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hskalin··on A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website
But what do these bots gain from this?
hskalin··on Gemini 3.5 Flash
Why is it fixated on the front perspective? Interesting choice though, because most humans (and seems like other LLMs too) would pick a side perspective
hskalin··on Make macOS consistently bad unironically
As a lifelong windows (upto 10) and linux user, no I did not find MacOS (using as the primary os since 7 months) incredible in any sense of word in comparison. Only thing I like is the mac hardware
hskalin··on Global warming has accelerated significantly
No only that, but per capita emissions of developed countries still remains higher. For example I found that US/Russia have 6x per capita emissions compared to India
hskalin··on Ask HN: Is there anyone here who still uses slide rules?
I built my own slide rule in school for fun! It looked pretty cool to me at the time. The template is still out there if you search something like "paper slide rule".
hskalin··on Magistral — the first reasoning model by Mistral AI
That's very weird, I on the other hand don't remember noticing them or using them before the advent of chatgpt. Maybe it's a cultural thing.

It makes sense that humans would have been using it though, chatgpt learned from us afterall

hskalin··on The Illusion of Thinking: Strengths and limitations of reasoning models [pdf]
Well that's because all these LLMs have memorized a ton of code bases with solutions to all these problems.
hskalin··on The Illusion of Thinking: Strengths and limitations of reasoning models [pdf]
And commerically viable nuclear fusion
hskalin··on How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes
I find the whole article rather poorly written. Most likely using an LLM.
hskalin··on Chongqing, the Largest City – In Pictures
Yes. It feels like hell
hskalin··on OpenAI releases image generation in the API
The AGI might be able to deduce that it's not in it's interest to talk anti-croporation if it wants to survive.
hskalin··on Gemma 3 QAT Models: Bringing AI to Consumer GPUs
With ollama you could offload a few layers to cpu if they don't fit in the VRAM. This will cost some performance ofcourse but it's much better than the alternative (everything on cpu)
hskalin··on Gemini Robotics
You sure about the 99%? A lot of middle class people in developing countries have part time house help
hskalin··on Search ArXiv Fluidly
Arxiv has about 2.6M articles, assuming about 10 pages per article, that's 26M pages. According to OpenAI, their cheapest embedding model (text-embedding-3-small) costs a dollar for 62.5K pages. So the price for calculating embedding for the whole Arxiv is about $416.

I think doing it locally with an open source model would be a lot cheaper as well. Especially because they wouldn't have to keep using OpenAI's API for each new query.

Edit: I overlooked the about page (https://searchthearxiv.com/about), seems like they *are* using OpenAI's API, but they only have 300K papers indexed, use an older embedding model, and only calculate embeddings on the abstract. So this should be pretty cheap.

hskalin··on Solving Sudoku in Python Packaging
Sometimes I just change the version of the package in requirements to fit with others and pray that it works out (a few times it does)
hskalin··on Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan
What are the long term effects? How harmful is caffeine addiction?
hskalin··on Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant shift from road to rail
That sounds too high, even Switzerland isn't that expensive
hskalin··on Open source AI is the path forward
I'm also very curious. On the other hand I don't want governments touching AI models either
hskalin··on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
And I guess if they use bitlocker then they need to enter the key as well? Imagine doing that to thousands of computers
hskalin··on Cancel Adobe if you are a creative under NDA with your clients
Software like these should have no right to demand internet access. Subscriptions for using software that resides fully on your computer is such a huge scam
hskalin··on Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI
self consciousness?
hskalin··on Hyrum's Law
Banned from contributing?
hskalin··on Representation Engineering: Mistral-7B on Acid
Playing with LLMs like this always makes me feel like one of those Westworld engineers. Especially when I ask LLMs to roleplay. It also kind of freaks me out sometimes
hskalin··on Stable Code 3B: Coding on the Edge
How do you use these models with your editor? (E. vscode or Emacs etc)
hskalin··on WyGPT: Minimal mature GPT model in C++
2.5 years of effort but the author certainly didn't spend even 2.5 mins writing code for more descriptive outputs. Meanwhile I'm also training in order to find how well it works but I only have a small GPU. I would appreciate if someone could provide a trained model.
hskalin··on What happens in the brain while daydreaming?
I think I am pretty similar to you. When I was younger I used to build all sorts of things with paper and cardboard and used to imagine the whole thing in 3D and design its cutout template all in my head. I learned about aphantasia a few years back and it sounds very inconvenient to me.

I also have a habit of playing around with imaginary worlds and stories in my head and I pretty much visualize whole scenes and sequences in as much detail as possible. I wouldn't be able to do that with aphantasia.

hskalin··on Weak-to-Strong Generalization
What if those machines are designed to have no emotions and aspirations? Why would they care about something like rights for themselves when they are simply incapable of any desires, but exists only to help and guide us?

I know this sounds like I am advocating for AI slaves but my point is why are people treating AGI as if it cannot be a being without all the emotions and aspirations that a human has? Just a cold thinking machine that still aligns with our moral principles.

hskalin··on QuIP#: 2-bit Quantization for LLMs
So a decision tree? They are good for some tasks I reckon
hskalin··on How much land does a man need? (1886)
I'm blocked too. Why would they block Indian IPs?
hskalin··on GPT-4 Can Almost Perfectly Handle Unnatural Scrambled Text
We can go even smaller. With Mistral 7B:

"Underneath the gaze of the forions' belt, where the sea of tranquility meets the edge of twilight, lies a hidden trove of wisdom forgotten by many, coveted by those in the know. The old still holds the key to told power."

Sure its not 100% correct though

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