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New comment by pulkitsh1234 in "Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose"

pulkitsh1234 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 20:11:04 +0000

But is Reasoning and Facts truly separate ?

To reason properly about the human condition (eg. World War) wouldn't you need to reason on some facts ? And then reason how some "facts" change the human behaviour ? How can you arrive via pure reasoning to predict how a collective of humans act ? We are not reasonable, humans are not logical deterministic machines confined to algebraic rules.

New comment by pulkitsh1234 in "Claude: System Prompts"

pulkitsh1234 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 13:34:47 +0000

curious why dont they bake the system prompt in the model itself ? Why do we pay for these tokens on every API call ?

These are just free $ for them, unnecessary bloating the context

New comment by pulkitsh1234 in "DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813"

pulkitsh1234 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:08:09 +0000

Ah, so it's not only me :-D

I think it could be the watermarking, but at this point they might be deliberately complicating the prose so that we ask clarifying questions and that leads to more token spend.

New comment by pulkitsh1234 in "The Absurdity of Albert Camus"

pulkitsh1234 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 15:12:16 +0000

>At certain hours of the day the countryside is black with sunlight.

What does this mean ? Why "black" ?

Explore distributed inference and training with MLX [video]

pulkitsh1234 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:26:16 +0000

Article URL: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2026/233/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49026015

Points: 2

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No, an AI cannot know the future and never will..

pulkitsh1234 — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 01:15:43 +0000

Article URL: https://pulkitsharma.substack.com/p/no-an-ai-cannot-know-the-future-and

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48964113

Points: 3

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Made with Love in TouchDesigner V99

pulkitsh1234 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 23:18:14 +0000

Article URL: https://derivative.ca/community-post/made-love-touchdesigner-v99-cusersdeadmau5/60967

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48781138

Points: 2

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New comment by pulkitsh1234 in "Trains halted across Germany because of communication system problem"

pulkitsh1234 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:07:38 +0000

Interesting, I just took an OBB train today from Zurich to Amsterdam, which passes through a lot of Germany.

New comment by pulkitsh1234 in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

pulkitsh1234 — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:37:37 +0000

Creation is done by humans who have been trained on the data of their life experiences. Nothing new is being created, just changing forms.

A scientist has to extract the "Creation" from an abstract dimension using the tools of "human knowledge". The creativity is often selecting the best set of tools or recombining tools to access the platonic space. For instance a "telescope" is not a new creation, it is recombination of something which already existed: lenses.

How can we truly create something ? Everything is built upon something.

You could argue that even "numbers" are a creation, but are they ? Aren't they just a tool to access an abstract concept of counting ? ... Symbols.. abstractions.

Another angle to look at it, even in dreams do we really create something new ? or we dream about "things" (i.e. data) we have ingested in our waking life. Someone could argue that dream truly create something as the exact set of events never happened anywhere in the real world... but we all know that dreams are derived.. derived from brain chemistry, experiences and so on. We may not have the reduction of how each and every thing works.

Just like energy is conserved, IMO everything we call as "created" is just a changed form of "something". I fully believe LLMs (and humans) both can create tools to change the forms. Nothing new is being "created", just convenient tools which abstract upon some nature of reality.

New comment by pulkitsh1234 in "GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories"

pulkitsh1234 — Wed, 20 May 2026 08:05:51 +0000

any ideas which extension was it ?

New comment by pulkitsh1234 in "Growing Neural Cellular Automata"

pulkitsh1234 — Tue, 19 May 2026 21:39:08 +0000

well it attempts to explain how individual cells can combine to create complex creatures (like a lizard) AND how the creature can have features like healing, regeneration, etc.

New comment by pulkitsh1234 in "Google Antigravity Built an OS from a single prompt"

pulkitsh1234 — Tue, 19 May 2026 21:12:34 +0000

> goes to show just how intrinsically intelligent the Gemini family of models have gotten, even on Flash (Gemini 3.1 Pro was unable to do this)

3.1 Pro couldn't do it.. but why ??

Auto-Brewery Syndrome

pulkitsh1234 — Tue, 19 May 2026 21:10:47 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-brewery_syndrome

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48199701

Points: 3

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New comment by pulkitsh1234 in "Ask an Astronaut: 333 hours of Q&A footage with astronauts"

pulkitsh1234 — Tue, 19 May 2026 21:10:31 +0000

Product Manager

New comment by pulkitsh1234 in "Ask an Astronaut: 333 hours of Q&A footage with astronauts"

pulkitsh1234 — Mon, 18 May 2026 12:19:03 +0000

YouTube PM if you are seeing, this is your "AI project".

Instead of just filtering user asked questions. We could probably just use an LLM to find interesting sections in video which has answer to a particular question.

New comment by pulkitsh1234 in "Ask an Astronaut: 333 hours of Q&A footage with astronauts"

pulkitsh1234 — Mon, 18 May 2026 12:16:20 +0000

Thanks for making this..I was trying to accurately find timestamps in a video from a transcript sometime back, was not aware that this is called "phoneme alignment" and whisperx already solves this !

Growing Neural Cellular Automata

pulkitsh1234 — Sun, 17 May 2026 19:21:09 +0000

Article URL: https://distill.pub/2020/growing-ca/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48172320

Points: 133

# Comments: 13

The Best Sports Game Nobody Played [video]

pulkitsh1234 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 19:08:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cMc4M5QJvM

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47818582

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by pulkitsh1234 in "AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice"

pulkitsh1234 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 09:53:59 +0000

completely anecdotal, but I think the same can be said for human therapists.

New comment by pulkitsh1234 in "Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app"

pulkitsh1234 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:25:32 +0000

I am surprised to see this on HN front page, there is no new information here, just an ad.