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hopfenspergerj··on Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test
Look at one eye has lashes and the other doesn't! It's just a low-quality AI "denoise+sharpen" filter.
hopfenspergerj··on Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test
The face is the background is clearly an AI model adding detail where the raw image is out of focus. The people you're talking to on this site are just blind.
hopfenspergerj··on Litelm: LiteLLM Without the Bloat
I imagine many people code their own LLM client after getting fed up with the bad options out there. It’s very easy with ai coding tools.

I’m biased but I think mine is coded to a higher standard than litelm. https://github.com/s-banach/langchaint

hopfenspergerj··on Pre-Release of Polars 2.0
It's standard sql behavior, users always specify the ordering they want as part of the query.
hopfenspergerj··on DeepSeek API Pricing Update
Does the API response include a "service tier" response to indicate whether you paid peak/off-peak for a given request? I like to compute cost for each request, and save it with my results.
hopfenspergerj··on College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos
I can be pressured to use it at work to keep up with others who use it, while simultaneously knowing that it is eroding and devaluing my skills, and wishing that we could all stop using it together.
hopfenspergerj··on Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7
You can't accidentally retrain a model to use a different tokenizer. It changes the input vectors to the model.
hopfenspergerj··on How to Use Zorn's Lemma (2008)
We might as well use the axiom that “you can make arbitrary choices at each stage of a transfinite induction”. It’s mostly pedagogical tradition to make students translate that into one of the classical forms of Choice in their proofs.
hopfenspergerj··on GTP Blind Voting: GPT-5 vs. 4o
What on earth are these questions? They don’t resemble any real use of an llm for work.
hopfenspergerj··on Pyrefly - A faster Python type checker written in Rust
No it is not horrible to work with. Even the “standard” settings are quite lax.
hopfenspergerj··on Meta is killing off its AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles
If you’re meta and you have to defend the AI by admitting “it’s not really intelligent and everything it says is bullshit”, that’s not a position of strength.
hopfenspergerj··on Python type hints may not be not for me in practice
Ruff can automatically upgrade all of the issues you mentioned to match your target minimum python version.
hopfenspergerj··on My NumPy year: Creating a DType for the next generation of scientific computing
Are the pandas people considering this as the default string type? Seems like it would be a slam dunk.
hopfenspergerj··on FastHTML – Modern web applications in pure Python
I'm looking at the very first example, and I'm a little confused. The function `home()` displays a list of messages, but they aren't passed into `home()`. Instead, `messages` is basically a global variable, and some other functions can append messages to it. Then I went looking at some more examples, and I see this pattern repeated. Is this how you're supposed to build webapps with this package? How does it isolate the list of messages for different users?
hopfenspergerj··on Evidence of price-fixing in the oil industry?
You can obviously compensate by changing other taxes to be more progressive, this is such a silly argument.
hopfenspergerj··on Ask HN: High quality Python scripts or small libraries to learn from
This is an example of bad code.
hopfenspergerj··on More Agents Is All You Need: LLMs performance scales with the number of agents
Ensemble of any number GPT 3.5 agents is less accurate than one call to GPT-4.
hopfenspergerj··on Michel Talagrand wins Abel Prize for work wrangling randomness
That was me on Reddit. I emailed him asking about some of his work on invariant means in the 1970s. He said “I had no taste then”, and told me what a waste of time it was.

At that point, I decided to go into data science instead of trying to get a post doc…

hopfenspergerj··on Intel Processor Instability Causing Oodle Decompression Failures
I’ve had instability with my 7700k since I bought it, and 16 months of bios updates haven’t helped. Maybe this latest generation of processors just has more trouble than older, simpler designs.
hopfenspergerj··on Why is everything based on likelihoods even though likelihoods are so small?
You work with probability density functions because the probability of observing any given value in a continuum is zero. Density functions may be reasonable to work with if they have some nice properties (continuity, unimodality, ...) The question and answers here seem to be from people that don't understand calculus.
hopfenspergerj··on I disagree with Geoff Hinton regarding "glorified autocomplete"
I agree. We should prompt the model with the statement of the Riemann hypothesis. If the autocomplete is good, the model will output a proof.
hopfenspergerj··on OpenChat: Advancing open-source language models with imperfect data
“All you need is pretraining on the test set.”
hopfenspergerj··on Stable Diffusion and ControlNet: “Hidden” Text (see thumbnail vs. full image)
You can squint and see the letters, so I’m assuming this isn’t it.
hopfenspergerj··on Can Dell’s 6K monitor beat their 8K monitor?
60 is not a multiple of 24.
hopfenspergerj··on Pandas 2.0 and the Arrow revolution
Obviously this improves interoperability and the handling of nulls and strings. My naïve understanding is that polars columns are immutable because that makes multiprocessing faster/easier. I’m assuming pandas will not change their api to make columns immutable, so they won’t be targeting multiprocessing like polars?
hopfenspergerj··on Python 3.12.0 is to remove long-deprecated items
Their suggested replacement for smtpd is a package that hasn’t been updated in almost two years.
hopfenspergerj··on Real World Adversarial Attacks on Object Detectors
Anyone want to sell the clothes as a novelty item?
hopfenspergerj··on Apple Music and Mercedes-Benz bring immersive Spatial Audio to drivers
Almost nothing in “spatial audio” is actually mastered for spatial audio. The fake surround filter absolutely destroys stereo mixes, it’s really despicable how this is being pushed.
hopfenspergerj··on Universal's Audible Watermark (2012)
I remember finding this article several years ago when the watermark was really quite obvious and offensive. Especially obvious in piano music, since the tone of a piano doesn’t naturally waiver. Since then, they’ve either dialed it back or removed it, because I don’t experience this anymore.
hopfenspergerj··on Nvidia Scientists Take Top Spots in 2021 Brain Tumor Segmentation Challenge
Where do the correct answers come from?
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