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by albert_e 1y ago
We had physical buttons for decades. That required a certain amount of deliberate physical action and force by a person to press the doorbell. Now designers and manufacturers have decided that everyone wants and needs touch sensors. Sacrifi
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by albert_e 1y ago
This seems like a treasure trove. Thanks for sharing this link!
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by albert_e 1y ago
Wonderful! Thanks for sharing and hope you find time to expand on this project. Good luck! I am interested in English-French at the moment and was hoping to use sideloaded ebooks and mp3 audiobook versions - not necessarily just old classic
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by albert_e 1y ago
Yes I meant a tad and made a typo too. Apologies.
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by albert_e 1y ago
I thought that was the idea and felt the seconds seemed tab bit longer :)
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by albert_e 1y ago
question about the first line of advice anyone from India willing to share some pointers on how to get an evaluation signed - someone who has been procrastinating on it for a few years now
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Ask HN: Language Learning Tool combining ebooks, translations, audiobooks
3 points by albert_e 1y ago|3 comments
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by albert_e 1y ago
A "Catch me up" on AWS (and for that matter other large platforms) would be very useful for many folks. Ideally it should be a stream of important updates that can be interactively filtered by time-range. For example, if I have no
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by albert_e 1y ago
Well done. Suggestion for extension -- During batch or sequential generation of multiple characters: Mathematically constrain different characters to be dissimilar from each other. This avoids different invaders from looking the same /
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by albert_e 1y ago
README.md should have been called HUMANS.md in retrospect
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by albert_e 1y ago
If this is indeed how copilot is archtected, then it needs clear documentation -- that it is a non-audited data store. But how then did MS "fix" this bug? Did they stop pre-ingesting, indexing, and caching the content? I doubt tha
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by albert_e 1y ago
Is this the same "Deductive Database" mathematical programming language of Google DeepMind mentioned in the latest 3b1b guest video by Aleph0 (where they say the language doesnt have a name yet) https://youtu.be/4N
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by albert_e 1y ago
Minor typo: > A PEAK UNDER THE HOOD I think you meant "PEEK"
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by albert_e 1y ago
I am not color blind AFAIK, and I had to move the slider back and forth many times to try to understand what they are trying to show (even though I kind of knew what to expect). Not the best visualization I should say. The colors could have
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by albert_e 1y ago
sidenote observation - it seems username "anthropic" on github is taken by a developer from australia more than a decade ago, so Anthropic went with " https://github.com/anthropics/ " with an 's&
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by albert_e 1y ago
For complex business documents -- one approach was to use Named Entity Recognition to identify all entities and use that to build a knowledge graph to serve as a complementary repository of knowledge (in addition to the vector embeddings of
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by albert_e 1y ago
Suggestion for an add-on feature ... Youtube videos that are lectures with slide shows .. or PDF slide decks ..can also be a input / starting point..with some additional detection and parsing. Both can have multiple images in them.
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by albert_e 1y ago
Wonder if it make sense to architect computers with a small sidecar CPU that is not as powerful but it also runs at ultra low power ... so tasks like these can be delegated to it while allowing the main CPU to enter low power state when not
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by albert_e 1y ago
And forcefully overrides personal preferences to NOT ahouls any Windows Spotlight images and trivia on lock screen, and news and recommended content on Edge homescreen
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by albert_e 1y ago
Other applications ... Some ATMs have unmarked physical buttons next the screen and tge text displayed on the screen next to those buttons defines what the key does. TV remotes have A/B/C/D (red/blue/green/yell
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by albert_e 1y ago
Android apps blatantly misuse notifications to push inane ads and promotions Android provides a "notification categories" setting where user can trun some type of notifications on and other off. Most apps I use fall into two or th
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by albert_e 1y ago
Oh TIL - Thanks! This could possibly be used to build full fledged games like pong and breakout :)
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by albert_e 1y ago
So animated GIFs can be replaced by Animated PNGs with alpha blending with transparent backgrounds and lossless compression! Some nostalgia from 2000s websites can be revived and relived :) Curious if Animated SVGs are also a thing. I remem
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Ask HN: How to regain the ability to read with focus and learn
85 points by albert_e 1y ago|39 comments
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by albert_e 1y ago
The first track i got was an audio summary of "philosophical razors" I assumed each "track" is an 5-minute audio summary (LLM+TTS) of a random text ARTICLE from Wikipedia. Apparently I was mistaken and these are actually
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by albert_e 1y ago
Off topic ..did the CBS page heavily hijack the browser back button. I struggled to get back to this page.
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by albert_e 1y ago
Interesting link - thanks. Was it the same issue though -- the Netscape SSL issue is from year 1996. The linked NYT article is about vulnerability with public key encryption dated 2012 by different authors.
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by albert_e 1y ago
Related Randomness and the Netscape Browser January 1996 Dr. Dobb's Journal https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~daw/papers/ddj-netscape.ht... This was written in 1996. The language used feels already much diffe
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by albert_e 1y ago
Sounds like a great resources for learners. Just wondering aloud -- Is there a tutorial/explainer by any chance that a beginner could use to follow along and learn how this is done.
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by albert_e 1y ago
Is this the paper, i wonder, that was used in old physical photo albums. Every alternate leaf was a translucent / see-through paper that would protect the photo print's surface and ink from getting fused to the previous page.

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