automatoney

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by automatoney 2mo ago
Wow what a touching compliment, thank you so much!!
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by automatoney 2mo ago
Woah I LOVE both of these! When I get a chance these are 100% getting linked from the writeup.
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by automatoney 2mo ago
There's a lot of really good research papers that touch on this area from what I saw - would definitely be cool to see if that extra nuance could be added without dramatically increasing the math complexity; in its current state, the c
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by automatoney 2mo ago
Yes, 2.0 is the value I tuned the equations around - but I think there's definitely room for improvement in terms of squashing the space along the fair/deep axis in order to get better results at lower R^2. The issue I ran into wa
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by automatoney 2mo ago
Good catch, added MIT license - feel free to use it! On top of that, my understanding is that math/equations are not subject to copyright, so the core part of this work (the equations/ideas) I think legally has 0 limitations - eve
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by automatoney 2mo ago
Oh wow, didn't even think of how that sort of thing might affect the page.
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by automatoney 2mo ago
Thanks! I hope to send lots of love those ways, they're basically all things that I found outside of this work that I liked enough to remember (I think Humanae was the one that I found while doing this).
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by automatoney 2mo ago
Thank you! I call out the manual labeling bias and also that a future work improvement would be to be scientific about that labeling process (multiple labelers, expert labelers), and then to feed that into the equation generation steps. Par
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by automatoney 2mo ago
Yes absolutely right on - I mention much deeper in the page that in a picker UI you can use a bigger range, but that in a generation context you might want to be a bit more selective. I go into it a bit more when I explain what R^2 is. &quo
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by automatoney 2mo ago
In sharing this around I've found more people than I thought who've done things to semantically chop up the color space - definitely a more interesting area than I first thought of when working on my narrow use case. Feels like it
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Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones(toneyalexander.github.io)
627 points by automatoney 2mo ago|99 comments
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by automatoney 6mo ago
I feel similarly to the author, and I appreciate the links to other authors with similar sentiments - "hirirng a taskrabbit to solve a puzzle" or "feeling nothing about the results". I don't enjoy using LLMs, and I&
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by automatoney 11mo ago
There's some genuinely interesting tips in here, but #10 is for sure just padding so they could call the article "10 Hacks" haha. Everything else is at least somewhat Python specific, but "Hack 10: Avoid repeated functio
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by automatoney 1y ago
I've never understood why people care so much about the linter settings. It's so obviously bikeshedding, just make a choice, run the linter automatically and be done with it. I'm too busy doing actual software engineering to
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by automatoney 1y ago
The writing feels odd in a sort of off putting way. Maybe too much vividness and a kind of pseudointellectual vibe. Or like a bit egotistical? I don't know if that's what you're getting at, but it's what I was getting fr
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by automatoney 1y ago
Your comment made me realize that maybe we're just going through the transition to a collectively better understanding of people. Right now we sort of have to pass through the clinical diagnosis/therapy terms in order to recognize
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by automatoney 1y ago
Word embeddings (that 1000-dimension vector you mention) are not new. No comment on the rest of your comment, but that aspect of LLMs is "old" tech - word2vec was published 11 years ago.
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by automatoney 1y ago
A little strange to compare it to palm reading, I feel like a more apt comparison is some other random medical field like podiatry. I wouldn't expect my friends' podiatrist usage to come up, so I'm sure more of my friends tha
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by automatoney 2y ago
I haven't run into this person but I'd love to hear about problems you've seen people create - I can't even think of a problem I could create and fix.
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by automatoney 2y ago
To my biased ears it sounds like these configuration-like files are a borderline DSL that maybe isn't being treated as such. I feel like that's a common issue - people assume because you call it a config file, it's not a lang
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by automatoney 2y ago
Taken as a whole, the title guidelines feel more focused on titles of articles, rather than whole website titles. I can understand the complaint, but in my opinion this title is fine. The title just feels a little... bare without the note.
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by automatoney 2y ago
Oh wow, I haven't heard of theis "plastic pollution treaty" it sounds super promising! I think one of the things that makes this issue so popular is just how obvious it is to see plastic trash all over the place. Climate chan
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by automatoney 2y ago
I don't have super strong feelings on congestion pricing, but I'm a bit skeptical of anyone who says working class people are the major car users in NYC. But all that aside, why aren't we talking about the insantiy that is fr
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by automatoney 2y ago
In the United States, likeness rights vary by state https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights
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by automatoney 3y ago
Probably should have just said POC in my parent comment to skip all this side discussion, but the repetition is the point. - it's used for emphasis. From wikipedia: "The term aims to emphasize the historic oppression of black and
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by automatoney 3y ago
I'm personally increasingly less interested in language-focused critiques when it comes to systemic issues. The article makes interesting points, but I think the effort it's trying to make is kind of on a euphemism treadmill. The
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by automatoney 3y ago
I haven't read any Marucs Aurelius, so my impression might be off, but the way the AI speaks feels... I don't know, like a British person, or some American from an older time? It keeps saying "my dear" which feels very i
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by automatoney 3y ago
As a hobbyist game developer, I would love to see the field move away from being so windows focused. It's pretty annoying that every other kind of development I do works well enough across all platforms, but when I want to do game dev
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by automatoney 3y ago
Looks like this is forked from the original at https://github.com/28klotlucas2/Mario64webgl ?
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by automatoney 3y ago
Pretty interesting to have a list, but I was kind of hoping there'd be more information. The FAQ is a good start, and there's the link to wikipedia, but I was hoping for more insight than "Moai are cool. And video games are c

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