Hacker News: wangii

New comment by wangii in "Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework"

wangii — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:07:19 +0000

what's the difference between Xilem and GPUI? GPUI is used in zed and pretty cool!

New comment by wangii in "TPUs vs. GPUs and why Google is positioned to win AI race in the long term"

wangii — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 08:27:20 +0000

It's all about the right mind set at the very top level. At the beginning of the PC era, nobody would bet IBM to lose. Same in the dawn of internet, all money was on MS. so it happened to Nokia and Ericsson.

Google is a giant without a direction. The ads money is so good that it just doesn't have the gut to leave it on the table.

New comment by wangii in "Spatial intelligence is AI’s next frontier"

wangii — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 06:57:42 +0000

she's done pretty important work but since then obsessed with the vague term `spatial intelligence`. what does it mean? there isn't a clear definition in the piece. it seems very intuitive & fundamental but tbh not *rigorous*, nor insightful.

I bet it's a dead end.

New comment by wangii in "Raised by Wolves Is Original Sci-Fi at Its Most Polarizing (2020)"

wangii — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 09:05:08 +0000

I have only one problem w/ the S1: the creators just not have the guts to kill Mother or Father. Don't get me wrong, I like them but it could make the whole series more distant and cold.

on S2: a total disaster.

New comment by wangii in "As AI Gets Smarter, It Acts More Evil"

wangii — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 01:02:40 +0000

I expected to read some nash equilibrium like insight to demonstrate the inevitability of machines turning evil, but got a few headlines.

New comment by wangii in "Show HN: CXXStateTree – A modern C++ library for hierarchical state machines"

wangii — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 00:36:26 +0000

how is it better than https://github.com/boost-ext/sml ?

there are about 1 million c++ state machines, and sml happens to be the best, or one of them. how does yours differentiate?

New comment by wangii in "Urtext: The Python plaintext library for people who've tried everything else"

wangii — Mon, 05 May 2025 07:59:54 +0000

could anyone give one sentence pitch why it's better than markdown files?

New comment by wangii in "The Friendship Recession: The Lost Art of Connecting"

wangii — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 14:16:39 +0000

Maybe it's b/c vast majority not doing well financially?!

New comment by wangii in "LLMs can see and hear without any training"

wangii — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 14:11:38 +0000

Exactly! There is definitely something wrong with FAIR.

New comment by wangii in "Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free, but raising the price of Workspace"

wangii — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 21:57:47 +0000

it feels like google in panic mode, the only thing it can think of is to put a chatbot everywhere, just b/c it can. I don't see a value proposition at all.

New comment by wangii in "OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB"

wangii — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 09:19:29 +0000

Interesting formulation! it captures the intuition of the "smartness" when solving a problem. However, what about asking good questions or proposing conjectures?

New comment by wangii in "Clay – UI Layout Library"

wangii — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 09:29:15 +0000

Looks impressive! What are the connection/comparison with imgui though?

New comment by wangii in "Unit is a general purpose visual programming system"

wangii — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 10:17:07 +0000

The flow based visual programming has always being challenging field, and the problem remains: what are the values added comparing with the text based coding?

I really want to love it, please give me a strong reason.

New comment by wangii in "Consistency LLM: converting LLMs to parallel decoders accelerates inference 3.5x"

wangii — Fri, 10 May 2024 00:44:11 +0000

are you practicing any meditation? it's regarded as "awaken" state in some practice! if you have any method, please share with me! thanks!

New comment by wangii in "Consistency LLM: converting LLMs to parallel decoders accelerates inference 3.5x"

wangii — Thu, 09 May 2024 08:31:42 +0000

According to the original Jacobi decoding paper, it's set in the machine translation tasks, with encoder + decoder, in which parallel algo applied only to the decoder part.

New comment by wangii in "Consistency LLM: converting LLMs to parallel decoders accelerates inference 3.5x"

wangii — Thu, 09 May 2024 05:48:19 +0000

I feel it's a pretty dangerous optimization before we REALLY understand what's going on inside of the LLM. e.g. guys believe in the geometric interpretation will have something to say, and it would probably hurt if you are using "filler" tokens.

Besides, the assumption (not a universal fact) that "forming complete sentences in mind before articulating word by word" seems overly simplifies activities happens in our mind: do we really have a complete planning before start talking/typing? as a Buddhist I lean towards it's an illusion. further more, what about simultaneous thoughts? are we linear thinker in the sentence level?

anyway, pretty neat math!

New comment by wangii in "An infinite canvas for code exploration"

wangii — Tue, 07 May 2024 00:48:56 +0000

not able to sign in with github:

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New comment by wangii in "Better and Faster Large Language Models via Multi-Token Prediction"

wangii — Wed, 01 May 2024 11:45:26 +0000

the problem is then the total number of computation drops dramatically therefore leads to much less "thinking" power. i think the idea originated from an understanding that when we write/speak, we have an overall idea. my current hypothesis is it's probably an illusion.

you may want to search for "filler" papers to read.

New comment by wangii in "The language you speak changes your perception of time"

wangii — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 01:26:11 +0000

I believe it's a co-evolving relationship, and it's extremely difficult to track the first/root cause.

New comment by wangii in "The Triumph and Terror of Wang Huning"

wangii — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 16:11:28 +0000

People make same kind of mistakes all the time, instead of judging the contents, we look down to things that are "mostly repackaging" what already exist. Brand new things are extremely rare, mostly just remix of things we've seen everyday.