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New comment by waldarbeiter in "Microgpt"

waldarbeiter — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 12:51:54 +0000

There is actually a whole lot of research around the "use less data" called data pruning. The goal in a lot of cases there is basically to achieve the same performance with less data. For example [1] received quite some attention in the past.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.14486

New comment by waldarbeiter in "Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics"

waldarbeiter — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 11:38:51 +0000

Is the 1 cm spec 1σ (or less) or worst-case? It’s a safety-critical application.

New comment by waldarbeiter in "Qwen-Image-2.0: Professional infographics, exquisite photorealism"

waldarbeiter — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:16:23 +0000

There seems to be a moat like infrastructure/gpus and talent. The best models right now come from companies with considerable resources/funding.

PyTorch Geometric

waldarbeiter — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 14:57:04 +0000

Article URL: https://pytorch-geometric.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46945902

Points: 1

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New comment by waldarbeiter in "Amazon cuts 16k jobs"

waldarbeiter — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 23:23:26 +0000

That was not mar a Lago but in New Jersey

New comment by waldarbeiter in "GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers"

waldarbeiter — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 22:05:13 +0000

My website of choice whenever I have to deal with references is dblp [1]. In my opinion more reliable than Google scholar in creating correct BibTeX. Also when searching for a paper you clearly see where it has been published or if it is only on arxiv.

[1] https://dblp.org/

New comment by waldarbeiter in "4k tons of potatoes to be given away for free in Berlin"

waldarbeiter — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 17:21:11 +0000

"4,000 tons is almost four million kilograms"

New comment by waldarbeiter in "European Commission issues call for evidence on open source"

waldarbeiter — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 12:08:59 +0000

What does "wolf in sheep's clothing" mean for you, concretely, outside of metaphors?

1000 Layer Networks for Self-Supervised RL (NeurIPS 2025 Best Paper Award)

waldarbeiter — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 15:13:18 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.14858

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46541945

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Logical Foundations of Cyber-Physical Systems (Winter 2025)

waldarbeiter — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 13:17:35 +0000

Article URL: https://symbolaris.com/course/lfcps.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46511850

Points: 1

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Compiler Design (Summer 2025)

waldarbeiter — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 10:14:51 +0000

Article URL: https://symbolaris.com/course/compiler.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46334995

Points: 1

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New comment by waldarbeiter in "Workings of Science: Debunked Software Theories (2022) [pdf]"

waldarbeiter — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 18:18:21 +0000

by Walter Tichy

Workings of Science: Debunked Software Theories (2022) [pdf]

waldarbeiter — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 18:18:21 +0000

Article URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3512338

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45376727

Points: 17

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New comment by waldarbeiter in "Java 25 officially released"

waldarbeiter — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 20:10:32 +0000

The different JDK builds are almost all built from OpenJDK. Maven and Gradle cover nearly all use cases. The complexity is not that high.

New comment by waldarbeiter in "Tesla changes meaning of 'Full Self-Driving', gives up on promise of autonomy"

waldarbeiter — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 13:27:59 +0000

If it would be easy there would already be a car costing a few million that few can afford but that has solved AD. But there isn't.

New comment by waldarbeiter in "Why did books start being divided into chapters? A new history"

waldarbeiter — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 12:12:23 +0000

Nassim Taleb (black swan author) does not divide his books into chapters. Instead each book consists of several (sub-)books. In Antifragility he explains that two subbooks from the same book have the same distance to each other than one subbook from book to one from another book. I found that quite interesting.

Liberland

waldarbeiter — Fri, 23 May 2025 21:04:35 +0000

Article URL: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberland

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44076592

Points: 2

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New comment by waldarbeiter in "Amazon Wants to Be a Satellite-Internet Powerhouse. It Has a Long Way to Go"

waldarbeiter — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 15:05:18 +0000

Yeah, the debris removes itself with time. But there is still some uncertainty around how deorbiting harms the atmosphere [1]. Immediate effects of a single deorbit seem to be quite low but having such deorbiting scenarios at a higher frequency could have some negative effects.

[1] https://blogs.esa.int/cleanspace/2022/08/11/on-the-atmospher...

New comment by waldarbeiter in "Ilya Sutskever's SSI Inc raises $1B"

waldarbeiter — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 15:28:36 +0000

The conventional teaching that I am aware of says that you can scale across three dimensions: data, compute, parameters. But Ilya's formulation suggests that there may be more dimensions along which scaling is possible.

New comment by waldarbeiter in "AI vs. a giraffe with no spots (2023)"

waldarbeiter — Mon, 27 May 2024 19:03:25 +0000

For everyone interested in what makes a classifier put an image in a certain class I can recommend the excellent paper by Robert Geirhos et al. "ImageNet-trained CNNs are biased towards texture" [1]. The paper is a bit older but it's an excellent read.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.12231