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by strangecasts 2y ago
"The domain at most" can be quite sufficient for blackmail
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by strangecasts 2y ago
The source for "double-blind tokenised attribution exchange models" is this report from July 2024, from the Australian eSafety Commissioner: https://www.esafety.gov.au/sites/default/files/2024-07&#x2
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by strangecasts 2y ago
Klik & Play was one of the things that got me into programming, really happy to see the Klik scene still going :)
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by strangecasts 2y ago
> And in the case of AI, if I can’t train the model from source materials with public source code and end up with the same weights, then it’s not open. Making training exactly reproducible locks off a lot of optimizations, you are prac
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by strangecasts 2y ago
> So there gonna be some bootleg twitter posts now? You joke, but I worry about this if Norway implements an age limit based on geographic location - it either gets kids onto the shittiest possible free VPN which MITMs everything, or get
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by strangecasts 2y ago
> skyrocketing depression rates Again people conflate correlation and causation very easily here, and don't account for changes in how mental health conditions are coded, see https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-cod
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by strangecasts 2y ago
> Social Media is a risk to all of us, not just kids. I think it's very reductive to frame this as a "think of the children" moment. The activist movement championing the age limit are explicitly framing the issue (as Haid
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by strangecasts 2y ago
I remain surprised and disappointed at how many technologists seem to be agreeing with this, nodding to a textbook example of "think of the children" rhetoric, supported by anecdotal evidence and obvious failures to distinguish be
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by strangecasts 2y ago
Coming in with a very late response - after going back to the manual as I should have, I realized Continue.dev has other options for using locally hosted models (e.g. LM Studio) so I'm going to try those
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by strangecasts 2y ago
Nifty! The preprint behind the article: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.20438 Skimming the article I wonder how extensible the approach would be to other context-sensitive translations - the silly example that came to mind
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Eurorack-PMOD: open-hardware FPGA to modular synth adapter(apfelaudio.com)
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Ask HN: Favorite setup for self-hosted code assistants?
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by strangecasts 2y ago
My first thought was that "Game Boy" was a very generous description of a Flipper Zero, but the linked device [1] is indeed much more similar to the Anbernic-style emulator handhelds, which makes me wonder whether plausible deniab
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Layers All the Way Down: The Untold Story of Shader Compilation(moonside.games)
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Ask HN: Interesting recent papers in recommender systems?
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by strangecasts 2y ago
Not a new backdoor, this is about the April backdoor which has been discussed previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39865810
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by strangecasts 2y ago
Not necessarily the cheapest possible options, but cheap enough and fairly quick to get going: If you want a MIDI pad controller, the Korg nanoPAD 2 [1] is $65 new (and often pops up used) and powered entirely off USB. You can then set up
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by strangecasts 2y ago
> Have they figured out how to produce usable topology yet? One recent attempt at it is Mesh Anything [1], which tries to generate triangle meshes with sensible topology[2] for a given point cloud - but it's still in the early stage
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by strangecasts 2y ago
The preprint [1] previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38023858 [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.16825
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CommonCanvas image generation from CC-licensed images – models, dataset released(huggingface.co)
2 points by strangecasts 2y ago|1 comments
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by strangecasts 2y ago
> I had assumed model files were big matrices of numbers and some metadata perhaps ONNX [1] is more or less this, but the challenge you immediately run into is models with custom layers/operators with their own inference logic - you
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by strangecasts 2y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywWwUuWRgsM is the popular video summary being shared, AFAICT
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by strangecasts 2y ago
"You will go on the busman's holiday and you will enjoy it", the Zachtronics promise
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by strangecasts 2y ago
> It seems like a decent amount of the evidence regarding puberty blockers was excluded for dubious reasons. To be precise, the report excluded studies of blockers for not being blinded, in a recreation of the 2003 review of parachute ef
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by strangecasts 2y ago
Others have been able to provoke the same prompt, so unfortunately not a joke
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by strangecasts 2y ago
According to the FAQ the current implementation is in C#: > Second, you might ask: why write it in C# first? I interpret their strategy as sticking to a subset of C# which works with NativeAOT -- for compilation to native libraries -- wh
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by strangecasts 3y ago
Thank you for providing an exhaustive list of references :) > Finally, specific to XAI, we're seeing people actually deal with the problem that, well, people aren't really using this stuff! I am very curious to see which practi
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by strangecasts 3y ago
Article from 2022 - I am not sure how far it is along in development?
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by strangecasts 3y ago
Super interesting! Immediately reminded of Iterative alpha-(de)Blending [1] which also sets out to set up a conceptually simpler diffusion model, and also arrives at formulating it as an approximate iterative projection process - I think th
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by strangecasts 3y ago
Reminded of Fate of the World [1], a similar take on the concept from 2011: [1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/80200/Fate_of_the_World/

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