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by katzinsky 2y ago
Vision transformers are good enough that you can use them alone even on cursive handwriting. I've had amazing results with Microsoft's models and have my own little piece of wrapper software I use to transcribe blog posts I write
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by katzinsky 2y ago
I've had very poor results using LLaVa for OCR. It's slow and usually can't transcribe more than a few words. I think this is because it's just using CLIP to encode the image into a singular embedding vector for the LLM.
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by katzinsky 2y ago
Yeah I'm pretty sure even cubsat launch prices have dropped by an order of magnitude. It will be affordable by amateurs within a decade at this rate.
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by katzinsky 2y ago
People certainly bring that up when they talk about TOR.
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by katzinsky 2y ago
Gemma2 has gotten good enough that it's competitive with copilot and is completely self hostable. Companies are starting to publish full size base models too. I think the time to bring your AI service in house is here.
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by katzinsky 2y ago
It's likely the point of the war was really to clear out Ukraine, not defend the borders. The leader isn't Ukrainian himself and that has effectively been what he did.
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by katzinsky 2y ago
Unless you live in a city a bunker really isn't necessary. Just tape trash bags over any blown out windows so rain/dust doesn't get in and don't go outside for a couple weeks.
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by katzinsky 2y ago
I use XMPP and then Cheogram for people who don't want to figure it out. That way for people who don't care everything just works and for people who do they get a rich experience with E2EE. Unlike eg iOS/imessage I don't
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by katzinsky 2y ago
I live on solar power and would definitely pay a premium for fewer solar panels that produce the same amount of power. There's a tropical storm coming through and I just had to pull them all down. I'm going to have to put them all
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by katzinsky 2y ago
Regardless of the content, unless it's a death threat, I don't think going after old ladies is a great way to calm people down.
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by katzinsky 2y ago
Aldi is usually still cheaper per unit IME.
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by katzinsky 2y ago
No one wants to build things, it's all administration masquerading as development. Back before I gave up on life in general I used to program in my free time because I really wasn't doing much of it at work. It's frustrating.
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by katzinsky 2y ago
No. Britain was our homeland but the same thing has been done there, so as I said we can't just leave.
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by katzinsky 2y ago
There's still a lot my Palm 3xe can do that an iPhone can't. Smartphones feel like a regression in most ways except improvements in a handful of hardware peripherals.
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by katzinsky 2y ago
No I think the underlying assets/labor will get cheaper (IE there will be deflation, especially locally in Florida.)
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by katzinsky 2y ago
But you don't have to on Linux. Like there's just so much crap you have to do to make these non-free OSes pleasant or private and it's always blowing up. Linux mostly "just works" OOTB.
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by katzinsky 2y ago
The Elinks code is in some Eastern European language.
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by katzinsky 2y ago
Here's what I would do. Hire some people to start building it, publish the code under a copyleft license such as the GPL and start hiring consultants to contribute to it. This will give you control over the critical "must haves&qu
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by katzinsky 2y ago
I don't know. I used to say this but then you look at places where it's been done like Canada and the PNW and the results are pretty disappointing. I think the answer to drug use is to make life worth being sober for rather than m
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by katzinsky 2y ago
People keep forgetting Wish still exists and many Open Source GUI apps are scriptable with guile. And the reality is that Linux desktop environments are skins. The widget toolkit is almost always a separate project. This is becoming even
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by katzinsky 2y ago
NPM is particularly nasty because they've solved the issue of transitive dependencies having mismatched versions. This removes one of the biggest immediate pain points caused by having very large dependency graphs so you only feel the
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by katzinsky 2y ago
Semiconductor fabrication is nasty . It's way worse than most plastic production. Even the board substrate itself is probably the most toxic kind of plastic out there (other than maybe styrene feed stock) before its cured and being a
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by katzinsky 2y ago
Yes, data and statistics aren't a substitute for careful thought. You shouldn't throw them out but you definitely can't outsource your thinking to them either. That's part of why online forums can be nice: a well moderat
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by katzinsky 2y ago
I suppose this isn't the first time a company that started out as a hobbiest board manufacturer produced really amazing micro controllers but man is it insane how far they've knocked the ball out of the park.
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by katzinsky 2y ago
>If you are not happy about that you can get it DRM free from the website It's surprising this and GOG is always such an unpopular option. Most of these stores really dig their claws into the game and force you to launch it through
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by katzinsky 2y ago
When I used to work as a freelancer MonoDevelop was awesome since it meant I could work from a decent OS instead of Windows. Thanks so much for your work.
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by katzinsky 2y ago
I've been buying stock in Florida insurance companies. It's clear to me the state government is going to relax regulation on insurance companies to avoid the situation in Californa and the state run insurance is already obviously
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by katzinsky 2y ago
That's surprisingly low considering it was probably trained on many of the papers it's supposed to be replicating.
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by katzinsky 2y ago
That's really begging the question. I don't believe they would as they have consistently over engineered solutions in the past.
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by katzinsky 2y ago
I'm not sure "Google engineers use it" is a very good counter argument. They have a very high tolerance for complexity and like most large corporations what actually gets built and used tends to be driven more by internal pol

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