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New comment by theodoretliu in "Kev: Tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5"

theodoretliu — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 09:34:58 +0000

I can think of two possible approaches 1. Jev limits to 255 distinct options. So they can preprocess your set of options and “tell” the LLM via input tokens 1 = red, 2 = blue, etc then jev need only output softmax over 255 states while benefiting from pretrain of other LLMs 2. You allow the forward pass to output over the total token state but mask over the logits to limit to the user options. Less plausible? bc tricky when input is multi token which they clearly support.

My guess would be option 1. Didn’t read the kev repo here which would also explain

New comment by theodoretliu in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2025)"

theodoretliu — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 20:48:50 +0000

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New comment by theodoretliu in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2025)"

theodoretliu — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 05:43:48 +0000

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New comment by theodoretliu in "Render raises $80M in Series C financing"

theodoretliu — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 22:06:15 +0000

Was loving the ease of deployment on render but had to move off for lack of BAA and HIPAA compliance. Any timeline for support?

Implementing Object Expansion on REST APIs with Rails

theodoretliu — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 19:05:15 +0000

Article URL: https://pocketflows.com/blog/implementing-expand-parameter-rails/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40135870

Points: 3

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"Expand" Your API's Horizons

theodoretliu — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 16:49:26 +0000

Article URL: https://pocketflows.com/blog/expand-your-apis-horizons

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40014983

Points: 2

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