Hacker News: procgen

New comment by procgen in "Mistral OCR 4.1"

procgen — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:12:12 +0000

The only prize is control of the light cone.

New comment by procgen in "DeepSeek API Pricing Update"

procgen — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:09:03 +0000

Luna is multimodal.

New comment by procgen in "DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis"

procgen — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 19:04:01 +0000

Pragmatism is as American as it gets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatism

New comment by procgen in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

procgen — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:11:56 +0000

> 3,000 year-old cultures

Like Western culture?

New comment by procgen in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

procgen — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 22:05:32 +0000

Apples to oranges. The AWS premium buys you a much broader platform with autoscaling, dozens of instance families, managed databases, serverless products, IAM, global regions, etc.

New comment by procgen in "Kimi K3 is now live"

procgen — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:48:00 +0000

Now it seems the best way to tell if a frontier model is benchmaxxed is to check if it can autonomously solve a major open mathematical problem.

New comment by procgen in "Austria Lobbies EU to Host Anthropic After US Access Curbs"

procgen — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:33:01 +0000

Dario is an American patriot who wants the US to win. Don't see this happening.

New comment by procgen in "AI Doesn't Have ROI"

procgen — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:53:54 +0000

Demand is high and will remain so. Supply just needs to catch up.

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.