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by albert_e 2y ago
if Apple of all companies -- after decades of moral high standing about polished user experience and charging a premium for their brand -- is shaving pennies off the cost by removing physical buttons ... that's a shame! if 3nm chip man
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by albert_e 2y ago
.GPT
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by albert_e 2y ago
I am not endorsing or defending that pithy saying but maybe they meant .... "What's good enough in the short term sucks in the long term" Or "What's good enough in a narrow view sucks in the big picture" Trying
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by albert_e 2y ago
Excellent -- The library of SVGs on the left is a great feature in itself. I wish a couple of sites like this become super popular so that all of us can both contribute and utilize great vector art.
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by albert_e 2y ago
I solve crosswords on downforacross.com and solving a puzzle there results in confetti. Maybe they could use some of this better performing code to make it feel lighter. Other than "fun" sites and sparing usage ... I wouldn't
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by albert_e 2y ago
For one -- All the limitations and pitfalls of Generative AI ... with not enough awareness and maturity on part of users to sidestep or disregard them. A very tame but representative example -- GenAI can reinforce stereotypes and biases: Me
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by albert_e 2y ago
I love conversations like this. These are arguably not the most cutting edge or exciting topics but hold a lot of significance and power to make life easier for humans (and machines too). Some of these are areas of best practices that, when
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by albert_e 2y ago
Au contraire For a blog post that talks about improving legibility by making a wise choice of fonts, this choice of non standard display of images -- requiring clicking or reading of footnotes ro figureout -- takes away from the seriousness
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by albert_e 2y ago
I hope this becomes hardware feature soon on laptops -- where we dont need to sacrifice the main CPU/memory/storage to have this functionality.
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by albert_e 2y ago
Slightly off topic question: I want to publish blog on a domain I own -- I currently use Netlify+Hugo and NetlifyCMS but the editor experience (Richtext / Markdown + upload individual images) is very poor. There is no concept of savin
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by albert_e 2y ago
> It’s not so easy to tell, however, with the word “Spaghetti” in the second picture. Is the picture referenced here missing from the blog post?
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by albert_e 3y ago
Visualization was confusing and I don't think the narrative matches the data being shown. Differences between groups were way less dramatic in the visuals than the narration suggests. The differences could just be statistical noise for
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by albert_e 3y ago
If someone makes a cartoon or modified illustration of the Statue of Liberty ... would the USA (or the Port Authority or the Liberty-Ellis Island foundation) have grounds to sue and claim compensation? A million transgressions are waiting t
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by albert_e 3y ago
> Are we going to achieve Gen AI? > No. Not with this transformers + the data of the internet + $XB infrastructure approach. Errr ...did they really mean Gen AI .. or AGI?
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by albert_e 3y ago
one of the big companies recently replaced "sick leave" (only you can be sick to avail this, not a family member you care for) with "wellbeing leave" (you dont feel up to a day at work, take the day off - no questions as
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by albert_e 3y ago
last year ... Samsung reports a 95% plunge in profits[1] So this is just a recovery to baseline after an exceptional year (which had some big one time write-offs of losses maybe?) [1] https://edition.cnn.com/2023/04&#x2
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by albert_e 3y ago
Yes that's an even better idea -- less intrusive if there are worries about steel beams destroying the visual beauty of the old bridges. Any or both of these ideas could be implemented for much less cost than bridge repairs and closure
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by albert_e 3y ago
Is installing a steel beam 10-30 feet before the bridge on either side that difficult? For a layman that seems like a simple fix to deal with drivers who cannot read the signs. Shift the damage away from the bridge. Does someone in the town
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by albert_e 3y ago
Typo threaten -> threatened Current HN title > Bridges in the US are threaten by truck drivers relying on GPS meant for cars
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by albert_e 3y ago
adding mine TreeSize (to easily find out what is consuming disk space) picpick/ shareX (screenshotting with annotationsand autosave) pdftk (pdf merge, split, crop, interleave( ffmpeg (video trim, split, re-encode, etc.) Lossless cut (G
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by albert_e 3y ago
If I am learning new content I can make my own notes and convert them into an audiobook for my morning jog or office commute using my own voice. If I am a content creator I can generate content more easily by letting my AI voice narrate my
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by albert_e 3y ago
What if I want to listen to my notes in my own voice Or my favorite books in my own voice. Or my lecture notes in my professor's voice.
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by albert_e 3y ago
Yes when used as an intransitive verb a lot of other meanings are possible I guess: Spiralling at the edge of black hole. Spiralling out of control. Spiralling incessantly. Transitive verb usage would be more restricted in what it can refer
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by albert_e 3y ago
Is that so? I was unfamiliar with football terminology so had to google it. Most references talk about "throwing a spiral" (noun), rather than "spiralling a football" (verb, transitive). But I can imagine this being a co
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by albert_e 3y ago
Slightly offtopic: Can "spiralling" be a transitive verb too? Original article title: > Astronomers Unveil Strong Magnetic Fields Spiraling at the Edge of Milky Way’s Central Black Hole HN title: > Astronomers unveil strong
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by albert_e 3y ago
Oh the images and prompts we see in article are from the training data? Pardon my ignorance ... Does MIT model then not work as a general text-to-image model to generate novel images based on arbitrary new text prompts that it has not seen
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by albert_e 3y ago
Is the text prompt input the only common thing between SD and MIT models when comparing outputs? If so I am surprised at how SIMILAR the outputs of both models look in the general layout / framing / composition of the image. How c
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by albert_e 3y ago
Amazing thanks for remembering a great resource that you saw years ago. Seems very comprehensive. Bookmarking this.
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by albert_e 3y ago
off topic: is the background music inspired by "We are the robots"?
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by albert_e 3y ago
Everyone of us was a beginner at some point. The first time we came across CSV format we likely typed it in notepad by hand. A lot of issues with CSVs are also sometimes troubleshooted by hand-- by manually fixing a quote or a comma. There

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