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New comment by wafngar in "Terrain Diffusion: A Diffusion-Based Successor to Perlin Noise"

wafngar — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 21:48:24 +0000

Very common in ML research these days - claim novelty / cite prior work in an obfuscated way and so on.

50 years of weather forecasting at the ECMWF

wafngar — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 21:21:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65837-2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45958476

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New comment by wafngar in "Magistral — the first reasoning model by Mistral AI"

wafngar — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 21:46:24 +0000

But they have built a fully “independent” pipeline. Deepseek and others probably trained in gpt4, o1 or whatever data.

New comment by wafngar in "Nvidia adds native Python support to CUDA"

wafngar — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 17:54:06 +0000

Why not use torch.compile()?

New comment by wafngar in "Project Aardvark: reimagining AI weather prediction"

wafngar — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 19:03:50 +0000

They train with ERA5 and observations.

New comment by wafngar in "The FFT Strikes Back: An Efficient Alternative to Self-Attention"

wafngar — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 14:54:16 +0000

Should be a relevant reference: https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.13587

Adaptive Fourier Neural Operators: Efficient Token Mixers for Transformers John Guibas, Morteza Mardani, Zongyi Li, Andrew Tao, Anima Anandkumar, Bryan Catanzaro

New comment by wafngar in "EU to mobilize 200B Euros to invest in AI"

wafngar — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:35:19 +0000

Brussels is quite small. Probably less than Washington.

New comment by wafngar in "The future of Deep Learning frameworks"

wafngar — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 18:13:25 +0000

Depends. PyTorch on the other hand has a large user base and well defined and tested api. So should be doable; and is already progressing and rapid speed..

New comment by wafngar in "The future of Deep Learning frameworks"

wafngar — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 11:22:00 +0000

Probably unfair as a reaction to the unfair statements in the blog…

New comment by wafngar in "The future of Deep Learning frameworks"

wafngar — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 07:43:10 +0000

PyTorch is developed by multiple companies / stake holders while jax is google only with internal tooling they don’t share with the world. This alone is a major reason not to use jax. Also I think it is more the other way around: with torch.compile the main advantage of jax is disappearing.

New comment by wafngar in "XLSTMTime: Long-Term Time Series Forecasting with xLSTM"

wafngar — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 12:25:50 +0000

AIFS is transformer based (Graphcast is pure GNN) so different architecture and is already running operationally, see:

https://www.ecmwf.int/en/about/media-centre/aifs-blog/2024/i...

New comment by wafngar in "Analysts estimate Nvidia owns 98% of the data center GPU market"

wafngar — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 20:00:49 +0000

For AI you have to support PyTorch. That works well now on the big AMD GPUs. Consumer gpu capabilities do not matter here.

New comment by wafngar in "IRIS²: The EU’s Response to Musk’s Starlink"

wafngar — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 21:33:37 +0000

US has no bureaucrats? All the EU member states, no bureaucrats? How many projects in member states cost the tax payer billions? Btw the EU budget is tiny in comparison.

New comment by wafngar in "IRIS²: The EU’s Response to Musk’s Starlink"

wafngar — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 21:11:17 +0000

The UK would do much better had they not chosen Brexit. Basically everyone here admits that (bank of England etc) apart from some zealot politicians. And the health system has collapsed. The problems are not solely caused by Brexit but it exacerbates nearly all of them.

New comment by wafngar in "IRIS²: The EU’s Response to Musk’s Starlink"

wafngar — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 21:05:34 +0000

What concrete advantage would it have for you?

New comment by wafngar in "Building a semantic search engine in Rust"

wafngar — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 20:10:18 +0000

sure, my point was more that it uses pytorch -> also lots of c++ :-)

New comment by wafngar in "Building a semantic search engine in Rust"

wafngar — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 15:43:50 +0000

But isn’t that PyTorch with a few extra steps?