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New comment by tellarin in "Exiled Chinese Tycoon Gets 30 Years in Prison for Billion-Dollar Fraud"

tellarin — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 03:44:51 +0000

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48727789

The medieval secrets being revealed by AI

tellarin — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:42:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260527-plots-love-letters-and-diplomacy-the-medieval-secrets-being-revealed-by-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48308122

Points: 5

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New comment by tellarin in "Show HN: Benchmarking Tangible Interface Understanding in Long-Horizon Tasks"

tellarin — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:17:39 +0000

Some collaborators and I recently released a first version of a benchmark we think highlights a critical gap in recent AI models in understanding causality in the real-world, beyond a physics focus.

Everyday environments are rich in tangible control interfaces (TCIs), like, light switches, appliance panels, and embedded GUIs, that are designed for humans and demand commonsense and physics reasoning, but also causal prediction and outcome verification in time and space (e.g., delayed heating, remote lights).

Paper: SWITCH: Benchmarking Modeling and Handling of Tangible Interfaces in Long-horizon Embodied Scenarios

Data and leaderboard in HuggingFace.

Feedback, suggestions, and collaborators are very welcome!

Show HN: Benchmarking Tangible Interface Understanding in Long-Horizon Tasks

tellarin — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:16:32 +0000

Article URL: https://huggingface.co/papers/2511.17649

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47946300

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

A red pixel in the snow: How AI found a lost climber

tellarin — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 08:19:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260108-how-ai-solved-the-mystery-of-a-missing-mountaineer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47887264

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

UK gaming icon Peter Molyneux on AI, his final creation and a changing industry

tellarin — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 08:15:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4glw5nyrggo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47887233

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

Switch: Benchmarking the Handling of TCIs in Long-Horizon Embodied Scenarios

tellarin — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 04:12:05 +0000

Article URL: https://huggingface.co/papers/2511.17649

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47331680

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by tellarin in "Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world"

tellarin — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 04:11:03 +0000

Selfless plug here... Some collaborators and I just released a first version of a benchmark we think highlights a critical gap in recent models in understanding causality in the real-world, beyond a physics focus.

SWITCH: Benchmarking Modeling and Handling of Tangible Interfaces in Long-horizon Embodied Scenarios (https://huggingface.co/papers/2511.17649)

Feedback, suggestions, and collaborators are very welcome!

New comment by tellarin in "CompSci was a golden ticket to a lucrative career. Now graduates can't get a job"

tellarin — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 11:33:58 +0000

I'm hiring and can't find enough good CS candidates. Not in the UK though.

New comment by tellarin in "Ask HN: What was the most humble living situation you had in your early days?"

tellarin — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 05:00:48 +0000

For a while I shared an old apartment with 3 others. Old building, 10th floor, cloth-wrapped wiring (no modern plastic/rubber/etc.), windows that didn't close, a condemned fenced-off balcony, and occasional rat visitors that could reach the 10th floor.