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by bambax 2y ago
Yes, that's weird. USB is a worse attack vector than Bluetooth.
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by bambax 2y ago
I have never typed a complete sentence into Google and am still very satisfied with the quality of Google search. But... your comment made me realize, a good use of LLMs with search would be not to ask them directly, but to use them as a fr
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by bambax 2y ago
Dead reckoning is... hard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_reckoning The first car navigator, the Etak, came out in 1985 and used dead reckoning and quantization to tell where the car was on the map; see this excell
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by bambax 2y ago
But why? Why is it acceptable to consider OSes 15 years old ancient, when that logic never applied to almost any tool in the history of mankind, and still doesn't apply to any other category except software? In my home all the machines
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by bambax 2y ago
Extremely well done, congratulations! If you're able to tackle Web Audio API directly, maybe you could build an alternative lightweight framework to Tone.js? That would be cool.
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by bambax 2y ago
Although not exactly the same, this is very reminiscent of Spolsky's "Big Macs vs. The Naked Chef" (2001) [0] where he explained: > What’s the moral of the story? Beware of Methodologies. They are a great way to bring eve
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by bambax 2y ago
Every experience I have had with LLMs generating code. LLMs tend to follow the prompt much too closely and produce large amounts of convoluted code that in the end prove not only unnecessary but quite toxic. Where LLMs shine is in being a p
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by bambax 2y ago
Interesting! But it seems these datasets don't contain the description of each movie? Do you know where tools such as Jellyfin or Plex get them? Do they simply scrape the website?
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by bambax 2y ago
If it was purely local (saved on localStorage) it could be stored indefinitely? But then of course it would be hard to share.
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by bambax 2y ago
These kinds of projects are so cool and fun. Now all it needs is a 1/10 000 replica of the Titanic around it.
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by bambax 2y ago
Thank you for this comment. So the code written in this manner isn't really "created by AI"; AI is just a nice additional feature of an editor. I wonder if the enormous hype around AI is a good or bad thing; it's obvious
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by bambax 2y ago
You're right that all I have to do is find the first line of the footnotes, because everything above is the text and everything under it is footnotes. For now I have selected a crude approach: there is a gap in the page between the tex
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by bambax 2y ago
It's an early 20th century edition of 18th century memoirs, in French. The project is not secret by any means but I'd rather not name it directly so as to not generate expectations that I may not satisfy.
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by bambax 2y ago
Yes thank you, that's one piece of information that I examined. The font size of the footnotes is a little bit smaller but the difference is very narrow. On a given word it's not really obvious enough. But maybe by calculating the
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by bambax 2y ago
I'm trying to OCR a very large book: 45 volumes of ~500 pages each. The digitization has been done (not very good but not too bad either), but the pages have comments in the margin and lots of footnotes. Just doing plain OCR doesn&#x27
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by bambax 2y ago
In 2019 I made a fairly simple app that sends me an email everyday that I just need to respond to and the text of the reply gets added to a database. I have almost never missed a day since Oct. of 2019. Some observations: - it can be pretty
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by bambax 2y ago
> Firefox plugins on Android kind of suck The one that truly matters works flawlessly on mobile, and I couldn't live without it: uBlock Origin.
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by bambax 2y ago
> How ironic that not having firmware updates is good That's often the case, things going from good to worse. Cf. the removal of Manifest 2 on Chrome for instance.
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by bambax 2y ago
I love this kind of observation: > like most truly useful things we need to build it ourselves but I was surprised that the author insists on displaying an image on the Kindle. The last third of the post is dedicated to building that P
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by bambax 2y ago
Just watched "F for Fake" (Orson Welles, 1973), a documentary of sorts about the great art forger Elmyr de Hory who was able to imitate the style of many of his contemporaries to perfection (Modigliani, Matisse, etc.), fooling the
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by bambax 2y ago
My guess is he tried with a wood drill bit, which will tear cardboard and make a big mess. For cardboard, or plastic, you need a metal drill bit.
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by bambax 2y ago
The screen is available on Amazon? But it's a touch screen, which seems overkill; any screen would probably work? One can always build a custom frame around it.
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by bambax 2y ago
> an art installation in public places so people could see - and interact - with others from around the world Sure, and it wasn't long before this happened: > It took less than a week for people eager to share their ‘assets’ w
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by bambax 2y ago
> Who came up with this saying? I was not aware of that specific formulation but there's a maxim by Mark Twain that says "They did not know it was impossible so they did it".
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by bambax 2y ago
Ok, but I wonder if it really needs to be real time like this? Wouldn't it make more sense to have some kind of button: somebody makes a pose, takes a picture, the picture is run through some kind of transformation and comes back as a
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by bambax 2y ago
I have tried many others for many other things (via OpenRouter) but I have never compared LLMs on the exact same task; it's confusing enough with one engine... ;-) Sonnet 3.5 for coding is fine but makes "basic" mistakes all
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by bambax 2y ago
Cool anecdote!
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by bambax 2y ago
Companies are going to install an AI inside their own proprietary systems full of proprietary and confidential data and PII about their customers and prospects and whatnot, and let it run around and click on random buttons and submit random
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by bambax 2y ago
False positives are one thing, but the real danger are false negatives when someone trusts the model blindly. I'd rather examine a website with my own eyes than ask an LLM what it thinks.

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