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by ks2048 2y ago
With 1M+ new books every year, that’s not possible for all but the few most popular.
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by ks2048 2y ago
Can we declare 2 composite? Kind of annoying to have an even number in there.
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by ks2048 2y ago
> The Chinese will accept being exploited way harder than we will! If only there was some framework to organize workers against exploitation... maybe even the workers of the world could unite?
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by ks2048 2y ago
Has anyone seen models (free or paid) to detect accents from audio?
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by ks2048 2y ago
If this announcement is targeting people not up-to-date on the models available, I think they should say what "flash" means. Is there a "Gemini (non-flash)"? I see the 4 Google model names in the chart here. Are these 4
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by ks2048 2y ago
Don't you have consider that many jobs require a college degree? You can certainly argue that this is a dumb requirement - but regardless of "ROI", if you want job X, you need to get a degree (for many X). It is very obvious
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by ks2048 2y ago
I think only about half of students take out loans, so that's only part of the consideration.
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by ks2048 2y ago
The only thing that jumped out at me - what thought process leads to thinking this image improves this article / page?
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by ks2048 2y ago
There are also RadioShack stores in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua https://www.radioshackla.com/guatemala/storepickup/
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by ks2048 2y ago
> and is, instead, doing the same things "the other guys" did, just in the opposite direction. I don't think this is a fair characterization at all. Below, is copied from an NYT article [ https://archive.ph/
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by ks2048 2y ago
Trump is doing his version of the JFK vision. We choose to dismantle the country and strip it for parts.
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by ks2048 2y ago
He wasn't that bad at baseball compared to a random person or a minor league player. He was that bad at baseball compared how good he was a basketball. The article seemed correct IMHO, > What happened when he switched from basketb
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by ks2048 2y ago
I'm not sure "total" vs "turing-complete" should be a huge difference - just terminate with an error after X seconds. For example, can "total programming languages" include: "for i in range(1000000000
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by ks2048 2y ago
> I actually like XML. It isn't "cool" like YAML anymore, but it has better tooling support (e.g. schema checking) and doesn't try to be too clever. Just try to stay away from namespaces and don't be afraid of us
555.
by ks2048 2y ago
This gives me an idea - store small integer parameters (<= 511) as file permissions (r/w/exe for user/group/other) on an empty file.
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by ks2048 2y ago
She seems to base her content on how good of a Mr-beast-style thumbnail she can make to get clicks.
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by ks2048 2y ago
Maybe it depends on your listening habits, but for me, Spotify and Netflix are very different experiences. Spotify has almost anything I look for. Netflix I struggle to find anything of interest.
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by ks2048 2y ago
> Oh I see, yes the title shouldn't just attribute, but there is no deep reason for that A reason is that you might want formatting (bold, italics, etc) on the text of a title.
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by ks2048 2y ago
Quote: In a 2021 speech entitled ‘The Universities are the enemy,’ Vice President JD Vance laid out a plan for America’s universities saying in part “we have to honestly and aggressively attack the universities in this country.” from, http
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by ks2048 2y ago
If you're thinking worst-case scenarios - what about if the government simply puts you in a cell and beats you until you give them your crypto keys? The only hope for any system is if the people fight to not live within these kinds of
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by ks2048 2y ago
That line threw me too, > Before, you had to go socialize with friends; now, you can just get drunk with a bunch of strangers. "Before" what? I think being antisocial and/or drinking are as old as humanity.
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by ks2048 2y ago
I don't know much about Germany, but the statement was a response to the threads above, (1) > but I also think hiring someone for [government paperwork] would be the wise choice in most places anyway. (2) > I’m not sure if you’ve
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by ks2048 2y ago
> I’m not sure if you’ve ever tried founding a business or fundraising in any other non-Germany country, but this is an insane thing to say imo. In the US, people also tell you pay an expensive lawyer to deal with government paperwork.
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by ks2048 2y ago
> NMT engines remain the top performers, with GPT-4.5 (preview) being the best-performing new model. I wonder why NMT names were masked out? I guess the best are Google and DeepL?
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by ks2048 2y ago
You don't think Imagine is a good album? I'm not sure if you're Crippled Inside or just a Jealous Guy.
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by ks2048 2y ago
Wavesurfer was a great program written Tcl/Tk, with an audio processing library called "snack" in C with Tcl wrappers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WaveSurfer
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by ks2048 2y ago
If only Microsoft owned a place to post source code...
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by ks2048 2y ago
We know this complete fiction because of parts where "the White House considers x,y,z...", etc. - As if the White House in 2027 will be some rational actor reacting sanely to events in the real world.
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by ks2048 2y ago
I suppose none of these models can output bounding box coordinates for extracted text? That seems to be a big advantage of traditional OCR over LLMs. For applications I'm interested in, until we can get to 95+% accuracy, it will requir
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by ks2048 2y ago
I've been doing some experiments with the OCR API on macOS lately and wonder how it compares to these LLMs. Overall, it's very impressive, but makes some mistakes (on easy images - i.e. obviously wrong) that require human interven

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