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by juliendorra 3y ago
Kids and their parents have dozens of small use cases. I bought a color inkjet printer after years without a printer (I had one for artistic usages before) because the kids needed one (for school and personal activities, work and fun). We u
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"What home users are motivated to buy enough ink to print a bunch of pictures every 2-3 weeks just to prevent clogging?" School age children and their parents. I bought an (inkjet) printer because the kids asked and asked! They ne
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Blender is used for creating the model and Unity to build the app to explore the model
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I’ll also add that very successful people always have a group of people supporting their success without themselves being seen as ‘productive’ (often a spouse is part of it, but also secretaries, students, etc.)
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Ressources are not all, tho. Maintenance and care is very important to society and including social maintenance and care. It’s mostly invisible and “cost”, not “surplus” but society couldn’t work without it. One part is the invisible work (
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by juliendorra 3y ago
Do you think urban planning made Amsterdam worse in the last 40 years? That it made Paris worse? Or Barcelona? All these cities have been greatly improved because they planned it (after some terrible decisions too, especially all the decisi
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On the other hand, bureaucracy is probably one of the reasons we have societies where there’s an entire class of people devoted to space research and exploration
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by juliendorra 3y ago
And that means that expressing requirements to chatGPT is not easier than expressing them to a human professional. Which is hard. And prone to misunderstanding, re-explanations, back and forth. Formalisms and modelisation have been invent
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by juliendorra 4y ago
Pencils are a very recent invention: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pencil
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by juliendorra 4y ago
Apple did it again between 2005 and 2007 when creating the UI for the iPhone. Using a similar playbook! They for example had to find the exact minimum touch targets (57x57px square), amongst many other UI explorations. The iPhone platform
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by juliendorra 4y ago
Primatologists indeed rate humans as less aggressive than for example great chimpanzees. But more than bonobos. So we are not the most agressive primates or species on earth. That must count for something, doesn’t it?
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by juliendorra 4y ago
If you are a curious person, someone generally fascinated by how the world works, raising children is an endless, powerful chance to understand what makes us as we are. (Not to mean that you should treat your children as experiments! Just t
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by juliendorra 4y ago
My bet is that big corporations won’t risk suing anyone over a supposed copyright on generated images,as there is a good chance that a court ends up stating that all AI generated images are in fact public domain (no author, not from the ori
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by juliendorra 4y ago
The use cases that are being explored now are: Movie preparation, storytelling https://twitter.com/juliendorra/status/1590058518174134272 https://twitter.com/mrjonfinger/status/1590021753
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by juliendorra 4y ago
Love the idea of the list, the intro sets the context very nicely! Some suggestions: - HTML is a worse hypertext system (no typed links, no transclusion, no native index or versioning) and beat all the previous professional but centralized
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by juliendorra 4y ago
Internet Explorer was extending the standard to the point of incompatibility. That was a goal and we know because of the trial: "kill HTML by extending it" (As recalled by Steven McGeady Intel VP told by Paul Maritz Microsoft VP)
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There’s probably several factors, including Paris population density (highest in Europe if I remember well), 50%+ car-less families (you can see people reading in the metro), and the fact that literary prizes are evening news worthy events
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by juliendorra 4y ago
What do you mean by "things have become like this"? I obviously don’t know your age but the software industry (and other fields) has been extremely sexist since decades (at least the 80s). The efforts to explicitly reign in the s
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by juliendorra 4y ago
I meant images generated by the model. Now that I think of it I could just send you the sampled vectors and you could feed that to the vector to image part.
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That’s the interesting part: all the images generated are derived from a less than 4gb model (the trained weights of the neural network). So in a way, hundreds of billions of possible images are all stored in the model (each a vector in mul
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by juliendorra 4y ago
Many people (used?) to do that as reminders. It was a cross device solution too when there’s was not that many simple, instant ways to share todos between devices. So, an habit inherited from a time before app/web apps that sync and ar
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by juliendorra 4y ago
Language ruined everything, as it allowed us humans to update and maintain our social network (not the digital ones, the in-brain one) without seeing or (like apes do) touching each others for days. Our groups/tribes jumped from 30 mem
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by juliendorra 4y ago
We can, via policy and regulations! EU would be your best bet for lobbying, as Open Data is already mandatory for public data, and an extension to some privately produced data is not out of the question (it was discussed for transport data
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> There is no extant fiat payment system that settles in 1 second. In Europe all banks now offer instant wire transfers. (A regulation pushed by the European Commission to counter VISA…) It’s still often not free (0.75 euros at my bank I
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by juliendorra 4y ago
From my experience creating creative code workshops for children, design students and communication students, there’s not really a "good language for beginners", there’s nice and fun starting projects and from that, the language c
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The Xerox Star 2-button mouse behavior was also quite different than what we would expect today. The Star would feel very odd to someone used to Mac OS, Windows or any other desktop from the last 40 years. I did a small thread about it so
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by juliendorra 4y ago
Child mortality in the US is indeed higher than UK and comparable countries https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/child-mortality-igme?tab=... But maternal death (The number of person who die from pregnancy-related causes
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by juliendorra 4y ago
The Touch Bar can be what the Stream Deck is, a small keyboard of live macro keys, if you customize it using Better Touch Tool. I did that and now have useful contextual custom keys and shortcuts. I know I will miss it a lot when (it seems
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by juliendorra 5y ago
Microsoft wasn’t the clear market leader in the 70s and 80s. Look for example at the spreadsheet. Multiplan was loosing against Lotus 123. (123 being the VisiCalc killer itself) Microsoft first launched Multiplan as its spreadsheet software

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