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rossant commented on An interactive guide to SVG paths   joshwcomeau.com/svg/inter... · Posted by u/joshwcomeau
kevg123 · 3 days ago
Anything by Josh is gold.
rossant · 2 days ago
Great article, but the entire website is excellent too. Definitely worth exploring.
rossant commented on The value of hitting the HN front page   mooreds.com/wordpress/arc... · Posted by u/mooreds
rossant · 4 days ago
My blog post reached #1 on HN two years ago. The 1000+ comments were extremely interesting and encouraging. I learned a lot and engaged in highly insightful discussions. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37650402
rossant commented on LLMs tell bad jokes because they avoid surprises   danfabulich.medium.com/ll... · Posted by u/dfabulich
monstertank · 7 days ago
This post got me wondering, so I asked chatgpt for jokes about hackernews as if made by various comedians...I laughed at one or two /shrug

Bill Hicks (angry truth-telling prophet)

"Hacker News is where ideas go to die. Not because they’re bad — but because 400 anonymous software prophets decided they’re God. And God doesn’t code, man."

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Bill Burr (ranty everyman, annoyed at everything)

"I went on Hacker News once. Jesus. It’s like walking into a bar where everyone’s smarter than you, but still somehow an idiot. ‘Actually, you should’ve used Rust.’ Actually, you should shut the hell up, Todd."

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Louis C.K. (brutal honesty, self-deprecation)

"I asked Hacker News if my startup idea was good. And they said, ‘No, because you’re an idiot.’ And I was like… yeah, that’s fair. My idea was basically Tinder but for people who hate me. Which is… everyone."

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George Carlin (sharp language, hypocrisy calling)

"Hacker News. Don’t you love that name? Hacker. News. Two lies in two words. Nobody’s hacking, and it sure as hell ain’t news. It’s just nerds arguing over tabs and spaces like it’s the f*ing Middle East."

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Tom Segura (laid-back storyteller, dry punch)

"So my buddy posts his app on Hacker News, right? He’s all excited, like, ‘Dude, we’re gonna blow up.’ By comment three: ‘This is trash, here’s a 40-page essay why you should quit.’ He calls me crying. I’m like, yeah man, that’s the feature, not the bug."

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Jimmy Carr (short, brutal, wicked flip)

"I posted on Hacker News for feedback. They gave it to me. Turns out suicide is an option."

rossant · 6 days ago
That was... not that bad, actually.
rossant commented on Gemma 3 270M: Compact model for hyper-efficient AI   developers.googleblog.com... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
canyon289 · 10 days ago
Hi all, I built these models with a great team. They're available for download across the open model ecosystem so give them a try! I built these models with a great team and am thrilled to get them out to you.

From our side we designed these models to be strong for their size out of the box, and with the goal you'll all finetune it for your use case. With the small size it'll fit on a wide range of hardware and cost much less to finetune. You can try finetuning them yourself in a free colab in under 5 minutes

For picking a Gemma size this is a video I recorded for the 1b to 27b sizes earlier this year, 270m being the newest addition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcjrduz_YS8

Hacker News Disclaimer I really like working at Google so with that; All my opinions here are my own, I'm a researcher so I'll largely focus on technical questions, and I'll share what I can.

rossant · 10 days ago
Is it good for text translation and summarization?
rossant commented on A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (2008)   prog21.dadgum.com/29.html... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
jdsnape · 11 days ago
I wonder how it does work, I remember MS Word having a fairly decent grammar checker when I was using it in school - which predated LLMs by many years!

I suspect an LLM wouldn’t be the most optimal choice

rossant · 11 days ago
farely decent?
rossant commented on A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (2008)   prog21.dadgum.com/29.html... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
psyonity · 11 days ago
There is a chance the led is also used as a important diode in the circuit, plainly removing it can greatly reduce the lifespan of the device. (more common in cheaper products)

Adding a appropiate diode in it's place is advised.

rossant · 11 days ago
What's the physical reason for this? (elec noob here)
rossant commented on AOL to discontinue dial-up internet   nytimes.com/2025/08/11/bu... · Posted by u/situationista
neuralRiot · 12 days ago
I remember spending ONE WEEK downloading windows 98. Younger generations will never know the fun of click-and-wait and the thrill of jpgs slowly loading.
rossant · 12 days ago
I remember spending 4 hours downloading the GTA 2 demo on PC. My parents weren't happy with the phone bill later that month. But the wait was so worth it.
rossant commented on Flock Now Using AI to Report to Police If Our Movement Patterns Are "Suspicious"   aclu.org/news/national-se... · Posted by u/cyberphobe
rossant · 13 days ago
Welcome to the future. Minority Report's coming. How terrifying.
rossant commented on Fight Chat Control   fightchatcontrol.eu/... · Posted by u/tokai
rossant · 14 days ago
Sometimes, very bad things are done in the name of "child protection". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37650402

u/rossant

KarmaCake day2583September 10, 2014
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I'm Cyrille Rossant, a neuroscience researcher and software engineer at the International Brain Laboratory and University College London.

I'm interested in mathematics, scientific computing, data visualization, computer graphics, GPU programming, web applications, AI. I wrote several books on Python for scientific computing.

After a sudden personal event, I decided to devote a large portion of my research activities to the shaken baby syndrome controversy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37650402

- Website: https://cyrille.rossant.net

- Email: first name dot last name at gmail dot com

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