Why “Training” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
As an end user of this and not a person involved in training models or aligning them, I have only the most rudimentary understanding. But I think that would be a lot harder sinc…
by walrus01 · Sep 11, 2026
The relentless progress towards saturation of benchmarks is, I suspect, at least partly a similar story. Whatever holdout questions are used to evaluate GPT-x will be in the GPT…
by fwlr · Sep 11, 2026
> Weekly training volume is the most reliable predictor for injuries. Yep! I tend to do too much (because I like exercising), so I have be deliberate about including light train…
by Eddy_Viscosity2 · Sep 11, 2026
The frequency with which AI boosters leap to "clearly once you've read a book the author owns everything that comes out of your brain" still shocks me a little bit. It's obvious…
by kg · Sep 11, 2026
No, it's quite well defined, and it's not called a 'memory subsystem'. There is a training process (as in traditional Machine Learning training) that occurs with data available…
by TZubiri · Sep 11, 2026
Moonshot serves Claude instead of Kimi and collects exchanges for model training
by MrBuddyCasino · Sep 11, 2026 · 4 points
Interest
Proportion of Hacker News items mentioning "training" over time.
Mentions
Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "training" over time.
Training is teaching, or developing in oneself or others, any skills and knowledge or fitness that relate to specific useful competencies. Training has specific goals of improving one's capability, capacity, productivity and performance. It forms the core of apprenticeships and provides the backbone of content at institutes of technology. In addition to the basic training required for a trade, occupation or profession, training may continue beyond initial competence to maintain, upgrade and update skills throughout working life. People within some professions and occupations may refer to this sort of training as professional development. Training also refers to the development of physical fitness related to a specific competence, such as sport, martial arts, military applications and some other occupations. Training methods of all types can be improved by setting specific, time-based, and difficult goals. This allows for the progressive mastery of a topic with a measured outcome. Read more on Wikipedia