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New comment by ordinarily in "Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work"

ordinarily — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 02:57:33 +0000

It's genuinely a great introduction to LLMs. I built my own awhile ago based off Milton's Paradise Lost: https://www.wvrk.org/works/milton

New comment by ordinarily in "[dead]"

ordinarily — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 01:28:26 +0000

Nope, they're surprisingly hard to get ahold of. So I've resorted to being extremely noisy online.

Temporal accumulation: imagine you're observing a signal through a narrow window and you can only see a partial, noisy snapshot each time. "Temporal accumulation" is what happens when you let the observer remember previous snapshots and use them to improve its prediction of the next one. The persistence advantage P measures how much that memory helps, the difference in prediction error between an observer that accumulates across episodes and one that only uses the most recent snapshot.

For a black hole shadow (EHT), P ≈ 0: each snapshot already contains the full picture, memory adds nothing. For gravitational wave strain (LIGO), P is large and positive, the chirp evolves across snapshots, so memory is essential. The question the papers ask is: what determines how much memory helps? The answer turns out to be spectral entropy of the waveform, not mass.

A 500K-parameter system that recovers invariant physics from observation alone

ordinarily — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:06:38 +0000

Article URL: https://erebus.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47519296

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New comment by ordinarily in "Scaling Karpathy's Autoresearch: What Happens When the Agent Gets a GPU Cluster"

ordinarily — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:06:51 +0000

I've been doing this for about a month. I also have wildly complicated ML pipelines working similarly in parallel. When Karpathy's 'autoresearch' came out I was surprised by how novel it was treated.

New comment by ordinarily in "Hackers (1995) Animated Experience"

ordinarily — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 16:39:50 +0000

Awhile I made something really dumb: https://www.warpstream.com/etc/terminal you can enter a 'gibson' command.

The Art of Being Lazy(log)

ordinarily — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 20:09:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.warpstream.com/blog/the-art-of-being-lazy-log-lower-latency-and-higher-availability-with-delayed-sequencing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46890941

Points: 2

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The Case for an Iceberg-Native Database

ordinarily — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 18:53:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.warpstream.com/blog/the-case-for-an-iceberg-native-database-why-spark-jobs-and-zero-copy-kafka-wont-cut-it

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45279876

Points: 8

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New comment by ordinarily in "Show HN: Engineering.fyi – Search across tech engineering blogs in one place"

ordinarily — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 03:26:36 +0000

This is awesome! We got some really technical deep dives here https://www.warpstream.com/blog-category/engineering

New comment by ordinarily in "Thunderbird: Fluent Windows 11 Design"

ordinarily — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 15:20:57 +0000

Horizontal space is still a premium regardless of monitor size when designing/building for responsive viewports. Vertical space is almost zero cost in terms of design constraints.

Even on large monitors you'd be surprised the number of people at 150% zoom with small windows opened instead of fullscreen.

New comment by ordinarily in "SVGs that feel like GIFs"

ordinarily — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 19:40:24 +0000

I used SVG animations (and sites like https://www.svgator.com/) long before stuff like Rive or Lottie was commonplace. SVG animations are great.

New comment by ordinarily in "The Darwin Gödel Machine: AI that improves itself by rewriting its own code"

ordinarily — Fri, 30 May 2025 14:37:24 +0000

I think the general tone is more of a warning than an endorsement.

New comment by ordinarily in "The Darwin Gödel Machine: AI that improves itself by rewriting its own code"

ordinarily — Fri, 30 May 2025 14:30:27 +0000

The pieces are coming together quickly https://ai-2027.com/.

Reddit AMA with the WarpSteam co-founders

ordinarily — Wed, 14 May 2025 15:06:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/apachekafka/s/sKsTyk90n0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43985429

Points: 2

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New comment by ordinarily in "Fleurs du Mal"

ordinarily — Fri, 09 May 2025 23:36:07 +0000

I have a variety of early printings of this. My favorite being a 1931 edition illustrated by Major Felten, its beautiful.

New comment by ordinarily in "Bento gets a makeover"

ordinarily — Fri, 09 May 2025 14:11:29 +0000

Was hoping you'd appreciate our efforts to retain your original quirky vision. We named the rice ball Geoff as a homage to you (intentionally spelled the silly way). (https://warpstreamlabs.github.io/bento/docs/about)/

New comment by ordinarily in "Bento gets a makeover"

ordinarily — Fri, 09 May 2025 04:02:10 +0000

Lol I was actually looking at the Wiki earlier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bento_(database)

New comment by ordinarily in "Bento Gets a Makeover"

ordinarily — Fri, 09 May 2025 01:36:15 +0000

Pretty good community, Slack has 600+ users.

Bento gets a makeover

ordinarily — Thu, 08 May 2025 21:30:41 +0000

Article URL: https://warpstreamlabs.github.io/bento/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43931566

Points: 14

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