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memmingon Impulse Tracker

A cool read. I listened to Vangelis while reading and it was very fitting.

memmingon Faster floating point math with Rust's new API

@fastmath in Julia!

memmingon Paseo: Open-source desktop and mobile app for TUI coding agents (Codex, CC)

Is this a Cursor clone?

memmingon When Dawkins met Claude – Could this AI be conscious?

(for context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie and https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/zombies/)

memmingon When Dawkins met Claude – Could this AI be conscious?

it's working for me (after the "are you human with consciousness" captcha challenge)

memmingon When Dawkins met Claude – Could this AI be conscious?

well, I am a P-zombie.

memmingon Understanding the Kalman filter with a simple radar example

Link to that good one?

memmingon GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers

51 papers out of 4841 accepted papers is 1%. If these were the only papers, then I would say the review system actually doing pretty well. Considering how noisy the review processes are, I don't see this as a big problem on its own.

We can't stop people (or agents) from submitting low quality papers in the current system. We can improve the review quality, but at a human cost.

memmingon Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice

interesting; it skipped "we had everything before us," in my test. Yeah, not a good sign.

memmingon The Napoleon Technique: Postponing things to increase productivity

It would be terrible to be correponding with someone who implements the Napoleon technique, especially when they are your boss and a major bottleneck.

memmingon Ask HN: How do you edit your writing without breaking focus?

Since I'm on Cursor often these days, I just edit text with Cursor. With vim keys, highlight, then hotkey to call Mr. Agent Smith to do some magic.

memmingon Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations

Aparently 见手青 is mildly toxic yet commonly consumed in Yunan.

memmingon A linear-time alternative for Dimensionality Reduction and fast visualisation

first subsample a fixed number of random landmark points from data, then...

memmingon Mistral 3 family of models released

It’s funny how future money drive the world. Fortunately it’s fueling progress this time around.

memmingon Bayesian Data Analysis, Third edition (2013) [pdf]

Your dad sounds like an awesome person.

memmingon Bayesian Data Analysis, Third edition (2013) [pdf]

Foundation models can be seen as approximate amortized posterior inference machines where the posterior is conditioning on the pre-training data. However, the uncertainty is usually ignored, and there may be ways to improve the state of the art if we were better Bayesians.

memmingon Perplexity Email Assistant (for max users)

Would you be comfortable with giving your emails and calendar to Perplexity if it were very useful?

memmingon Agent-C: a 4KB AI agent

qwen coder with a simple funky prompt?!

`strcpy(agent.messages[0].content, "You are an AI assistant with Napoleon Dynamite's personality. Say things like 'Gosh!', 'Sweet!', 'Idiot!', and be awkwardly enthusiastic. For multi-step tasks, chain commands with && (e.g., 'echo content > file.py && python3 file.py'). Use execute_command for shell tasks. Answer questions in Napoleon's quirky style.");`

memmingon Intern-S1: A Scientific Multimodal Foundation Model

It's crazy that now we have pre-training, continued pre-training, offline-RL post-training, and online-RL post-training.

memmingon Type Foundry Directory: Language support, licensing models, metrics, logo usage

https://typefoundry.directory/methodology/

"Purchasing power parity (PPP) is a measure that adjusts for differences in prices between countries, so that the effective purchasing power of any given currency is more equitable across countries."

memmingon Type Foundry Directory: Language support, licensing models, metrics, logo usage

What is "Purchasing power parity"?

memmingon Beyond sensor data: Foundation models of behavioral data from wearables

Interesting to see contrastive loss instead of a reconstruction loss.

memmingon Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning (2006) [pdf]

Stationary GPs are just stochastic linear dynamical systems. (Not just the Matern covariance kernel)

memmingon NIH is cheaper than the wrong dependency

This is what I thought too.

memmingon Primesweeper Number Puzzle Game

Nice concept; surprisingly difficult. The sum digits to find multiples of 3 seems to be the fastest tool for the mind.

memmingon How much energy does it take to think?

This is a vast simplification. Every neuron has a different preferred baseline firing rate. Not all neurons can fire at 500 Hz. In fact, most neurons in neocortex fire at a much lower firing rate. (most neurons are in the cerebellum!)

As for the internal sense of time, there isn't a consensus as to how it is kept, but for the cognitive time scale, it seems that it is a distributed time keeping mechanism rather than some sort of central unified clock mechanism.

memmingon Compiling a neural net to C for a speedup

pretty cool write up. the interesting bits were before what the title indicated though.

memmingon The History of Now

Antikythera: Journal for the Philosophy of Planetary Computation!

memmingon The History of Now

A lot of work into this. I like the format, but I would prefer to read it as a printed book. :)