Hacker News: procgen

New comment by procgen in "Pfeilstorch"

procgen — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 16:12:38 +0000

Reminds me of the theory that insects like flies spontaneously emerge from decaying matter and dung. I wonder what magical thoughts we're taking for granted today.

New comment by procgen in "AMD CEO sees chips from TSMC's US plant costing 5%-20% more"

procgen — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 18:12:09 +0000

Progress on the 2nm facility (P3) in Arizona is apparently ahead of schedule, slated to be operational in 2027

New comment by procgen in "OpenAI claims gold-medal performance at IMO 2025"

procgen — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 13:22:57 +0000

riding coattails

New comment by procgen in "Seven replies to the viral Apple reasoning paper and why they fall short"

procgen — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 15:12:59 +0000

> that they're simply compositions of things already in the training set

Yes, knowledge is compositional. This is just as true for humans as it is for machines.

New comment by procgen in "If the moon were only 1 pixel: A tediously accurate solar system model (2014)"

procgen — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 23:44:31 +0000

something can only be "slow" relative to something else. it's not an intrinsic property.

New comment by procgen in "Eleven v3"

procgen — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 23:16:30 +0000

FYI, Frasier's not "faking a British accent". It's a Boston Brahmin/transatlantic accent.

New comment by procgen in "Learning about Innovation from Half a Century of Conway's Game of Life"

procgen — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 14:14:17 +0000

There's much to be said!

New comment by procgen in "TSMC expected to announce $100B investment in U.S."

procgen — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 17:16:18 +0000

Then ASML gets Nord Stream'd.

New comment by procgen in "Denmark Offers to Buy USA (2019)"

procgen — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 14:10:48 +0000

But can they afford it?

New comment by procgen in "Diffusion for World Modeling"

procgen — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 14:54:02 +0000

Convincing liquid physics (e.g. surf interacting with a beach, rocks, the player character) might be a good candidate.

New comment by procgen in "LLMs don't do formal reasoning"

procgen — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 19:48:59 +0000

ChatGPT o1-preview was not flummoxed by the small kiwis, and even called out the extraneous detail:

```

To determine the total number of kiwis Oliver has, we’ll sum up the kiwis he picked on each day:

1. Friday: Oliver picks 44 kiwis.

2. Saturday: He picks 58 kiwis.

3. Sunday: He picks double the number he did on Friday, so 2 × 44 = 88 kiwis.

Adding them up:

44 (Friday) + 58 (Saturday) + 88 (Sunday) = 190 kiwis

The mention of five smaller-than-average kiwis on Sunday doesn’t affect the total count unless specified otherwise.

Answer: 190

```

New comment by procgen in "Microsoft working on 'far larger' in-house AI model"

procgen — Tue, 07 May 2024 13:29:36 +0000

What misery? The hyperbole here is astounding.

New comment by procgen in "Microsoft working on 'far larger' in-house AI model"

procgen — Tue, 07 May 2024 13:26:12 +0000

Intelligence is next-token prediction.

See: active inference, predictive processing.

New comment by procgen in "Microsoft working on 'far larger' in-house AI model"

procgen — Tue, 07 May 2024 13:22:54 +0000

Is your contention that AI can't be implemented on a Turing machine?

New comment by procgen in "Los Alamos Chess"

procgen — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 22:50:16 +0000

I'd love to play against the original algorithm.

New comment by procgen in "U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly"

procgen — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 20:00:04 +0000

It is. That's why I do all of my banking on iOS.

New comment by procgen in "The baffling intelligence of a single cell: The story of E. coli chemotaxis"

procgen — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 16:09:49 +0000

This seems obvious to me, as there'd be ten times more computational resources.

New comment by procgen in "Man pleads guilty to genetically engineering giant hybrid sheep"

procgen — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 15:43:09 +0000

It's illegal because it threatens the viability and health of native populations of animals.

New comment by procgen in "Apple announces ability to download apps directly from websites in EU"

procgen — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 12:45:11 +0000

Disregarding the letter of the law seems arbitrary and capricious.

New comment by procgen in "Apple hit with over 1.8B euro EU antitrust fine in Spotify case"

procgen — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 15:40:05 +0000

Interestingly, in the US, the middle class only shrank because the upper class grew.