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Franck S. Ndzomga
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Franck S. Ndzomga writes Transitions, a personal blog at transitions.substack.com about startups, ai and business. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-10, and you can follow it by feed.
A personal blog where I explore and share my thoughts on startups, technology, artificial intelligence, entrepreneurship, business strategy, and any other intriguing ideas that spark my curiosity. Click to read Transitions, by Franck S. Ndzomga,
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I did that, burned 2.6B tokens in the process and learned a lot: https://transitions.substack.com/p/what-burning-26-billion-p...
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on “You should write an agent”Submitted Vibe Coding Is Overrated as a story · 45 points
HN discussionI think we will have to move with pre-training and post-training efforts in parallel. What DeepSeek showed is that you first need to have a strong enough pretrained model. For that, we have to continue the acquisition of high quality, multilingual datasets. Then, when we have a stronger pretrained model, we can apply pure RL to get a reasoning model that we use only to generate synthetic reasoning data. We then use…
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on “An analysis of DeepSeek's R1-Zero and R1”Submitted Is AI Killing the Value of Human Writing? as a story · 10 points
HN discussionthis is impressive and actually matches my expectations in terms of near term AI progress. we are going to continue to seem impressive progress in coding & related, anything where verifiability is scalable in an automated way: https://transitions.substack.com/p/a-quantum-of-ai-progress?...
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on “GLM-5.3: Frontier Coding with Emergent Cyber Capabilities”Submitted DeepSeek Is Coming for OpenAI's Neck as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThat's why AI realism is deeply needed now: https://transitions.substack.com/p/why-ai-realism-matters?r=...
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on “ChatGPT Down”Submitted The AI Enemy from Within as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why do we do anything to escape reality? as a story · 1 points
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