Hacker News: whymauri

New comment by whymauri in "Agonist-Antagonist Myoneural Interface"

whymauri — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 05:58:52 +0000

Hi, it was a long time ago but I worked on this and can answer high level questions.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-38096-z

New comment by whymauri in "How I Left YouTube"

whymauri — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 02:59:53 +0000

Have you worked at BigCo before? This was 1:1 my experience at a large company and within months they were asking for a +1 leveled boomerang.

You can't take denied promos at face value, honestly.

New comment by whymauri in "Leaving Meta and PyTorch"

whymauri — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 18:33:20 +0000

Wait, PyTorch and the ecosystem are much more than just that. You can't be serious?

New comment by whymauri in "[dead]"

whymauri — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 15:40:03 +0000

I work in Trust and Safety (not at Meta). We've never 'randomly' shut down an account and any action involving deactivation or deletion goes through thorough human review with no exceptions.

The lack of respect for the end-user is squarely a Meta problem, not an industry problem.

New comment by whymauri in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

whymauri — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 17:50:18 +0000

This is now the 5th comment saying the same thing, so I'll respond. I'm aware of these and they were terrible. In a just world, they would get as much if not more media attention.

The difference is the public nature of the execution. That is what makes it more similar to, say, Colombia or Venezuela _to me._ Within the context of 'magical realism', it is the perspective and mass dissemination of the violence that heightens that feeling.

Going back to the original topic, there is a reason that most of 100 Years of Solitude's pivotal moments happen around the staging of public executions (and not so much the off-screen violence, of which there is some but it's not focal).

New comment by whymauri in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

whymauri — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 23:20:13 +0000

On Sunday, I was talking a Mexican friend about how politicians get killed in our countries (Colombia, Venezuela, Mexico). Just in June, presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe was shot and killed in Bogota. In the head, in front of a crowd.

I remember being grateful about how that doesn't really happen in the US (Trump being the most recent, but he survived). I guess I was wrong... and, in that case, Garcia Marquez might agree with you.

New comment by whymauri in "Alterego: Thought to Text"

whymauri — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 02:03:39 +0000

The Harvard BIONICS lab is working on neuroprostheses for different forms of paralysis, like intestinal paralysis. They're great.

New comment by whymauri in "Hermes 4"

whymauri — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 21:45:50 +0000

The most direct, non-marketing, non-aesthetic summary is that this model trades off a few points on 'fundamental benchmarks' (GPQA, MATH/AIME, MMLU) in exchange for being a 'more steerable' (less refusals) scaffold for downstream tuning.

Within that framing, I think it's easier to see where and how the model fits into the larger ecosystem. But, of course, the best benchmark will always be just using the model.

New comment by whymauri in "Hermes 4"

whymauri — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 20:52:52 +0000

I really like their technical report:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.18255

New comment by whymauri in "Claim: GPT-5-pro can prove new interesting mathematics"

whymauri — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 23:07:25 +0000

At the end of the generative funnel we had a filter and it used (roughly) the mechanism you're describing.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1611138113

You summarized it very well!

New comment by whymauri in "Claim: GPT-5-pro can prove new interesting mathematics"

whymauri — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 18:47:08 +0000

I used to work at a drug discovery startup. A simple model generating directly from latent space 'discovered' some novel interactions that none of our medicinal chemists noticed e.g. it started biasing for a distribution of molecules that was totally unexpected for us.

Our chemists were split: some argued it was an artifact, others dug deep and provided some reasoning as to why the generations were sound. Keep in mind, that was a non-reasoning, very early stage model with simple feedback mechanisms for structure and molecular properties.

In the wet lab, the model turned out to be right. That was five years ago. My point is, the same moment that arrived for our chemists will be arriving soon for theoreticians.

New comment by whymauri in "95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing – MIT report"

whymauri — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 15:50:51 +0000

5% success rate might mean: if you get it to work, you are capturing value that the other 95% are not.

A lot of this must come down to execution. And there's a lot of snake oil out there at the execution layer.

New comment by whymauri in "Gemma 3 270M: Compact model for hyper-efficient AI"

whymauri — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 19:03:41 +0000

To be fair, Trust and Safety workloads are edgecases w.r.t. the riskiness profile of the content. So in that sense, I get it.

New comment by whymauri in "Gemma 3 270M: Compact model for hyper-efficient AI"

whymauri — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 18:15:30 +0000

LLMs are really annoying to use for moderation and Trust and Safety. You either depend on super rate-limited 'no-moderation' endpoints (often running older, slower models at a higher price) or have to tune bespoke un-aligned models.

For your use case, you should probably fine tune the model to reduce the rejection rate.

New comment by whymauri in "Qodo CLI agent scores 71.2% on SWE-bench Verified"

whymauri — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 14:22:18 +0000

I feel like the bash only SWE Bench Verified (a.k.a model + mini-swe-agent) is the closest thing to measuring the inherent ability of the model vs. the scaffolding.

https://github.com/SWE-agent/mini-swe-agent

New comment by whymauri in "Qodo CLI agent scores 71.2% on SWE-bench Verified"

whymauri — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 14:18:25 +0000

Papers have been doing rollouts that involve a model proposing N solutions and then self-reviewing to choose the best one (prior to the verifier). So far, I think that's been counted as one pass.

New comment by whymauri in "Qodo CLI agent scores 71.2% on SWE-bench Verified"

whymauri — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 14:16:53 +0000

This is what the rows look like:

https://huggingface.co/datasets/princeton-nlp/SWE-bench_Veri...

Its up to your retrieval system/model to selectively hunt for relevant context. Here's a few critiques of the benchy:

https://x.com/brhydon/status/1953648884309536958

New comment by whymauri in "Launch HN: Halluminate (YC S25) – Simulating the internet to train computer use"

whymauri — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 18:53:47 +0000

Super interesting, thank you.

New comment by whymauri in "Launch HN: Halluminate (YC S25) – Simulating the internet to train computer use"

whymauri — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 17:50:39 +0000

Are these simulations shared between your customers, or are you building bespoke environments per client/user? How does the creation of environments scale?

New comment by whymauri in "Modification of acetaminophen to reduce liver toxicity and enhance drug efficacy"

whymauri — Sat, 24 May 2025 06:15:54 +0000

acetaminophen should not be an OTC drug