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by fnands 3y ago
Very cool!
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by fnands 3y ago
> Also using this for AI training purposes. Cool! Training for what? You can't just drop a juicy comment like this and then leave us hanging ;-)
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by fnands 3y ago
The Typst webapp [1] seems like it is already pretty similar to Overleaf. LaTeX output seems not to be on the roadmap [2], which I can respect. The amount of weirdness you would have to workaround to get good Typst to LaTeX translation sou
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by fnands 3y ago
Someone knows their audience ;-)
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> The author is a PhD student that has been using LaTeX heavily for 10 years. But what should a new student use, and why? When the only reason to choose LaTeX is old colleagues and gatekeeping publishers, I know it's a matter of tim
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Zing!
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by fnands 3y ago
https://xkcd.com/955/
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by fnands 3y ago
I follow for ML news/updates. Still the number one place for researchers to share their work/ideas. I make a point of being strict about not engaging with political content, so my feed is mostly relevant to my interests.
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Ask HN: Survivors of "down rounds" – how did it go?
4 points by fnands 3y ago|4 comments
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In academia it totally makes sense. If you have to do numerical work a d don't have to integrate into some legacy code base it is totally the way to go
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by fnands 3y ago
Julia code is actually very Fortran-like (if Fortran was designed in the 21st century). I did some Fortran in undergrad, and while it's pleasant to work with, if you have to do anything beyond numerical calculations you are basically s
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by fnands 3y ago
Little bit of column A, little bit of column B ;-)
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by fnands 3y ago
Cool! Writing math-heavy code in Julia is such a pleasure. C++ is a pain, numpy is alright but Julia just makes sense. I really wish I could use it for my day-job. Back when I was on ATLAS we mostly did things in C++. If I never have to do
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by fnands 3y ago
Nice! Very trippy
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by fnands 3y ago
A take on it from 2010 but with YouTube compression: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icruGcSsPp0 And MKBHD did a take on it in 2019 again with YouTube compression: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR4KHfqw-oE
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by fnands 3y ago
Lemme know if you don't find it. I could have shared the link but the URL is ugly, lol. There is also some 30cm Pleiades Neo imagery that I found in Airbus's archive, but I don't think SkyFi offers PNeo.
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by fnands 3y ago
Very low cost for better than Sentinel-2 is hard. If 3m is OK then you could look into PlanetScope imagery, although getting small amounts as a hobbyist might be a pain. I had a look at SkyFi, and there is some 75cm imagery in Aniak that yo
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by fnands 3y ago
Agreed. You only need to convince a small fraction of the world population to have a real impact.
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Then why do people use ChatGPT? If all answers are on Google, why do people prefer interacting with chatbots? Interacting with AI agents makes it feel like you are interacting with an entity that can think and reason, that has some form of
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by fnands 3y ago
All religions start small. You basically start with a cult and once you get adopted by a large enough power you become a religion. So the first signs would be an AI led cult. Imagine, if you truly believe you are interacting with an entit
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by fnands 3y ago
> Satan is included in the app to provide a comprehensive understanding of biblical narratives, reflecting the character's role as described in the Bible. However, interaction with Satan is turned off by default and must be manually
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by fnands 3y ago
Oh god, has anyone fine-tuned a model on the Bible yet and marketed it as your own personal Jesus?
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by fnands 3y ago
> Honest question: do people actually apply to jobs because it piques their interest? Yes? I mean, I have to work somewhere, but I'd prefer to work on problems that I find interesting. > I don't apply for any jobs that requi
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by fnands 3y ago
Graphic designers don't often don't create every little thing that goes into what they do, and often don't do their own illustrations (there are exceptions, but this is usually done by dedicated illustrators). Exact example I
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by fnands 3y ago
100%. I know graphic designers who used to outsource designs to Fiverr who are now just using Midjourney. Faster and cheaper. Also, large part of what used to be done with stock images. No need to search for the perfect stock image when you
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by fnands 3y ago
I had a quick look at it: https://fnands.com/mojo-advent-of-code/ It honestly feels a lot like writing C++ with Python syntax. Still a lot missing, but excited to see where it goes.
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by fnands 3y ago
Very much a thing in some places. Discovery (SA) gives you rewards points for activities, among them step counts: https://www.discovery.co.za/vitality/active-rewards-goals
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by fnands 3y ago
LeetcodeBit instead of FitBit? ;-)
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When asking it: Q: Can you give me a python code example for how to coregister satellite images using OpenCV It gives me a very reasonable approach calling opencv functions that actually exist.
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Mhh, in my first try it seems to have completely hallucinated a python package: Q: How can I automatically coregister a large amount of satellite images? A: To automatically coregister a large amount of satellite images, you can use softwar

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