Hacker News: theschwa

New comment by theschwa in "Reproducing DeepSeek's MHC: When Residual Connections Explode"

theschwa — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 16:57:52 +0000

Between the clear writing and the diagrams, this was a great write up. I had actually skipped reading up on mHC as it sounded like it was going to take some time to grok, but this made it immediately approachable. I hope you do more write ups like this in the future.

New comment by theschwa in "Zod: TypeScript-first schema validation with static type inference"

theschwa — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 22:08:31 +0000

Yeah, looking at that example feels like jumping straight into the deep end of the pool. I think it helps going through a tutorial that breaks down the why of each piece. I really liked this tutorial on it: https://www.typeonce.dev/course/effect-beginners-complete-ge...

Some core things from Effect though that you can see in that Express example:

* Break things down into Services. Effect handles dependency injection, that's typed, for services so you can easily test them and have different versions running for testing, production, etc. * Fibers for threaded execution * Managing resources to make sure they're properly closed with scope

I think a lot of these things though often aren't truly appreciated until you've had something go wrong before or you've had to build a system to manage them yourself. *

Smart Light Database

theschwa — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 23:04:16 +0000

Article URL: https://optimizeyourbiology.com/smart-light-database/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41385369

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Idefics2: A Powerful 8B Vision-Language Model for the Community

theschwa — Tue, 14 May 2024 14:54:15 +0000

Article URL: https://huggingface.co/blog/idefics2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40355835

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

SV3D: Stability AI's 3D Generation Using Latent Video Diffusion [pdf]

theschwa — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 18:46:26 +0000

Article URL: https://home.otoy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/SV3D_report.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39748312

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Gradient Descent with Adam in Plain C++

theschwa — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 15:57:05 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.demofox.org/2024/02/11/gradient-descent-with-adam-in-plain-c/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39431156

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by theschwa in "Whisper: Nvidia RTX 4090 vs. M1 Pro with MLX"

theschwa — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 16:18:41 +0000

I feel like this is particularly interesting in light of their Vision Pro. Being able to run models in a power efficient manner may not mean much to everyone on a laptop, but it's a huge benefit for an already power hungry headset.

New comment by theschwa in "Lumalabs AI"

theschwa — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 22:03:27 +0000

I believe they are using the original Gaussian Splatting code from Inria under the hood: https://github.com/graphdeco-inria/gaussian-splatting

New comment by theschwa in "Making Gaussian Splats more smaller"

theschwa — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 23:34:49 +0000

"How does “reflection” of the vase on the metal part of the table work, you might ask? The gaussians have “learned” the ages-old trick of duplicating and mirroring the geometry for reflection!"

Thank you! I'd seen people remove some of the SH coefficients while still getting reflections, and I couldn't understand how that worked. The old tricks sometimes really are the best tricks.

ProlificDreamer: High-Fidelity and Diverse Text-to-3D Generation

theschwa — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 19:53:35 +0000

Article URL: https://ml.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn/prolificdreamer/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37694882

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by theschwa in "Sub-pixel distance transform"

theschwa — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 16:32:28 +0000

But,I believe this is being used for his Use.GPU project, which requires not just GPU support, but the latest WebGPU support.

New comment by theschwa in "Sub-pixel distance transform"

theschwa — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 15:59:55 +0000

Can someone help me understand why a CPU based method like EDT would be used instead of a more GPU friendly method like jump fill?

It seems like you could use the sun pixel distances like he did, but then use them with jump fill, but maybe I'm missing something?

New comment by theschwa in "Ask HN: Enabled or Disabled"

theschwa — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 18:10:49 +0000

We used to have some "disabled" checkboxes, but they caused a ton of confusion, and negative user feedback. We switched to toggles with On and Off written on either with all verbiage written in the positive, and we no longer get questions about it. e.g.: Use "blah blah" data source: Off (--o) On

New comment by theschwa in "Tim Cook bets on Apple’s mixed-reality headset to secure his legacy"

theschwa — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 16:25:29 +0000

Meta and Apple are both working on creating an environment in which they can succeed in AR. The hardware for AR is a good ways off, but I think the current market is more about building the momentum of software, hardware, and ecosystem that Meta and Apple need to succeed with AR. They are both willing to take losses to get there. In that regard, I don't think this is a make or break moment, but I do think that Apple is hoping to put out a product that gives people a better glimpse of their vision for mixed reality and AR.

New comment by theschwa in "Bigscreen Beyond – Small VR Headset"

theschwa — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 03:30:17 +0000

I believe they've said that this was a choice to reduce the size and the weight, and it lets them bring the device closer to the users face. It also means that it can stay comfortably with just the one strap.

New comment by theschwa in "Show HN: Filmbox, physically accurate film emulation, now on Linux and Windows"

theschwa — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 00:50:44 +0000

As an artist and shader geek, I just want to say that this looks awesome. I'd love to see that blog post on Swift + Electron.

New comment by theschwa in "Show HN: I built a site that lets users find playlists by songs they contain"

theschwa — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 14:19:59 +0000

Thank you so much for this! I've always wanted this capability, and I plan on making extensive use of it.

3D Parametric Room Representation with RoomPlan

theschwa — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 15:22:59 +0000

Article URL: https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/roomplan

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33096737

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by theschwa in "Make-A-Video: AI system that generates videos from text"

theschwa — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 15:41:41 +0000

Since this uses an T2I model under the hood, would it be possible to build a version of this on top of Stable Diffusion?

New comment by theschwa in "Google wants to take on Dolby with new open media formats"

theschwa — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 15:26:14 +0000

Am I understanding this correctly that this would be a push and rebranding of HDR10+?