AlanYx

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by AlanYx 2y ago
Gladwell doesn't go into detail in this piece about what he means by holding ideas loosely, but there's probably an important distinction between (i) loose in the sense that he's open to new evidence, and (ii) loose in the se
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by AlanYx 2y ago
In practice the resolution doesn't make a huge difference. (I've got both 300ppi and 207ppi BW e-ink devices and the antialiasing/gamma strategy makes more of a difference than the resolution.) But a bigger difference is that
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by AlanYx 2y ago
It's only Kaleido that halves the resolution of colored content. The RM Pro is Gallery 3 and offers full-resolution color.
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by AlanYx 2y ago
It's RLCD but with a twist. It has microperforations, so they can put the backlight behind the screen without making it transreflective. I agree the terminology is misleading though.
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by AlanYx 2y ago
There are about a dozen published studies using GLP-1 analogues in animal models showing reduction in addictive behaviors (search for papers by Jerlhag, Leggio and Schmidt). The prevailing theory seems to relate to dopamine regulation.
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by AlanYx 2y ago
It wasn't until later in the Byzantine period that gold was used excessively in art. In the early period when it was largely confined to halos, as a contrasting accent around painted halos, or to convey specific religious symbolism, it
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by AlanYx 2y ago
I'd be astonished if Sama didn't negotiate royalties. Microsoft is even using OpenAI's trademarks for the service.
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by AlanYx 2y ago
I'm skeptical of this analysis simply because it doesn't appear to include any revenue from the Microsoft deal. Many corporate customers are using the Azure ChatGPT service rather than OpenAI's API directly. There has to be s
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by AlanYx 2y ago
This is true, though it may not make sense commercially for them to offer an API that can't be used for workplace (business) applications or education.
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by AlanYx 2y ago
It's probably stuck in legal limbo in the EU. The recently passed EU AI Act prohibits "AI systems aiming to identify or infer emotions", and Advanced Voice does definitely infer the user's emotions. (There is an exemptio
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by AlanYx 2y ago
There's the concept of inducing copyright infringement (a la MGM v. Grokster), so much depends on whether those who train LLMs were inducing libgen's operations in some way, for example if payment or resources were being contribut
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by AlanYx 2y ago
I don't have an issue with the "i", it's the "l" that is tight.
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by AlanYx 2y ago
Is the tight kerning before the lowercase letter "l" intentional? I find it hard to believe that's the optimum choice for readability. Words like "title" seem like they're harder to read than average because th
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by AlanYx 2y ago
>they told me I’m on a watch list for returns and could have my account terminated Do they actually use such direct language? I received a passive-aggressive message from Amazon implying I was returning things too frequently (which was u
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by AlanYx 2y ago
The linked article says that they've achieved "the baseline necessary to perform error correction". With the stated error rate, roughly how many physical qubits would be required to produce one error-corrected logical qubit?
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by AlanYx 2y ago
It's indeed an RLCD, but an atypical one with microperforations for the backlight, rather than transreflective. See one of the comments from one of the Daylight employees in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite
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by AlanYx 2y ago
They often do, but the iPhone SE has DC dimming.
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by AlanYx 2y ago
That's a strong theme, but it's not the only one. For example, there are three main points made about the GDPR in the second document: - frequent changes in interpretation over time; - the extra burden added by national transposit
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by AlanYx 2y ago
>This means that business, at least to some extent, is forced to address real-world issues and work at a more local level. If the regulatory burden prevents local businesses from getting off the ground because only foreign businesses hav
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by AlanYx 2y ago
The report is critical of both actually (the regulations themselves as well as fragmentation in compliance and enforcement).
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by AlanYx 2y ago
This is an astonishing document in the sense that you rarely see frankness like this coming out of the EC. It raises strong criticisms of a number of high-profile "core" regulatory initiatives, including the GDPR, DSA, and EU AI A
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by AlanYx 2y ago
The interesting thing is that if $1B is their seed round, their series A is probably going to be larger than a lot of typical IPOs.
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by AlanYx 2y ago
You're linking to dpt-tools. I've never tried that software. I have a Quaderno Gen 2 and personally use dpt-rp1-py ( https://github.com/janten/dpt-rp1-py ), so I can confirm that at least it works. (When I firs
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by AlanYx 2y ago
Mine actually usually has okay uniformity everywhere except about an inch from the right edge (particularly 1/3rd of the way from the top) and the magnet trick doesn't fix it for me there.
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by AlanYx 2y ago
Part of it may also be a way to mitigate potential regulatory risk. Israel thus far does not have an equivalent to something like SB1047 (the closest they've come is participation in the Council of Europe AI treaty negotiations), and S
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by AlanYx 2y ago
Pen accuracy uniformity has always been one of the bigger issues with the RM2 in comparison to its e-ink competitors. It's beyond annoying to pick up the pen to dot an "i" and see the dot appear a mm away from the rest of the
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by AlanYx 2y ago
The DPT-RP1 line was acquired by Fujitsu and is now sold at the Quaderno. The hardware has been updated a bit in the Quaderno Gen 2, including a Wacom digitizer. They're still great devices, and the same open source software for the DP
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by AlanYx 2y ago
Both Kobo and Kindle devices allow you to fast scroll page thumbnails, which helps work around the refresh limitations of e-ink. Something like that is still missing from RM's software. You basically have to switch to multi-page view a
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by AlanYx 2y ago
Depends what your reference is. E-ink displays without a lot of layers (especially Carta 1250) have pretty good contrast, on par with matte paper. Some devices with a thick frontlight layer and a Wacom layer and a touch layer are less impre
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by AlanYx 2y ago
Is this the first mainstream Gallery 3 display tablet (as opposed to Kaleido)? I know BigMe made one but it never caught on.

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