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by tkgally 3y ago
The maker of some fitness equipment made in Scotland with camouflage cloth [1] recently mentioned on social media that he couldn't ship his products to some countries because of the camouflage pattern. He didn't name the countries
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by tkgally 3y ago
After watching the video demo and logging in, I was able to compose and edit text easily. Nice job. My own use case is a bit different from many others who have commented here. I'm a reasonably fast typist and don't currently have
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by tkgally 3y ago
> Do you gets ads on BBC Sounds when you listen abroad? No. Sometimes when a program on replay is streamed as the podcast there's an announcement at the start that BBC podcasts may have ads outside the UK, but I've never heard
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by tkgally 3y ago
I second your recommendation of BBC Sounds. Those stories about the tracks being played are short but they really help to put the music in context. The programs are also well curated by people who actually listen to and enjoy the music them
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This one, from a couple of days ago, might address that issue as well: https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13187
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by tkgally 3y ago
Talking with an LLM feels very different to me from text-based chat interactions. I used the spoken interface with ChatGPT 4 a lot a few months ago after it was released on the iPhone app, and it was pretty immersive. The latency was a bit
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by tkgally 3y ago
> OpenAI’s terms explicitly prohibit developers from building GPTs that promote academic dishonesty. Yet the GPT Store is filled with GPTs suggesting they can bypass AI content detectors, including detectors sold to educators through pla
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It wasn’t quite one-shot. I had multiple interactions with ChatGPT on the first run-through before I could get the code to work, and a couple with Claude after I noticed that the partitions weren’t correct. But all I did was report the erro
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by tkgally 3y ago
Thank you!
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My personal website [1] has been hosted by Hostway.com since 1999. I still edit the HTML files by hand in a text editor, and I upload them by dragging them between the windows of an FTP client. [1] https://gally.net
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With Claude 3 Opus’s help, I think I have fixed the code. The corrected code, which took more than two hours to run in Google Colab, and the resulting list of one-word solutions to LetterBoxed are here: https://gally.net/tem
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Whoops. Looking through that list of words again, I see that some of the puzzle configurations could not yield those solutions, because adjacent letters in the solution are in the same triplet. The configuration for acknowledgment , for ex
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I’m a fan of LetterBoxed, too. The NYT’s solutions are always two words, which I rarely get on my own. But once, a couple of years ago, I discovered a one-word solution to one day’s puzzle: LEXICOGRAPHY. Very elegant, I thought to myself sm
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> nurses Yes. I spent a few days in the hospital last October for some jaw surgery. When I was flat on my back recovering from the total anesthesia and unable to move, I observed what the nurses were doing and thought about how much of i
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by tkgally 3y ago
> I rarely watch movies or TV shows - I watch YouTube. Same here. For all its faults—the search function is my personal peeve—it has really turned into a fantastic platform. By allowing anyone to upload videos of any length, giving those
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by tkgally 3y ago
I learned about reka.ai from this post; their LLMs don’t seem to have been discussed much on HN yet [1]. So, out of curiosity, I spent the last hour testing prompts with their chat interface [2] in comparison with ChatGPT 4, Gemini Advanced
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by tkgally 3y ago
Good point. And "Sinzyuku" and "Hukusima" not only correspond more closely to the kana; they also match most native Japanese speakers’ mental representations of the sounds. For example, most Japanese speakers perceive th
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Apple Unveils New Apple Vision Pro Mini [humor](theonion.com)
3 points by tkgally 3y ago|0 comments
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At the risk of overgeneralizing myself: People in Japan tend to avoid talking about personal matters in the workplace. In my twenty years at a university here, I have met almost none of the spouses or partners of my colleagues, and there ha
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> Would you have been satisfied if the statement said "... are often strongly idealised ..."? Yes, I would agree with that statement, at least regarding Japan. I don’t have enough first-hand knowledge to comment about other E
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The article engages in a bit too much overgeneralization for my taste: “Collective harmony and hierarchy are strongly idealised across East Asia,” “Americans are extremely direct,” etc. There’s a lot more social and individual diversity tha
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Just to reinforce what you and others said: Translation work has indeed been impacted significantly by AI and will be even more so as LLMs, tooling, and workflows improve further. That said, translation is also like programming in that it s
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The Humbugs of the World (1866)(archive.org)
33 points by tkgally 3y ago|8 comments
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For an app like this, I would really like a spoken interface. Any possibility of adding text-to-speech and speech-to-text so that users can not only type but also talk with it?
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Same here. When I try to log into Le Chat, I get a message saying “You are on the waitlist. We will let you know when you can start using the app.” I have been using the Mistral API for the past couple of months, and earlier today I updated
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Yes, indeed. I’ve had a professional interest in Japanese typography for many years, having worked on many Japanese dictionaries and other publications, but this document contains much that I didn’t know.
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Schools trying to prevent their students from using AI are fighting a rear-guard action. The detection tools will never be reliable, and the conflict between attempts to ban AI use in educational settings and the widespread use of AI in the
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The author, Joseph Mitchell, was one of the great New Yorker nonfiction writers. More pieces by him: https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/joseph-mitchell https://www.amazon.com/Up-Old-Hotel-Joseph-Mit
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My four-year-old grandson and I enjoy playing with go stones on a go board. The black and white stones and board’s grid lines inspire a lot of counting and geometric-shape activities. Similar things could be done with other types of objects
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The most common word in Japanese for “stapler” is hochikisu or hotchikisu , which seems to come from the name of the E.F. Hotchkiss Company [1], an American manufacturer whose staplers were imported to Japan in the early 20th century. So

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