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by pradn 1y ago
There's already this hilarious bot. It's able to use people's outfits to woo them, or insult them. It's pretty good! https://www.instagram.com/rizzbot_official/
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by pradn 1y ago
Random sampling over time is substantially as effective as having someone enforce the law 100% of the time. It's something like how randomized algorithms can be faster than their purely-deterministic counterparts, or how sampling a pop
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by pradn 1y ago
All this points to "personality" being a big -- and sticky -- selling point for consumer-facing chat bots. People really did like the chatty, emoji-filled persona of the previous ChatGPT models. So OpenAI was ~forced to adjust GPT
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by pradn 1y ago
I'm sure we're already there with musicians as well. If you take Taylor Swift's annual revenue and multiply it by 5-10, you'll easily cross a billion. But she does require tons of staff for the stadium shows that provide
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by pradn 1y ago
Just complaining that the world is bad is a good way to waste your energy and end up being a cynic. So why is not all information organized in structured, open formats? Because there's not enough of an incentive to label/structure
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by pradn 1y ago
Finally, someone from the product side got a word in. Keep it simple!
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by pradn 1y ago
A silly question: do any of these models generate pixels and also vector overlays? I don't see why we need to solve the text problem pixel-for-pixel if we can just generate higher-level descriptions of the text (text, font, font size,
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by pradn 1y ago
You can't avoid sending the user photos in a news article, for example. So the best you can do is start fetching/rendering the page 200ms early.
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by pradn 1y ago
I'm with you - there are few elevators, yes. Still somewhat clunky for me. Cyberpunk is certainly an achievement for technical graphics - fog, light, reflections etc. These are all enhanced with cutting-edge hardware. What I'm try
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by pradn 1y ago
A large section of the gaming public sees photo-realistic games as serious, and prefers them for high-budget games. It's a rat race for devs though - its just incredibly expensive to create high quality models, textures, maps. I'v
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by pradn 1y ago
Recently, some of it seems to be just to highlight raytracing hardware. Cyberpunk uses a lot of metal reflective surfaces to give a futuristic/tech vibe. But that's one sort of futurism. There'll be plenty of use of natural s
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by pradn 1y ago
> Btw, we are releasing GPT-5 soon, and we’re excited for you to try it. But just to be clear: the IMO gold LLM is an experimental research model. We don’t plan to release anything with this level of math capability for several months. G
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by pradn 1y ago
I can't imagine voluntarily giving access to my data and also being "scared". Maybe a tad concerned, but not "scared".
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by pradn 1y ago
They say its easier to change your company to fit SAP than to mold SAP to fit your company.
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by pradn 1y ago
I hear about the "Django philosophy" in this thread. What exactly is it?
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by pradn 1y ago
I’ve bought a bunch of games just to support the creators, to vote with my dollar and say: I want more of this. Dwarf Fortress comes to mind as an example. I’ve got to sit down and learn to play it. Will probably take a week!
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by pradn 1y ago
I couldn't immediately find information about how the metadata is stored? Is it one shadow file per RAW file, as I've seen in other OSS RAW editors? I'm not sure what the perfect solution is, but it is hard to sync a ton of s
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by pradn 1y ago
Yes, the field is littered with imperfection. One thing though - if you do take the time to learn the original "perfect" versions of these things, it helps you become a much better system designer. I'm constantly worried abou
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by pradn 1y ago
In the simple (albeit niche) case, a UI could populate a list of buttons based on the URIs/verbs that the REST API returns. So the UI would be totally dynamic based on the backend - and so, work pretty generically across REST APIs. But
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by pradn 1y ago
> REST isn’t about exposing your internal object model over HTTP — it’s about building distributed systems that behave like the web. I think I finally understand what Fielding is getting at. His REST principles boil down to allowing dyna
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by pradn 1y ago
You have to be careful to make a distinction being in the EU and using the Euro as your currency. You can benefit from the EU common market, with its uniform rules/standards, easy capital flows, subsidies, and industrial policy. All wi
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by pradn 1y ago
I think you're right. APIs have a lot of aspects to them, so describing them is hard. API users need to know typical latency bounds, which error codes may be retried, whether an action is atomic or idempotent. HATEOAS gets you none of
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by pradn 1y ago
"... between 1988 and 2004, hardware got 1600 times faster, and LP solvers got 3300 times faster, allowing for a cumulative speed-up factor higher than 5 × 106, and that was already 20 years ago!" "The authors observed a spee
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by pradn 1y ago
It's easier to keep doing something incremental than to fundamentally change things. One avenue these phone OS, and any consumer OS, can pursue is making it easy to string together app sub-steps. An app can be "cracked open"
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by pradn 1y ago
There's two problems being discussed in this article and thread: 1) Combining OLTP and OLAP databases into one system 2) Using an open data format to be able to read/write from many system (OLTP/PostGres, analytics engine&#x2
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by pradn 1y ago
Their product looks promising. It looks like the PostGres schema and writes have to be "Iceberg-aware": special work to get around the fact that a small write results in a new, small Parquet file. That's not the end of the wo
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by pradn 1y ago
The small writes problem that Iceberg has is totally silly. They spend so much effort requiring a tree of metadata files, but you still need an ACID DB to manage the pointer to the latest tree. At that point, why not just move all that meta
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by pradn 1y ago
On the data warehousing side, I think the story looks like this: 1) Cloud data warehouses like Redshift, Snowflake, and BigQuery proved to be quite good at handling very large datasets (petabytes) with very fast querying. 2) Customers of th
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by pradn 1y ago
Isn't it basically not possible for the input data set list to be listed? It's an open secret all these labs are using immense amounts of copyrighted material. There's a few efforts at full open data / open weight /
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by pradn 1y ago
Wait - there's system webviews? On Mac, Windows, and Linux? Edit: It looks like Tauri uses the following platform webview features. https://github.com/tauri-apps/wry?tab=readme-ov-file#platfor...

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