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New comment by rundigen12 in "Rockstar Games Hacked, Hackers Threaten a Massive Data Leak If Not Paid Ransom"

rundigen12 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:03:23 +0000

I honestly expected the demand to be "Release GTA 6 soon or else we will". ...The fact that they're just demanding money is a little disappointing. ;-)

New comment by rundigen12 in "How a cat debugged Stable Diffusion (2023)"

rundigen12 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 13:14:44 +0000

That was tedious to read. No stable diffusion bugs were ever found. Title is simply wrong. Mod down to spare others.

New comment by rundigen12 in "Flow Where You Want – Guidance for Flow Models"

rundigen12 — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 04:46:14 +0000

An intuitive introduction to adding inference controls to pretrained (latent) flow-based generative models

Flow Where You Want – Guidance for Flow Models

rundigen12 — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 04:46:14 +0000

Article URL: https://drscotthawley.github.io/blog/posts/FlowWhereYouWant.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46170784

Points: 41

# Comments: 3

New comment by rundigen12 in "Cracovians: The Twisted Twins of Matrices"

rundigen12 — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 10:34:55 +0000

Read to the end and... what was the point of that? Where's the payoff?

There was a claim near the top that some things are easier to compute when viewed as cracovians. then some explanation, then suddently it switches to numpy and showing the time is the same.

New title: "Cracovians are a Waste of (the Reader's) Time"?

New comment by rundigen12 in "CoreWeave Is a Time Bomb"

rundigen12 — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 01:46:27 +0000

I was expecting to see some mention of CoreWeave's recent acquisition of Weights & Biases. This is a glaring omission.

Residual Vector Quantization

rundigen12 — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 14:04:04 +0000

Article URL: https://drscotthawley.github.io/blog/posts/2023-06-12-RVQ.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36326140

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by rundigen12 in "State of Machine Learning in Julia"

rundigen12 — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 17:18:35 +0000

Paraphrase: ML in Julia is for Serious Scientists Doing Very Sciencey Things. Things you wouldn’t understand. But your desire to train deep learning models on GPUs and deploy them as apps elsewhere? ...Aw, c’mon, that’s boring. You can just use PyTorch for that. Now, who's up for a new round of Neural ODE benchmarks?!

New comment by rundigen12 in "We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google"

rundigen12 — Sat, 05 Dec 2020 16:45:17 +0000

I naively expected this article to include a link to the paper somewhere in it, so we could decide for ourselves. Oh well.

New comment by rundigen12 in "Middle-aged vlogger who used filter to look young caught in live-stream glitch"

rundigen12 — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 23:09:40 +0000

All I see is a filtered woman on the left and a different unfiltered woman on the right, the whole time. At what time does the glitch occur?

New comment by rundigen12 in "HAKMEM (1972) [pdf]"

rundigen12 — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 16:25:47 +0000

In HTML format: http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/hakmem/hakmem.html

New comment by rundigen12 in "Nancy Grace Roman, 'Mother of Hubble' Space Telescope, Has Died"

rundigen12 — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 15:57:33 +0000

Agreed. Is this an example of the patriarchal bias of science leaving women out of the telling of history -- finally being set straight by our friends at NPR -- or leftist revisionism trying to ascribe extremely inordinate influence to one member of a large team just because she happened to be female?

If one is assigning parentage, would Lyman Spitzer be the "father" of the Hubble telescope? Perhaps it had many "fathers" but only one "mother"?

EDIT: MichaelMoser123's added info and quotes are helpful. Merits updating the Wikipedia page to give her greater(/any) credit.

New comment by rundigen12 in "What Kagglers Are Using for Text Classification"

rundigen12 — Thu, 27 Dec 2018 19:27:32 +0000

> Nobody cares how long it takes to train a model.

LOTS of people care how long it takes to train a model. A few minutes, vs. a day, vs. a week, vs. a month? Yea, that matters.

Think about how long it takes to try out different hyperparameters or make other adjustments while conducting research...

If you're Google maybe you don't care as much because you can fire off a hundred different jobs at once, but if you're a resource-limited mere mortal, yea, that wait time adds up.

