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by omneity 4y ago
VRML was definitely weird / ahead of its time. Reading about it at the time, and only having modest hardware, I was under the impression that the powerful machines back then could render VR in realtime. Heh 20+ years later and we'
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by omneity 4y ago
I wonder if this horizontal glyph direction has some sort of meaning lost to the sands of time. Armchair speculating outloud, maybe it’s not purely aesthetic and could imply some sort of past/future tense?
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by omneity 4y ago
Eid Mubarak Said, back at you and to everyone in HN. In our traditions this is also a day of honey and almond-paste based sweets. For anyone currently in Berlin who wants to try the moroccan Eid experience, hit me up! And make sure you’re r
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by omneity 4y ago
Yes and right when my brain thinks it found something it could make sense of, my head tries intuitively to tilt to the left and I have to forcefully resist it.
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by omneity 4y ago
Indeed. The fall of Baghdad [0] during that century at the hand of Hulagu Khan[1], the grandson of Gengis Khan, is thought to be a critical turning point that ended the islamic golden age and drove the eastern islamic caliphate to a dark ag
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by omneity 4y ago
What could go wrong? On a more serious note, their CAST framework [0] looks like it is trying to solve real problems faced by existing cryptocurrencies. Still quite a lot of hand waving, but I wouldn't be surprised if it creates legal
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by omneity 4y ago
As a native arabic reader, Mongolian gives me headaches. My brain keeps seeing it as an unreadable arabic script rotated 45 degrees to the left. (It also turns out it does have some arabic influence[0]) Still fascinating and super cool. [0]
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by omneity 4y ago
This kind of minitrucks is basically the workhorse of the informal Moroccan economy, locally called just "Honda" or "Pickup". It fell relatively out of favor with the introduction of cargo trikes[0], a.k.a. "triport
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by omneity 4y ago
When I was younger, I was impressed by the technical feat of demos like this. Nowadays, while still impressive, the technical mystery has faded somewhat. What's even more impressive to me though is the discipline, time and motivation m
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by omneity 4y ago
This clock is mesmerizing. It will surely make me forget what I was doing before looking at the time. I especially love the jump animation every 10 seconds and the minutely(?) super jump.
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by omneity 4y ago
Very good points. Deno is first and foremost a cloud business who happens to offer a Javascript runtime of its own making. It made us see a world where javascript can be (much more) secure and typed without a compilation step, and this is a
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by omneity 4y ago
Love this. I wonder if we'll eventually have a new merge à la io.js/node.js Deno and Node are converging more and more on every release, such a deja vu. The main difference being that deno offers much more as a business than just
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by omneity 4y ago
I see. Interesting timing!
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by omneity 4y ago
Is this related to MiniGPT4 as a project? (I know both are multimodal and rely on Vicuna) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35598281
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by omneity 4y ago
Just a side note from someone who was/still is in your situation: there’s not that much in software/digital marketing, that you can’t learn even better by actually practicing it. Basically get out there and talk about things you d
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by omneity 4y ago
In the past I needed something like redis, but in-process and “programmable from the outside”. I used Go libraries to do it then, but as I prefer JS/TS I’ll surely look at KV.js next time the need arises. Were you driven by any specifi
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by omneity 4y ago
I don't see this mentioned, but is KV.js used somewhere in production? Is there a recommended way to use it? For example in a separate worker, in a child process or in the same process as the node.js app, or embedded in an domain-speci
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by omneity 4y ago
I wouldn't necessarily call it a level up. There's a lot of use cases for which Postgres works very well at scale , and the main benefit of a solution like these specialized ones is more of a convenience layer.
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by omneity 4y ago
> The species was named after Factorio, a video game created by the son of one of the researchers who described the species. There's a fine line between "Here's a good idea my son came up with!" and "This is some
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by omneity 4y ago
1. At which point does it become cheaper for AWS to offer discounts to customers rather than optimizing their spend? 2. At which point does it become cheaper for AWS to just simplify their pricing structure?
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by omneity 4y ago
Yes and it's definitely a step in the right direction. It's beyond me whether this is enough of an effort to support the current LLM movement. I expect Apple to be more proactive in these regards to capture the minds of a lightnin
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by omneity 4y ago
My understanding is that LLaMa's architecture is open, so the most difficult part is: 1. Getting data of equal or better quality 2. Securing the funding/hardware required for training 3. Learning/figuring out the training cha
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by omneity 4y ago
An actually open source LLM would be a game changer. We might need a new license that englobes model usage and training, something GPL-like whereby distributing a retrained model requires contributing data back or making it public, but not
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by omneity 4y ago
Yeah, the most likely scenario now is GPT stuck in a loop I guess?
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by omneity 4y ago
A beautiful site. It looks itself like a comic/anime.
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by omneity 4y ago
Apple should really jump on this and support teams working on local LLMs.
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by omneity 4y ago
I keep thinking one day we will discover a new compute substrate and one of these esoteric languages will come right in. Imagine a hexagonal crystalline structure with special physical properties that allow electrons to move a certain way.
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by omneity 4y ago
From people running GPT based loops like this one, can you share typical tasks you've been performing & the associated costs?
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by omneity 4y ago
The live demo is available at https://chat.bharatgpt.live I made it spew back what seems to be its initial prompt: > You are an helpful AI Assistant known as BharatGPT running on https://chat.bharatgpt.live , which
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by omneity 4y ago
Slightly related, I use Zerotier for some personal stuff as a managed VPN, including connecting several Apple devices. I never see it mentioned in HN (Zerolove for Zerotier lol), does anyone who used both knows what am I missing out for not

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