schappim

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   by schappim 4y ago

   I heard they merged with Money Pit, are they any good?
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   by schappim 4y ago

   I ran an e-commerce business that used Australia Post for shipping. A few years ago, I was responsible for 90% of Australia Post's lost parcel/SLA refund customer service volume in one day. Before COVID, Australia Post had a &quot
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   by schappim 4y ago

   I've had difficulty obtaining useful results from the smaller (7B-sized) models. The issue lies in the content, not the speed. If you could stream the text-to-speech, the speed alone would be satisfactory.
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   by schappim 4y ago

   > Some people have already had success porting Whisper to the Neural Engine, and as of 14 hours ago GGerganov (the guy who made this port of LLaMA to the Neural Engine and who made the port of Whisper to C++) posted a GitHub comment indi
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   by schappim 4y ago

   I'm a huge fan of Georgi (the author)! You should also check out his other work, bringing Apple Silicon support to OpenAI's Whisper (speech-to-text model): https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp
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   by schappim 4y ago

   I had a bit of a chuckle; the only member of the "AI/ML industry leaders" who didn't provide a quote was Apple (not that this is an indictment of Siri).
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   by schappim 4y ago

   They purchased it for a flight from Sydney to Frankfurt in the mid-1990s... They so knew what they were doing, even when I didn't!
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   by schappim 4y ago

   Our son does this when negotiating his Minecraft screen-time allowance; we call it "creeper commitment".
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   by schappim 4y ago

   This is definitely achievable! When I was a young, we'd take long road trips and my Gameboy (original) would run out of battery. I'd use a small solar panel (in place of one of the batteries) from a science kit to keep going, prop
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    by schappim 4y ago

    Poor Canva can't catch a break.
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    by schappim 4y ago

    I've always been curious about how they manage to host all that software and provide emulation without anyone coming after them! This explains it!
12. 492.▲
    by schappim 4y ago

    News - newly received or noteworthy information, _especially about recent events_. Perhaps I’m taking the “News” part of this site’s name too literally.
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    by schappim 4y ago

    Has this not been a thing for 10 years?
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    by schappim 4y ago

    Looks like things are on the mend: Identified - We have identified the root cause and are working to recover service. Feb 20, 2023 - 23:59 PST
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    by schappim 4y ago

    Micro-USB connectors are cheaper than USB-C connectors, and low cost is kind of Raspberry Pi's shtick. This is particularly important for their lower-end products, such as the Zero and Pico.
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    Raspberry Pi Debug Probe: a plug-and-play debug kit(raspberrypi.com)

    70 points by schappim 4y ago|24 comments
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    by schappim 4y ago

    Depends what do you mean by consciousness? Self-awareness, displaying emotional responses, or showing creativity in its output? Some could say the models can do that today. Demonstrate an ability to understand human experiences and express
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    by schappim 4y ago

    If a business does customised pricing, it is so they can maximise revenue. If you’re selling to a bank, you can charge more than what you would to a bootstrapped startup…
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    Ask HN: Alternatives to Bing Search API

    21 points by schappim 4y ago|12 comments
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    by schappim 4y ago

    What are the alternatives?
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    by schappim 4y ago

    We use Bing to search for ecommerce shipping addresses, and then analyze the results to identify whether a property is vacant or listed for sale. This helps us determine whether the address is being used as a "dead drop" for fraud
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    by schappim 4y ago

    > miniscule So miniscule that iOS 12 doesn't even make it on the graph in 2022: https://www.statista.com/statistics/565270/apple-devices-ios...
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    by schappim 4y ago

    https://tailwindcss.com/
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    by schappim 4y ago

    Interesting, I just made myself something similar[1] because I found myself using the same prompts over and over again in either the OpenAI playground or in ChatGPT. The simple tool quickly provides builds up a form that either myself, or m
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    Magnitude-6.1 quake strikes New Zealand(abc.net.au)

    8 points by schappim 4y ago|2 comments
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    by schappim 4y ago

    Sighting a UFO in Sydney, Australia during the 80s: I was playing with my friend Lucas when I spotted a silver disc floating in the air. It was shaped like the classic, stereotypical image of a UFO that we often think of today. At that time
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    by schappim 4y ago

    I made one in the past, we’re often asked by schools to make one for them. The limiting factor is the Xbox Kinnects, and needing to solder on a regular USB connector. Beyond hardware, the other issue is that it is quite an expensive investm
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    by schappim 4y ago

    My team and I actually made one of these a few years back. Here is what it looks like with video: https://share.icloud.com/photos/046QwitWWGHRx-qSNHgJWsnNg From memory, things worked best with magic sand, which was reg
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    by schappim 4y ago

    >> Unfortunately, even if you set a custom icon for a folder... Yeah this is what I hoped the article was going to demonstrate, unfortuntely it was just a case of "did you know you had all these system icons already on your syste
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    by schappim 4y ago

    I believe Podcast Producer (which used to run on Mac OS X Server) used to run on rails, or perhaps just ruby. It was a long time ago.