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Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)

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Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)

Intelligence is a very general mental capability that, among other things, involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly and learn from experience. It is not merely book learning, a narrow academic skill, or test-taking smarts. Rather, it reflects a broader and deeper capability for comprehending our surroundings-“catching on,” “making sense” of things, or “figuring out” what to do […] Intelligence, so defined, can be measured, and intelligence tests measure it well.

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Intelligence is a very general mental capability that, among other things, involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly and learn from experience. It is not merely book learning, a narrow...

Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device

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Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device

TL;DR: I trained a 125M-parameter transformer to autocomplete piano performances in real time (~108 notes/sec on an iPhone 15). The biggest improvements came from finding the right MIDI representation, cleaning the training data aggressively, and adding DPO post-training.

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TL;DR: I trained a 125M-parameter transformer to autocomplete piano performances in real time (~108 notes/sec on an iPhone 15). The biggest improvements came from finding the right MIDI representation, cleaning the training data aggressively, and adding DPO...

Stealth Model

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Stealth Model

Ox Alpha is a reasoning model designed for coding, sustained agentic work, and production workloads. This model is free to use. 1,048,576 token context window, maximum output of 131,072 tokens.

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Ox Alpha is a reasoning model designed for coding, sustained agentic work, and production workloads. This model is free to use. 1,048,576 token context window, maximum output of 131,072 tokens. Source: openrouter.ai (51 points, 38 comments) Hacker News...

Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload

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Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload

A compromised release of the popular Rust crate arrayref pulled in a typosquatted proc-macro1 whose build script downloads and runs a remote binary at compile…

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A compromised release of the popular Rust crate arrayref pulled in a typosquatted proc-macro1 whose build script downloads and runs a remote binary at compile… Source: safedep.io (413 points, 373 comments) Hacker News discussion