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AnyGPT: Unified Multimodal LLM with Discrete Sequence Modeling(junzhan2000.github.io)
96 points by tkgally 3y ago|20 comments
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A Chinese Ghost Town of Abandoned Mansions [video](youtube.com)
4 points by tkgally 3y ago|0 comments
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by tkgally 3y ago
I haven’t been to the U.S. for quite a while so I don’t know how common canes are there, but here in Japan it’s not unusual to see people using them. Just today, I remember noticing three people walking with canes when I was out doing erran
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by tkgally 3y ago
It’s probably not an Easter egg, but for my neighborhood in Yokohama, Japan, some maps—Mapion, Google, Apple—show a nonexistent street next to my house while others—Yahoo, OSM—don’t: https://gally.net/temp/20240214maps&
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by tkgally 3y ago
Marques Brownlee posted a thoughtful video yesterday titled “Apple Vision Pro is Missing Something…”: https://youtu.be/hOi8s2wkX4A
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by tkgally 3y ago
Some cities in Japan have large underground pedestrian tunnel systems, too. In Tokyo, the most extensive might be around Shinjuku Station [1], though there’s also a large one around Tokyo Station that is connected through a series of tunnel
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by tkgally 3y ago
Yes, thanks. Wikipedia has more about the novel’s title: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demons_(Dostoevsky_novel)#Ti...
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by tkgally 3y ago
The novel being discussed has been given several different titles in translation [1]. As The Possessed , it can be found and read for free at the Internet Archive [2]. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demons_(Dostoe
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by tkgally 3y ago
Nonaudiophile here. For classical music and jazz, I have found Presto Music to be a good place to buy mp3s. The search function works well, and many classical albums come with liner notes in PDF booklets. Presto also offers FLAC downloads,
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Earthquake and tsunami caught on dashcam [video](youtube.com)
1 points by tkgally 3y ago|1 comments
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by tkgally 3y ago
Translation of video description by GPT-4, edited and amended: “This video captures the shaking and tsunami from the Noto Peninsula earthquake in Japan on January 1, 2024. Recorded by a dashcam in a vehicle used to transport elderly daycare
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Why China Can't Export Its Model of Surveillance(foreignaffairs.com)
4 points by tkgally 3y ago|3 comments
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by tkgally 3y ago
> a risk-free place to learn That's turning out to be a valuable feature of LLMs in many areas. You can practice complex interactions with them without worrying about boring or annoying them. Even the most patient human teacher gets
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by tkgally 3y ago
One positive move would be for more institutions to publicly endorse the recommendations of the Declaration on Research Assessment. It won’t solve all of the incentive problems, but it should be a step in the right direction. I wrote about
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by tkgally 3y ago
I liked this part: “There [my father and I would] be, chatting away, when some new subject or other would heave into view, and I’d launch into a long assessment of it. I’d be certain—absolutely positive—that I was right. … Then my father wo
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by tkgally 3y ago
After reading this article, I tried Perplexity and was very impressed with the results of some information searches. I might regret it later, but I signed up and paid for the Pro version for a year.
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by tkgally 3y ago
Thanks! If you’d like to discuss ideas for your app, feel free to get in touch. I’m always happy to chat about such topics.
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by tkgally 3y ago
I second that comment! That was the most enjoyably nerdy thing I’ve read in quite a while.
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by tkgally 3y ago
It looks like you’ve made a good start. I tried it now with Japanese, and it worked pretty well. I wish you the best of success. A few comments: For Japanese, you might want to offer a choice for the amount of kanji to use in the written tr
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by tkgally 3y ago
> how few bins there are around Rubbish bins were common in railway stations and other public places until the sarin terrorist attacks on the Tokyo subway in 1995, after which most were removed for security reasons. Trashcans are a bit m
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by tkgally 3y ago
> ... Not apps that link in a lot of big bloated frameworks like WhatsApp, Zoom, Slack, Discord. (For some reason this category of app just loves huge frameworks.) I dislike Electron apps, too, but isn’t one reason for that category of a
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ShiffBot AI Tutor for Programming(shiffbot.withgoogle.com)
2 points by tkgally 3y ago|0 comments
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by tkgally 3y ago
Wikipedia has details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Borch_and_Ingvild_Kjerk...
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by tkgally 3y ago
I just read the entire guide. The section about meetings is only a small part; there’s much more about sabotaging buildings, manufacturing, transportation, etc. It looks to me to be a genuine document, prepared when much of Western Europe w
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by tkgally 3y ago
Here are links to the original document: https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/... https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Simple_Sabotage_Field_Manual https://www.gut
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by tkgally 3y ago
Last year, the university where I work signed the Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) [1], which recommends, among other things, that institutions "[b]e explicit about the criteria used to reach hiring, tenure, and promotion deci
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by tkgally 3y ago
> My O-chem professor … told me to quit when I didn’t just understand it immediately… He wanted to appear helpful, but then acted resentful when I asked questions, “wasting his time” … Stories like that really leap out at me these days.
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by tkgally 3y ago
Some additional reasons for the rivalry between East and West are language and demography. The dialects of Japanese spoken in Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe, etc. are distinct and different from both the colloquial Japanese spoken in Tokyo and the stan
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by tkgally 3y ago
That’s a beautifully produced magazine. I’ve lived in Japan for forty years. While I would not consider myself a train enthusiast, it’s hard not to get affectionate about them after having ridden them for so many years. My four-year-old gra
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by tkgally 3y ago
I remember connecting my laptop to ISDN public phones in Tokyo in the early 2000s to check my email when I was away from my office. Not a particularly fond memory, but it gave me an early taste of the always-connected world we live in now.

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