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  1. The ancient Roman dodecahedron may not have been Roman [video] (youtube.com)
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  2. Why do companies change their logo/wordmark (e.g. StackOverflow)?

    StackOverflow had a nice logo. To me, their new logo seems worse. (To me, it's an uglier version of the original logo). Why do companies change their logo?

    2 points 1
  3. Al-Khwarizmi ("Algorithm") (en.wikipedia.org)
    8 points 1
  4. What will make it all worth it

    If AI and Autonomous Robots can make surgery / medical interventions as cheap as household plumbing-work, it will all have been worth it. In my city, a 20-minute ambulance trip costs $16,000.

    1 points 2
  5. Tangent Notes, Markdown editor, similar to Obsidian, with syntax highlighting (tangentnotes.com)
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  7. on Facebook Markeplace, why does adding a `\` change the search drastically?

    Try this in Facebook Marketplace's search box: Enter the word "printer" (without quotes), and note the results. Now enter the word "printer\" and notice the results. I did the second by mistake, and am getting only…

    1 points 0
  8. It's not intelligence, it's "summarization and research"

    I was looking at my prompt histories. I think a lot of hand-wringing about AI (/ LLMs) could be mitigated if one were to call it what it really is (so far): a really good summarization and research tool. Not artificial…

    2 points 3
  9. Creative AIML Datasets

    I just read about how, to train AIML to do sentiment analysis, some projects use Amazon reviews for data. See, every Amazon review has to be accompanied by a star rating. if the star rating is poor, then the…

    1 points 1
  10. How would I go about finetuning Deep Seek or Llama to do this?

    I want to make AI's for the user manuals for specific products. So that instead of a user looking in a manual they just ask the AI questions and it answers. I think this will need the AI to do 3 things: - general…

    2 points 0
  11. Best explanation of Q, K, V? (Attention)

    I'm having a hard time understanding how Q, K, V work. Please drop your favorite explanation below.

    1 points 3
  12. How are founders finetuning AI with limited resources?

    I'm seeing a lot of specialized AI's based on ChatGPT and such, which clearly needed a lot of fine-tuning to do (e.g. DeepTutor). How are founders managing to do finetuning with limited resources? I am under the…

    2 points 2
  13. Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening(USAID $486M) (cepps.org)
    2 points 0
  14. How is the Herculean task of human supervision in LLM pre-training conducted?

    Human supervision in LLM pre-training is a Herculean task. E.g., the LLM spits out an essay based on a prompt. A human has to read it and decide how close it is to the output expected from the prompt. For an LLM with…

    1 points 0
  15. India's AI Vaporware

    I did a search for Indian AI LLMs. Found articles containing with headlines containing phrases like: "10 Indian LLMs" In such articles, almost every link to an Indian LLM was either a 404, or a landing page with a lot…

    1 points 1
  16. Ask HN: What do you read to keep up with AI?

    Is there an HN type website to keep up with all the developments, new jargon, etc.?

    9 points 12
  17. Ask HN: How to try out AIML finetuning on a laptop?

    I want to try out AI/ML finetuning on a laptop. Nothing too involved. I just want to see the output of the model improve in a couple of hours as I finetune it. Is there a pre-trained model out there that is small enough…

    6 points 3
  18. Ask HN: Toy AIML finetuning Eureka moment: your recommendations?

    I want to be able to quickly fine tune a pre-trained neural network model, and have the Eureka moment of observing it working on non-training data. I have access to a Windows 11 laptop and Google CoLab's free tier. I…

    2 points 0
  19. Ask HN: Questions to ask the interviewer that put them on the defensive?

    Let's say you're being interviewed for a job position. What are some questions you can ask the interviewer that put them on the defensive?* I'm talking psychological games here. Something that could lower their status…

    1 points 10
  20. Strict Workflow not supported in Chrome 131.0.6778.86 (32-bit)

    The following Chrome Extensions that I use are are no longer supported: - Strict Workflow - Website Blocker (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/website-blocker-beta/hclgegipaehbigmbhdpfapmjadbaldib) What do you…

    1 points 2
  21. What did Steve Jobs mean by: Dropbox / storage being 'a feature, not a product.'

    How can we differentiate between feature and product? With examples please.

    1 points 9
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  23. Ask HN: How do you manage your paper receipts?

    Am completely swamped with paper receipts. Can't find one when I need it. I've been involved with construction projects where it can be especially costly to lose a receipt, and some parties don't have electronic…

    1 points 1
  24. BMI-type measure for a place's "goodness of weather"

    If you're familiar with BMI (body-mass index), read-on: I am trying to develop a single score, similar to BMI, for a place's "goodness of weather". Yes, I am well-aware that BMI is flawed. But its simplicity is useful.…

    7 points 17
  25. Ask HN: What have you coded using AI that you wouldn't have created otherwise?

    Using some AI code helper such as CoPilot or equivalent, What have you created that, You couldn't or wouldn't have created otherwise? Explain.

    2 points 0