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New comment by mycall in "AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study"

mycall — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 14:15:58 +0000

What if learners used teacher AIs such that the AIs would keep track (and submit to class teacher) of the scoring for different "mini exams" it put the learner through, so in effect better preparing for exams.

New comment by mycall in "Quick impressions: A week of using Codex more than Claude"

mycall — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 02:04:17 +0000

This is a good idea. I'm making a complicated app and Codex is stuck at simplifying it, so I'll give Claude a go at it.

New comment by mycall in "AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late"

mycall — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 03:34:40 +0000

Aren't AI companies all about the rare book auctions now?

New comment by mycall in "Unsloth Dynamic 3.0 GGUFs"

mycall — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 02:06:52 +0000

There is always SHA256 as the alternative.

New comment by mycall in "Impulse Tracker"

mycall — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:06:20 +0000

The source music scene.org was great for its time. Thanks for participating.

New comment by mycall in "Qwen 3.8 27B"

mycall — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 21:51:44 +0000

https://github.com/juliusbrussee/caveman

New comment by mycall in "RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better"

mycall — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 19:54:53 +0000

You can bypass AMD's heavy BSP abstractions according to gpt.

New comment by mycall in "Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Kernel"

mycall — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 19:27:33 +0000

Isn't generalization of solutions what JEPA is trying to solve?

New comment by mycall in "Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory"

mycall — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:26:09 +0000

I once heard a digitized version of "Daisy Bell" (DAISY.COM) which sings through IBM PC speaker although of poor bitrate.

New comment by mycall in "Nvidia's Risky Business"

mycall — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:10:38 +0000

My Pixel 9 has a personal tpu

New comment by mycall in "Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows"

mycall — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:49:20 +0000

Do AI companies make release plans based on upcoming other models like this? I would think all the processes that go into the repository and weight infrastructure pre-training, checkpointing, knowledge distillation, model compression, post training pipeline, ecosystem integrations, inference API, benchmarking, human eval/safety/alignment, docs, etc... all that dictates the release schedule.

New comment by mycall in "US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide"

mycall — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:38:57 +0000

I was thinking Russia but sure. There are in the act of a hybrid asymmetric war now.

New comment by mycall in "US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide"

mycall — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:03:45 +0000

Were any of these suicides by falling out of a window? That might imply involvement of certain foreign actors.

New comment by mycall in "DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731"

mycall — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 02:04:48 +0000

> it's much easier to have a smarter model that goes straight to the correct answer first

That's basically ASI not AGI, if you agree humans are NGI (natural general intelligence) and make mistakes and wrong decisions in solutions all the time. Right steps with some wrong ones is acceptable though for AGI.

New comment by mycall in "DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731"

mycall — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 20:00:51 +0000

I'm curious how much worse the 0731 quantizations do.

New comment by mycall in "Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice"

mycall — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:39:07 +0000

You would think there would be some isolated places where proto-life still exists for this to be true.

New comment by mycall in "What went wrong with data lakes? A 15-year reality check"

mycall — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:08:55 +0000

You could even ask the LLM what other sensors fit here and how would it expand my knowledge in collaboration with the other sensors and data feeds.

New comment by mycall in "Read HN twice a day for the last decade. Here's my list of S-Tier HN links"

mycall — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 03:04:22 +0000

Is there an easy way to rewrite them to be archive.org links?

New comment by mycall in "Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years"

mycall — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:45:09 +0000

Trumpet Winsock in PPP mode, or SLIP ATTACH or invoking a SLIP server daemon upon login, worked with UCF/UF library VAX systems back then. Just needed to use CTRL-C to break out of their login scripts and get a prompt.

New comment by mycall in "Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI"

mycall — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:28:05 +0000

CTEs are often slower than using temp tables with indexes.