Hacker Papers
- 476
The Matrix Calculus You Need For Deep Learning
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2021The matrix calculus you need for deep learning (2018)
- Feb 2018The Matrix Calculus You Need For Deep Learning
- Jan 2020The Matrix Calculus You Need for Deep Learning
- Aug 2018Learning Math for Machine Learning
- Oct 2021Ask HN: As a professional, does it worth it to learn the math behind NN?
- Apr 2023Matrix Calculus: Calculate derivatives of matrices
- Jul 2023The Matrix Calculus You Need for Deep Learning
- Jan 2024Calculus on Computational Graphs: Backpropagation (2015)
- Sep 2024Ask HN: Calculus Refresher for AI/ML?
- Mar 2025Matrix Calculus (For Machine Learning and Beyond)
- 477
Learning to learn by gradient descent by gradient descent
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2016Learning to learn by gradient descent by gradient descent
- Jun 2016Learning to learn by gradient descent by gradient descent
- Jun 2016Learning to learn by gradient descent by gradient descent
- Aug 2016News Feed FYI: Further Reducing Clickbait in Feed
- Dec 2016Tool AIs want to be agent AIs
- Jan 2017Darpa Goes “Meta” with Machine Learning for Machine Learning (2016)
- Jan 2017Darpa Goes “Meta” with Machine Learning for Machine Learning (2016)
- Feb 2017The Convex Geometry of Inverse Problems [video]
- Jul 2017Hacker's guide to Neural Networks (2012)
- Oct 2019Gradient Descent: The Ultimate Optimizer
- Mar 2025Optimizing ML training with metagradient descent
- 478
Astronomical engineering: a strategy for modifying planetary orbits
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2019Ask HN: What would it take to move the Earth out of its orbit?
- Mar 2021The future lifespan of Earth’s oxygenated atmosphere
- Aug 2021Why does it take so long to get to Mercury?
- Jan 2023NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test Is a Smashing Success
- Mar 2025'More than a hint' that dark energy isn't what astronomers thought
- 479
Do Language Models Know When They're Hallucinating References?
Hacker News threads
- May 2023Do Language Models Know When They're Hallucinating References?
- Aug 2023How to Get ChatGPT to Stop Apologizing?
- Sep 2023ChatGPT can now see, hear, and speak – openai.com
- Oct 2023Llama 2 Everywhere (L2E): Standalone, Binary Portable, Bootable Llama 2
- Mar 2025AI Blindspots – Blindspots in LLMs I've noticed while AI coding
- 480
Understanding deep learning requires rethinking generalization
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2017Understanding deep learning requires rethinking generalization
- Dec 2018Understanding deep learning requires rethinking generalization
- Aug 2020Understanding Deep Learning Requires Re-Thinking Generalization (2017)
- Dec 2016LSTM Neural Networks for Time Series Prediction
- May 2017Deep Learning’s Impact on Image Processing, Mathematics, and Humanity
- Jan 2018Cloud AutoML: Making AI accessible to every business
- Oct 2018The Mixed Track Record of Machine Learning Algorithms
- Feb 2020A popular self-driving car dataset is missing labels for hundreds of pedestrians
- Mar 2021Understanding deep learning requires rethinking generalization
- May 2024Gradient descent visualization
- Mar 2025Deep Learning Is Not So Mysterious or Different
- 481
Resurrecting Recurrent Neural Networks for Long Sequences
Hacker News threads
- 482
Troubling Trends in Machine Learning Scholarship
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2019Troubling trends in machine learning scholarship (2018)
- Jul 2018Troubling Trends in Machine Learning Scholarship
- Sep 2019A.I. researchers are making more than $1M, even at a nonprofit
- Oct 2020AI Is an Ideology, Not a Technology
- Sep 2024Why Most Published Research Findings Are False (2005)
- Mar 2025The cultural divide between mathematics and AI
- 483
Category theory for scientists (Old version)
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2019Category Theory for Scientists (2018) [pdf]
- May 2013Category theory for scientists
- Mar 2025Category theory for scientists (Old version)
- Jul 2013Monads Made Difficult
- Nov 2014A Categorical Manifesto (1991) [pdf]
- Dec 2014Category Theory by Tom LaGatta
- Feb 2021Ask HN: What mathematical background do I need to understand category theory?
