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by fernly 3y ago
about my 8th prompt, it told me I had used up my usage and offered an option to sign up for "pro".
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by fernly 3y ago
What is the rule for the shifting octave? The first puzzle I got starts with E4 E4 and as soon as I click that on the keyboard (or type EE), the keyboard jumps to octave 3 and I can't enter the next note which should be C4. Or... is th
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by fernly 3y ago
ETH Zurich[1, 2] is fairly famous as an engineering school. Somehow in my mind it is linked with computer scientist Edsger Dijkstra[3], but according to the Wiki he was never based there. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by fernly 3y ago
This PDF is from a rather poor scan, with low resolution and lots of moire in the half-tone prints. The one at TIA is much sharper, altho still some moire. Interesting that at wholeearth.info the earliest they show is the 1970 issue. But ve
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by fernly 3y ago
It completely ignores details in the "add something" box. I asked for gray trousers, it gave blue jeans. I told it doc martin boots, it continued showing white sneakers. I told it "burgundy sweater", it produced a sweate
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by fernly 3y ago
There are vast quantities of public domain books freely available online, Gutenberg.org, Archive.org, standardebooks.org to name three. The latter in particular emphasizes careful production and proper editing, in effect republishing old bo
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by fernly 3y ago
So it doesn't exist? At least, if it did exist, one would think there would be some video. Certainly searching for "ravenchord" on YT nets a lot of unrelated things, including a piano simulator app named "Raven Chord&quo
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by fernly 3y ago
Oh man yeah, so many dedicated amateurs building calorimeters and learning that calorimetry is hard as hell to do right... all talking over UseNet. Fun days.
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by fernly 3y ago
It only replies, "module 'diffusers' has no attribute 'StableDiffusionXLPipeline'"
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by fernly 3y ago
"Sci-Hub is a shadow library website that provides free access to millions of research papers, without regard to copyright,[4] by bypassing publishers' paywalls in various ways." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by fernly 3y ago
Lemmy.world is doing pretty well off "Rexxitors".
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by fernly 3y ago
Posted article couldn't trouble to link Ms. Dean's actual channel. Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/@fakereviewwatch It's pretty good stuff. She builds a devastating case very methodically, showing how the
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by fernly 3y ago
I looked at their menu[1] and they appear to be missing an important scent: "1960s computer room". This is a not-unpleasant combination of warm electronics (another scent), light lubricating oil, and ink that was characteristic of
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by fernly 3y ago
Yeah, yeah, we know it is all matrices and numbers. But the Apple group seems to be asserting that there is a difference, > We also demonstrate ByteFormer's ability to perform inference with a hypothetical privacy-preserving camera
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by fernly 3y ago
Fascinating philosophical question: if an AI observes a stream of bytes but doesn't decode a camera's output into an image -- and yet can raise an alarm if the camera is aimed at a certain class of subject -- does the AI "see
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by fernly 3y ago
Original paper is accessible: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42255-023-00804-z Everything about travel to Mars and medical applications is contained in the final sentence of the discussion section, > UIH may unlo
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by fernly 3y ago
You missed the caveat back in his point #4, > as long as you don't cross societal norms
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by fernly 3y ago
Case in point: http://68k.news/
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by fernly 3y ago
To a very specific product-choice question(1) it offered a very detailed and (at first glance) accurate and useful list of alternative products. OTOH when I asked it to write a specific piece of PyQt6 code it botched it in several ways -- a
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by fernly 3y ago
Clicking "Try Interactive Demo" gets "Presentation not found." Bye bye
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by fernly 3y ago
Supposedly smooth integration with stock photo sites but I don't see any kind of link or button or menu item for that.
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by fernly 3y ago
Deleted all the slides, couldn't delete the last, so typed new content on it. Now, to add a new slide... um how? Add new slide isn't on the popup menu. Ah, it's command-return (I'm on a Mac)
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by fernly 3y ago
overview and "about" on root URL https://meetslides.com/
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4GB of Xerox PARC Archives Online at Computer History Museum(info.computerhistory.org)
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by fernly 3y ago
Top link is to the archive portal. Here is a lengthy blog post giving the history of backups at PARC from 9-track through multiple stages to DVD: https://computerhistory.org/blog/a-backup-of-historical-prop...
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by fernly 3y ago
Just for reference, * Nuitka[0] "is a Python compiler written in Python. It's fully compatible with Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, and 3.11." * Pypy[1] "is a replacement for CPython" with built
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by fernly 3y ago
Not sure if this is a bug or what, running the query "succulent plants" in the Brave browser, it shows an error message to one side, Error! Engines cannot retrieve results: brave ( Suspended: too many requests )
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by fernly 3y ago
Have we hugged to death? "revive-machines.com refused to connect."
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by fernly 3y ago
In case anybody else was puzzled, C4 grasses are those that "use the C4 carbon fixation pathway to increase their photosynthetic efficiency by reducing or suppressing photorespiration, which mainly occurs under low atmospheric CO2 conc
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by fernly 3y ago
I think the word that Rosenstock was searching for, was "Introvert"[1]. I'm an introvert who had the good fortune to marry another introvert, and live contentedly with her for 40+ years. Following her death a few years ago I

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