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bbstats··on The GPT-5 Launch Was Concerning
Gemini 3.0 is gonna cook
bbstats··on I Created a Pop Star Using AI, and She's Dropping an Album in 2065
ok
bbstats··on What my mother didn’t talk about (2020)
Just read it
bbstats··on Gmail/Google starts disabling features unless you agree to data processing
The data here described in the features is the data they're requesting access to. Nothingburger.
bbstats··on Show HN: Improving search ranking with chess Elo scores
(also because it's a name, you don't capitalize all three letters)
bbstats··on Show HN: Improving search ranking with chess Elo scores
Little reminder that Elo is a guy, not an acronym :)
bbstats··on Common MythConceptions
The explanations here are pretty weak
bbstats··on Why Pandas feels clunky when coming from R (2024)
Just say you're bad at pandas
bbstats··on US Treasury to stop producing pennies next year
Depends on your local cost of living
bbstats··on Show HN: Trendly AI – Trend detection across 42 languages
Slop -> $$$
bbstats··on Show HN: Job board aggregator for best paying remote SWE jobs in the U.S.
You should probably add sort and search
bbstats··on A Tiny Boltzmann Machine
anyone got an archived link?
bbstats··on Adventures in Imbalanced Learning and Class Weight
The only thing that matters is your estimation of how the balance will change out of distribution or with future data etc
bbstats··on Ask HN: Share your AI prompt that stumps every model
Gemini 2.5 one shots it perfectly...
bbstats··on 15,000 lines of verified cryptography now in Python
the 2nd sentence:

"As of last week, this issue is now closed, and every single hash and HMAC algorithm exposed by default in Python is now provided by HACL*, the verified cryptographic library."

it's describing coverage.

bbstats··on GPT-4.1 in the API
ok.
bbstats··on Recent AI model progress feels mostly like bullshit
So I guess this was written pre-Gemini 2.5
bbstats··on Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?
Little too easy
bbstats··on Low responsiveness of ML models to critical or deteriorating health conditions
Am I missing something or is this just "We built models that are bad"?
bbstats··on AMC Theatres will screen a Swedish movie 'visually dubbed' with the help of AI
A few examples are very "gum-flappy"
bbstats··on AMC Theatres will screen a Swedish movie 'visually dubbed' with the help of AI
It looks pretty bad

https://youtu.be/PTngv5MmtXo?si=cCQcYtRaja5pPP6a

bbstats··on 4o Image Generation
that "best of 8" is doing a lot of work. i put in the same input and the image is awful.
bbstats··on Gemini 2.5
Could you explain "The sum of two of the numbers is equal to the third"??
bbstats··on Stop using the elbow criterion for k-means
I still prefer a Gaussian Mixture for this unless you're saying you roughly even N per cluster
bbstats··on Jagged Flash Attention Optimization
If only there was a link to a page somewhere that could answer this question for you.
bbstats··on Stop using the elbow criterion for k-means
Also, stop using k-means
bbstats··on The future of AI is Ruby on Rails
Lol
bbstats··on My 16-month theanine self-experiment
Android app?
bbstats··on The inspection paradox is everywhere (2015)
Just because something isn't a logical paradox doesn't mean it shouldn't be allowed to be called a paradox...it can also just mean "apparently self-contradictory"
bbstats··on Video encoding requires using your eyes
Speaking of using your eyes - zooming in on small parts of single frames is not an accurate representation of watching something!
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