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by btown 2y ago
s/accessible/acceptable/ - guess I should have run my comment through the kind of check-for-typos LLM step that I described above!
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by btown 2y ago
Sports have so much structured data, and such a high bar for describing it accurately (especially for a brand like ESPN), that there are significant risks to the hallucinations that might develop from a multi-hour transcript being fed into
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by btown 2y ago
A decade ago, https://pycpu.wordpress.com/ was a prototype that turned a small subset of Python bytecode, as well as the specifications for a system to run it, into VHDL/Verilog (via myhdl.org) to run on an FPGA. In th
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by btown 2y ago
Or just plain old links to malware, because sometimes even non-interactive links in a plaintext document can be presented by an attacker with context that socially-engineers a target to copy-paste a malicious URL into a browser. I'm ac
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by btown 2y ago
That said, if Tom7 wasn’t meticulous about typesetting all his results, we would never have been blessed with https://youtu.be/Y65FRxE7uMc
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by btown 2y ago
It's a shame this is being abandoned, because if you want a rich text editor that truly is Gmail's compose editor as it has existed for the past decade - that emits the same structures that Gmail would, handles copy-pasted rich
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by btown 2y ago
This looks really, really cool. In the Python world, we can rely on tools like Sentry to be able to say "on any exception or logger.warning, crawl the stack and show me all the variables at every level." And we've also set up
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by btown 2y ago
(July 10, 2024)
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by btown 2y ago
Physically, the probability that an aerosolized particle enters your body is lower with a mask than without one, as at least some airflow will go through the mask and carry particles onto the mask surface. How much lower, of course, is diff
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by btown 2y ago
>>> from __future__ import braces File "<stdin>", line 1 SyntaxError: not a chance For those interested in how this (hilarious) error text came to be, it's been hardcoded in cpython since 20
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by btown 2y ago
Projects like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisualAudio and https://www-cdf.lbl.gov/~av/JAES-paper-LBNL.pdf are quite interesting in this context - while I doubt that any methods have been tested
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by btown 2y ago
I have a slightly different view on this. ZIRP allowed companies to do crazy things when it came to tech investment. For instance, would Kafka (and by extension, Confluent, and much of the distributed-systems landscape) exist if LinkedIn ha
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by btown 2y ago
Really cool! Do you know if there's anything similar for Chrome?
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by btown 2y ago
"That's why we use multiple LLMs, because it gives us an S!"
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by btown 2y ago
To this point, guaranteeing that your fine-tuning doesn't actually weaken the hallucination-resistance of state-of-the-art base models, by overfitting to specific examples in your training set, is a really hard thing to measure. Unle
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by btown 2y ago
While I’m excited about the launch, I’m concerned that your data policies are extremely vague and seem to contain typos and missing parentheticals. As of 12:30p ET they say: > We have nuanced privacy controls on minusx. Any data you shar
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by btown 2y ago
Did you build on any low-level libraries like RocksDB for data persistence etc.? Or did you fully hand-roll the database? Curious about the tradeoffs there nowadays.
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by btown 2y ago
California has an exception for hearing aids and other similar devices, but it’s unclear if transcription aids count, or if this has been tested in court. https://codes.findlaw.com/ca/penal-code/pen-sect-632/
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by btown 2y ago
Are there any open-source or paid apps/shareware/freeware that can: - Transcribe word-by-word in real time as audio is recorded - Work entirely locally - Use relatively recent open-source local models? I've been using otter.a
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by btown 2y ago
A docking system has many, many moving parts under significant stress, and not all of them are tested under the assumption that arbitrary software could drive their positions/torques beyond assumed limits. You can’t factory-reset metal
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by btown 2y ago
http://www3.alpa.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=IO7kd%2Bfm2Do... shows the system as of 2020. To the parent’s point, it’s actually quite a reasonable UX, with colored outputs, filter banks, and just enough abbreviations and
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by btown 2y ago
Google’s Closure Library is fascinating too. It’s being retired, but if you want to build a rich text interface for email authoring that truly feels like Gmail, warts and all, you can just use a pre-compiled version of the library and follo
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by btown 2y ago
From the OP: > Instead of deprecating third-party cookies, we would introduce a new experience in Chrome that lets people make an informed choice that applies across their web browsing, and they’d be able to adjust that choice at any tim
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by btown 2y ago
One of the most dangerous versions of this IMO is someone who compromises a NPM/Pypi package that's widely used as a dependency. If you can make it so that the original developer doesn't know you've compromised their acc
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by btown 2y ago
I love articles that walk a lay person through a mathematical discovery, piece by piece. An incredibly fun read.
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by btown 2y ago
This is like saying Apple and Alphabet are the same. SAP is a 52 year old company and is the largest non-American software company in revenue, and has never been part of Salesforce: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAP
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by btown 2y ago
Completely speculating, but when an App Store review process can drive business decisions (we have to push the launch of X back because we're having trouble lobbying Apple to approve our changes), it's reasonable to see a second a
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by btown 2y ago
> returns a reusable data structure mapping input keys to output keys IMO this use case is exactly what Copilot is for. Write a comment including one example each of input and output, and tab-complete in your language of choice to have i
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by btown 2y ago
Including your laptop if you have a few Electron apps open!
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by btown 2y ago
There's plenty of humor on arXiv, and that's part of why it's so incredible! Some lists: https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/86346/is-it-ok-... https://www.ellipsix.net/arxi

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