TiDAR: Think in Diffusion, Talk in Autoregression
Abstract:Diffusion language models hold the promise of fast parallel generation, while autoregressive (AR) models typically excel in quality due to their causal structure aligning naturally with language modeling. This raises a fundamental question: can we achieve a synergy with high throughput, higher GPU utilization, and AR level quality? Existing methods fail to effectively balance these […]
Trellis AI (YC W24) Is Hiring: Streamline access to life-saving therapies
Trellis builds and deploys computer use agents to get patients access to life-saving medicine. Our computer-use AI agents process billions of dollars worth of therapies annually with patients in all fifty states. We do this by automating document intake, prior authorizations, and appeals at scale to streamline operations and accelerate care. We classify medical referrals, […]
Show HN: Continuous Claude – run Claude Code in a loop
Automated workflow that orchestrates Claude Code in a continuous loop, autonomously creating PRs, waiting for checks, and merging – so multi-step projects complete while you sleep. This all started because I was contractually obligated to write unit tests for a codebase with hundreds of thousands of lines of code and go from 0% to 80%+ […]
Wealth
In the human world, wealth inequality arguably has more of an impact on lives and relationships than physical differences like distance and energy. We need to have meaningful discussions about structural class differences, and segmenting the population based on wealth is an obvious starting point. Wealth, like most quantities, doesn’t need precision beyond the exponent […]
Kodak Ran a Secret Nuclear Device in Its Basement for Decades
In a secured Rochester, New York, office basement, a nuclear device the size of a fridge spent three decades quietly firing off neutrons for Eastman Kodak without a fuss. But after it was shut down and shipped away, an employee mentioned it to a reporter. Word spread, alarms rang in newsrooms, and even CNN jumped […]
Linux on the Fujitsu Lifebook U729
This post describes my experience using Linux on the Fujitsu Lifebook U729. The tl;dr is that it’s a delightful laptop, and Linux runs flawlessly, and all the hardware things I’ve needed run OOTB. The only difficulty I had was in disabling Secure Boot, but I figured out how to do it, which I explain below. […]
How to write type-safe generics in C
C is barebones and “doesn’t support” generics, but it’s actually quite easy to implement with the tools we already have. There’s many ways you might find them being implemented in the wild. Some of the common ones are: Using function-like macros #define vector_push(vector, item) vector.buf[vector.idx++] = item; Con: This will cause everything to be inlined […]
Scientists now know that bees can process time, a first in insects
Bumblebees can process the duration of flashes of light and use the information to decide where to look for food, a new study has found. This is the first evidence of such an ability in insects, according to doctoral student Alex Davidson and his supervisor Elisabetta Versace, a senior lecturer in psychology at Queen Mary […]
My stages of learning to be a socially normal person
a slow progression The other day, someone told me, “I can’t imagine you ever being awkward with people.” And I thought, oh God, yes, say it to me again, again, put it in my veins. Tell me I’m a natural performer. There are no sweeter words. Because of course the absolute opposite is true. I’ve […]
WebAssembly from the Ground Up
Patrick is a programmer and independent researcher based in Munich, Germany. He’s a co-creator and the primary maintainer of Ohm, a user-friendly parsing toolkit for JavaScript. At the beginning of his career, he spent four years working on the J9 Java VM at IBM. Since then, he’s worked at companies like Google (on Chrome and […]