MediaSquirrel

3,022 karmajoined March 14, 2009On HN

Founder/CEO at TalkTastic.com

Previously, I co-founded SpeakerText (speakertext.com), a interactive/social layer on top of online video, and Humanoid (gethumanoid.com), a crowdsourced virtual labor service that uses machine learning to track worker reputation on Mechanical Turk and ensure quality.

In previous lives, I fought forest fires in Montana & Alaska for the US Forest Service, worked as a freelance news reporter for the NY Times, and drove a 911 ambulance in Harlem and the South Bronx.

Recent submissions

Show HN: Tesoro.help – rogue AI helpdesk for my kid's high school tesoro.help
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Attention-Only Transformers arxiv.org
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Show HN: Local Motion – Use Cursor Agents and Chat with a Local LLM github.com/mattmireles
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Show HN: Gist Discover – TikTok for ArXiv Summaries gist.is
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Scalable GANs with Transformers arxiv.org
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Cheaper Than Concrete: Robots and the New Stone Age originals.is
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Lift4D: Harmonizing Single-View 3D Estimation for 4D Reconstruction In-the-Wild arxiv.org
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Death Is an Engineering Problem originals.is
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Non-frontal face recognition using GANs and memristor-based classifiers arxiv.org
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MambAdapter: Lightweight Mamba-Based Adapters for Transfer Learning arxiv.org
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Can I Buy Your KV Cache?arxiv.org
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Before You Think: System 0, AI-Mediated Cognition and Cognitive Colonization arxiv.org
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Reasoning as Pattern Matching: Shared Mechanisms in Human and LLM Reasoning arxiv.org
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Superficial Beliefs in LLM Decision-Making arxiv.org
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Show HN: Magenta Real-Time Music Generation Locally on iPhone, Without the GPU github.com/mattmireles
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Feedback Alignment in Self-Distillation arxiv.org
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WWDC 2026 – On-Device AI Deep Dive gist.is
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Show HN: Gemma 4 Multimodal Fine-Tuner for Apple Silicon github.com/mattmireles
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We Melted iPhones for Science – Generating Real-Time Video with On-Device AI accelerateordie.com
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We Melted iPhones for Science accelerateordie.com
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God Mode – The Brave New World of Agentic Management (Prompts Included)accelerateordie.com
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