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by gcr 3y ago
Lego Mindstorms bricks could be programmed over an IR connection like this. The earliest ones shipped with an IR transmitter that had a 9-pin serial socket on the back.
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by gcr 3y ago
Why does this conclusion follow? Of course similar text compresses more efficiently, but NNs don’t work with compressed (varying-size) representations, they work with vector representations which happen to be close in similarity space
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by gcr 3y ago
That’s the idea behind Fabrice Bellard’s NNCP, https://bellard.org/nncp/
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by gcr 3y ago
How is it similar? There’s been a lot of study going the other direction - using neural networks to aid the entropy prediction in classical compression algorithms - but I’m not seeing the conceptual link between how transformer/attenti
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by gcr 3y ago
I’m having trouble tracking down the source, but one study found that furry communities are abnormally resilient to financial stress (especially during the pandemic) compared to other communities with similar cohesion and structures. The au
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by gcr 3y ago
do we have evidence that OpenAI is making new versions of gpt4 available? The training data presumably hasn’t changed since 2021 and the model is absurdly expensive to train; there’s little incentive for them to keep touching it up.
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by gcr 3y ago
even if there were some mixture-of-experts shenanigans going on, there is no introspection or reasoning, so the model isn’t able to comment on or understand its “inner experience”, if you can call matrix multiplications an inner experience
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by gcr 3y ago
Do AirPods Pro have multiple drivers in each ear to simulate the environment, or is it all just done with head tracking and downmixed to stereo with some snazzy psychoacoustics?
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by gcr 3y ago
That’s what I mean, there are technical reasons why it doesn’t necessarily make sense to represent photos as individual files: they might not live in a file system, they might have to be downloaded, they might have to be transparently conve
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by gcr 3y ago
That's a good point. It would be nice to have a streamlined export flow that rewrites your links for you. (It's technically possible to edit the links in the posts you exported yourself before importing, but technically correct
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by gcr 3y ago
Apple provides access to photos just fine, using a different API. Having a separate API for photo access is annoying while developing this use case, but it's appropriate for a couple different reasons: for one, if apps could access the
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by gcr 3y ago
This is disproven with a quick google search ... You can export Android and iOS build files right from the editor, people have published successful Godot apps to both app stores ... https://itch.io/games/made-with-godot
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by gcr 3y ago
Expanding on this, Godot has its own 2D widget framework that's fairly straightforward to use, though it doesn't use native widgets. Note that the Godot editor itself is written in the widget framework, so you can get a sense for
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by gcr 3y ago
can't a malicious bluesky admin steal/MITM users' private keys by messing with whatever frontend javascript users interact with?
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by gcr 3y ago
I've been able to switch mastadon instances without any problems; most instances seem to handle whatever activitypub machinery transfers followers. So as long as both your source and destination support account transfers, you can usual
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by gcr 3y ago
The way architecture influences thinking is really fascinating to think about. Peter Watts’ universe features vampires that get grand mal brain seizures when they perceive crosses (that is, intersecting lines at roughly right angles). The i
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by gcr 3y ago
Reminds me of a scene from Schild's Ladder by Greg Egan. This is a conversation between an embodied human and a person who grew up in a completely virtual environment: Yann, sitting beside him, caught his eye. "You okay?" Tch
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by gcr 3y ago
I loooove diaspora! Egan was inventing neopronouns 25 years ago and it totally works in the context of the story, reader doesn’t even bat an eye seeing ve/ver/vis so consistently and casually after a few pages. Just one of the man
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by gcr 3y ago
I don't think that's happening, but Google's support document has this to say: > Once regulatory approvals are obtained and the transaction closes, the billing and support services for Google Workspace (including G Suite
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by gcr 3y ago
coldtea’s point is that MPE is backwards-compatible with MIDI, but MIDI 2.0 is not. Linn’s list appears to include MPE devices but I can’t find any mention of MIDI 2.0. I’m not sure why you’re calling this a list of “MPE/MIDI2 compatib
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by gcr 3y ago
what does being trans have to do with any of this? why bring that in here? while we're off-topic, please also consider the "potential harm" of suicide within trans communities and compare how access to HRT influences that. mo
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by gcr 3y ago
This doesn’t address the issue if OP needs temporary access via an Android device.
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by gcr 3y ago
Because they want to make sure that the sorting algorithm works well for all possible workloads, not just the most preferable ones. If we measured sorting algorithms by the fastest measurement, we might conclude that BubbleSort is the faste
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by gcr 3y ago
I have pendulum nystagmus since birth. My eyes saccade and shake very rapidly, even when I'm focused on something. Folks who talk with me certainly notice. I really hope I won't be locked out of using vision pro just because its i
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by gcr 3y ago
To be honest, I'm waiting for someone to train a backrooms-style environment based on NeRF to make horror games with these sorts of XR experiences. As much as I hate all the bluster about chatGPT, an application like this could actuall
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by gcr 3y ago
You can read the full text of a substantially similar sign here: https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/notice-to-alien... One way of fulfilling requirements for some scout ranks is to partake in community s
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by gcr 3y ago
I dearly miss the days back before software programs had consistent branding. On this page, I see a hundred different buttons, but rendered with a hundred different typefaces, a hundred different color schemes, a hundred different arrangeme
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by gcr 3y ago
well, be careful with "more capable" - the universal approximation theorem shows that a NN with one hidden layer is able to represent any function (in the limit of how wide that layer is, at least). So there's nothing fundame
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by gcr 3y ago
I'm glad you have good ideas about how to run a business like this. But I think your post illustrates the idea that, unlike windows or mac users, us Linux users have opinions about how the business should be run, and we tend to voice t
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by gcr 3y ago
offtopic, but what keyboard controller do you recommend? I have a cheap MIDI keyboard but the keyfeel is all wrong compared to the upright pianos I used to play as a kid. I'd like to get back into piano, and I know I struggled with phr

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