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hertzdog | 3 months ago | on: Show HN: LLM Simulation – Experience TTFT and tokens/SEC before investing

Thanks! I added the check marks because when I was testing different quantizations, I often picked a model and only afterwards discovered that it couldn’t even load — it just didn’t fit into RAM or VRAM.

So the check mark simply indicates that the model can actually run under those constraints (fits in memory), not that it’s selected.

hertzdog | 8 months ago | on: A foundation model to predict and capture human cognition

[…]the model’s internal representations become more aligned with human neural activity after fine-tuning. Taken together, our results demonstrate that it is possible to discover computational models that capture human behaviour across a wide range of domains.

hertzdog | 3 years ago | on: Insulin is way too expensive. California has a solution: Make its own

Hi Eric, my name is Francesco. In the last three years we industrialized a novel method for producing biosimilar insulin (in Italy). We are an international team and I really would like to contact you. Can you write to the email you find on my profile?

hertzdog | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is one book you would recommend everyone to read?

The power of stupidity, Giancarlo Livraghi

Quite unknown, I discovered it more than 10 years ago. It is an easily and pleasantly readable book: I discovered my stupid actions, and I still use it to evaluate what I am going to do. It isn’t a survival guide or a “how to” manual, but it offers practical solutions to improve those human qualities that counteract stupidity.

hertzdog | 5 years ago | on: Entropy and Life

Entropy, energy and life was the topic of a very interesting book I read in the last two days: “why information grows” by Cesar Hidalgo. If you are interested on this topic it’s a must read!

hertzdog | 6 years ago | on: AI-generated fake content could unleash a virtual arms race

Yes. That’s the point :)

hertzdog | 6 years ago | on: AI-generated fake content could unleash a virtual arms race

I try to take a different direction. Let's suppose some ai generated content is better than human created content (IMHO we are quite there). Let's go further: maybe in the future we will trust again only some "trusted sources" (newspapers? HN?) while everything else will be not taken into account because the quality will be low (like some comments saying the source is not in the industry...).

hertzdog | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: Counting Foot Traffic Over IP Webcams

Maybe this can help :) https://github.com/thtrieu/darkflow/

hertzdog | 9 years ago | on: A look at my BBS Software from '93

Thank you for your post and thanks for all the comments... it takes me years back. Maybe a dumb question: why we all miss those days? I don't think it is only related to being young. I am convinced it is something related to a "less noise/new tools" and probably I agree about "the more constraints more creativity". Is there anybody who can better articulate or have a different vision?

hertzdog | 9 years ago | on: The last patent on AC-3 (Dolby Digital) expires at midnight

I agree with you, I have been involved in startup and patents, and the feeling was similar. I can add that patents can also be viewed as a "freedom to operate" certificate: lower chances that someone else claims you can't do what you are doing.

hertzdog | 9 years ago | on: The idea maze of personal logging (2016)

My very first (and maybe not so useful comment): I really love your approach. I was thinking something more automatic (I have some withings stuff) but you convinced me to start small and manual. Really interesting. Thank you for sharing.