E-Reverance's comments

On: Reproducing DeepSeek's MHC: When Residual Connections Explode

[E-Reverance]

> Residual connections are more than a trick to help gradients flow. They’re a conservation law.

> Not a hack, not a trick. A principled constraint that makes the architecture work at scale.

[jszymborski → E-Reverance]

OK, I thought I was reading too much into it but those same sentences also jumped out for me

[roywiggins → jszymborski]

pangram thinks the whole thing was LLM generated fwiw, as dodgy as AI detectors are it is probably among the best. I don't doubt the author started with their own text, but I think it's been substantially revised via ChatGPT

[DoctorOetker → E-Reverance]

yes this reads like classic intellectual fellicitatio

On: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

[E-Reverance]

> blowing up kids

not to refute the difference in extent but this is somewhat notable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahyan_airstrike

On: Iran Protest Map

[E-Reverance]

How was he equally brutal

On: Ask HN: Loneliness at 19, how to cope?

[E-Reverance]

I haven't tried this myself and this might be absurd, but attending PhD defences might be an interesting way to meet new people

On: Universal Reasoning Model (53.8% pass 1 ARC1 and 16.0% ARC 2)

[E-Reverance]

It should be noted that this is NOT the official scores on the private evaluation set

[viraptor → E-Reverance]

Here it matters much less than in generic LLMs though. There's no chance of test set leakage since the network is not general purpose / not trained on the internet.

On: Former DeepMind engineer (possibly) experiences LLM pyschosis

[E-Reverance]

I didn't know how to title this. I definitely don't believe his proof claims but I found this whole event to be psychologically interesting

[bigyabai → E-Reverance]

> Opus 4.5 likes it

And to think, people said peer review in academia is dead.

On: Pro-democracy HK tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted in national security trial

[E-Reverance]

One can care about both

On: Show HN: HCB Mobile – financial app built by 17 y/o, processing $6M/month

[E-Reverance]

> I do actually believe that zero teenagers should make banking apps or run non-profits.

That sounds like a lot of fun and should be a pretty social experience.

Also I'm going to assume his parents are proud, which should put his family at ease.

On: FLUX.2: Frontier Visual Intelligence

[E-Reverance]

Surprised there wasn't any mention of Equilibrium Matching [1] in the future work section

[1] https://raywang4.github.io/equilibrium_matching/

On: UBCO study disproves the simulation hypothesis

[E-Reverance]

Just for reference, the main author's stance on god : https://youtu.be/k_VBzweMIlM?t=125