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Kaggle Grandmasters Playbook: 7 Tested Modeling Techniques for Tabular Data

mode80 — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 01:26:00 +0000

Article URL: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/the-kaggle-grandmasters-playbook-7-battle-tested-modeling-techniques-for-tabular-data/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45296966

Points: 3

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New comment by mode80 in "What is it like to be a thermostat? (1996)"

mode80 — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 15:40:16 +0000

I remember inspecting the thermostat in my parent’s house as a child. It was a coil of something metalic which I assume expands and contracts with temperature and physically pushes electrical contacts together to turn on the heat when needed. Knowing how it works, it’s hard for me to imagine that this feels like anything. The whole contraption is just an arrangement of molecules doing what molecules do. But then again, so am I.

New comment by mode80 in "New LLM optimization technique slashes memory costs"

mode80 — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 03:13:24 +0000

mere trillian dollar industries. so far.

New comment by mode80 in "My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback"

mode80 — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 02:15:43 +0000

Congrats Dad and son. I was going to say something about the blue text on red being hard to read. But you know what? Keep it. Live the vibe.

New comment by mode80 in "Interstellar movie black hole implemented with Einstein's equations in C++"

mode80 — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 11:52:12 +0000

ScienceClic did an excellent video about the accuracy with a better recreation: https://youtu.be/ABFGKdKKKyg

New comment by mode80 in "Reproducing GPT-2 in llm.c"

mode80 — Wed, 29 May 2024 19:22:32 +0000

I did this and wrote about my experience:

https://mode80.github.io/7-langs-in-12-months.html

I don't regret it. But if ML is your main goal, Python is where you will end up because it's where the libraries are.

New comment by mode80 in "Static Chess"

mode80 — Mon, 13 May 2024 22:24:44 +0000

This is great. Suggest one additional bit to show black at the bottom. That way the player of black is not handicapped by playing from an upside down position.

Or just rip off the chess piece design of this other minimalist chess board simulator, which is never upside down:

https://mirrorchess.com/

(It's ok, I made it.)

New comment by mode80 in "Deep Reinforcement Learning: Zero to Hero"

mode80 — Mon, 06 May 2024 15:16:27 +0000

Thanks for making this!

Note: I was carefully reading along and well into the third notebook before I realized that the code sections marked "TODO" were actual exercises for the reader to implement! (And the tests which follow are for the reader to check their work.)

This is a clever approach. It just wasn't obvious to me from the outset.

(I thought the TODOs were just some fiddly details you didn't want distracting readers from the big picture. But in fact, those are the important parts.)

New comment by mode80 in "Quadratic Equation Rap by Suno.ai"

mode80 — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:44:37 +0000

Made this for my daughter in Algebra I. Enjoy

Quadratic Equation Rap by Suno.ai

mode80 — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:44:37 +0000

Article URL: https://suno.com/song/173f62b5-67cb-42de-b9db-5751d1196737

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40019249

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by mode80 in "First Impressions with GPT-4V(ision)"

mode80 — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 14:35:29 +0000

Karpathy ends on a note of despair "Maybe I should just do a startup. I have a really cool idea for a mobile local social iPhone app." That's exactly the path his now-boss took to bring us this. :)

New comment by mode80 in "I made a transformer to predict a simple sequence manually"

mode80 — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 23:31:49 +0000

I love Karpathy et al but this is what finally made it click for me: https://youtu.be/kWLed8o5M2Y?si=SJT5_lCJ0hSR7Z_k

New comment by mode80 in "Superintelligence: An idea that eats smart people (2016)"

mode80 — Sun, 28 May 2023 02:59:36 +0000

I'll expand for those asking. The first third of the presentation does such an excellent job of steel-manning the case for concern, that I couldn't wait to hear his arguments against it. When he gets around to that, he reaches for a made-up concept he calls the "outside view" where he argues you should ignore rational arguments (aka the "inside view") if the person making those rational arguments seems weird.* Slides follow showing VCs in bad PR photos. What more evidence does anyone need?

*"But the outside view tells you something different. ... Even though their arguments are irrefutable, everything in your experience tells you you're dealing with a cult. Of course, they have a brilliant argument for why you should ignore those instincts, but that's the inside view talking."

New comment by mode80 in "Superintelligence: An idea that eats smart people (2016)"

mode80 — Sun, 28 May 2023 01:30:55 +0000

Let me save you 20 minutes of your life: This guy's lead argument is that the smart people who advise caution in creating super-intelligence look weird. He's quite proud of this argument.