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schoolhouse.world: Free Peer-to-Peer Tutoring

Sun, 11/17/2024 - 7:54am

Article URL: https://schoolhouse.world

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42163958

Points: 1

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Show HN: AnyModal – Train Your Own Multimodal LLMs

Sun, 11/17/2024 - 7:45am

I’ve been working on AnyModal, a framework for integrating different data types (like images and audio) with LLMs. Existing tools felt too limited or task-specific, so I wanted something more flexible. AnyModal makes it easy to combine modalities with minimal setup—whether it’s LaTeX OCR, image captioning, or chest X-ray interpretation.

You can plug in models like ViT for image inputs, project them into a token space for your LLM, and handle tasks like visual question answering or audio captioning. It’s still a work in progress, so feedback or contributions would be great.

GitHub: https://github.com/ritabratamaiti/AnyModal

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42163917

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Did my coding lead to colleague's death?

Sun, 11/17/2024 - 7:41am

Throwaway account because I don’t want this tied to me.

About eight years ago, I worked at a mid-sized tech company with a senior colleague—let’s call him “Dave.” He was in his early 60s, had decades of experience, and preferred “boring tech” and object-oriented programming. I was more into modern, cloud-native solutions and functional programming, which led to frequent disagreements.

We clashed a lot. Dave thought my approaches were unnecessarily complex, and I thought his ideas were outdated and inflexible. Most of our arguments happened during code reviews, and while things got heated at times, I assumed it was all part of working in a team.

I left the company after a few years. It wasn’t because of him, and I didn’t think much about those conflicts after I moved on.

A few days ago, I got a message from Dave on LinkedIn. He said he’d retired and had been diagnosed with a fast-progressing terminal illness. What stunned me was that he blamed me for it. He said the stress of working with me and dealing with my code had taken a toll on his health, ending the message with, “You shortened my life.”

Before I could respond, his account was deleted. I don’t know if he deactivated it or blocked me, but now I can’t stop replaying everything in my head.

Could I really have caused this? Can work stress lead to something like this? I always thought our arguments were just professional disagreements, but now I’m second-guessing myself. Has anyone else dealt with something like this? What do I even do with this kind of guilt?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42163897

Points: 2

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Bibpaper: Cite the Paper in a Proper Way

Sun, 11/17/2024 - 7:40am
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Cloudflare.com's Robots.txt

Sun, 11/17/2024 - 7:39am
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New old way to transfer files

Sun, 11/17/2024 - 7:00am
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