New comment by rundigen12 in "What Kagglers Are Using for Text Classification"

rundigen12 — Thu, 27 Dec 2018 18:54:48 +0000

I was really hoping to see a summary comparison of the performance(s) of the different models at the end, e.g. accuracy vs. complexity vs. execution time, etc.

Here's a summary from the end of each section...

1. TextCNN: "This kernel scored around 0.661 on the public leaderboard."

2. BiDirectional RNN: 0.671

3. Attention Models: 0.682

New comment by rundigen12 in "A tutorial on Principal Component Analysis"

rundigen12 — Fri, 19 Oct 2018 21:14:11 +0000

"By defining \mathbb{E}\left[\mathbf{x}\right]=\muE[x]=μ, ...and using the linearity of the expectation operator \mathbb{E}E, we easily arive [sic] to the following conclusion..."

Yikes. You don't define that \mathbb{E} was an 'expectation operator', or what an expectation operator even does, or the fact that it's linear. The v's disappeared somehow from inside the square brackets -- maybe you meant \muE[v]=μ?

So far this "tutorial" isn't defining its terms very well. I'm lost and it's only the very beginning.

New comment by rundigen12 in "Braess’s paradox"

rundigen12 — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 19:40:27 +0000

Whoa, I was just reading about this yesterday! Did I consent to tracking when I created an account here? ;-)

New comment by rundigen12 in "The Failure Mode of Clever (2010)"

rundigen12 — Sat, 28 Jul 2018 22:03:19 +0000

There once was a documentary about a small group of British intellectuals (who also happened to be musical virtuosos) in which one of them asserted that the decision boundary between clever and stupid can have arbitrarily small width.

New comment by rundigen12 in "Impact of spending time in nature on long-term well-being: study"

rundigen12 — Sat, 07 Jul 2018 20:01:27 +0000

"You can just hang outside in the sun all day tossing a ball around. Or you can sit at your computer and do something that matters." -- Eric Cartman

New comment by rundigen12 in "What to Do When Laptops and Silence Take Over Your Cafe?"

rundigen12 — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 15:36:26 +0000

Reading this is surreal, like Opposite World. You are selling me on quiet, wifi & power, at the price of your fancy coffee (and preferably even real food), so I can work/read/study in nice atmosphere. Why else would I tolerate paying nearly $6 for a latte and $5 for a muffin? If all I want is to get coffee itself and immediately hit the road, I can go to coffee stand or vending machine.

"Your $3 coffee doesn't entitle you to sit for an hour." First, perhaps I'm typically more than the average user, $3 coffee sounds either horrid or a miracle. Second: Why not? Isn't that the whole point? You're luring me to come in & buy your wares so that I get the benefit of sitting for a while and do my thing, whether it's read a book or work on my laptop.

To the people who see silence & laptops as bad in and of themselves: who are you to prioritize talkers over non-talkers? In my mind and those of many near-university dwellers, cafes are precisely for sitting, reading, working, not for having (sometimes loud) conversations that disturb those around you.

Finally, I'm not aware of "taking up space", as there are typically multiple empty tables at the (independent, non-Starbucks) coffee shops I go to. Maybe this article applies to high-volume areas & times, but I'm not interested in such places anyway.

TL/DR: If you ban people working and studying on laptops, that will just be even less revenue for your establishment, because that is the only reason many of us showed up. Ration out the wifi with time limits and access codes on receipts if you like, I'm fine with that, otherwise just be happy I'm there rather than having yet another empty table.

New comment by rundigen12 in "It is possible to detect and block Chrome headless"

rundigen12 — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 15:17:10 +0000

Re. blocking scrapers: Some of us are neither vast corporate espionage practicioners nor zombie-botnet users: we're on our own, scraping for data science & other academic research purposes.

Is there some way to declare, "I am a legitimate academic user", something akin to 'TSA Pre' status?

"Sure, register for & use the site's API," you'll say. What if they don't have one?

"Sure, just don't slam the server with too many requests in a short time," you'll say. But if they're rejecting you just because they detect you're headless, etc...?