Hacker News: ml_basics

New comment by ml_basics in "Alphabet Announces First Quarter 2026 Results"

ml_basics — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:43:05 +0000

how much of the cloud revenue is from Anthropic revenue sharing?

New comment by ml_basics in "The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)"

ml_basics — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 12:56:28 +0000

They are referring to a thing called "speculative decoding" I think.

New comment by ml_basics in "Claude Memory"

ml_basics — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 17:29:25 +0000

This is from 11th September

New comment by ml_basics in "How to sequence your DNA for <$2k"

ml_basics — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 07:26:46 +0000

The graph at the beginning showing the cost of sequencing over time falling faster than Moore's law stops in 2015. Would love to see how things have progressed since then. Casually googling i only saw plots up to 2021 but looks to me like progress is now slower than Moore's law since ~2015. Maybe things will change when Nanopore gets more reliable

Check Point Acquires Lakera to Deliver AI Security for Enterprises

ml_basics — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 19:28:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.checkpoint.com/press-releases/check-point-acquires-lakera-to-deliver-end-to-end-ai-security-for-enterprises/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45266782

Points: 2

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New comment by ml_basics in "VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model"

ml_basics — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 13:47:47 +0000

what's the relationship between this work and the recently announced voice models from Microsoft AI? https://microsoft.ai/news/two-new-in-house-models/

New comment by ml_basics in "The $25k car is going extinct?"

ml_basics — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 04:00:40 +0000

It's a europeanism. In both French and German (and probably other EU languages) the word for "subsidy" is something like "subvention" so native speakers of these language often reach for an unnatural word in English.

Btw other examples include "actually" which is used to mean "currently", and "eventually" which is used to mean "maybe".

Personally I'm torn whether to consider this incorrect use of the language as it is quite widespread. Maybe it would be better to consider this as the emergence of a new dialect.

How recorders work (the musical instrument)

ml_basics — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 20:57:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.flute-a-bec.com/acoustiquegb.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43083222

Points: 1

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New comment by ml_basics in "UK workers must keep all customer tips under new law"

ml_basics — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 11:18:50 +0000

And American tech companies have been substantially more successful that European tech companies so maybe it does actually make sense to have stock options as part of compensation rather than employer bonuses?

New comment by ml_basics in "Xkcd 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today"

ml_basics — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 05:23:28 +0000

It's quite remarkable how much the goal posts have shifted when it comes to what is impressive with AI/ML. Things like this are a good reminder.

10 years ago the GAN paper came out and everyone was excited how amazing the generated image quality was (https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.2661)

The amount of progress we've made is mind boggling.

How does light bend around my finger tip?

ml_basics — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 06:25:06 +0000

Article URL: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/111006/how-does-light-bend-around-my-finger-tip

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40785121

Points: 1

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New comment by ml_basics in "DenseFormer: Enhancing Information Flow in Transformers"

ml_basics — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 21:39:45 +0000

To be fair to the authors they are affiliated with a university and not a big industrial lab, so they may be working with significantly constrained resources. Not sure exactly what the best solution is for this case given that it affects most people outside of a very select few.

New comment by ml_basics in "DenseFormer: Enhancing Information Flow in Transformers"

ml_basics — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 21:37:47 +0000

Cool paper. Really interesting to see how even quite straightforward architectural modifications haven't yet all been exhausted yet, despite all the resources being poured into LLMs

New comment by ml_basics in "Study puts fermented foods, not fire, as pivotal moment in human brain growth"

ml_basics — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 06:24:36 +0000

They make the yoghurt, then pasteurise it (I guess so it has a longer shelf life). So it tastes roughly like yoghurt but doesn't have any of the good bacteria. I've also seen that sometimes lactobacteria are then artificially added back in so that they are present but in a controlled way.

Gemini 1.5 technical report [pdf]

ml_basics — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 16:25:20 +0000

Article URL: https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/gemini/gemini_v1_5_report.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39384650

Points: 3

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Pipeline Parallelism: Distributed Training via Model Partitioning

ml_basics — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 21:36:29 +0000

Article URL: https://siboehm.com/articles/22/pipeline-parallel-training

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39033847

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Brain2Music: Reconstructing Music from Human Brain Activity

ml_basics — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 19:23:32 +0000

Article URL: https://google-research.github.io/seanet/brain2music/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36867973

Points: 2

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New comment by ml_basics in "OpenAI temporarily disables the Browse with Bing beta feature"

ml_basics — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 06:13:54 +0000

> As of July 3, 2023, we’ve disabled the Browse with Bing beta feature out of an abundance of caution while we fix this in order to do right by content owners. We are working to bring the beta back as quickly as possible, and appreciate your understanding!

New comment by ml_basics in "AudioPaLM: A large language model that can speak and listen"

ml_basics — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 05:58:08 +0000

Demo website with speech-speech translation examples https://google-research.github.io/seanet/audiopalm/examples/

New comment by ml_basics in "AudioPaLM: A Large Language Model That Can Speak and Listen"

ml_basics — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 06:59:45 +0000

> We introduce AudioPaLM, a large language model for speech understanding and generation. AudioPaLM fuses text-based and speech-based language models, PaLM-2 [Anil et al., 2023] and AudioLM [Borsos et al., 2022], into a unified multimodal architecture that can process and generate text and speech with applications including speech recognition and speech-to-speech translation. AudioPaLM inherits the capability to preserve paralinguistic information such as speaker identity and intonation from AudioLM and the linguistic knowledge present only in text large language models such as PaLM-2.

Direct link to demo video showing speech-to-speech translation: https://google-research.github.io/seanet/audiopalm/examples/... (see website for more example)