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by albert_e 2y ago
> Conference Austerity > Conferences get nuked because someone upstairs sees them as a “nice to have.” The irony? That conference could’ve been where your engineers learned about a new technique that would’ve saved you a million bucks
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by albert_e 2y ago
Recently we read about how DeepSeek reasoning models exhibited a "Aha! moment" when analyzing a complex problem, where they find a deeper pattern/insight that provides a breakthrough. I feel we also need models to be able to
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by albert_e 2y ago
Me and my closest friend stay in near constant touch through text messages (whatsapp). We know we can call each other on phone any time of any day and the other would nt mind one bit about their routine or focus being disturbed. Still we pl
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by albert_e 2y ago
Are you going to open that PDF in Adobe Reader? If yes, Adobe has this friendly AI assistant forced into your face and overlapping floating toolbar on all sides of your document that you cannot get rid of to get a clean view of the document
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by albert_e 2y ago
Feedback as someone who didn't know anything about Origami ... I jumped directly into the motion comic and was quickly immersed into the terminal, syntax and command examples ... without first being told WHAT is Origami in the first pl
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by albert_e 2y ago
The link should probably be to the specific blogpost... https://jan.miksovsky.com/posts/2025/01-22-motion-comic-orig... Currently it links to the parent website
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by albert_e 2y ago
A customer churn model or revenue forecast did have hard objective data (ground truth) to compare against - isn't it?
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by albert_e 2y ago
Also "accuracy" as a measure of model's performance used to mean something objective in the traditional ML world. Now with LLMs it is what human evaluators feel about the LLM output?
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by albert_e 2y ago
Like Microsoft windows Recall maybe https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/retrace-your-ste...
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by albert_e 2y ago
Impressive and full of great potential! Congrats on shipping this. Off topic question out of curiosity: If we are builde a simpler visual "workflow" tool that allows users to drag and drop components on to a canvas, connect them,
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by albert_e 2y ago
Good way to tease out if the dot pattern is only ONE of multiple fingerprinting techniques that printers use :)
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by albert_e 2y ago
What is a good way to check to ensure we are not being handed a key that will get revoked Even in our markets, we have office licenses available on Amazon for all prices ...the cheapest ones looking very suspect but not so sure about the on
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by albert_e 2y ago
> Content that is mostly-or-completely AI-generated that is passed off as being written by a human, regardless of quality. I think something does not necessarily need to be "passed off as being written by a human" -- whether co
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by albert_e 2y ago
Good experiment - felt a little underwhelming in current avatar. The motion appears jerky and unnatural -- as they are being forced to move by the mechanism at the bottom versus a natural setting that has the lower stems fixed in place and
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by albert_e 2y ago
Love this, thanks for sharing! If I had the time I would explore the following myself ... but I am guessing I will never get to them at all so posting my thoughts aloud: - Could it be modified to optionally store the files online, say a sel
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Ask HN: JavaScript Unminifier Using LLMs?
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by albert_e 2y ago
VerbalCompressor? EDIT to add: SentencePublisher TokenStream IdeaRadio
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by albert_e 2y ago
I invite you to visit Bangalore or any city in India. Unless you are a career beginner and living in a shared one room "paying guest" arrangement closer to office or you are upper management earning enough to afford an apartment c
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by albert_e 2y ago
Yeah I lean on this side - avoid doing pranks and other practical jokes. When there is any actual malware or security incident, you don't want your colleagues to think of you and go "Maybe this is just Dave pulling one of his clev
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by albert_e 2y ago
Currently erroring out for me: > Error establishing a database connection How is this already at the top of HN frontpage with just 6 points and zero comments as of my writing
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We could make say Helvetica Libre and Times Free Roman
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by albert_e 2y ago
I hope a plugin for Calibre ebook management software comes along that makes it easier to convert select titles from your epub library to decent audio versions -- and a decent open source app for tablets and smartphones that can let us sea
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by albert_e 2y ago
Yes the feature is called WhisperSync -- I used it many years ago and it was pretty good. I tried it while on a treadmill so it allowed me to follow the book with more focus without sacrificing much else.
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by albert_e 2y ago
There is SSML for speech markup to indicate various characters of speech like whispers, pronunciation, pace, emphasis, etc. With LLMs proving to be very good at generating code, it may be reasonable to assume they can get good at generating
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by albert_e 2y ago
Virtually all online streaming services in India now use a OTP sent to registered mobile number as the way to login to the app on any device. Magic links and OTPs have become common for many other sites I use -- Udemy, Teachable etc. come t
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by albert_e 2y ago
Fun domain name. Unfortunately blocked on my (work) network -- classified as miscellaneous / unknown category.
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by albert_e 2y ago
Somewhat on same lines as this "challenge" and its responses ... https://x.com/hobdaydesign/status/1634525287403728897
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by albert_e 2y ago
Cool Rabbit Hole: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDLT_tower > Replacement of the beacon bulb at the top of the digital tower was featured in an episode of World's Toughest Fixes in 2010.[6] In 2015, amateur
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Agreed, as long as it can be turned off by user on the browser, and doing so does not break the site / ux.
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They did not mention -- Text littered with hyperlinks on every sentence. Hyperlinks that do on-hover gimmicks like load previews or charts. Emojis or other distracting graphics (like stock ticker symbols and price indicators GOOG +7%) litte

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