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by nmfisher 2y ago
I wrote a Flutter package[0] that wraps the Filament 3D renderer, which I used to make a mini game for a Flutter game competition: https://devpost.com/software/escape-from-heat-island (Judging is still ongoing and vote
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by nmfisher 2y ago
Qwen is from Alibaba, whose revenue is practically on par with Facebook's. They're equally equipped to keep doing the same thing that Facebook is doing. Qwen has always out-performed other equivalent/contemporary models on Ch
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by nmfisher 2y ago
I get the feeling the company hasn't had a single year of profit in any of those 23 years. I haven't checked every single annual statement, so I'd be happy for someone else to prove me wrong!
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by nmfisher 2y ago
Out of interest, I just tried this. "Uighur genocide" was the fifth auto-completed search result. In the "Top" tab, the first video was a (maybe Chinese) guy saying he never saw any discrimination against Uighurs and may
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by nmfisher 2y ago
That was the case when I was living there, but I've read a lot of people saying that VPNs aren't nearly as effective any more.
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If your vocabulary size is 10000, then that's also your initial one-hot "dimension". Projecting down to 512 floats (or whatever) is, relatively speaking, low dimension.
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Tesla doesn't own X/Twitter though. Elon does. If I were a Tesla shareholder, I'd be mildly[0] irritated that Elon feels it's OK to take money out of "our" company to spend it on "his" company, even i
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by nmfisher 2y ago
The quickest way to disabuse yourself of this notion is to login to Facebook. You’ll remember that Zuck makes money from the scummiest pool of trash and misinformation the world has ever seen. He’s basically the Web 2.0 tabloid newspaper ki
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by nmfisher 2y ago
In an NLP context, earliest I could find was ICML 2008: http://machinelearning.org/archive/icml2008/papers/391.pdf I'm sure there are earlier instances, though - the strict mathematical definition of emb
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by nmfisher 2y ago
The head of the App Store is claiming that he doesn't specifically track whether or not it's profitable. I simply don't believe that. He's either playing word games about the technical definition of "profit", o
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by nmfisher 2y ago
I played around with RWKV some time ago (maybe early 2023?) with similarly disappointing results, but my suspicion was that this was a dataset/training issue, not an architectural one. Leaderboard performance has improved a lot since t
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by nmfisher 3y ago
Someone is trying to train a WhisperSpeech model for Hindi but I haven’t heard any news about it yet, so it might not be ready. I’d also check out https://github.com/dubverse-ai/MahaTTS
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by nmfisher 3y ago
I don't agree with this at all. Beneficial ownership/shadow directorships/controlled entities/etc etc are well established legal concepts, and many jurisdictions have very stringent requirements to disclose and register
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by nmfisher 3y ago
Related - I’ve written a Flutter package to wrap the Filament PBR rendering package and I hacked together a WASM implementation so I could build 3D apps in Flutter for web. It’s still just experimental (I’m waiting for some upstream Dart fi
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by nmfisher 3y ago
People said the same thing about the iPad.
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Even then, the balloon clearly changes between scenes (and it’s still leaving heavily on slo-mo). If you can’t nail consistency, you’re dead in the water. This js why I’m a bit skeptical that this is going to overhaul the entertainment indu
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by nmfisher 3y ago
Reddit mods are quite far down the list of "people I have sympathy for". Arguably (?) they play a role in keeping out spam/off-topic posts, but there's a reason reddit is often referred to as a hivemind. Mods play a big
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by nmfisher 3y ago
One parent/one language makes a lot of sense. My wife has already started in that direction, I think we should probably try and commit to it more diligently.
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by nmfisher 3y ago
I recently read that Alan Kay was reading "fluently" (his words) by age three, and he attributes much of his success to this. I share the same belief, but the other complicating factor is that my wife wants my son to learn Chinese
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by nmfisher 3y ago
Thanks - I'm aware of that, unfortunately between my regular work and the childcare, I haven't had time to fix it. I'm basically off sick today, so I'll try and fix it up.
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Teaching a Two Year Old To Read with Alphabet Flashcards(clangle.app)
2 points by nmfisher 3y ago|7 comments
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by nmfisher 3y ago
I decided to start actively teaching my son to read from his second birthday, and I wanted to share my thinking and his progress along the way.
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by nmfisher 3y ago
This is interesting, but not much detail on where/why this is actually used. Is this mainly because Verse is a scripting language for a networked game, so there needs to be some ability to gracefully handle game state inconsistencies?
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by nmfisher 3y ago
The app is explicitly not available for desktop: "Will there be a desktop version of myGovID? No, a desktop version or browser-based version of myGovID will not be supported. To use myGovID, you will need your own compatible smart de
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by nmfisher 3y ago
> Dude cmon this is not how the legal system works, you can't just pretend that there's such a thing as an "essential computing device" as if iPhones are a human right or some shit If I want to file my taxes (in Austr
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Website just gives me "Error establishing a database connection". (Did he achieve AGI internally?)
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by nmfisher 3y ago
The lesson is still relevant though - i.e. if you bought shares in the top 100 Japanese companies in 1989, it would have taken you ~35 years to break even in nominal terms. That's clearly a bad investment.
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by nmfisher 3y ago
It's not just the lack of disclosure. You're claiming (for example) you spent $499 on a listing tool - but you actually own that tool, so you presumably spent nothing. You've fabricated a good portion of your post.
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by nmfisher 3y ago
This post is (barely disguised) spam. You own three of the tools listed in the post without disclosing that fact.
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Rolling your own engine seems to become troublesome when you're moving into AA territory (Cyberpunk/RED, FFXIV/Luminous, etc). I guess at the low end (indies), you can design something lean that fits one specific use-case, an

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