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by albert_e 2y ago
my hypothesis: using a video captured as 3D is going to vastly improve the learning of representations--with the additional benefit of depth perception that allows humans/neural nets to predict how their projections onto a 2D plane are
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by albert_e 2y ago
There are valid arguments here so I broadly agree with where the author is getting at. But some points are a stretch and that weakens the whole argument. Point 3.1 : you waste HOURS of time debugging the wrong piece of code -- going off on
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by albert_e 2y ago
so this is like use of (in a different species) light sensitive patches of skin instead of the eye balls (lenses) that most animals on earth evolved ? interesting. even if this does not immediately replace traditional cameras and lenses...
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by albert_e 2y ago
off topic does HIBP automatically cover plus addressing variants of an email example I submit johndoe@example.com but a breach had johndoe+verizon@example.com will it match
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by albert_e 2y ago
alternate technology: take out a blank sheet of paper, draw a game pad with controls, start playing a game on screen by tapping those buttons you just drew edit: combine .. Gestures from Apple Vision Pro GenAI capabilities that can convert
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by albert_e 2y ago
I am out of my depth here What they are beaming at the moon are not mechanical sound waves (which obviously won't cross the vacuum that separates earth and moon) but radio waves (= electro magnetic radiation) Since we are talking about
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by albert_e 2y ago
> As luck had it that August day, a supervisor returned from her lunch break, noticed the dangerous configuration, and ordered a technician to move the rods apart. > But in so doing, she violated safety rules calling for a swift evac
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by albert_e 2y ago
I asked a question here about LLMs in early days and someone responded with RAG I asked ChatGPT what RAG was and got something like Reasoning, Analysis, and Generation I didn't know better back then not to trust an LLM to know about th
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by albert_e 2y ago
How do these techniques handle transparent, translucent, mesh/gauge/hair like objects that interact with background. Splashing water or Orange juice, spraying snow from skis, rain and snowfall, foliage, fences and meshes, veils e
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by albert_e 2y ago
Same While I wish I had the time and talent to pursue this as a hobby - and I dabbled in PCBs and DIY electronics in youth - life has other plans. I see some sibling commenta that link to keyboards with a knobs-- that is cool - but I am ima
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by albert_e 2y ago
Possibly stupid question, in general: why don't these papers have any dates? how do I know when it was published and whether it is up-to-date / still relevant?
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by albert_e 2y ago
Great video -- any complementary resource that can help a young learner get started? What tool might one use to do such animations?
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by albert_e 2y ago
Wow! I had dreamed of physical "analog" controls as a standard feature on keyboards and input devices for various applications -- would be great productivity booster for power users. I wish this catches on and gets mass adoption.
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by albert_e 2y ago
this "Model Card" github link on [ https://llama.meta.com/docs/overview/ ] seems broken? https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-models/blob/main/models/...
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by albert_e 2y ago
Therefore the pendatry was not "perfect" as it was claimed above. One might even argue that it is impossible to be "perfectly pedantic".
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by albert_e 2y ago
My guess -- there are two separate pipelines one for code changes and one for data files. Pipeline 1 -- Code updates to their software are treated as material changes that require non-production and canary testing before global roll-out of
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by albert_e 2y ago
Interesting. Is the original script an attempt to defeat hot linking / content scrapers?
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by albert_e 2y ago
Another useful explainer -- obligatory 3b1b: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2MIpDrF7Es
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by albert_e 2y ago
Storage did become cheaper and more compact. Both flash drives and SD cards offer this functionality and showed significant improvements. Whatever innovative use cases people could come up with to store TBs of data in physical portable form
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by albert_e 2y ago
> we would have an iPod with 160TB of storage by 2017, but of course we didn’t. 160 Tera Bytes to store what? I probably would never listen to more than a few GBs of high fidelity music in my life time. Why would anyone keep investing i
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by albert_e 2y ago
Figma has a reputation with its dark patterns for pricing - people might be wary before adopting their products.
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by albert_e 2y ago
I want widgets on Windows desktop as well. I want clock, calendar, notes, CPU and system stats, pull out or slide out menus with shortcuts, quirky ones like this one. Instead what I have is ads. And copilot everywhere. With touch screen lap
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by albert_e 2y ago
Is "jhana" a separate word or just a alternate spelling (if I may, an incorrect one) for "dhyana" which means mental focus / meditation? (I am referring to the Sanskrit word which is also the root for many indian la
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by albert_e 2y ago
But the same word has also been over used to provide cover or respectability for all types of anti-patterns from poor planning, to lack of any safety net or margins, to cutting corners, disregard for standards and regulations, and hustle cu
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by albert_e 2y ago
Can people with Aphantasia still have visual dreams -- where imagery is more real and vivid and more involuntary than willed .... than what they can 'see' when awake and conscious and are trying to muster up an image on purpose wi
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by albert_e 2y ago
Employers can collect task/business process staps by recording the screens. This will help train RPA bots and reduce the need for human workforce for repetitive tasks. Microsoft can collect this data across industries with or without i
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by albert_e 2y ago
I have been in some meetings where the "big boss" cannot follow any structure and will constantly throw out ideas and enquiries and demand we had ready answers for questions we are hearing for the first time or topic that was not
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by albert_e 2y ago
Isn't this the PPT version of this movie trope? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_medias_res
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by albert_e 2y ago
I initially assumed the title meant the location of your seat on the plane and thought: oh boy, that's one more thing that (1) passengers will irrationally fear about and spread hearsay about "safest" seats on a plane and (2)
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by albert_e 2y ago
Off topic -- how does the JetBrains website display "IntelliJ" text in stylized "iJ" at the end of IntelliJ? Some CSS magic? I tried editing the text using the developer tools and this styling only applies when the text

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