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New comment by mliker in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

mliker — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:35:10 +0000

Who is “us”? It does seem that some scientists prefer Codex for its math capabilities but when it comes to general frontend and backend construction, Claude Code is just as good and possibly made better with its extensive Skills library.

Both codex and Claude code fail when it comes to extremely sophisticated programming for distributed systems

New comment by mliker in "China has added forest the size of Texas since 1990"

mliker — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 22:17:39 +0000

would you prefer zero trees being added?

New comment by mliker in "Cursor CLI"

mliker — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 06:13:24 +0000

He actually returned to Anthropic shortly after joining Cursor

New comment by mliker in "Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to kick-start superintelligence lab"

mliker — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 16:11:28 +0000

It doesn't really affect the other frontier labs too much because OpenAI and Anthropic rely on multiple data vendors for their models so that no outside company is aware of how they train their proprietary models. Forbes reported the other day that OpenAI had been winding down their usage of Scale data: https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/2025/06/12/scale-a...

New comment by mliker in "Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to kick-start superintelligence lab"

mliker — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 16:10:06 +0000

OpenAI and Anthropic rely on multiple data vendors for their models so that no outside company is aware of how they train their proprietary models. Forbes reported the other day that OpenAI had been winding down their usage of Scale data: https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/2025/06/12/scale-a...

New comment by mliker in "OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%"

mliker — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 00:45:25 +0000

Where are you getting this information? What basis do you have for making this claim? OpenAI, despite its public drama, is still a massive brand and if this were exposed, would tank the company's reputation. I think making baseless claims like this is dangerous for HN

New comment by mliker in "OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B"

mliker — Tue, 06 May 2025 15:51:25 +0000

Windsurf works well with Claude and Gemini models, so if OpenAI forces Windsurf users to only use OpenAI models, then it wouldn't be as useful.

New comment by mliker in "OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B"

mliker — Tue, 06 May 2025 15:50:42 +0000

Agreed. Especially with tools like Claude Code, which can get better over time and remove the need to use Windsurf and Cursor.

New comment by mliker in "Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview"

mliker — Tue, 06 May 2025 15:49:51 +0000

The "video to learning app" feature is a cool concept (see it in AI Studio). I just passed in two separate Stanford lectures to see if it could come up with an interesting interactive app. The apps it generated weren't too useful, but I can see with more focus and development, it'd be a game changer for education.

New comment by mliker in "Introduction to Deep Learning (CMU)"

mliker — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 05:30:17 +0000

> They don’t know what backpropagation is but by the end will understand a diffusion model?

That seems plausible to learn in a semester long course, especially at an institution like CMU

New comment by mliker in "Introduction to Deep Learning (CMU)"

mliker — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 05:28:59 +0000

I recommend checking out this survey of free ML resources: https://www.trybackprop.com/blog/top_ml_learning_resources

No doubt CMU's intro to deep learning course is good, you might find some other goodies in that link too.

New comment by mliker in "Meta Fined $843M by EU over Marketplace Ads"

mliker — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 17:30:42 +0000

> Meta has been fined because they employed tactics to undermine competition and persistently employ anti-competitive tactics.

If you could list out the "employed tactics" that "undermine competition", that would be helpful in understanding your case. Marketplace ads seems like a natural extension of the Meta ad product, so it's not clear how this is anti-competitive. Any other marketplace can also run ads on Meta as well if they wanted.

New comment by mliker in "Launch HN: Modern Realty (YC S24) – AI Real Estate Agent for Home Buyers"

mliker — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 19:39:18 +0000

Realtors do in fact list their fees. More and more of them are, especially after the August 2024 changes

New comment by mliker in "Linear Algebra 101 for AI/ML – Dot Product, Embeddings"

mliker — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 15:55:01 +0000

Any plans for future articles?

New comment by mliker in "Linear Algebra 101 for AI/ML – Dot Product, Embeddings"

mliker — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 15:14:40 +0000

This looks incredible! How did you create the interactive playgrounds and vectors plots?

New comment by mliker in "Linear Algebra 101 for AI/ML"

mliker — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 03:17:28 +0000

This was a fantastic guide! Subscribed!

New comment by mliker in "Llama3 implemented from scratch"

mliker — Mon, 20 May 2024 05:27:40 +0000

Agreed. For me, the anime character is not "creepy" at all. In fact, I've seen various ML blogs use manga characters to guide the reader.

New comment by mliker in "Vision Pro: What we got wrong at Oculus that Apple got right"

mliker — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 00:02:56 +0000

I wear it about 30 min at a time, 2 min breaks in between, 2-3 hours total daily.

Daily use case: portable Macbook monitor weekly use case: watching shows or a movie. I have to pause due to dry eyes, not due to the heaviness. After the first 2 days of using it, it's not actually that heavy afterward, but it is noticeable if you pay attention.

New comment by mliker in "Vision Pro: What we got wrong at Oculus that Apple got right"

mliker — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 15:51:12 +0000

I would encourage you to try out both the Quest 3 and the Apple Vision Pro for an extended period of time. If you had asked people during the advent of the television, they would have expressed the same opinion about people wanting social connection instead of sitting in front of a box.

New comment by mliker in "Vision Pro: What we got wrong at Oculus that Apple got right"

mliker — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 14:30:37 +0000

Agreed, I've had my Vision Pro for a month, and I still use it to watch shows/movies and as my portable external display. It has its daily and weekly use cases