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by gcr 3y ago
I’m partial to Italic handwriting! Iceland has a comprehensive handwriting education curriculum to teach it to kids and adults. https://penvibe.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Handwriting-R...
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by gcr 3y ago
Is there any reason why we cannot put a pipewire-with-aac build in the nonfree repository that replaces the default pipewire build using the Alternatives system? Or perhaps pipewire could ldopen() libfaac as required. Edit: the issue is soc
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by gcr 3y ago
Since this was written in 2016, the webpage broke the formatting of the code samples, causing all of the outputs to be collapsed to one line. Luckily, the Internet Archive has a version with correct formatting, which I find miles easier to
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by gcr 3y ago
I also have a Ph.D. and am dumb as rocks sometimes. Example: yesterday I spent several seconds trying to badge into the subway turnstile with my employee ID card, mystified why it wasn’t working. Ph.D. selects for research ability, which ei
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by gcr 3y ago
I share your skepticism about AI tools being effective. However, when we look at it from a labor relations perspective, what's important is the threat of being replaced, and that's happening now. I think the threat itself is (cu
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by gcr 3y ago
Please don't just paste AI-generated summaries into a low-effort comment. I don't know why your summary only picked up on the first half of the first paragraph, but estimating global population volume has nothing to do with the ar
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by gcr 3y ago
Out of curiosity, why do you rebuild? What kinds of new features would get you to want to upgrade?
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by gcr 3y ago
> "They also demonstrated a machine-learning model that helps detect tampering by identifying similar glue pattern fingerprints with more than 99 percent accuracy." This system would probably have to be far better than 99% to b
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by gcr 3y ago
What’s the difference? AI-motivated job cuts are widespread in all sectors, and companies are phrasing them as “efficiency improvements.” This is only possible because of recent advances in LLM capability. If anything, skilled experts are s
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by gcr 3y ago
Then why did openAI fail here, in your view?
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by gcr 3y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but doesn't the clause under "Library" only grant a license to distribute the library "during the term," which is terminated when the developer doesn't renew their subscription? Directly
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by gcr 3y ago
What are the false positive and false negative rates of DNA testing? Paternity tests for example seem to have ~1.1% false positive rates, and that’s comparing a single sample to a single other sample. Keep in mind that comparing a DNA sampl
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by gcr 3y ago
In the early-2010s, computer vision papers started putting a bulleted summary of that paper’s contributions at the end of the intro. It’s an enormously helpful (and fairly recent) invention. I’ve been insisting on using that pattern in the
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by gcr 3y ago
Thanks! I legit had no idea. I retract my earlier comment.
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by gcr 3y ago
The significant part of this, for me, is not the image model. It's that Apple rarely publishes in the vision field. Back in Neurips (2016 I want to say?) Apple had a workshop where they said "we're going to engage more with t
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by gcr 3y ago
That's an interesting point. Is this because of the modem and always-on background tasks / push notifications?
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by gcr 3y ago
You can even see a truncated RankWarning in the output in the appendix. Low rank indeed! Numpy is crying out in agony and the authors didn’t notice They’re using GPT….to write code that does “quadratic regression” on two whole data points…w
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by gcr 3y ago
It isn’t clear which is which if they all are unchecked
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by gcr 3y ago
When I hear “potential” to harbor life, I think of “potential to harbor life greater than the mean exoplanet.” Otherwise like, why comment on it at all ? Imagine headlines like “Farm sells latest batch of apples with potential to be a choki
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by gcr 3y ago
I LOVE anki!! I’m a heavy user. Everything goes in my morning flash cards. Knots, geography, language, tar commandline flags, papers, statistics homework. Fill them with things you like, is my advice - it’s fun to say hello to hobbies on th
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by gcr 3y ago
being pedantic: all VPNs work that way
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by gcr 3y ago
The standard answer is “use bcrypt and don’t try to roll your own” Example when you say concatenation, do you mean hash(email + secret) or hash(secret + email)? The choice matters: off the top of my head, I know the former lets an attacker
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by gcr 3y ago
Oooo post it post it! Was it “generate a multivariate Gaussian distribution and then divide each point by its norm”?
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by gcr 3y ago
Are bacteria as sacred as people? Genuinely curious about how you think… I believe all life is sacred, but I guess I believe humans are moreso? Perhaps sentience is some key ingredient…? Then again I would prefer a universe teeming with hum
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by gcr 3y ago
Godot is a great sketchpad for these things. One time I was at the airport for a flight, so I wrote a quick-and-dirty notepad for the Russian pencil-and-paper game Virus War (“Война вирусов”) for my eInk tablet that my partner and I could p
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by gcr 3y ago
I don’t think that’s correct. Workspace admins can set session lengths here[1] for web and here[2] for chrome. 1: https://support.google.com/a/answer/7576830?product_name=Unu... 2: https://support.googl
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by gcr 3y ago
Apologies in advance—I don't know how to say this in a loving way, but I also don’t mean to pass judgment—couldn’t this just be a skill issue? Why not look into how quantum computing works and resolve that once and for all? https:&#x2
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by gcr 3y ago
Paper News is just as bad regarding this. You’re more likely to see shelves full of celebrity gossip mags at the checkout than you are to find spotlight journalism. So it’s not the format. It’s our nature to want to understand what’s on the
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by gcr 3y ago
aha! i downloaded tiktok just now to test, and I'm immediately presented with a passkey prompt: "scan this QR code with a device to sign into TikTok" If I had a TikTok passkey on my phone at the time, it's likely that th
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by gcr 3y ago
I haven't seen these sorts of native prompts. Even passkey prompts open with a popover toast that covers the bottom part of the screen to confirm which account you want to use. Do you know what mechanism Duo is using in this example? E

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