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Three Six Mafia – Data about "6/6/6 dating" (2024)
Article URL: https://divingintheshallowend.com/three-six-mafia/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49181678 Points: 69 # Comments: 35
When Attention Goes Blind: Numerical Failure in ALiBi Positional Encodings
We identify a previously overlooked failure mode of ALiBi positional encoding: its linear bias scaling underflows floating-point precision, which zeroes out a large fraction of attention…
Multi-Task Multi-Frame Visual Piano Transcription
Audio-based piano transcription performs well on onset, pitch, and velocity, but the sustain pedal lets sound persist long after key release, so audio systems predict pedal-extended…
The Fish Who Could Not Imagine Air
Article URL: https://www.novaspivack.com/essays/the-fish-who-could-not-imagine-air Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49181645 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Should Researchers Write Papers for AI Instead of People?
This May, 37 researchers from roughly two dozen top universities and tech companies published a paper on ArXiv, arguing that scientists should stop writing papers. Why?…
Qwen Developers’ responses from their recent Twitter/X AMA
Questions & Responses(in BOLD) below. Favorite question(s) moved to end of the thread with combined responses(removed duplicates). Be optimistic folks. I'm sure we're getting other models…
Why the Legendary Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI
Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-the-legendary-erdos-problems-are-falling-to-ai-20260803/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49181519 Points: 48 # Comments: 23
RT Yann LeCun: Re Launching something new with Shaun Johnson and Oriol Vinyals: A deeply technical VC firm focused on early stage AI startups. My main…
RT Yann LeCunRe Launching something new with Shaun Johnson and Oriol Vinyals: A deeply technical VC firm focused on early stage AI startups.My main gigs are…
The goalposts are shrouded, not moving
Alice: Are there any examples of X? Bob: Here. Alice: Okay, but are there any examples of X'? Bob: Yes, here. Alice: That has feature Y,…
Could psilocybin be the key to treating anorexia?
Article URL: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/psilocybin-could-kick-start-anorexia-recovery-early-results-suggest/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49181419 Points: 13 # Comments: 11
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vendor : apply patches for subprocess.h (#26606) Website: https://llama.app macOS/iOS: macOS Apple Silicon (arm64) macOS Apple Silicon (arm64, KleidiAI enabled) DISABLED macOS Intel (x64) iOS XCFramework…
RT Pi: DeepSeek V4 Flash is Ollama's fastest growing model ever in token usage, and the most popular model on OpenRouter this week. It’s available in…
RT PiDeepSeek V4 Flash is Ollama's fastest growing model ever in token usage, and the most popular model on OpenRouter this week.It’s available in Pi across…
Help (re)start AI Safety at UPenn!
(Cross-posted to EA Forum)Rhone and I, both rising sophomores, are restarting Penn's AI Safety group, which was quite active until late 2024. Please join us, or…
Polling shows a growing political reckoning is coming for data centers
Article URL: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/21/poll-data-centers-democrats-moratorium-01001799 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49181191 Points: 9 # Comments: 7
Google Assistant will disappear from your phone next month
Google Assistant's days have been numbered ever since Gemini arrived on the scene, and its time is now up. Google has announced that it will be…
RT shaunbjohnson: Re https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-05/yann-lecun-joins-new-ai-investing-firm-224-ventures
RT shaunbjohnsonRe https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-05/yann-lecun-joins-new-ai-investing-firm-224-ventures
SDK regeneration (#833)
SDK regeneration (#833) * [fern-generated] Update SDK Generated by Fern CLI Version: unknown Generators: - fernapi/fern-python-sdk: 4.64.1 * [fern-replay] Applied customizations Patches applied (1): - patch-560b8934:…
Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking
Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/a-civilian-plane-crashed-in-new-mexico-was-the-militarys-tech-to-blame/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49181099 Points: 81 # Comments: 18
Are the Financial Reasoning from LLMs Credible? A Real World Test over Long-Horizon Statements
Do Large Language Models (LLMs) possess genuine structural reasoning, or merely rely on surface-level pattern matching? The financial domain, demanding numerical precision and multi-step logic over…
Position: LLMs Can't Jump
Article URL: https://openreview.net/challenge?redirect=%2Fforum%3Fid%3DklU4737opt Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49181083 Points: 30 # Comments: 11
RT shaunbjohnson: http://x.com/i/article/2084949271585927168
RT shaunbjohnsonhttp://x.com/i/article/2084949271585927168
AI makes weather prediction better. Can WindBorne make it lucrative?
WindBorne Systems has raised $37 million Series B round to scale its weather balloons and AI forecasts.
I updated my localy run benchmark with DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
It's the purple cluster on the top left (the good corner...) I'm running the MXFP4 version from Bartoswski with Dspark at 1K t/s prefill and 90…