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pk-protect-ai··on Transformer Transformer: A Unified Model for Motion-Conditioned Robot Co-Design
Amazing job guys. You've just created a base for robotic auto-evolution.

Now we need a model with a sole purpose of improving itself (procreation) and it's mobile platform. For the later this framework can be used. We need another model which will then do full CAD spec for each iteration and small automated factory which will implement this all in hardware ...

pk-protect-ai··on Gemini 3
It is pointless to ask an LLM to draw an ASCII unicorn these days. Gemini 3 draws one of these (depending on the prompt):

https://www.ascii-art.de/ascii/uvw/unicorn.txt

However, it is amazing how far spatial comprehension has improved in multimodal models.

I'm not sure the below would be properly displayed on HN; you'll probably need to cut and paste it into a text editor.

Prompt: Draw me an ASCII world map with tags or markings for the areas and special places.

Temperature: 1.85

Top-P 0.98

Answer: Edit (replaced with URL) https://justpaste.it/kpow3

pk-protect-ai··on New analog chip capable of outperforming top-end GPUs by as much as 1000x
It is very difficult to scale digital-analog hybrids, because of amount of DAC-ADC components required.
pk-protect-ai··on People with blindness can read again after retinal implant and special glasses
It actually does not not matter what you see. You can't see UV, and it harms your eyes. What you need is a protection from UV band, and that is exactly what your eye can't see.
pk-protect-ai··on People with blindness can read again after retinal implant and special glasses
Glass protects from UV bellow 350nm, which leaves 350nm-400nm band open. So additional coating is required. I might be wrong but such factors as glass thickness and the radiation intensity should be also accounted for. Every physical object is mostly an empty space ...
pk-protect-ai··on Steve Jobs and Cray-1 to be featured on 2026 American Innovations $1 coin
Why not Wozniak (probably still alive), or Shannon (I'd vote for him), Convey, Knut, Reed, Solomon, Thompson, Ritchie, Kernighan, etc?

Why it is a CEO? Why Jobs and Edison?

It is just how it is...

pk-protect-ai··on NIST's DeepSeek "evaluation" is a hit piece
This kind of BS is exactly what they targeting at. Tailoring BS into "report" with no evidence or reference and then let the ones like you defend it. Just because you already afraid or want others to be afraid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omc37TvHN74

pk-protect-ai··on Suno Studio, a Generative AI DAW
One practical question. Is it still as noisy as it was in v3.5?
pk-protect-ai··on Claim: GPT-5-pro can prove new interesting mathematics
How about "bias vector space"?
pk-protect-ai··on U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel
Atlas Shrugged ...
pk-protect-ai··on Mark Zuckerberg's vision for humanity is terrifying
I still don't understand how the general public trusts anything the media says or what the general public says...

Critical thinking is not what most of the population is taught.

Meta being Meta is nothing surprising. Why do people even bother using Instagram and Facebook?

pk-protect-ai··on Porn site traffic plummets as UK age verification rules enforced
What are they going to do with this amount of freed hands now????
pk-protect-ai··on Porn site traffic plummets as UK age verification rules enforced
Do you suggest that there are not enough sexual assaults with this statement?
pk-protect-ai··on Techno-feudalism and the rise of AGI: A future without economic rights?
Looking at the big ugly bill, there will be no way for a progressive taxation or other kind of social improvements.
pk-protect-ai··on AI note takers are flooding Zoom calls as workers opt to skip meetings
You might be right.
pk-protect-ai··on AI note takers are flooding Zoom calls as workers opt to skip meetings
Excellent, this all can be written, thought over and discussed in written form. I do not see how this all requires a meeting.
pk-protect-ai··on AI note takers are flooding Zoom calls as workers opt to skip meetings
That's the thing, these meetings are B.S. Engineers need a task, time to think, and write about the solution and its cost. Period. Talking in a room full of people who love to hear their own voices and love to stroke their egos does not actually help engineers do their job. When engineers need to communicate, they communicate with their colleagues. There are tools for such communications that do not require talking and immediate responses. Being reactive (which is what meetings enforce you to do) costs more, as reactive and forced responses will be far more technically unsound.
pk-protect-ai··on Huawei releases an open weight model trained on Huawei Ascend GPUs
Do you mean this one?

https://blog.lambdaclass.com/introducing-demo-decoupled-mome...

pk-protect-ai··on Learn you Galois fields for great good (2023)
I would not agree that the use of Galois Fields in Reed-Solomon code requires a background in Abstract Algebra. For what it's worth, decades ago, studying Galois Fields for Reed-Solomon code opened my eyes to the fact that you can create your own algebra... I'll never forget that "wow" moment. But being mathematically illiterate, I never found a reason to create my own algebra for any application. :)
pk-protect-ai··on Show HN: High End Color Quantizer
Oh, there are still several use cases to consider. It is still related to compression pretty much and there some niche non-obvious use cases for this quantization.
pk-protect-ai··on Show HN: High End Color Quantizer
I looked for pytorch native implementation for Xiaolin Wu's quantizer like 3 month ago, and found none. Would not it be much easier and more productive to integrate with pytorch? Some of the functionality which you have there is already provided by kornia, torch_kmeans. You'll end up with much less code to worry about.
pk-protect-ai··on Microsoft blocked the email account of Chief Prosecutor of the ICC
Now this happens in US too... ICC must use its own mail servers. Actually any government or international organization must use its own infrastructure. Dependency on any 3rd party is an attack vector.
pk-protect-ai··on Absolute Zero: Reinforced Self-Play Reasoning with Zero Data
Wow, so empty here, and it was 3 days ago... I wonder why?

I have a question if someone can answer. On github they are stating 8x80GB for 14B models but I found no information on how long this fine-tuning takes?

Given the toolchain, it probably takes significant time.

Another question wouldn't it be fun to hijack the training loop with some tasks set by humans? Would it improve results or opposite?

I wonder if at some point all tasks will degrade to the "uh-oh moment" tasks, which will be most complex and perplexing with no actual productive yield?

pk-protect-ai··on Maybe Zelenskiy Should Be Writing the Art of the Deal
Am I wrong or this agreement is about nothing which is not already covered by international laws and investment practices?
pk-protect-ai··on Whistleblower: DOGE Siphoned NLRB Case Data
How do you stop kleptocracy from destroying democracy? The USA is an authoritarian country de facto now, though there should be a lot of rail-guards, which should prevent this from happening ... Nobody cares?
pk-protect-ai··on Defold: cross-platform game engine
Looking into the code ... Wow ... This is not C++, it is C with classes ... https://github.com/defold/defold/blob/dev/engine/dlib/src/dm... Any reasons to use these wrappers instead of modern C++ capabilities?
pk-protect-ai··on Neutron Stars Hint at Another Dimension
God, so many words to cover only one phrase with a "possible hint" at an extra mass coming from imaginary source ...
pk-protect-ai··on CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in sheep
No way. I still remember "spherical horses in a vacuum".
pk-protect-ai··on When the physicists need burner phones, that's when you know America's changed
Wait... Trump did it, and he violates the constitution every day since he took office... The democrats and republicans are irrelevant already. He and those money behind him, already changing the government. Do I get it wrong?
pk-protect-ai··on Tencent's 'Hunyuan-T1'–The First Mamba-Powered Ultra-Large Model
Unfortunately I can't. I closed the chat a while ago. It was kinda long conversation, in which I convinced the model to abandon its role first. As side effect the "thinking" switched to Chinese and I stopped to understand what it "thinks" and the excerpt I posted above was the last answer in this conversation. I would not trust any number in this response, thus there is no point in any reference.
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