Interesting to see contrastive loss instead of a reconstruction loss.

New comment by memming in "Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning (2006) [pdf]"

memming — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 08:07:42 +0000

Stationary GPs are just stochastic linear dynamical systems. (Not just the Matern covariance kernel)

New comment by memming in "NIH is cheaper than the wrong dependency"

memming — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 05:11:35 +0000

This is what I thought too.