Hacker News: thatsadude

New comment by thatsadude in "Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit"

thatsadude — Sat, 30 May 2026 04:48:56 +0000

Nawh, they trained on test since Llama 2, no wonder.

New comment by thatsadude in "Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch"

thatsadude — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:18:50 +0000

On semantic VAD, I recommend https://github.com/pipecat-ai/smart-turn

New comment by thatsadude in "xAI joins SpaceX"

thatsadude — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 15:50:38 +0000

I hope SpaceX succeeds

New comment by thatsadude in "Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert"

thatsadude — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 12:12:33 +0000

Nice read!

New comment by thatsadude in "Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade"

thatsadude — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 15:47:55 +0000

Has been a life changer for me.

New comment by thatsadude in "Mistral raises 1.7B€, partners with ASML"

thatsadude — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 06:03:20 +0000

See: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2411.03923

New comment by thatsadude in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

thatsadude — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 04:15:30 +0000

Same. I went to this thread and saw similar talking points brought up. Dangerous time for the US ahead.

New comment by thatsadude in "Mistral raises 1.7B€, partners with ASML"

thatsadude — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 03:34:19 +0000

Bad investment IMHO. Mistral was started by people who cheated on benchmarks with their Llama 1. It showed as they had the head start but fell far behind Gemini, DeepSeek and Qwen teams.

New comment by thatsadude in "DSPy – Programming–not prompting–LMs"

thatsadude — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 14:09:57 +0000

You can optimize prompt with MIPROv2 without examples (set the max number of examples to 0)

New comment by thatsadude in "DSPy – Programming–not prompting–LMs"

thatsadude — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 14:08:13 +0000

My go to framework. I wish we can use global metrics in DSPy, for examples, F1 score over the whole evaluation set (instead of a single query at the moment). The recent async support has been life saver.

New comment by thatsadude in "Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton [pdf]"

thatsadude — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 11:34:57 +0000

I’m disappointed. Nobel price for neural network architects that failed the test of time..

New comment by thatsadude in "Chemistry Nobel: Computational protein design and protein structure prediction"

thatsadude — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 11:23:02 +0000

Well more deserving than the author of Restricted Boltzmann machine.

New comment by thatsadude in "Differential Transformer"

thatsadude — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 07:24:04 +0000

True, that's a yellow flag for me.

New comment by thatsadude in "Betting on DSPy for Systems of LLMs"

thatsadude — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 15:55:52 +0000

I had a few problems with DSPy:

* Multi-hop reasoning rarely works with real data in my case. * Impossible to define advanced metrics over the whole dataset. * No async support

New comment by thatsadude in "Detect Migrating Birds with a Plastic Dish and a Cheap Microphone"

thatsadude — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 23:43:46 +0000

That plastic dish (parabolic reflector) is not cheap.

New comment by thatsadude in "Voice Isolator: Strip background noise for film, podcast, interview production"

thatsadude — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 09:55:59 +0000

Recent ASR models are already robust to noise due to Spec augment and large-scale data. If you use these noise reduction services to remove noise, ASR models will have harder time to recognize denoised audio. The reason is that noise reduction will create distortion which ASR didn't see during training.

New comment by thatsadude in "Reflections on our Responsible Scaling Policy"

thatsadude — Mon, 20 May 2024 05:34:54 +0000

20 years from now, the future generation will laugh at how delusional some tech guys think that "text generation could be and end to humanity".

New comment by thatsadude in "Acoustic cameras can see sound (2023) [video]"

thatsadude — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 11:13:56 +0000

You can buy a USB microphone array and create one yourself. - https://pysdr.org/content/doa.html - https://www.minidsp.com/products/usb-audio-interface/uma-16-...

New comment by thatsadude in "OpenAI's misalignment and Microsoft's gain"

thatsadude — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 13:42:07 +0000

Based on credits in Gpt3 and 4 papers, I think the team that follows Sam and Greg are the main drivers of the tech. Ilya is an advisor more or less.

New comment by thatsadude in "Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft"

thatsadude — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 11:49:35 +0000

Go read the gpt3 and gpt3 tech report and see for yourself.