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by Jack000 6y ago
> The 9.4B parameter model requires at least two 32gb V100 GPUs to interact with plus motherboard, cpu, ram etc.
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by Jack000 6y ago
Been working on this for the past year. This is a grammar correction tool that uses modern (transformer-based) NLP techniques for fluency edits. Basically it helps you write more fluently if you're not a native English speaker. A lot o
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Show HN: Gramara – English grammar correction via transformers(gramara.com)
2 points by Jack000 6y ago|1 comments
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by Jack000 6y ago
I think it's technically possible to explore our own galaxy in a human lifetime by accelerating to an appreciable fraction of c, just need to develop fusion rockets.
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by Jack000 6y ago
stylegala, cssbeauty and the other css-oriented design sites and attached communities
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by Jack000 7y ago
just my small quarantine project. It occurred to me that there are a set of colors that designers like to overuse, and recently there has been a design trend of picking "ugly" or uncommon colors to stand out (eg. the dropbox re-br
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Show HN: A color scheme generator for uncommon colors(poolors.com)
5 points by Jack000 7y ago|1 comments
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by Jack000 7y ago
I don't believe in 100x engineers, but I've seen 0.1x engineers and some who probably go negative. There's a limit to how badly you can stock shelves, but a bad line of code can (and has) destroyed companies.
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by Jack000 7y ago
if we're using deep learning anyways, might as well use a u-net (ie. pix2pix) to add the bokeh directly - this would require pair training data but would probably look a lot better visually.
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by Jack000 7y ago
Voxels are directly analogous to 2d pixels, which means they benefit from the myriad of CNN based techniques developed over the last few years (GAN in particular) 3d manifolds are sparse, and more analogous to 2d vector graphics. There are
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by Jack000 7y ago
what happened to getmagic? I thought they're doing ok
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by Jack000 7y ago
I see this argument a lot on hn, and the problem I have with it is that even if correct, it's not really useful. Good idea and execution doesn't guarantee success, but ascribing everything to luck (and basically absolving yourself
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by Jack000 7y ago
would pre-training on non-English text (using a joint dictionary) improve translation performance? I'm not sure if the information on http://nlpprogress.com/english/machine_translation.html is accurate, but it app
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by Jack000 7y ago
right, but templates are just.. templates. Someone had to have designed those templates in the first place. Based on my understanding of thegrid's approach, the problem was that they did try to automate the design process itself and it
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by Jack000 7y ago
alright, I'll attempt to make a substantive comment on this. Aside from the drama, I think their approach did not work well because visual design is fundamentally not a constraint satisfaction problem. If it were, it would be possible
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by Jack000 7y ago
I think the problem with this approach is that it only validates the product if you get customers. The average case probably goes like: spend xxxx on adwords, get 0-1 sales. At this point you don't know if your sales pitch is wrong, yo
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by Jack000 7y ago
you'd still want a custom icon for small sizes, because it's not about the resolution but perceived icon size. It's similar to this illusion https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families...
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by Jack000 7y ago
I rather think that some emotions are best expressed as emoji. Emotions are a lot more linked to images than written characters. I mean, how do you exactly express the nuances of ಠ_ಠ
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by Jack000 7y ago
This could be the great vowel shift of our era. In 100 years we might have dedicated phonemes for emoji, making a terse language similar to Chinese. Or as smartphones become ubiquitous and children are exposed to these graphemes earlier and
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by Jack000 7y ago
a few years ago there was a local promotion for packs of nestea, where each case contained a coupon for a free case of ice tea. The coupon didn't say you couldn't redeem it for the same box (which contained another coupon) A bunch
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by Jack000 7y ago
Just read through all your stuff, the UV unwrapper is very cool. Do most people use it with 3d paint tools? It seems the small disconnected bits would be hard to paint by hand. some thoughts/questions: - Do you use a library for packin
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by Jack000 7y ago
It depends on the problem. Some problems can't be solved regardless of how much money you throw at it, and some problems get worse with more funding. eg. the war on cancer, terror, etc etc..
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by Jack000 7y ago
anecdotally, I've talked to two successful hardware kickstarter founders. They both regretted doing it - it took a huge amount of time to raise 30k and 70k respectively, and they were both blindsided by unforeseen issues and had to fac
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by Jack000 7y ago
I've hired a lot of developers on upwork and my success rate is close to 0, even when paying $50-80/hr - 6/10 just can't code to the mockup. I think they use a fixed library of components or something and get it as close
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by Jack000 7y ago
The apt comparison is between 8k cash and 6k cash + 2k opportunity cost (this is captured pretty well by the NY Times calculator) At a certain ratio it doesn't make sense to buy (eg. imagine 1k rent vs 8k mortgage) This ratio depends o
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by Jack000 7y ago
It's fine to critique the implementation of a brand, but it doesn't change the fact that branding has real tangible value. If they don't use a curvy wordmark, it would have to be some other arbitrary mark. for reference, the
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by Jack000 7y ago
I grew up poor and never had luxuries. In retrospect I believe this is pathological and damaging. Here are some ideas to get you started: - when buying computers/phones/shoes/etc just forget the price and get the one you real
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by Jack000 7y ago
I think you forgot the link.
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by Jack000 7y ago
Actually in most of these threads (I've read through a lot of them trying to diagnose my own issues) the google product experts say not to use the disavow tool, lest you accidentally disavow links that may have been helping you. (ie. p
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by Jack000 7y ago
yes I think negative SEO is effective. Context matters though, it's probably more effective against newer sites, sites with a weak backlink profile, and sites with more "naturally spammy" content like SEO.

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