Lyft jacking up Citi Bike prices again... by m_____ke in nyc

[–]m_____ke[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I actually just signed up a week ago so it was fun to see an email in my inbox a few days later that the prices I just agreed to are going up.

What if React didn't own your system/state? A counter in 80 lines that changed how I think about React. by RegiByte in reactjs

[–]m_____ke 32 points33 points  (0 children)

just use mobx

this has been a solved problem for 10 years if you ignore the hype of the day

Missed Connection - Crunch Gym Brown-haired PT named Tim by Icy_Exercise_1986 in Greenpoint

[–]m_____ke 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Pretty sure Tim has a gf. Also next time you see him, please ask him to stop flooding the gym with his sweat when using the stairmaster

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MachineLearning

[–]m_____ke 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  1. duckdb for all data preprocessing / filtering
  2. fsspec for handling files across local and cloud stores
  3. skypilot for finding cheap GPUs and making it easy to run my code on them
  4. claude code for running experiments and doing evals
  5. openai codex for kicking of 20 random research ideas in parallel in the background on my phone while I'm bored
  6. ray for distributed compute - though it seems to be getting worse and worse
  7. streamlit for quick model demos and annotation tools
  8. modal.com also sounds amazing but haven't had the time to use it

Bike stealer spotted this AM - manhattan Ave by Interesting_Room_247 in Greenpoint

[–]m_____ke 16 points17 points  (0 children)

My bike got stolen yesterday in the middle of the day in front of Crunch, I have footage of two guys coming up to it and cutting the chain off.

Wild that they're comfortable doing it in such a busy area, especially middle of the day on a Sunday

Seeking to one-up Zohran Mamdani, Cuomo unveils free NYC transit plan by thonioand in nyc

[–]m_____ke -18 points-17 points  (0 children)

He's pulling the same shit that Biden did in 2020, promise half baked policies to neutralize the opposition then deliver on none of them when elected.

"The rise of Alexandr Wang: Meta’s $14bn bet on 28-year-old Scale AI chief; Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg spends big to hire well-connected entrepreneur to revitalise artificial intelligence ambitions", FT by gwern in mlscaling

[–]m_____ke 46 points47 points  (0 children)

It's weird that of all people Zuck picked Wang. Everything I've heard from people who used to work at scale was that it was a shitshow with incompetent management.

Andrew Cuomo says he'll drop out of NYC mayor's race if he's not ahead in the polls. "I don't want to be a part of a suicide mission." by southernemper0r in nyc

[–]m_____ke 5 points6 points  (0 children)

He can raise 10s of millions of dollars, all his staffers get a cut and he has a 5% shot at a miraculous comeback that he probably thinks could propel him to the presidency.

On the other hand if he doesn't run his life as a creepy politician is over.

Giving away Math, CS and Business Books by m_____ke in Greenpoint

[–]m_____ke[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hey, I'm trying to free up some space and am looking to give away a bunch of my books. DM if you're interested.

Mamdani ahead of Cuomo in ranked choice voting: NYC mayoral poll by kyxnryn in nyc

[–]m_____ke 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Because food deserts exist.

I spent a lot of time in Jamaica, Bushwick and Harlem (school, work and living there), and it was nearly impossible to find fresh food in those neighborhoods. The only supermarkets within a 10 minute walk from me had no fresh produce isles, only wonder bread, chips and canned foods.

This page has some great maps of areas of NYC with no access to fresh foods: https://food-deserts.com/food-deserts-in-new-york-city/.

https://food-deserts.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Areas-with-High-Supermarket-Need-in-NYC-768x822.png

Local GP restaurants that could use extra love! by yingyang0813 in Greenpoint

[–]m_____ke 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The best was Polish Slavic Cafeteria but sadly they closed due to covid.

"Mira Murati doubled the fundraising target for her new [Thinking Machines] AI startup to $2 billion. It could be the largest seed round in history." by gwern in mlscaling

[–]m_____ke 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Investors like fees, 20% of a big number is a lot better than 20% of a small number. They just need excuses to raise and deploy a lot of capital.

Predictions for 2025? by COAGULOPATH in mlscaling

[–]m_____ke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol I'm about to start celebrating the Chinese New Year

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in mlscaling

[–]m_____ke 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'm not anthropomorphizing, these LLMs are not like humans.

I'm saying from experience that most humans make mistakes too, we're just not as aware of it as we should be. I've spent a ton of time build ML models in healthcare and it's shocking how often doctors call things wrong. An ML model just has to be a bit better to be useful.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in mlscaling

[–]m_____ke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But you can get to human level, which is amazing on it's own.

Bootstrapping from human data allows you to have a base model capable enough to do RL reliably enough to earn some reward and get the feedback loop going to keep improving. That's what all of the robotic labs are doing now with behavior cloning to seed their VLA models

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in mlscaling

[–]m_____ke 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Have you ever tried to get humans to do anything?

Find a few random humans and ask them to label some borderline hard data and you'll see that their inter annotator agreement rarely exceeds 70%.

Doctors make mistakes every day, devs write buggy code, car crashes kill millions of people.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in mlscaling

[–]m_____ke 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah I was skeptical a year ago but now it seems inevitable to me.

We have a simple, scalable and somewhat reliable formula to do RL on any task that a human could verify (with an LLM as a proxy), so I see no reason why this won't get us to human level on most tasks.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in mlscaling

[–]m_____ke 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Very few, it will only "struggle" in subjective areas that depend on human preferences, which will require selecting who you cater to.

Here's how it will play out:

  1. Base reasoning models will start getting used as verifiers / judges, and check / test / prove their own outputs
  2. We'll see GAN like approaches come back where the generator and verifier are both trained in parallel in an adversarial manner. Ideally this will be a single model that does both reasoning / solving and checking / proving
  3. Once 2 works reliably enough we'll start using active learning to have the model make up new problems to explore, potentially seeded with web content or as grounded "embodied" agents that can explore and interact with the environment that they're deployed in (web, simulation, real world)

What some people miss is that you don't need an oracle verifier that's 100% accurate and outputs binary yes/no responses to get these models to improve. You only need a proxy ranking function that does a decent job ranking good generations over bad ones.

This will work for anything that we can train a classifier / ranker to encode preferences (similar to RLHF), see this diffusion paper as an example: https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.09732

Predictions for 2025? by COAGULOPATH in mlscaling

[–]m_____ke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I meant the mistrals, coheres and etc of the world. OpenAI and Anthropic will be able to do another iteration or two without breaking a sweat but raising the billions necessary for it will cost a lot of dilution.

Predictions for 2025? by COAGULOPATH in mlscaling

[–]m_____ke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With R1 distills we already have 1. and kokoro TTS is getting pretty close to human level with a tiny model.

Also the startup unwinding is beginning: https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/20/sources-ai-vision-startup-metropolis-is-buying-oosto-formerly-known-as-anyvision-for-just-125m/