- 484
Undecidability of the Spectral Gap (full version)
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2015Quantum mechanics is undecidable ()
- Dec 2015A first for physics: Fundamental quantum physics problem proved unsolvable
- Dec 2015A first for physics: Fundamental quantum physics problem proved unsolvable
- Jun 2016Physicists discover an infinite number of quantum speed limits
- Nov 2023How Gödel's Proof Works (2020)
- Mar 2025'Next-Level' Chaos Traces the True Limit of Predictability
- 485
Semi-Supervised Learning with Ladder Networks
Hacker News threads
- 486
Deep Learning Recommendation Model for Personalization and Recommendation Systems
Hacker News threads
- 487
Engineering Record And Replay For Deployability: Extended Technical Report
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2020Engineering Record and Replay(rr) for Deployability Extended Technical Report
- May 2017Engineering Record and Replay for Deployability: Extended Technical Report
- Nov 2018rr: lightweight recording and deterministic debugging
- Nov 2018rr: lightweight recording and deterministic debugging
- Nov 2018rr: lightweight recording and deterministic debugging
- Nov 2019Debuggers Suck
- Jun 2022What rr does
- Jul 2024rr – record and replay debugger for C/C++
- Jul 2024rr – record and replay debugger for C/C++
- Mar 2025Show HN: CodeTracer – A time-traveling debugger implemented in Nim and Rust
- 488
A Fast x86 Implementation of Select
Hacker News threads
- 489
Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2021The End of Tesla’s Dominance May Be Closer Than It Appears
- Aug 2021Machine learning won't solve natural language understanding
- Apr 2022A few things to try with DALL·E
- Apr 2022How DALL-E 2 Works
- Mar 2024Is Cosine-Similarity of Embeddings Really About Similarity?
- Aug 2024Artists score major win in copyright case against AI art generators
- Jan 2025Don't use cosine similarity carelessly
- Mar 2025Ask HN: Any truly multi-modal transformer architectures?
- 490
Transformers learn in-context by gradient descent
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2022Transformers learn in-context by gradient descent
- Jan 2023Do Large Language Models learn world models or just surface statistics?
- Feb 2023ChatGPT Hype Is Proof Nobody Understands AI
- Apr 2023Teaching ChatGPT to Speak My Son’s Invented Language
- Apr 2023GPT-4 gets a B on my quantum computing final exam
- Mar 2025ARC-AGI without pretraining
- 491
Quantum Theory From Five Reasonable Axioms
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2015Quantum Theory from Five Reasonable Axioms (2001)
- Oct 2019Quantum Theory from Five Reasonable Axioms
- Aug 2010Quantum Theory From Five Reasonable Axioms
- Mar 2013Pilot waves: oil droplets model quantum behavior
- Sep 2014Quantum mechanics as a generalization of probability (2007)
- Aug 2017Deep Learning and Quantum Entanglement [pdf]
- Feb 2018You thought quantum mechanics was weird: check out entangled time
- Sep 2021Category Theory Illustrated – Logic
- Oct 2021Physicists take a key step in correcting quantum computer errors
- Dec 2023Schrödinger equation emerges mathematically from classical mechanics (2012)
- Mar 2025Math That Matters: The Case for Probability over Polynomials
- 492
Hyena Hierarchy: Towards Larger Convolutional Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2023Hyena Hierarchy: Towards Larger Convolutional Language Models
- Apr 2023Hyena a more efficient convolutional LLM when compared to GPT
- Mar 2023Hyena Hierarchy: Towards Larger Convolutional Language Models
- Mar 2023CoLT5: Faster Long-Range Transformers With Conditional Computation
- Apr 2023From Deep to Long Learning
- Apr 2023From Deep to Long Learning
- Apr 2023Stability AI Launches the First of Its StableLM Suite of Language Models
- Apr 2023New technology could blow away GPT-4 and everything like it
- May 2023OpenAI's plans according to sama
- Sep 2023The Eleuther AI Mafia
- Feb 2025The FFT Strikes Back: An Efficient Alternative to Self-Attention
- 493
Efficiently Modeling Long Sequences with Structured State Spaces
Hacker News threads
- 494
Counting Immutable Beans: Reference Counting Optimized for Purely Functional Programming
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2019Counting Immutable Beans: Reference Counting for Purely Functional Programming
- Dec 2020A Review of the Lean Theorem Prover
- Feb 2021A simple ray tracer in Lean 4
- Jul 2022Reference count, don't garbage collect
- Sep 2022Ask HN: Is Clojure Dead?
