jballanc

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AI Is Not Alive Yet(manhattanmetric.com)
4 points by jballanc 23d ago|0 comments
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by jballanc 25d ago
terminal-code has been replaced by a shell script which 1) Generates a syslog message at level LOG_EMERG; 2) reduces the user's disk quota by 100K; and 3) RUNS ED!!!!!! (adapted from the venerable "Ed, man! !man ed": https:&
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by jballanc 2mo ago
When I was in graduate school, I was doing a lot of molecular dynamics simulations, but I did not have access to a lot of high-performance hardware. The math department had a 4-node Cray that was impossible to reserve time on, and the CS de
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by jballanc 2mo ago
This is almost certainly what it was. Wiki even has a photo of the USS Gerald Ford undergoing blast tests off of Ponce Inlet, and mentions that it registered as a M3.9 quake: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Gerald_R._
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Adaptive Low-Rank Transformer with Dynamic Expert Routing for Continual Learning(zenodo.org)
3 points by jballanc 3mo ago|0 comments
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by jballanc 4mo ago
I've been working on RVW, my adaptation of the standard transformer model that is capable of online continual learning without catastrophic forgetting. I finally published the first pre-print of my early experiments: https:/&#x2F
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Show HN: RVW – A transformer model capable of online continual learning(zenodo.org)
1 points by jballanc 4mo ago|0 comments
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by jballanc 5mo ago
IIRC, there was always a way to filter out certain messages (or that may be an alt.org customization, but it's been a part of my config file for a while now).
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by jballanc 5mo ago
For real! Valkyrie is the perfect "just bash things while only half paying attention" class. Great for when I'm playing to unwind (as opposed to playing as a challenge to myself). At least there's still Samurai.
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by jballanc 5mo ago
I think Douglas Adams had one of the best quotes regarding observing infinity: "Infinity itself looks flat and uninteresting. Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity – distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningle
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by jballanc 5mo ago
It's been a while since I worked at Apple, but back in the day the entire OS X Server team made extensive use of kerberized NFS shares for moving around large files... ...the last version of Server shipped in 2021 (and the last real
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by jballanc 5mo ago
My first job after finishing my undergrad degree was performing quality analysis on corn starch. As a condition of employment, I had to sign a paper saying anything I invented related to corn was property of my employer.
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by jballanc 5mo ago
It's been more than a few years since I worked at Apple, but they were always unique in the tech space in that their retail division dwarfed headcount. If I recall correctly all of OS X Lion was produced by around 3,000 engineers (and
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by jballanc 5mo ago
No public repo yet, but coming soon. Just filed for a patent on the technique and am preparing a paper. Posted the first figure I have for the paper here: https://dev.to/jballanc/what-would-you-do-with-an-ai-model-c...
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by jballanc 5mo ago
I've been working on an ML model capable of robust continuous learning, resistant to catastrophic forgetting without relying on replay, an external memory system, or unbounded parameter growth. Last week I confirmed the first non-toy,
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by jballanc 5mo ago
We need benchmarks that can distinguish between continuous learning and long-context extrapolation.
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Ask HN: What would you do with an AI model capable of continuous learning?
4 points by jballanc 5mo ago|6 comments
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Ask HN: Why don't frontier AI model providers continuously improve their models?
1 points by jballanc 5mo ago|1 comments
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by jballanc 5mo ago
Based on what you've already mentioned, there's a good chance you're familiar, but on the off chance you're not: "Funkungfusion" (or, really, anything off the Ninja Tune label) might be right up your alley.
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by jballanc 6mo ago
Eh, I'm not so sure it'll be that big a deal. The whole supply chain is so twisted and tangled all the way up and down. Shuffling out one piece doesn't seem like it will, on its own, be so major. Samsung made the chips for th
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by jballanc 6mo ago
Fun fact about that cannon: it took so long for the cannon to cool off between shots that the Byzantines were able to patch each hole it caused before the next shot.
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The Singularity Is Coming(manhattanmetric.com)
2 points by jballanc 6mo ago|0 comments
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by jballanc 6mo ago
Thanks for the pointer! Definitely looks interesting...
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Ask HN: Where should an independent researcher publish work on ML?
2 points by jballanc 6mo ago|2 comments
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by jballanc 6mo ago
I exited academia for industry 15 years ago, and since then I haven't had nearly as much time to read review papers as I would like. For that reason, my view may be a bit outdated, but one thing I remember finding incredibly useful abo
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Show HN: Vibe – a language for humans and AI to reason about programs together(vibe-lang.org)
2 points by jballanc 6mo ago|0 comments
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LLMs – How did they get so good?(manhattanmetric.com)
1 points by jballanc 6mo ago|0 comments
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LLMs – What aren't they good for?(manhattanmetric.com)
5 points by jballanc 6mo ago|1 comments
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by jballanc 6mo ago
You can always check his entry on the Mathematics Genealogy Project: https://mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=45760
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ChatGPT Told Me to Go Work for Anthropic(manhattanmetric.com)
4 points by jballanc 6mo ago|1 comments

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