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by jacobn 3y ago
We'll likely add complementary AI models (e.g. super-resolution, stable diffusion, etc), with the broad bet being that businesses definitely don't want to run their own service, and would prefer off-the-shelf to custom models (for
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by jacobn 3y ago
We got it from Bezos, but haven't worked at Amazon though both know people there and use AWS extensively (e.g. pixian.ai is hosted there).
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by jacobn 3y ago
Ah, it's not, will fix, thanks for pointing that out!
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by jacobn 3y ago
Thank you!
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Show HN: Image background removal without annoying subscriptions(pixian.ai)
383 points by jacobn 3y ago|115 comments
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by jacobn 3y ago
My main argument against the AI doomsayers has so far been that the current scaling laws simply make runaway singularity style scenarios algorithmically impossible (if for each step of improvement you need 10x parameters and 100x training,
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by jacobn 3y ago
My main argument against the AI doomsayers has so far been that the current scaling laws simply make runaway singularity style scenarios algorithmically impossible (if for each step of improvement you need 10x parameters and 100x training,
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Show HN: Remove.bg without price gouging: 90-120% quality, 0.1-10% price, PAYGO(pixian.ai)
4 points by jacobn 3y ago|1 comments
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by jacobn 3y ago
Jonathan Haidt has an interesting response to this (and related) criticisms: https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/why-some-researchers-th...
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by jacobn 3y ago
Post a show hn? (See the “show” tab in the top toolbar)
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by jacobn 3y ago
So not his son and no legal reporting requirement then?
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by jacobn 3y ago
The reporting is not incontrovertible. It’s biased and heavily politically motivated. Undermining SCOTUS because they don’t like the 6-3 majority (which I’m not a huge fan of either) is sacrificing the country for their short sighted politi
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by jacobn 3y ago
Is that the nephew he didn’t adopt? I.E. a child he was caring for, but not his actual son? Since when is helping an orphan a cause for outrage?
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by jacobn 4y ago
Both matter, and returns fall off as you go further in one but not the other. The Chinchilla paper[0] established a simple scaling law for Large Language Models: model size and training tokens should grow at the same pace. Compute is then p
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by jacobn 4y ago
From the project page: pronounced as "RwaKuv" That is still quite challenging to pronounce, maybe one of "rwkv" -> "raw-kv" -> "rawk-v" -> "rock-v"?
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by jacobn 4y ago
Isn’t their point that humans also do that? Without it necessarily being called copyright infringement? Lots of subtleties: fair use, what’s not fair use, etc? It does seem like we’re in new territory, I can see merits on both sides and I g
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by jacobn 4y ago
Escalation of commitment to a failing course of action. Has the money spent so far produced anything tangible & usable? Or is it all reports & studies?
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by jacobn 4y ago
I'd also really have preferred $, but apparently there's some backwards compatibility issue with using that character?
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by jacobn 4y ago
Note when this was written: 27th Jul 2020, i.e. ~2.5 years ago.
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by jacobn 4y ago
Pythons are snacking on GPS-wearing opossums that give up the python’s locations. It’s done to find the python, which is an invasive species they’re trying to control.
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by jacobn 4y ago
Death is short term hard, long term easy. Life is all over the place - sometimes hard, sometimes easy, usually misunderstood and massively influenced by whatever happens to be one’s current mood. Some have stable moods, some swing, some are
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by jacobn 4y ago
This sounds a lot like how my kids will listen to a teacher/coach, but not their parents...
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by jacobn 4y ago
? It only resolves the links navigated to, right? It shows you the interstitial page, but only when you try to navigate to the link. It does enable you to get the clean link and share that.
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by jacobn 4y ago
Being able to "refuel" quickly is a pretty big plus, so in the balance it could still be better to accept some moving parts in exchange for that. And it's easy to imagine retrofitting a gas station to all of a sudden have cha
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by jacobn 4y ago
Does it really make sense to map each controller method to a lambda? Wouldn’t it make more sense to have gateway route to a single function per controller and then do the method routing inside that function? You’re going to get a lot of l
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by jacobn 4y ago
Chargeback?
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by jacobn 4y ago
For clarity: the proof hinges on (√2 - 1) < 1 (so that k’ < k) and √2 being a square root so that you can multiply k’ by it and indeed get 2 k - k √2. This is why it also works for √3, but doesn’t work for √5 or 1.5
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by jacobn 4y ago
Sounds like one of those cases where convenience trumps security for business users and the engineers keep their palms close to their faces.
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by jacobn 4y ago
As anyone who has ever faced a “rewrite from scratch or refactor”-decision knows (or eventually finds out), beyond some level of system scope & complexity a rewrite from scratch is not really feasible anymore. At least not without catac
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by jacobn 4y ago
Had exactly that bug in production, was using ruby on rails & active merchant, and some version change in ActiveMerchant switched from cents to dollars for one of the integrations. Our test harness didn't catch it (weird combinatio

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