LarsDu88

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by LarsDu88 2y ago
The solution is simple. When one of the two old men besmirches the other, they shall challenge each other to a gentlemanly duel. The survivor, if any shall become the next president. Owing to the advanced age of both candidates and the adva
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
I was a kid in the 90s, and back then the fact you can have animated gifs on a page was a revelation. Likewise with crazy fonts, sound effects, and frames.
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
Stable Diffusion Dreambooth. The basic idea is you find a rare unused token (like say f$#sdafad) and then finetune your image generation model with a specific set of images (say 20 images of your red cap at various angles) while telling it
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
Not true. Stable Diffusion dream booth
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
I should correct myself a bit here. I believe it's actually UNET type models that can be used to very lossily "compress" images. You can use latents as the images, and use the locally running image generation model to expand
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
If they're going to cram a small LLM in the browser, they might as well start cramming a small image generating diffusion model + new image format to go along with it. I believe we can start compressing down the amount of data going ov
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
When I was in elementary school, I remember the school librarian highly recommending these books (they were trending in the 90s, apparently). Had no idea the book series bought Redbox, lol
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
Wow I used to go surfing all over LA Jolla. Did not know someone so notable died this way. Feel like there should be a plaque or something on the beach in question
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
It's crazy how strong the power law distribution holds for success in the real world. Tennis stars, youtubers tech startups, videogames on steam, even drug cartels... In a given year, the top 5 in any of these categories can end up abs
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
Wow. So this is why Apple's campus visitor center literally has no corners in it. Even the stairwells have all rounded corners.
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
Ah I learned dynammic programming from watching this guy's lectures. Child prodigy who went on to become an MIT professor!
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
What the hell? I grew up with this
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If anything, this suggests to me there is a ux/ui barrier around the best ai translation tools available. A reasonable step would be to get some of the best models running locally on NPUs which are increasingly common on the latest gen
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
5-over-1 are increasingly common and not the same thing as soft story buildings. 5-over-1 refers specifically to the wood construction of the top 5 floors. You can have a soft story building that is not built out of wood and even more vulne
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
Since this is hypothetical... a wizard did it... You're right though. The initial allelic variation would have to come from mutation, a wizard doing genetic engineering, or some sort of weird alien mechanism that actively creates allel
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
Genetic drift is not actually a consequence of mutation and natural selection. Hypothetically, if there was some sort of alien planet where the living inhabitants reproduced and used a replication system that doesn't undergo mutation a
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
I felt like this take was pretty spot on, and I think a lot of dissatisfaction can arise when folks feel like they are on the research team, but are actually on the spy team.
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I think a lot of folks miss the point that gene theory and evolution theory can exist independently of each other and that an understanding of genes is not a prerequisite for the understanding of evolution. When Darwin's theory of evol
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Anaximander's idea of evolution was basically just speculative fiction. He simply suggested that man and animals came from water with no evidence whatsoever, and that early man must've needed to survive in the mouths of fish to wi
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The R35 was borne from the popularity of folks in the early 2000s playing Gran Turismo and the Fast and Furious movies. And also Carlos Ghosn. All those things might be aging out (especially Carlos Ghosn, who had to escape from Japanese pri
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
I was excited to see what sort of interesting trickery was involved in making this app, just to realize all its doing is writing an image to disk and shooting it over to openai. Well done. Although I should note, I believe there is a comple
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
There's a current AI bubble centered around LLMs. Eventually it will probably crater out, but the next wave will probably be built from derivative technologies (multi-modal transformers or their successor, whatever that might be) I thi
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Ahh, I remember playing a PC Gamer demo of Serious Sam as a kid. Even back then it was considered a "throwback" game to the days of old-school DOOM and Quake. And now literally two decades have passed and its considered a classic
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Is this due to the heterogeneity of client hardware?
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Yes I've seen it. They ran out of budget for the original anime. Then when it became a huge success, they made a more comprehensive (and still baffling) ending in the form of a hit movie. Then they went ahead and dragged out THAT endin
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I remember watching the final episode of Evangelion several years ago. A few minutes into it, it's as if they simply ran out of animation budget and it went full slide show. And that was their greatest success.
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I think I want to clamp down on the hyperbole a bit here, and I think its obvious the author is targeting the software engineer folks who might not be familiar with developmental biology or evolution. The planaria has evolved a mechanism by
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
The language in the article is a bit overhyped. There are multiple examples of gradients being involved in pattern formation. It's just that electrical potentials are a bit of a newer area of study. There's the chemical gradient b
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A full suit of bronze armor back in 1200 BCE must have been absurdly expensive. To make bronze, you need to alloy copper with tin which is rather rare The alternative to tin was arsenic which is incredibly toxic to work with.
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Good lord, that voice makes Elevenlabs.io look... dead

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