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by sxp 1y ago
Since a human uses ~100W of power, the .24Watt-hours of energy for an AI prompt is about 40human-seconds [Edit: 9human-seconds] of energy. And unlike the human who spent multiple hours writing that article, an LLM would have linked to the o
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by sxp 1y ago
> This is a SVG. Only 2KB! That's the uncompressed size. Since most production webservers use compression, the actual transfered data according to Chrome's Inspector was .9kb. Ironically, the favicon.ico was a 32kb file that co
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by sxp 1y ago
The picture of the gynoid is by Hajime Sorayama. He has a very distinct (and slightly NSFW) art style. I'm a computer graphics nerd and I've always been amazed by the curved chrome in his paintings. A lot of my hacky attempts at a
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by sxp 1y ago
If you want to transcribe meeting notes, whisper isn't the best tool because it doesn't separate the transcribe by speakers. There are some other tools that do that, but I'm not sure what the best local option is. I've u
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by sxp 1y ago
This seems unrelated to the chatbot aspect: > And at 76, his family says, he was in a diminished state: He’d suffered a stroke nearly a decade ago and had recently gotten lost walking in his neighborhood in Piscataway, New Jersey. ... &g
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by sxp 1y ago
> Real-time processing – 720p 30fps on laptop Have you tried running this on a phone or standalone smart glasses? 30fps is horrible performance on a laptop given that it's probably 10-100x more powerful than the target device. And w
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OpenAI in talks with investors about share sale at $500B valuation(cnbc.com)
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by sxp 1y ago
Why use a new format instead of SVG or JS+canvas? The latter would deviate from "plain text" but it's still pretty close. It avoids reinventing the wheel and a webbrower is installed on almost every computer with a display. A
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by sxp 1y ago
It seems to be in a half-baked stage. The Quick Start guide has broken links: https://m-creativelab.github.io/jsar-runtime/manual/quick-st...
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by sxp 1y ago
> I doubt my students will get their way. Perhaps A.I. companions will plateau, the way self-driving cars seem to have done. What world is he living in where self-driving cars have plateaued? https://www.thedriverlessdigest.co
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by sxp 1y ago
Related news: - OpenAI claims gold-medal performance at IMO 2025 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44613840 - "According to a friend, the IMO asked AI companies not to steal the spotlight from kids and to wait a wee
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by sxp 1y ago
> He also proposes that USCIS should replace the random selection of H-1B visas with a system that prioritizes highest wages.... This change is so obvious that's it's incredible that it hasn't been implemented yet. Auction
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by sxp 1y ago
https://archive.is/41JyI
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by sxp 1y ago
Can't this statement be generalized from "conspiracy theorists" to "most people"? E.g, "Religious people unaware their their religion is in the minority"? Unless a person has subjected their belief to rigo
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by sxp 1y ago
> And one way to help make that happen is to substantially increase the guest worker fees large corporations pay to fund scholarships, apprenticeships, and job training opportunities for American workers. This is something that I have ad
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by sxp 1y ago
That makes sense. Your compute puck based design is much more ergonomic. And if you combine it with something like SCOTTeVEST , you have a pretty good mobile XR form factor. Keep up the good work :)
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by sxp 1y ago
> Primarily out of frustration. The dominant players in XR keep promoting their hardware as “computers”, when really they’re an iPad for your face. The most you can do is browse the web, play games, and consume content. They’re overweigh
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by sxp 1y ago
https://archive.is/ATD9T
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by sxp 1y ago
It's useful to manipulate your internal states. E.g, intentionally slow down your heart rate when in bed and trying to fall asleep. Or intentionally raise it when you want to feel more alert without using caffeine or doing jumping jack
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by sxp 1y ago
For those who have a scientific interest in breathwork, I suggest James Nestor's _Breath_. It goes into the biological aspects with a minimum amount of woo. And for those who want a crash course, I recommend getting a getting a pulse o
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by sxp 1y ago
https://archive.is/tVeB7
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by sxp 1y ago
I recently canceled my subscription for Hinge. And the number of matches I'm getting in my last week is higher than the rest of the month. Hinge has the same incentives optimizing their algorithm as everyone else.
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by sxp 1y ago
This sounds very similar to YC's https://www.starcloud.com/
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China launches first of 2,800 satellites for AI space computing constellation(spacenews.com)
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Repository with system prompts that for Grok chat assistant(github.com)
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Update on an incident that happened with our Grok response bot on X yesterday(twitter.com)
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by sxp 1y ago
Edward Tufte had a good series of books on how to create high density infographics: https://www.edwardtufte.com/books/ However, the books are old and specifically call out the low resolution computer displays at the ti
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by sxp 1y ago
"Abuse" is such a vague term. For context, the amount is 100+ canisters/day > Most patients also had psychiatric symptoms. Nearly every patient estimated using 100 or more canisters of nitrous oxide per day in the months b
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by sxp 2y ago
One prompt I use for testing is: "Using three.js, render a spinning donut with gl.TRIANGLE_STRIP". The catch here is that three.js doesn't support TRIANGLE_STRIP for architectural reasons[1]. Before I knew this, I got confuse
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by sxp 2y ago
This is why I haven't connected my smart TV to my WiFi. It just has a Google TV + HDMI from my PC. At least with Google TV, the only ads I see are random sportsball ads when YouTube has some partnership deal and those are easy enough t

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