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New comment by pilooch in "DiffusionGemma: 4x Faster Text Generation"

pilooch — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:06:04 +0000

Yes, full ft or lora https://github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/Automodel/blob/main/docs/guid...

New comment by pilooch in "Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model"

pilooch — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:07:39 +0000

Yes, all my emails gyer sorted out by a finetuned gemma. There are turned into images passes to the model, as multimodal is so practical.

DeepSeek-V4-Flash (official FP8) running across 2x DGX Spark

pilooch — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 22:58:56 +0000

Article URL: https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/deepseek-v4-flash-official-fp8-running-across-2x-dgx-spark-tp-2-mtp-200k-ctx-recipe-numbers/370309

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48377425

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by pilooch in "Experience: We found a baby on the subway – now he's our 26-year-old son"

pilooch — Sat, 23 May 2026 12:10:09 +0000

Reminded me of the recent, and excellent, Canadian tv series Empathy, with the main character is found in a garbage can by his adoptive parents.

New comment by pilooch in "AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields"

pilooch — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:49:47 +0000

AlphaEvolve couples map-elites with LLMs. It's an key step in machine learning, in the vein of DQN for reinforcement learning.

AE brings diversity from the genetic algorithms community to large scale optmized deep learning and RL models.

It is a mandatory step for moving forward. The approach is clean and simple, while generic.

The only caveats is the per optimization problem definition of the map élites dimensions. But surely, this will get tackled somehow over the next few years.

If you don't know about map-elites, go look up Jean-Baptiste Mouret' s work and talks, it's both very interesting and universal.

Anon: Extrapolating Adaptivity Beyond SGD and Adam

pilooch — Thu, 07 May 2026 11:36:10 +0000

Article URL: https://anonymous.4open.science/api/repo/Anon-6511/file/README.md

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48048145

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The Podcast Where You Can Eavesdrop on the A.I. Elite

pilooch — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 10:10:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/business/dwarkesh-patel-podcast-ai.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47909027

Points: 4

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New comment by pilooch in "Codex for almost everything"

pilooch — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:36:03 +0000

Slides, publications and tech reports, very handy for figures !

New comment by pilooch in "Codex for almost everything"

pilooch — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:33:54 +0000

It's useful when using prism, and for exploratory research & code.

New comment by pilooch in "Grammarly is offering ‘expert’ AI reviews from famous dead and living writers"

pilooch — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:35:41 +0000

Revolting and so inevitable though I believe: we're sort of running these already in our minds, we'll be outrun here too.!

New comment by pilooch in "Launch HN: Vela (YC W26) – AI for complex scheduling"

pilooch — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:51:39 +0000

Good catch. Cancer treatment scheduling is hard as well as mixes need tombe prepared in advance and cancelles appointments are hard to fill.

New comment by pilooch in "Launch HN: Vela (YC W26) – AI for complex scheduling"

pilooch — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:25:48 +0000

Hello! Not commenting on content or functionality. Scheduling in AI is a very dense field. An a past researcher in AI decision making, I got confused by the 'Scheduling solved' slogan. FYI recent AI for scheduling include GNNs and RL applied to NP and P-space problems that plague many industries. A larger scope I believe from vela's (rightful) target, a bit confusing IMO. Good luck with your endeavor, all scheduling problems are beautiful :)

New comment by pilooch in "Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, has died"

pilooch — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 20:47:57 +0000

Try Flashback, it's darker but genius as well, maybe more approachable.

New comment by pilooch in "Slop is everywhere for those with eyes to see"

pilooch — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 21:51:39 +0000

Synthetic data for human (machine) learning... We should spend more time outside, we will!

Photoroom T2i Open Model

pilooch — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 07:36:03 +0000

Article URL: https://huggingface.co/blog/Photoroom/prx-open-source-t2i-model

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45924735

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by pilooch in "Nubeian Translation for Childhood Songs by Hamza El Din"

pilooch — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 17:22:14 +0000

The 'Eclipse' album is a classic.

A Simple Definition of Intelligence

pilooch — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 20:13:20 +0000

Article URL: https://minimoog.substack.com/p/a-simple-definition-of-intelligence

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45803820

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by pilooch in "Meta Ray-Ban Display"

pilooch — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 06:36:41 +0000

I like the glasses path, well I do wear glasses, but some elements remain unclear to me:

- are prescription glasses available for display ? I guess not ? - these glasses need to be online, I guess they do so with a phone and bluetooth connection nearby ? So that's the glasses, the band and the phone, oh and the glasses case, seems a lot to carry. - pedestrian navigation seems to be rolled out per city, so it's not like having gmaps available right out of the box.

New comment by pilooch in "I got the highest score on ARC-AGI again swapping Python for English"

pilooch — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 04:58:39 +0000

Congrats, this solution resembles AlphaEvolve. Text serves as the high-level search space, and genetic mixing (map-elites in AE) merges attemps at lower levels.

New comment by pilooch in "Will AI Replace Human Thinking? The Case for Writing and Coding Manually"

pilooch — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 17:40:42 +0000

Losing the mental map is the number one issue for me. I wonder if there could be a way to keep track of it, even at a high level. Keeping the ability to dig in is crucial.