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by michaelt 2y ago
qwen2.5-vl-72b-instruct seems perfectly happy outputting bounding boxes in my testing. There's also a paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.12191 where they explicitly say some of their training included bounding boxes
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by michaelt 2y ago
> Let's see if the EU is as concerned about the environmental impact of all those tanks that they are building. The alternative is an Anglo-French nuclear strike. The tanks are a lot less environmentally damaging, relatively speak
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by michaelt 2y ago
Truly, every artist hopes their distinctive style will be taken by a multi-billion-dollar corporation and used by the White House to make a jeering depiction of crying deportees. It's the ultimate compliment.
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by michaelt 2y ago
Let's look at the context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngZ0K3lWKRc Presenters: "This is a presentation of an artificial intelligence model which learned certain movements [...] It's moving by using its he
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by michaelt 2y ago
> A college degree (especially from good old State U) serves first and foremost as a white-collar job permit. Only so long as the college doesn't devalue the credential. If I interview a few people with a CS degree from College A
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by michaelt 2y ago
> the ads support the updated scenic content, Ha, that's a good one! Gotta have regular updates to my videos of forests, waterfalls, lapping waves and crackling log fires. You never know when they're going to launch a new ver
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by michaelt 2y ago
The bandwidth requirements are very low - you can sync time over a 56kbps serial port if you like. However, the big benefit of PTP is having your precise timing and your main network connection share a single wire - so if your server needs
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by michaelt 2y ago
People have taken various measurements, such as https://digitalnigel.com/wordpress/?p=3449 https://kloppenborg.net/blog/gps-pps-over-usb/ https://blog.dan.drown.org/pps-over-u
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by michaelt 2y ago
It's so they can: 1. More effectively target you for ads 2. Upsell cloud service subscriptions 3. Cross-promote other Microsoft services, your windows account means you already have an xbox/skype/minecraft/whatever accou
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by michaelt 2y ago
Well you see, contrary to the rampant speculation you get on sites like HN, when we deployed a telemetry update to report on how many of our users have no internet connectivity, the data showed 100% of respondents had internet connectivity.
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by michaelt 2y ago
> and the scheduling latency on the client side. You might be surprised by how many PCs already have PTP capable NICs. I think it's standard on Intel's network chipsets. On Linux, just look for /dev/ptp0 However, PT
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by michaelt 2y ago
Do you think special custom software, developed under government contract, would be any more secure? My experience with software procured by the government is that it's not winning any awards for best software.
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by michaelt 2y ago
Is 40,000 deaths every year a lot? IMHO it kinda is. It's 13x as many people as died in 9/11
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by michaelt 2y ago
https://chatgpt.com/share/67e31a31-3d44-8011-994e-b7f8af7694... got it on the second try.
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by michaelt 2y ago
Yes, putting an expensive LLM response atop each search query would be quite stupid. You know what would be even stupider? Putting a cheap, wrong LLM response atop each search query.
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by michaelt 2y ago
Has anyone successfully run a quantized version of any of the Qwen2.5-VL series of models? I've run the smallest model in non-quantized format, but when I've tried to run a AWQ version of one of the bigger models I've struggl
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by michaelt 2y ago
> It’s not even that democracy is bad; it’s just that it’s very weak. And the fact that it’s very weak is easily seen by the fact that very unpopular policies [...] persist despite strong majorities being against them. Is this a sign d
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by michaelt 2y ago
I don't like 23andme, but don't the shadow profiles sorta implicitly exist whenever you're working with DNA data? If their DNA test can recognise first cousins, then they've got a recognisable DNA profile for each user&#
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by michaelt 2y ago
Are they looking for magic sauce? Or are they looking for someone who can navigate the legality of extending the American stock option scheme to the new office in El Salvador? Maybe they want someone who knows how to implement a proper syst
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by michaelt 2y ago
And your mapping provider will know the speed limit and number of lanes for each road, so avoiding huge fast roads is easy enough. Beyond that, available data varies by country. In the UK, there are databases of all car accidents severe eno
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by michaelt 2y ago
Take a look at the hardware requirements at https://github.com/hiyouga/LLaMA-Factory?tab=readme-ov-file#... A 'LoRA' is a memory-efficient type of fine tuning that only tunes a small fraction of the LLM'
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by michaelt 2y ago
Some people think deregulation equals productivity equals prosperity. Sure, America has the most school shootings and medical bankruptcies. But they also have the biggest houses, the biggest cars and the most private swimming pools per capi
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by michaelt 2y ago
The journalists? Nothing, in fact it's a big negative. The newspaper owners, though? The point of a newspaper is to obtain political power, both direct and through favours. The CIA was willing to overthrow a democratic government and r
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by michaelt 2y ago
I don't think "about ten CIA employees were provided Times cover" was a way to funnel CIA info into the NYT - which, as you say, wouldn't need direct employment. It sounds more like CIA spies wanted to go poking around i
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by michaelt 2y ago
As I understand it, in an "adversarial" legal system, each side is represented by a lawyer who is obliged to put forward the strongest argument they can; then the court decides between the arguments. And so even incredibly guilty
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by michaelt 2y ago
Take a look at this browser popup box, asking the user to select which device to use for webauthn: https://filestore.community.support.microsoft.com/api/images... Now take a look at this browser popup box, inviting the
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by michaelt 2y ago
Right. The attack is: 1. You intend to log into an (evil) website using your Yubikey U2F token. 2. A popup appears that looks like this: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/capabilities/usb#get_acces... saying the w
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by michaelt 2y ago
> Reason they state for not adding support it is that user consent is not enough to access the device, which is just nonsense, There was a kinda major security issue [1] where malicious websites used WebUSB to access FIDO/U2F keys
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by michaelt 2y ago
There are very few pro-porn voices in the corporate, tie-wearing environments that have the money to train new LLMs from scratch. Oh, there are loads of porn enjoyers working in such companies - but traditional professionalism means you l
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by michaelt 2y ago
Yeah, these protests will lead to a reactionary downward spiral, leading to protesters storming the Capitol building trying to hang the Vice President, 4 years in the past :)

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