Hacker News: tugdual

New comment by tugdual in "Un-0: Generating Images with Coupled Oscillators"

tugdual — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 08:22:50 +0000

I love this ! Used to work at Rain AI on training neural networks in unconventional hardware - people often that computers don't necessarily have to be electronic digital - there is a whole domain dedicated to creating machines that can apply certain mathematical operations faster or more efficiently than their electronic counter parts. I created this site to try create a classification of that space:

https://computers.tugdual.fr/

New comment by tugdual in "Printing Gaussian Splats"

tugdual — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 10:36:02 +0000

Absolutely incredible

New comment by tugdual in "Mistral AI acquires Emmi AI"

tugdual — Wed, 20 May 2026 07:14:27 +0000

They’re not competing in the same domain - if you look at their business model it actually is much closer to ML consulting for companies (CMA CGM, ASML, Airbus…). The big three are trying to capture B2C mainly while Mistral is full focused B2B

Show HN: I built a small repertoir of different computing systems

tugdual — Wed, 13 May 2026 08:08:48 +0000

Article URL: https://computers.tugdual.fr

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48119131

Points: 4

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New comment by tugdual in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

tugdual — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:29:59 +0000

Love it !

New comment by tugdual in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

tugdual — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:23:52 +0000

https://tugdual.fr

New comment by tugdual in "Eat Real Food"

tugdual — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 06:59:59 +0000

The reason we're conflating them is because there is a strong correlation between "highly processed food" and "designed recklessly". If you look at Carlos Monteiro (The pioneer in this domain) he operationalized it with the NOVA metric. NOVA 4 being the closest to what you're talking about:

"Industrially manufactured food products made up of several ingredients (formulations) including sugar, oils, fats and salt (generally in combination and in higher amounts than in processed foods) and food substances of no or rare culinary use (such as high-fructose corn syrup, hydrogenated oils, modified starches and protein isolates)..." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_classification

I highly recommend Chris van Tulleken's Ultra-processed people for a more indepth read on this fat correlation (excuse the pun :))

New comment by tugdual in "./watch"

tugdual — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 09:24:21 +0000

Amazing work, I have a deep respect for this type of project where the underlying theme is perseverance !

New comment by tugdual in "Launch HN: Uplift (YC S25) – Voice models for under-served languages"

tugdual — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 22:58:58 +0000

This is what my Master project was about, working in the case of Wolof. I've trained XTTSv2 and had solid results with less than 20h of paired data that wasn't of the highest quality either - hmu: tkerjan@outlook.com

New comment by tugdual in "ETH Zurich and EPFL to release a LLM developed on public infrastructure"

tugdual — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 06:19:52 +0000

This is an interesting problem that has various challenges - currently most tokenization solutions where trainees using hype pair encoding where the most commonly seen combinations of letters were being selected to be a mapping. This meant that the majority of tokenization was English mappings meaning your LLM had a better tokenization of English compared to other languages it was being trained on.

C.f. https://medium.com/@biswanai92/understanding-token-fertility...

New comment by tugdual in "Show HN: VectorVFS, your filesystem as a vector database"

tugdual — Mon, 05 May 2025 18:43:00 +0000

Got a demo ?

New comment by tugdual in "Scientists are learning why ultra-processed foods are bad"

tugdual — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 20:53:24 +0000

When Carlos Monteiro decided to operationalize UPFs by giving them a definition (laymans terms: UPF is one ingredient you wouldn't find in a traditional kitchen and wrapped in plastic) Kevin Hall from the US had the same reaction as you and decided to make a multi-million dollar experiment to disprove the definition proposed by Dr. Monteiro. Result: People who ate unprocessed lost weight, and the other group gained weight. (Groups were exchanged after 2 weeks and saw similar effects).

New comment by tugdual in "All-in-one embedding model for interleaved text, images, and screenshots"

tugdual — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 12:42:55 +0000

They could be solving it with multimodal mixup, a technique making sure that there's no big latent gap between the two : https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.03897

New comment by tugdual in "Quantized Llama models with increased speed and a reduced memory footprint"

tugdual — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 16:19:07 +0000

I actually did something similar using llama.cpp a while back, would be curious to see the speedup with this model.

https://github.com/TugdualKerjan/bunny/tree/main

New comment by tugdual in "Instagram Teen Accounts"

tugdual — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 13:28:09 +0000

The closest thing I believe we have as a neutral social media platform is Telegram. You can follow people, talk to friends with a performant interface without having a company who's main goal financially is making you see ads.

There is very little parasocial relationship on the platform although this could definetly grow as channels become a medium for influencers.

New comment by tugdual in "Glass Antenna Turns windows into 5G Base Stations"

tugdual — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 08:20:49 +0000

Do you think that this could be linked to a decentralized system for paying people to do this ? Similar to bitcoin, when a node goes down technicians arrive and are payed after the node has been fixed. (I see a lot of potential problems of "measuring" how much the node is repaired, who pays for it etc though)

Bunny, the better worse version of Rabbit R1

tugdual — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 16:06:57 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/TugdualKerjan/bunny

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40997038

Points: 3

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