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by jedbrooke 1y ago
there used to be a running joke in the AfterEffects subreddit that 95% of “What’s this effect called?” questions the answer was datamoshing. I think they even had a bot that would auto answer with datamoshing since it was asked so frequentl
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by jedbrooke 1y ago
it’s gotten to the point where I’ll find myself screenshotting text and using ocr to grab links because sometimes apps disable highlighting text for whatever reason.
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by jedbrooke 1y ago
slightly off topic: but on the topic of AI coding agents making up apis and features that don’t exist, I’ve had good success with Q telling it to “check the sources to make sure the apis actually exist”. sometimes it will even request to re
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by jedbrooke 1y ago
> This grain, formed from tiny particles during the film’s development, is more than just a visual effect. It plays a key role in storytelling by enhancing the film’s depth and contributing to its realism. I never understood the “grain =
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by jedbrooke 1y ago
audiblez[1] does exactly that and handles the ffmpeg fu part for you, and will output a m4b file which audio book players will support. 1. https://github.com/santinic/audiblez
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by jedbrooke 1y ago
Landmark based directions rather than street names does seem like a plausible explanation. I still have some childhood friends whose houses I don’t know the street address but I know how to get there I still prefer street names since those
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by jedbrooke 1y ago
oof, I’m not sure if I’m proud or ashamed of having an idea in the “torment nexus”. I believe I heard of the idea in some of the discussion surrounding a patent from an automaker to use microphones in the car for a data source for targeted
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by jedbrooke 1y ago
not quite ads in LLMS, but I had an interesting experience with google maps the other day. the directions voice said "in 100 feet, turn left at the <Big Fast Food Chain>". Normally it would say "at the traffic light&quo
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by jedbrooke 1y ago
I had an old Tesla M40 12 GB lying around and figured I’d try it out with some 8-13B llms, but was disappointed to find that it’s around the same speed as my mac mini m2. I suppose the mac mini is a 10 years newer chip, but it’s crazy that
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by jedbrooke 1y ago
can the HDMI be configured as input? this looks super cool! it’s inspiring me to finally dust of the NeTV2 board I have. but alas time for hobbies has been in short supply for a while
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by jedbrooke 1y ago
as I understand it, Discover gets to charge higher fees on debit cards (than eg visa and mc) due to some regulatory carve out, so capital one wants to take advantage of this and Discover’s payment network
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by jedbrooke 1y ago
“NOTICE: The FTC website is currently unavailable. Thank you for your patience while we work to restore service.” oops, even the government is susceptible to the hug of death
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by jedbrooke 1y ago
there is also a pretty popular brand “Duck Brand” duct tape likely adding to the “duck vs duct” confusion
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by jedbrooke 1y ago
this thread is helping me understand why I always thought 3D movies looked _less_ 3D than 2D movies. That and after seeing Avatar 1 in 3D, then seeing Avatar 2 in 3D over 10 years later and not really noticing any improvement in the 3D made
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by jedbrooke 1y ago
I remember running in to this problem in university too where one of the basement lab rooms didn't have cell service, but we had to log in to the school computers with our university accounts that had mandatory 2fa also was surprised t
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by jedbrooke 2y ago
I've been down the artificial sunlight at home rabbit hole too (also inspired by the same DIY Perks video). Ultimately the solution I settled on was a much lower budget 300W equiv LED Corn style bulb (4000lm) with good CRI, and a 250w
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by jedbrooke 2y ago
purely anecdotal: one thing I’ve noticed is that Waymo’s ALWAYS use their turn signal. that’s already gotta put them above a large portion of human drivers in terms of safety ;)
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by jedbrooke 2y ago
once the article started listing the software and hardware components, I was expecting a recipe for the cake too :)
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by jedbrooke 2y ago
I would also be curious at the stats on people who have a laptop, but exclusively (or 99% of the time) use it at a desk. I had a macbook but when it came time to upgrade, I got a mac mini since it was cheaper than a similarly specced macboo
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by jedbrooke 2y ago
just in case anyone else is running in to this problem, there is a solution https://github.com/tombonez/noTunes this will prevent itunes/apple music from opening
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by jedbrooke 2y ago
they don't want to make building lego on the computer, since they want you to buy real lego to build with
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by jedbrooke 2y ago
I’m confused, by your link “World Vision” has a 93%/4 star rating, suggesting they would be a good charity. (I have no opinion one way or the other regarding the specific charity in question, however)
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by jedbrooke 2y ago
nice! this reminds me of a small project I did in college implementing bitonic sort[0] in CUDA for a gpu accelerated Burrow-Wheelers transform https://github.com/jedbrooke/cuda_bwt I believe I got the implementation fo
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by jedbrooke 2y ago
it’s very refreshing compared to those “free trials” you have to remember to cancel (pro tip: use virtual credit cards which you can lock for those so if you forget to cancel the charges are blocked) however has anyone been able to find out
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by jedbrooke 2y ago
I mean scented markers are a thing (or are they gone now because they’re “too toxic”?) so scented (or flavored) printer toner doesn’t seem too far fetched and yes I am one of those people who enjoyed the smell of freshly laser printed pages
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by jedbrooke 2y ago
there’s some provision for companies with the same name that are in different fields (eg Delta airlines and Delta that makes the faucet in your bathroom) However I wonder if video generation and animation would be considered too similar
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by jedbrooke 2y ago
my thinking (hope?) is that the reasoning models will be more like how a calculator doesn’t have to “remember” all the possible combinations of addition, multiplication, etc for all the numbers, but can actually compute the results. As reas
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by jedbrooke 2y ago
looks like it’s some sort of fisheye camera with a super wide fov. it might be simulating rays bending due to lens effects. a pinhole camera could just look “normal” ie straight lines stay straight (except for horizon convergence perspectiv
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by jedbrooke 2y ago
well it was a long shot anyway but it doesn’t seem to work on mobile. (tried on iOS safari on iPhone 11 pro) a 1B model should be able to run in the RAM constraints of a phone(?) if this is supported soon this would actually be wild. Local
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by jedbrooke 2y ago
I don’t see why people are so upset about this. Mexico is in the continent of North America. if they were trying to rename it to “Gulf of the United States” or something then that would be less reasonable.

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