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541.
by gcr 2y ago
Is cancer anxiety a common response? I haven't seen any mention of cancer on r/zepbound
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by gcr 2y ago
joking aside, i do think that as AI continues to pervade public consciousness, we will start to see some creators market their products as being "AI-free" or somesuch, for better or worse. It's like lemon market virtue signal
543.
by gcr 2y ago
Here's a 50-line sketch of abacus machines in Python, including some barebones parsing code: https://github.com/gcr/abacus-machines/blob/main/main.py
544.
by gcr 2y ago
> Upload an image of yourself and transform it > into a personalized video. Movie Gen’s > cutting-edge model lets you create personalized > videos that preserve human identity and motion. A stalker’s dream!
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by gcr 2y ago
exciting to see!
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by gcr 2y ago
I'd actually appreciate that if it's not too much trouble. I hope this feedback from an interested potential user is useful for however the design winds up :-) In case you're curious, a few more details about this application
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by gcr 2y ago
It’s rough out there, folks. Anecdote: a while back, I did an internship at a YC “darling” company that you’ve definitely heard of. They apparently liked me so much that a couple years ago, the lead of intern recruiting emailed me encouragi
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by gcr 2y ago
Does anyone have details on VVC’s auxiliary stream support (transparency / depth)? I work on large-scale outdoor scene understanding datasets and being able to encode stereo RGB video with 16-bit depth would be extremely helpful!
549.
by gcr 2y ago
Here’s an unconventional choice: grab a copy of the old RPG Maker XP and let them at it. Most of the difficulty is selecting and arranging art assets. There are scripts, but the language syntax is all controlled by button presses and dialog
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by gcr 2y ago
They’ve got tons of B2B revenue from startups. VCs see it as speculative investments.
551.
by gcr 2y ago
My favorite FOSS video game, Dr. Robotnik’s Ring Racers ( http://kartkrew.org ), has Tracy support! It’s not compiled into the default build. I’ve learned a lot reading the code.
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by gcr 2y ago
Cloud storage just isn’t for me. I could speak of the time when Google drive URL-encoded the names of all of my files turning spaces into %20s… Have rolled the dice on offsite hard drive storage so far and been fairly happy, though I’m cert
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Arc browser: incident response writeup to CVE-2024-45489 (cross-user JS RCE)(arc.net)
3 points by gcr 2y ago|0 comments
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by gcr 2y ago
If users leave Facebook because spam, and if spam is easy to generate with Llama and friends, Meta wouldn’t open-source models that so easily generate spam, I mean. The incentives are misaligned.
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by gcr 2y ago
Huge agree. I didn’t realize this applied to me the first time I saw this story yesterday. It was the rename that got me to click. Honestly I strongly feel the title should be “fundamental bug in Arc browser (CVE 123-4567)” or similar.
556.
by gcr 2y ago
If this essay is right, one corollary is that Meta will stop investing in Llama once they notice GenAI makes people use social media less.
557.
by gcr 2y ago
This is also how things work at Google. Google also maintains a monorepo with "forks" of all software that they use. History diverges, but is occasionally synchronized for things like security updates etc.
558.
by gcr 2y ago
Chrome has that in the preferences. Don’t even need a feature flag or user styles.
559.
by gcr 2y ago
For the purpose of searching, wouldn’t it be sufficient to do NFC normalization for text? Could hide that behind a command line flag even…
560.
by gcr 2y ago
Does this work on Android? I’d love to put this on my eInk tablet so I could get actual search for my book library.
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by gcr 2y ago
Your comment is addressed in the introduction section of the paper being discussed. Do give it a read. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.03271
562.
by gcr 2y ago
Link to the paper in question: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.03271 I don’t know why the URL was replaced with this much crappier Washington post article.
563.
by gcr 2y ago
Coding models these days use an inference every time you stop typing. Let’s say it’s 0.1 inference oer keystroke. If you keep VSCode open all day, I could believe it’s a significant energy draw. Google now uses several inferences per Google
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by gcr 2y ago
With reports like this discussing training cost, is the usage reported per-model? Or is it aggregated across the entire creative model development/exploration process? At the risk of doing original research, one thing I don’t see a lot
565.
by gcr 2y ago
Another corollary is that AI companies don’t train one model at a time. Typical engineers will have maybe 5-10 models training at once. Large hyperparameter grid searches might have hundreds or thousands. Most of these will turn out to be d
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by gcr 2y ago
Google’s TPU energy usage is a well-kept secret / competitive advantage. If energy efficiency isn’t a major concern for them, I bet it will be in a couple years.
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by gcr 2y ago
That’s the tricky thing about conservation. These problems have multiple sources! Every time a completely new energy-hungry product category is introduced, the carbon budget gets harder and harder to balance. In the 19X0s it was television
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by gcr 2y ago
So you can double your commute‘s environmental impact by using llama 1000x per day? That sounds pretty bad still, no?
569.
by gcr 2y ago
I’m still kind of skeptical. M-series Apple hardware doesn’t even get warm during inference with some local models. Edit: Nah I’m convinced, look at table 1. Inference costs are around 20mL in a datacenter environment.
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by gcr 2y ago
jq's syntax is different, but well worth remembering. i have some flash cards if you'd like. a teensy amount of effort pays huge dividends with swiss knife software like this (and things like matplotlib, tar CLI options, etc)

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