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by fernly 2y ago
A bit of context regarding Project Gutenberg. Its intake process is far from casual. Take a look at Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders (PGDP, [0],[1]), one of the oldest "crowd-sourcing" projects on the net (est. 2000). As
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by fernly 2y ago
Does anyone use Google for search any more? My browser default for five years has been duckduckgo. More recently, for any factual question (as opposed to just finding some organization's website given its name, which DDG does fine) I u
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by fernly 2y ago
I find the OP very difficult to comprehend, to the point that I question whether it has content at all. One difficulty is in understanding their use of the word "embedding", defined (so to speak) as "internal representations
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by fernly 2y ago
Computer History Museum blog post with pictures and background info: https://computerhistory.org/blog/chm-releases-alexnet-source...
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by fernly 2y ago
I would think that if you couldn't set up a modern computer so that it launched a BASIC interpreter immediately on completing boot-up, you could at least have the BASIC ready as an obvious icon on the desktop and taskbar/dock, so
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by fernly 2y ago
That's what I think the tech at this stage cannot do. You make two clips from the same prompt with a minor change, e.g. > a thief threatens a man with a gun, demanding his money, then fires the gun (etc add details) > the thief r
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by fernly 2y ago
Superficially impressive but what is the actual use case of the present state of the art? It makes 10-second demos, fine. But can a producer get a second shot of the same scene and the same characters, with visual continuity? Or a third, et
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by fernly 2y ago
n.b. the book (ISBN-13 9780743498746) is available used, from many sources for ~$6 inc. shipping, e.g. https://www.ebay.com/itm/156278324219?_skw=9780743498746
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by fernly 2y ago
Thank you! I had never even noticed that menu item.
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by fernly 2y ago
The linked story is part of the online version[0] of a Baen anthology, _The World Turned Upside Down_, being a collection of stories that formed the imaginations of the two editors, Erik Flint[1] and David Drake[2]. The site seems to have b
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by fernly 2y ago
Imagine the possibilities for cyber-crime. Surely you could program it to log in to a financial institution and transfer money. And if you had a list of user names and passwords from some large info breach? You could automate a LOT of trans
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by fernly 2y ago
The _abstract_ is there; the full paper costs $29.99 or you need a university access id.
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by fernly 2y ago
Maybe a smaller issue than wind, but something is wrong with this claim: "If you can pick up goods directly from a customer on one side and deliver them directly to a customer on the other..." How do you handle customs inspections
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by fernly 2y ago
I can sympathize with the OP authors' frustration with Markdown and resulting preference for ASCIIDoc (try to format a poem, or a play script, in Markdown). Lots of people have addressed this, and NIH rules supreme -- see reStructured
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by fernly 2y ago
For those commenting on the importance of character ambiguity, I completely agree, and offer "DP Sans Mono", a font specifically designed for unambiguous proofreading. https://www.pgdp.net/wiki/DP_Sans_Mono
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by fernly 2y ago
A pity they hadn't read Gene Wolf's _Book of the New Sun_ in which the main character wears robes of "the hue fuligin, which is darker than black, admirably erases all folds, bunchings and gatherings so far as the eye is conc
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by fernly 2y ago
I had the same "something went wrong" experience, but on retrying the "sign in to run" button, it was fine and had logged me in. Gave me a credit of 2USD to play with.
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by fernly 2y ago
Those looking at Canada need to get serious and do better research. The options are much wider, even if you restrict your search to English-speaking lands. I know this because after the previous Trump victory I gave very serious thought to
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by fernly 2y ago
You have a good ear, you are hearing the small errors inherent in "twelve-tone equal temperament"[1] which is a compromise between numerical ideals and practical instrument-making. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by fernly 2y ago
For fun I asked Claude (sonnet) to proofread that paragraph and it found no problem with "cracked team".
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by fernly 2y ago
> “Another exciting application is understanding new languages, like dolphin or whale communication, which don’t have a written form of communication. Our hope is that DenseAV can help us understand these languages that have evaded human
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by fernly 2y ago
My goodness but there is a whole lot of these! (Found the below table from the Nnn wiki page, mentioned above.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_managers
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by fernly 2y ago
Suggestion: don't lose search strings. Example: in the search box type "Panda" -- a modal window pops up with 6 matches. Which one do I want? I click one. It fills the window. Nope, that is not the one. So I click the Back bu
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by fernly 2y ago
Wiggy. [1] https://greensdictofslang.com/search/basic?q=wiggy
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by fernly 3y ago
I appreciate the article. As a lowly member of technical staff 92-97 I didn't see or understand a fraction of this. I *loved* my Indy workstation and the IRIX desktop UI, and I admired the brilliance of some of the engineers I worked w
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by fernly 3y ago
I gave it only two commands, presumably the same two would produce similar results in a reset universe. "create One" caused it to create an omniscient "ground of all being". Followed by "create Rene" whereupon
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by fernly 3y ago
The comments on the announcement video to YouTube subscribers of Serif's channel[1] are unanimously negative. A number of commenters refer to CEO Ashley Hewson's body language, which can be interpreted as less than happy. [1] htt
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by fernly 3y ago
All those words about focus, concentration, taming the wandering mind -- and never even a passing reference to Buddhism, whose central practice is exactly that. Certainly a Christian hermetic deals with the same problems as does a Buddhist
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by fernly 3y ago
After I signed in with Google and answered a couple of "who am I" questions it produced a 404 error on https://dashboard.cohere.com/generate?model=c4ai-aya
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by fernly 3y ago
There are several narrowboaters who record their travels on YT, perhaps the best, certainly one of the first, is "Travels by Narrowboat", with 6 seasons on Prime[1] and the more recent years on YT[2]. [1] https://www.am

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