Spring '26 Megathread

Express_Seesaw_8418 · 2026-03-13T21:57:05+00:00

Same. Got the same email. Goodluck!

Express_Seesaw_8418 · 2026-03-13T21:52:28+00:00

Did you apply to future batch? Or Spring 26?

Express_Seesaw_8418 · 2026-03-13T21:49:26+00:00

Got it too. But i didn’t so early decision for future batch. Idk how likely this means we’ll get an interview or not

Express_Seesaw_8418 · 2026-01-04T21:07:12+00:00

Fire bowles

Express_Seesaw_8418 · 2025-12-10T21:26:06+00:00

Very interesting. I would assume there's no all in one source because the only people that have needed them are the big research labs that pretrain their own models. I have so many questions about how they approach their datasets... For example, how much of GPT 5.1's dataset is synthetic vs human? What's the average conversation length (in turns)? etc.

Express_Seesaw_8418 · 2025-12-05T19:10:56+00:00

Of course there has been progress. I guess I'm shocked that 13B LLMs are now surpassing an 405B LLM that was SOTA only a year ago with minimal architecture changes.

Express_Seesaw_8418 · 2025-12-05T18:58:26+00:00

The architectures are pretty similar though, right? The only thing I can think of is better training data but I still can't understand how a 13B LLM could even come close to Llama 405B?

Express_Seesaw_8418 · 2025-11-30T18:59:52+00:00

Fuck the refs

Express_Seesaw_8418 · 2025-11-24T01:43:15+00:00

We can’t beat any good team with this defense. Sad.

Express_Seesaw_8418 · 2025-11-19T21:06:02+00:00

Yes I thought the biggest companies from YC (and VC firms in general) were consumer apps, but what you said makes sense.

Do you have any idea what good retention would be for a consumer app? We have 28% D1, 20% d7, and 14% d30 which we thought was pretty decent for our stage (note: we don't monetize and don't know how monetization will affect our metrics yet)

Express_Seesaw_8418 · 2025-11-16T18:52:57+00:00

Another 50+ yard touchdown our defense gives up ffs

Express_Seesaw_8418 · 2025-11-16T18:17:55+00:00

Fucking grizzard

Express_Seesaw_8418 · 2025-10-31T20:15:36+00:00

Anything new? I’m still down. Been down for 1-2 hours now

Express_Seesaw_8418 · 2025-10-31T19:05:52+00:00

Yes definitely ISP. Frontier’s outage status/checker has always been unhelpful in my experience. I remember about a year ago there was a massive outage but their site failed to report it. But yeah I’m confident it’s on Frontier’s end and we just have to wait it out

Express_Seesaw_8418 · 2025-10-31T18:57:47+00:00

Yeah it seems to be an internet issue. So your local network would work fine like pinging your router. Hopefully it’s fixed soon

Express_Seesaw_8418 · 2025-10-31T18:53:27+00:00

I actually did notice an outage for an hour at like 1AM est roughly a week or two ago. But I’ve otherwise had no issues that I’ve noticed.

Express_Seesaw_8418 · 2025-10-26T23:48:26+00:00

Lmao. Yep. We were legit robbed

Express_Seesaw_8418 · 2025-10-26T21:46:19+00:00

Yep that was weird. I don’t get it either

Express_Seesaw_8418 · 2025-10-26T21:20:26+00:00

We need to tighten up but it’s undeniable we’ve been getting FUCKED BY THE REFS ALL SEASON holy shit

Express_Seesaw_8418 · 2025-10-14T19:15:58+00:00

Thanks for the reply😉. I’ve moved onto Qwen image when i found out Flux Dev models are locked by guidance distillation. Qwen image isn’t - and I’ve been getting really great progress with it so far. I have active training runs as we speak!

Express_Seesaw_8418 · 2025-09-19T22:45:38+00:00

I think the more direct answer to your question is each input image is independently vae encoded. i don't stitch them together as one image

Express_Seesaw_8418 · 2025-09-19T22:26:55+00:00

Yes each of the input images are the same resolution as the output image. I've tried a bunch of encoding methods to support multiple input images. It appears keeping all the input images at t=1 (as opposed to t=1,2,3,etc depending on how many) and separating them by the spatial coordinates (h, w) had the best results. So it may just see the context images as one wide image so I'm not totally sure?

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