- Jun 2023Microsoft Research: Fully In-Place Functional Programming [pdf]
- Oct 2023Lean4 helped Terence Tao discover a small bug in his recent paper
- Nov 2023HN thread 38359488
- Feb 2025Neut Programming Language
- 495
Are Delayed Issues Harder to Resolve? Revisiting Cost-to-Fix of Defects throughout the Lifecycle
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2017Revisiting Cost-To-Fix of Defects Throughout the Lifecycle
- Apr 2019Are Delayed Issues Harder to Resolve? [pdf]
- Sep 2017The Cost of Skipping TDD and Code Reviews (2016)
- Sep 2017The Cost of Skipping TDD and Code Reviews (2016)
- Jul 2021The “bugs are 100x more expensive to fix in production” study might not exist
- Feb 2025Clean Code vs. A Philosophy Of Software Design
- 496
Computational capacity of the universe
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2007Computational capacity of the universe
- Feb 2015Computational capacity of the universe (2001)
- Jul 2010Computational capacity of the universe
- Aug 2007Computational Capacity of the Universe [PDF]
- Mar 2010A Turing Machine in the Classic Style
- Mar 2016How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Really Need?
- Oct 2023BB(3, 3) is Hard
- Oct 2023Find the date of your birthday in the number pi
- 497
Your Classifier is Secretly an Energy Based Model and You Should Treat it Like One
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2020Score matching with Langevin Sampling: a new contender to GANs
- Sep 2020Show HN: Build a DIY license plate reader with machine learning
- Mar 2021Understanding deep learning requires rethinking generalization
- Aug 2024A new type of neural network is more interpretable
- Aug 2024Fun times with energy-based models
- Feb 2025Softmax forever, or why I like softmax
- 498
That Chip Has Sailed: A Critique of Unfounded Skepticism Around AI for Chip Design
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2024That Chip Has Sailed: Critique of Unfounded Skepticism Around AI for Chip Design
- Nov 2024A Critique of Unfounded Skepticism Around AI for Chip Design
- Nov 2024AI Alone Isn't Ready for Chip Design
- Nov 2024AI Alone Isn't Ready for Chip Design
- Dec 2024Jeff Dean responds to EDA industry about AlphaChip
- Dec 2024Jeff Dean responds to EDA industry about AlphaChip
- Feb 2025Accelerating scientific breakthroughs with an AI co-scientist
- 499
SLIDE : In Defense of Smart Algorithms over Hardware Acceleration for Large-Scale Deep Learning Systems
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2020Smart Algorithms beat Hardware Acceleration for Large-Scale Deep Learning
- Mar 2019In Defense of Smart Algorithms over Hardware Acceleration for Deep Learning
- Mar 2020Slide: In Defense of Smart Algorithms over Hardware Accelerated Deep Learning
- Mar 2020Deep Learning Breakthrough Sees One Xeon Destroying 8x Nvidia Tesla V100 GPUs
- Dec 2020Researchers propose faster, more efficient alternatives to backpropagation
- Apr 2021CPU-based algorithm trains deep neural nets up to 15 times faster than top GPU
- Apr 2021CPU-based algorithm trains deep neural nets up to 15 times faster than top GPU
- Aug 2021pHash – An open source perceptual hash library (2013)
- Oct 2021New features coming in Julia 1.7
- Feb 2022Two sparsities are better than one: Performance of sparse-sparse networks
- Feb 2025(Ab)using general search algorithms on dynamic optimization problems (2023)
- 500
A Tutorial Introduction to the Lambda Calculus
Hacker News threads
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