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by doomlaser 4y ago
It's interesting. In the AI space all the big cloud providers are pairing off with an AI darling. Amazon AWS has partnered with Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/blog/the-partnership-amazon-sagemaker... . Micros
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Realtime OpenAI API Generated Video Game Dialog with Live Text-to-Speech(doomlaser.com)
2 points by doomlaser 4y ago|0 comments
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by doomlaser 4y ago
Apache Arrow uses flatbuffers in the .arrow format: https://arrow.apache.org/docs/format/Columnar.html
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by doomlaser 4y ago
That's one of the other things that strikes me about many of the killer applications that have thus far come out of the deep learning AI spring that's been blooming for the last 10 years or so: riffing on known styles in novel way
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by doomlaser 4y ago
This is called "hallucination" and I find it to be the biggest flaw with GPT-3 interfaces like ChatGPT. Basically, the system will start convincingly BSing at any point and as a user, you're never sure if any particular detai
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by doomlaser 4y ago
Interestingly, in the 1970s, before any fabs on the island, Taiwan arranged for semiconductor engineers from the iconic but slowly dying American company RCA to transfer their technology to a visiting Taiwanese team, establishing what would
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List of Animals by Number of Neurons(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by doomlaser 4y ago|0 comments
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by doomlaser 4y ago
https://letterboxd.com is the best source for scoping out a movie now. The ratings histogram for each film is incredibly informative about quality. It also happens to be my favorite social network right now since it's so fo
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Show HN: procedurally generated first-person Roman ruins(twitter.com)
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New Intel CEO on turnaround plans: “I want to win Apple’s business.”(theverge.com)
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by doomlaser 4y ago
Personally, I would take Fellini over Godard any day of the week. I'd much rather watch La Dolce Vita over Breathless
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by doomlaser 4y ago
Footage of it in motion during today's 6.8 magnitude earthquake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnSh8C40i1s
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by doomlaser 4y ago
In 2007, I wanted to start a blog to release some of the software and videogame side projects I had begun developing in college (at the time, a Kernel Panic Screen Saver for the Mac and Cursorcerer, a Mac system tool for hiding the cursor
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R. Crumb Means Some Offense(nytimes.com)
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by doomlaser 4y ago
Another good one in a similar vein is https://www.geoguessr.com/ — Guess where you are in the world from a random location by hopping around through unlabeled Google Streetview data
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by doomlaser 4y ago
Adobe consolidates. Where is the Blender equivalent for Photoshop? I don't think GIMP is the answer, but it seems like Photoshop is ripe for an open source competitor in the category. I just don't know of any realistic candidates.
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by doomlaser 4y ago
Look at what happened with Blender. It's displacing Autodesk! Maya and 3DS Max were both once "irreplaceably" entrenched.
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by doomlaser 4y ago
Godot has already produced at least one unconventional indie darling hit that I know of, Cruelty Squad for PC: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1388770/Cruelty_Squad/
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by doomlaser 4y ago
Sales from Descender meant I didn't need to do other work during college (it plays perfectly fine in SheepShaver, if you'd like to give it a try), and it probably helped secure me an internship at Apple working on their internal g
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by doomlaser 4y ago
Sure. In 2007 I started up a new label at http://doomlaser.com . Made a bunch of indie stuff as that scene was really starting to bloom. Helped build some big franchises like Tap Tap Revenge, the iOS game for The Hunger Games, al
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by doomlaser 4y ago
When I was a kid in 1998, the newly returned Steve Jobs introduced the original iMac from Apple, the first Mac without a floppy disk drive. This seemed like a monumental shift to me at the time, and me and my friends had just started to wri
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by doomlaser 4y ago
This reminds me of one of my favorite features from the Mac: Quick Look — press space to instantly bring up a big contextual preview window of the selected document in the Finder. You can bring it to Windows with this useful open source too
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by doomlaser 4y ago
Hadn't heard of JPEG XL until you mentioned it. The format looks really cool! Support for lossless and lossy compression, animation, and tons of other new features https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_XL Preliminary
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Oliver Stone watched Dr. Strangelove with Putin in 2017, gifted him the DVD(twitter.com)
5 points by doomlaser 5y ago|1 comments
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ARM1 and Apple M1 Ultra at the same scale(twitter.com)
4 points by doomlaser 5y ago|0 comments
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by doomlaser 5y ago
Sony makes the l̶e̶n̶s̶e̶s̶ sensors on modern iPhones and, if rumors are to be believed, also the micro OLED displays on a forthcoming new product category. It's funny. The 1970s Sony Trinitron CRT TVs are what inspired Steve Jobs to
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by doomlaser 5y ago
One of the coolest things about the Renaissance was the discovery of how to render perspective in drawings and paintings. The technique was spread greatly by the Italian book de Pictura , written by the humanist and artist Leon Battista A
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by doomlaser 5y ago
This looks like a really great tool! Is it possible to control the contents of the WebView through script and turn off the interactivity / keyboard?
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The FIP-FS “Microsoft” Scan Engine Failed. Can’t Convert “2201010001” to Long(twitter.com)
43 points by doomlaser 5y ago|11 comments
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Library of Congress Audio Recordings from 1922 that are now in the public domain(loc.gov)
3 points by doomlaser 5y ago|0 comments

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