LeonardoTolstoy

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by LeonardoTolstoy 1mo ago
I, at this point, use Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct for most of the small OCR I want to do. It is much much better than my experience with Tesseract in general. The nice thing about it is that if you give it, say, a movie poster you can ask for th
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by LeonardoTolstoy 4mo ago
What models did you use for the stages? I see Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct mentioned as an advanced option, so I assume maybe Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct by default (which is what I also use for a lot of stuff, it is incredibly good at "clean&quo
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by LeonardoTolstoy 5mo ago
I feel like if you followed the NBA scandal involving Chauncey Billups the wire fraud charge for insider prediction market trading was inevitable. Damon Jones didn't work for the NBA and basically just told some people the status of an
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by LeonardoTolstoy 6mo ago
It is a spectrum. My advisor was very hands off. He didn't, ultimately, even really understand my PhD. He knew the problem, but he had no path in mind to solve it, that was up to me. I'm now working (as a software engineer) with a
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by LeonardoTolstoy 9mo ago
Most of my podcasts are movie related. If I had to purge them all and start with just 5 though I would go with. Blank Check The Flophouse 99% Invisible Cautionary Tales The Rewatchables I maintain The Flophouse is the funniest podcast aroun
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by LeonardoTolstoy 9mo ago
I read close to 40 books this year which I assume is up from the previous year, and way more than I used to read prior to starting to do the Rochester Library reading challenge (which I've done for the past two years). I won't get
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by LeonardoTolstoy 1y ago
This is it. I had the same thing happen to me a year ago and there was a month between the original access to our system and the attack. And similarly they waited until a perceived lull in what might be org diligence (just prior to thanksgi
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by LeonardoTolstoy 1y ago
Almost this exact thing happened to me about a year ago. Very old account login, SES access with request to raise the email limit. We were only quickly tipped off because they had to open a ticket to get the limit raised. If you haven'
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by LeonardoTolstoy 1y ago
Does that count the time it takes to get a masters? I feel like I recall my coworkers in England doing a 1-2 year masters, and then the 3-4 year PhD after.
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by LeonardoTolstoy 1y ago
Maybe a nonsequitur but in grad school I was in a study group which naturally split into two. In one group (mine) we'd read a problem and immediately charge in, sometimes have to backtrack, and meander around until the answer revealed
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by LeonardoTolstoy 1y ago
Library. I order DVDs to my local library all the time. Maybe your library system is terrible, but if it isn't you certainly can do this. There are hundreds a big wide release films with, effectively, are only available on DVD from a l
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by LeonardoTolstoy 1y ago
Tolstoy after my old dog. But also because I think a good language name should be able to be iterated on. E.g. C can become D or E or F. Java can be Mocha or Cappuccino. Etc. With my new language Tolstoy you'd be able to have a little
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by LeonardoTolstoy 1y ago
You have to go pretty deep though for the record. At least, using one of your examples, for Altman if you look at his top 25 films on Letterboxd, 20 of them are available to rent or stream online. And for me at least the other five I can ge
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by LeonardoTolstoy 1y ago
How's your local library system?
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by LeonardoTolstoy 1y ago
My local library and the nearby highschool both have solar panels over the parking lot. They certainly exist. I suppose the ROI they've had would be interesting (although this is in Massachusetts so not exactly the solar capital of the
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by LeonardoTolstoy 1y ago
Middlemarch by George Eliot. Well worth a read, possibly the greatest English novel ever written.
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by LeonardoTolstoy 1y ago
And we are there. A boat sails, and a submarine sails. A model generates makes perfect sense to me. And saying chatgpt generated a poem feels correct personally. Indeed a model (e.g. a linear regression) generates predictions for the most p
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by LeonardoTolstoy 1y ago
Yes this is what I thought, that it was AI fake bands basically. This sounds a bit more like Sugar Sugar by The Archies, which is a made up cartoon band with a number one hit.
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by LeonardoTolstoy 1y ago
What does a submarine do? Submarine? I suppose you "drive" a submarine which is getting to the idea: submarines don't swim because ultimately they are "driven"? I guess the issue is we don't make up a new word
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by LeonardoTolstoy 1y ago
I faced a similar thing at one point. The thing that fixed it for me was going back to fiction. Started with a fantasy series. Did a little sci-fi. Did some easy classics (e.g. Dracula). Eventually that joy of reading, long focused reading,
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by LeonardoTolstoy 1y ago
It says that there is like a 10x risk of SIDS in the first four months of life with tummy sleeping. I don't agree with her on everything, but Emily Oster's chapter on SIDS (in the second book I think, Cribsheet) I think does a goo
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by LeonardoTolstoy 1y ago
This person seems to work in a field (exercise / athletics) with an abundance of data, low stakes outcomes, reasonably well established biomarkers, etc. in other words, a field perfectly suited for a top down outcome driven analysis. I
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by LeonardoTolstoy 1y ago
The claim is not that far off from someone claiming they watch a movie a week. A book probably doesn't take much more than 10 hours to read on average. 50 movies are about 100 hours. Is one movie a week a mind-boggling amount of free t
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by LeonardoTolstoy 1y ago
I used to crush Scratchees as a kid. I never knew they were made by Decipher (which IMO were more famous for their How to Host a Murder games than anything else). I'll definitely check these out.
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by LeonardoTolstoy 1y ago
A bit of a non sequitur but I did ask a similar question to some models which provide links for the same small helicopter question. The interesting thing was that the entire answer was built out of a single internet link, a forum post from
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by LeonardoTolstoy 1y ago
Something about an obscure movie. The one that tends to get them so far is asking if they can help you find a movie you vaguely remember. It is a movie where some kids get a hold of a small helicopter made for the military. The movie I&#x27
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by LeonardoTolstoy 1y ago
With today's knowledge of genetics it ain't happening. We have barely started gene editing for single point mutation diseases like sickle cell. The stuff described in this blog post (which is mostly gobbledygook by the way) are tr
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by LeonardoTolstoy 2y ago
It has been a while since I studied along these lines (stochastic chemical reaction simulations in my case) but I think the answer is often yes, but not always (I don't think). A random walk for example will be a normal distribution (a
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by LeonardoTolstoy 2y ago
Padel is great, and I do wish it would make it over to the northeast US somewhat. Paddle tennis has some presence, but Padel is basically nonexistent still
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by LeonardoTolstoy 2y ago
To actually implement it we would have to completely understand how the underlying model works and how to manually manipulate the structure. It might be impossible with LLMs. Not to take Asimov as gospel truth, he was just writing stories a

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