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khalic··on Trump admin shelves Cyclospora research despite record-breaking outbreak
As explained in the article (...), they won't even have a parasitologist, and cyclospora specialists are rare.

How about you read the article and then post? Both your questions would have been answered that way. If these are bad faith arguments, then have the day you deserve.

khalic··on Trump admin shelves Cyclospora research despite record-breaking outbreak
Why did you not include the rest of the sentence in your quote?

> Although the research is still funded, insiders told Politico that not one of the scientists working on the project plans to relocate from Maryland to Iowa.

Research isn't carried out by money, but by people with experience AND money. You need both

khalic··on Trump admin shelves Cyclospora research despite record-breaking outbreak
Or they flat out want the old and vulnerable to die.
khalic··on Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
Gonna have to wait a few days to see what the wizards of the HF community come up with…
khalic··on XCancel and Nitter are receiving C&D letters from XCorp
thank you kind stranger
khalic··on XCancel and Nitter are receiving C&D letters from XCorp
no i mean a replacement for nitter and xcancel

there's still a lot of info you can only find on twitter

khalic··on RAG Is Simpler Than You Think
you won't get anything out of a whole book embedding anyway, even a structured page is too much
khalic··on Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices
Any ideas for a decentralized version of these services? Maybe something tied into the fediverse?
khalic··on Social media use on the rise among Australian under-16s after ban: data
So no, you didn't, the info comes from an app for parental surveillance. This is in no way a random sample that would be needed for reliable data

AFP is subject to the same scrutiny as others, and definitely put out some terrible pieces, badly sourced from time to time

khalic··on Social media use on the rise among Australian under-16s after ban: data
And did you check where the information comes from?
khalic··on RAG Is Simpler Than You Think
> Why this is more flexible than embeddings

Oh boy...

khalic··on iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com
Sure thing
khalic··on I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch
anytime, have fun!
khalic··on iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com
And they all sell your data
khalic··on Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded
RAMvana was right there!!
khalic··on Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded
I hate this RAMpocalypse so much
khalic··on Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded
LPDDR6... that's not enough for speedy inference
khalic··on How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
slightly off topic wouldn't you say?
khalic··on How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
https://www.bruegel.org/analysis/how-much-research-talent-co... for an analysis and https://www.euractiv.com/opinion/europes-battle-for-american...

Nothing definitive but it's still early in the exodus

khalic··on How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
> Europe's smart people are going to have to move to another country to be entrepreneurs

Watch the stats please, the contrary is happening right now, plenty of American talents coming to Europe.

khalic··on How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
Yeah there's very limited anti-tampering in HN. Grok posts are full of bots and fake votes
khalic··on How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
It's funny, because what's actually, literally killing people is pollution...
khalic··on I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch
There's far more shared concepts between them than you think.

You should check the code of both world models (JEPA class for example) and compare to GPT. Many of the tricks stay the same, representation is still embeddings, there is a loss function, etc.

The exact architecture will change, but unless there's a new discovery in that area, we've cracked the text component already. We're hitting the limits of LLMs because of the intrinsic limits of text as a medium. But the way we work with text is pretty much settled, fundamentally.

khalic··on I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch
It’s really disheartening to see how many people don’t know shit about LLMs, by reading the comments… ironic given what OP is trying to say
khalic··on I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch
lol unnecessary and inefficient…

I just finished fine tuning Gemma e2b for local code completion on my local machine.

This comment just reinforces what the post actually means. We need people that are LLM natives, computing solves itself with time and with scale adjustments

khalic··on Autolith: A programming agent with a live runtime
There are many other confounding factors here, the type of prompting, how familiar you are with the language idioms, the context you gave, random bad quality runs, etc.

You can’t tell that with a few uncontrolled runs

khalic··on Kobo can run apps now
Very cool project, will try to make it run on my device
khalic··on Show HN: 1667, a terminal UI for writing fiction with language models
I agree, and I personally don't need an Isekai generator to feel good, but who am I to tell someone else it's not ok? The thought police? The guardian of "good" distraction?

Less colloquially, is "spiritual deadening" something we should/can force people away from?

khalic··on Online clinics and influencers are promoting Cialis as a longevity drug
As usual, without double blind studies, this is playing with fire… maybe the people taking it have better health because of the extra exercise that goes with an active sex life.
khalic··on Show HN: 1667, a terminal UI for writing fiction with language models
There are some good use cases, personal fiction, etc. The issue is mostly people not disclaiming it’s AI. I can’t get mad at the tool builder. Neither can I assume the worse of every user.

That being said, I wouldn’t have published something like this because I do assume the worse.

But it’s morally wrong to assume every one lacks honesty…

Tough one

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