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by sxp 2y ago
I really wish AI generators displayed the prompt used to generate content so that others can learn from it. E.g, https://storage.cdn-luma.com/lit_lite_inference_text2vid_v1.... was generated from "A gray and silver Mai
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by sxp 2y ago
> Your account does not appear to have spend management enabled, which would allow you to pause your project entirely if you hit a certain level of spend. Is that enabled by default?
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by sxp 2y ago
I've been using the "developer" Gemini at https://aistudio.google.com/ instead of the "consumer" Gemini at gemini.google.com. It's much better since it runs with fewer guardrails and you can tu
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by sxp 2y ago
https://youtu.be/8VESowgMbjA?t=31800 Around 8:50-10:00
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by sxp 2y ago
One thing to do is to turn off unnecessary services and startup programs. Once you do this, the system becomes amazingly fast. I had to recently setup up a WFH machine with just Chrome and nothing else. I ended up using Win10 (Win11 didn&#x
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by sxp 2y ago
There are also electric recliner sofas that have USB and AC built into to the armrests or center console. The recliner needs power anyway, the marginal cost of exposing that power via USB is low enough to justify the utility.
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by sxp 2y ago
What's the main reason for using binoculars rather than a monocular system? Is it because you get 2x the light without using larger optics? There is a "Binoculars vs Telescopes" table at the bottom of the page, but it doesn&#
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by sxp 2y ago
The key quote which is buried in the middle of the article. This should have been at the top of the article rather than all that boilerplate telling the reader to get mad at the person. “I historically have been one that would rage again
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by sxp 2y ago
I did work on Cardboard. The SDK was open sourced to some extent at https://github.com/googlevr/cardboard . But I doubt Cardboard Camera will be open sourced since everyone has moved on. I was disappointed when I could
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by sxp 2y ago
When I was at Google working on VR there, I was always jealous of Oculus's vertical integration that let them move so much faster than Google's VR team. Working with partner hardware was the biggest time sink in terms of utility g
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Hyperphantasia and the quest to understand vivid imaginations(theguardian.com)
2 points by sxp 2y ago|0 comments
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How A Hater Accelerated [Mentava]'s Timeline by a Year, Overnight(piratewires.com)
14 points by sxp 2y ago|2 comments
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by sxp 2y ago
> According to the latest regulations, we can only operate in this way. We need to strictly abide by the necessary process. The thread references regulations put in place by Microsoft about LLMs.
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by sxp 2y ago
> Physical attractiveness was assessed by having ten graduate students rate LinkedIn profile photos of the entrepreneurs and investors It would have been less biased if they used an image generator to create the portraits rather than rea
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by sxp 3y ago
Another way to look at it is that using this object will result in undefined behavior up to and including making demon's fly out of your nose. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undefined_behavior
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by sxp 3y ago
What is the model that you used and how did you train it? Are the weights available for personal use for people that don't want to upload their medical information to a website?
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by sxp 3y ago
Is this really the strongest evidence the ACLU found to justify the claim of "racism"? This entire case sounds like a right-wing parody of a left-wing workplace and "oppression Olympics". > The A.C.L.U. acknowledges t
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by sxp 3y ago
> The scarce water of Dune is an exact analog of oil scarcity. CHOAM is OPEC. I didn't realize that was the official line. I always thought spice was supposed to be a metaphor for oil rather than water. Especially since spice was on
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by sxp 3y ago
Is it just me or does the data aspect of the site feel horribly designed? E.g, the main graph is hard to read since most of the data points are in the $0.10/part range but the graph's y-axis is overwhelmed by the right side with i
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by sxp 3y ago
If you're interested in other tiny fonts: - PICO-8's 3x5 font with support for programming characters: https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php?page=faq - Ken Perlin has an RGB stripe subpixel font. Unfortunately, th
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by sxp 3y ago
> See this page fetch itself... Raw TCP traffic is carried via a serverless WebSocket proxy. To be pedantic, we're watching the webpage asking a Cloudflare "serverless" server to fetch the webpage and then send the results
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The Political Sabotage of Nuclear Power(reason.com)
6 points by sxp 3y ago|0 comments
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by sxp 3y ago
> You can test this by looking at yourself in a mirror, focusing on one eye, then another. Do you see your eyes or face or anything blur? This isn't the best test since your brain compensates for saccades by censoring input for a wh
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by sxp 3y ago
Saying "AI will cure cancer" is like saying "science will cure cancer" or "doctors will cure cancer". In general, all three statements are true about technological progress. > Second, AI is used to dispropo
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by sxp 3y ago
Another article that completely fails to provide useful numbers. "Public data hint at the potential toll of this approach. Researchers at UC Riverside estimated last year, for example, that global AI demand could cause data centers to
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by sxp 3y ago
The good thing about math is that it's possible to verify the result in many cases even if the method used to produce the result is too difficult to understand. Also, if I ask ChatGPT & Gemini to walk me through the problem step-by
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by sxp 3y ago
I currently, have a free two-month trial, but it's not worth paying for yet. It still fails in hilariously simple ways. E.g, one of the example prompts shows how to use it to generate an image. But asking [Can you generate pictures?] r
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by sxp 3y ago
"The number of murders across the country surged by nearly 30% between 2019 and 2020..." "We have data from over 200 cities showing a 12.2% decline ... in 2023 relative to 2022,...." It's so annoying that even &quot
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by sxp 3y ago
That was 20m of their 7th-9th headsets (after DK1, DK2, Rift, Rift S, GearVR, Go). Other than the Quest 2, I don't think any VR headset has sold at the rate the AVP is currently selling at.
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by sxp 3y ago
The mathematical term for this is a "Laplacian urn" and the probability is governed by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_succession In this specific case, P(redOnKthSample) = (numberOfRedSamples + 1) &#x2

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