Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | llSourcell's commentslogin

I have no formal background in Physics, but I love studying Physics solo. I vibe coded this JS app in 3 hours with Anthropic's Opus 4.5 Pro using Google's Antigravity IDE.

Here's the full beginner's guide to the Quantum Vacuum: https://gist.github.com/llSourcell/15ef32987ab2f4f193a2c7be6...

Anyone else love studying Physics for fun? What part about Physics interests you the most?


lmao


no its not lower than text, its higher ROI than text for understanding the physics of the world, which is exactly what videos are better at than text when it comes to training data


Does that transfer, though? I'm not sure we can expect its ability to approximate physics in video form would transfer to any other mode (text, code, problem solving etc)


depends on the hyperparams but one of the biggest benefits of a latent space is transfer between modalities


I was at OpenAI Dev Day. I chatted with Sam, Mira, and Greg in-person. Everything seemed totally fine?? I am shocked.


he doesn't work at deepmind actually


Hey guys, it's Siraj. OpenAI asked me to make a promotional video for it on my Youtube channel and I gladly said yes! You can check it out here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGYU5t8MO7s


Nice video, but the jump from solving super simple 2d games, by feedback of binary win/lose conditions, to solving tasks in 3d open world simulations will require an un-imaginably gigantic leap in processing and knowledge. Additionally neural nets have already shown they are not sufficiently good enough at generalizing, and only work well at the specific tasks they were trained for. So the idea that an AI that can play GTA would also be able to 'solve' climate change is odd.


I'm far from an expert, but I thought the poor generalized performance of neural nets was largely associated with the complexity of the network (number of neurons, etc), and the training data.

Is there something more specific about the application of neural nets to generalized problems that makes them unsuitable?


Awesome Video! You just got yourself a new subscriber :)


very boring and predictable one. "whayyy, very cool, more, bigger, better, whayyyy".


Wow wow, Amazing!


Thank you! This was very helpful for me :)


Siraj, Ima go ahead and say that your videos have a bit of cognitive friction.

You and your personality are fine, but the jump between the intro and the payoff is jarring.

You need to hold our hand a little more ... jus' sayin'.


Glad my channel has helped you guys. I quit my job at Twilio to do this full-time. I'm on a warpath to educate and inspire the shit out of everyone. Human readable link: https://www.youtube.com/c/sirajology (I am Siraj, hi everyone)


Siraj, just watched a few of your video and it's awesome. Can you go a bit slow though? It's way too fast. I am guessing you are of Indian origin, my indian friends are very fast for me as well :-)


Protip: YouTube has a speed setting. Just click the little cogwheel thing and it should be there. I usually use it to bump up slow talks a bit, but I'm assuming it works just as well to slow things down.


Me too. I almost always speed up the video (due to my impatience) on Youtube. I usually find many videos too slow . The downside is that I can't do that in real life, where I want to increase the speed of the speakers at a live conference.

I don't think Siraj's video is too fast. It seems just right for me.


I've run across several of your videos and was surprised by how few views they had, considering the high production quality and engaging style. I guess these things take time. Keep it up and I have no doubt you'll reach critical mass.


Your channel is cool. The videos are short and crisp and gives a basic understanding for totally new topics like machine learning for me in a very short time. Good job.


Siraj,

The way you taught complex topics like DeepLearning, Machine Learning etc made these topics hilarious. Thanks man


At my codeschool (jaaga.in/study) last night we all hung out enjoying your videos. Thanks !


Hi Siraj, cool stuff man. Could you cover the topics (DL, AI) in a bit more detail ?


Cool! Been a fan ever since you started posting to the HN FB group!


There's a HN FB group?


>HN FB group!

Link pls?


Awesome channel!! I like the speed of it, keep them coming :)


Love your channel! You are doing a great job, keep it up!


[flagged]


My cat's breath smells like cat food.



they are. i know a guy on a self driving car team at apple


If that's true, I'm fairly sure that he:

1. Should not have told you that.

2. Is not happy about you saying something about it.

This leads me to believe that you don't actually know this person.


Even if this were true (which, I'm skeptical about), just because they have autonomous hardware and a "self-driving car team", doesn't mean that's the product that they will put on the field.

Look at it this way. If you're building a software platform for autonomous vehicles, then you're going to need to do some (or a lot) of R&D in autonomous hardware, but that doesn't necessarily mean that autonomous hardware is the ultimate product.


stop with the greek name bullshit already. pick another culture's mythology there are so many out there (hindu, african, persian, etc.) it will help you be a fresher writer


Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: