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sal9000··on Generative AI and the big buzz about small language models
It came earlier than Mamba. It uses hyena hierarchy blocks, which are considered SSM but not the same as Mamba.
sal9000··on Ask HN: Which are your favourite machine learning blogs?
Also Andrey Karpathy blog, http://karpathy.github.io.
sal9000··on Wish HN: Happy Holidays
Happy Holidays HN! Buon Natale.
sal9000··on Launch HN: Iona Mind (YC S21) – App-based cognitive behavioural therapy
I used Woebot for a while and was engaging, sometimes useful CBT. Wondering if you heard of it? If yes would be good to know how does your chatbot compare. I finished all content on Woebot and wouldn't mind going through more CBT with Iona Mind.
sal9000··on Experiments on a $50 DIY air purifier that takes 30s to assemble
Nice article! Which EPA filters you ended up using? Thinking of building one myself.
sal9000··on Ask HN: Will there ever be a resurgence of interest in symbolic AI?
A resurgence in interest might be already underway - check for example this very recent work from Joshua Tenenbaum's lab (MIT):

Neural-Symbolic VQA: Disentangling Reasoning from Vision and Language Understanding https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.02338

It actually brews on ideas that prof.Tenenbaum has been presenting and discussing over the past few years.

sal9000··on New Nature Journal: Nature Machine Intelligence
Nature ML journal - launching in 2019
sal9000··on Ask HN: Who are your favorite poets?
Aehm, it's "The Waste Land".
sal9000··on The Divine Comedy (1321)
Italian here - your feelings toward this book are most likely the result of our mandatory 3-year Divine Comedy classes we all had in high school. It's sad to note that most of us developed indifference - if not mild aversion - to Dante's work after that. If you have time and will, I really recommend to read this book skipping all comments, interpretations and stuff. Then most likely you'll see why people from all over the world admire his work. Dante was a poetic genius that created an entire language from scratch and pushed it in incredible directions. And yes, he truly was an uber-nerd of his time.
sal9000··on The Divine Comedy (1321)
Nice effort - although it would have been better if it had both the original and translated version side to side. Poetry of this caliber is way beyond meaning and words, and can somehow be enjoyed even with a limited understanding of the original language. I remember when, many years ago and with a very limited knowledge of English, I tried to read the original works of TS Eliot. I was blown away. The original/translated versions helped me to get started and I never looked back.

The Comedy is an unbelievable work. I read it in full in my twenties and always keep a copy with me. It would probably be my 'desert island' book if only one were allowed (plus The Four Quartets of TS Eliot, if I could take two).

sal9000··on What time is it?
Yes, http://iprl.wz.cz/ was working yesterday, but now is showing some random crap. http://iprl.wz.cz/ is really slow and framed. Please fix the first one!