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A couple years before that, Steve Mann had his medically attached prototype glasses ripped off his head in a McDonald's in Paris. https://www.theverge.com/2012/7/19/3169889/steve-mann-cyborg...
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I've been using Google premium to not see ads for years now. It's great and apparently the video makers earn more too. I don't love Google's domination and some of their practices but this is pretty reasonable.
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P16s gen 2, with the larger battery. OLED can use less power if you can keep things dark, but I don't put a lot of work into it.
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Do you need to be in that galaxy? I easily get 8h with this $1400 64GB RAM AMD Thinkpad with an OLED screen running unoptimized Ubuntu (yes it looks 90s anonymous). An equivalent notebook for most practical purposes from Apple would be at l
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SEEKING WORK | BC, Canada Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Probably not Technologies: Full stack Node.js/Javascript, systems, practical uses of AI, Linked Data Résumé/CV: https://zooid.org/~vid Email: vid_hn@zooid
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Location: BC, Canada Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Probably not Technologies: Full stack Node.js/Javascript, systems, practical uses of AI, Linked Data Résumé/CV: https://zooid.org/~vid Email: vid_hn@zooid.org
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A 24gb model is fast and ranks 3. A 70b model is slow and 8. A top tier hosted model is fast and 100. Past what specialized models can do, it's about a mixture/agentic approach and next level, nuclear power scale. Having a compute
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To all these comments, I'm not talking practically for myself, I'm talking about what a revolutionary "think different" company would do for its users and projection into the world. Starting with taking away the friction
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Is there a normal LLM user yet? Most people would want their options to be as wide as possible. The big ones usually get covered (eventually), and there are distinct good libraries emerging for Mac only (sigh), but last I checked the experi
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It's not "DDR5" on its own, it's a few factors. Bandwidth (GB/s) = (Data Rate (MT/s) * Channel Width (bits) * Number of Channels) / 8 / 1000 (8800 MT/s * 64 bits * 8 channels) / 8 / 100
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I wanted to go down this path some months ago, but couldn't find any options on the market. I ended up with a 42" 4k LG C3, but it's just "ok" because I can easily see pixels. I wanted to use the room as dual use wo
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So Apple just released their new caste-defined product line. Sure, they're technically good. But I don't know how they can claim any vision aligned with any legacy, they're basically a shiny walled-garden Dell.
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Actually your comment was facetious. But that inherently shows how you don't believe Ferrari would make a general consumer offering, in contrast to what people might expect from Apple.
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Oh, I do take my money elsewhere. However, your livid-ness is a lot more misplaced compared to expecting a very massive, "user friendly," general computing company that "thinks different" to give the people what they wan
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I think the OP's point is that Apple is forcing people to pay a lot more for something that doesn't cost Apple that much (extra RAM) and is part of artificial product lines. One could claim the product lines are important for ulti
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The work of an Open-source low-code email editor?
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Would have been nice to see people discuss this.
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"Most people" could get by with a Chromebook. But "most people" is made up of many groups, if you ignore those groups you have nothing but a race to the bottom.
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I did another take on this, that extends Markdown links to include types (like triples, like Semantic Mediawiki) called "mdld". It's quite powerful but I left it at a good-enough stage for my uses. https://github.c
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Fiction - [Trouble on] Triton by Samuel Delaney. It just has so many relevant big ideas told in a very subdued way via a not very likeable but appropriate character.
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I'm contemplating retirement. I find myself ostensibly in a workplace of high personal relevance, but it's going in the wrong direction, largely I think due to layers of disconnected professionalization that are supposed to have t
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Good to hear you improved it. I just need it to be as good as standalone whisper-large. I certainly don't want to send all my conversations to a third party.
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I tried it a week or so ago, it didn't really go well. Transcription was terrible, even though using the same model (whisper-large) on its own works well. The UI messages were trying to make it sound like a straightforward app, they sh
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Podcasts can be a kind of social experience that's akin to morning talk show hosts, the actual content can be quite low. A real potential of this is the combination of the podcaster's intent and the listener's context. Betwee
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The idea of having no privacy in public doesn't extend to every cause and creeper creating their own spy system. They are rarely going to focus on useful 'powers that be' issues. They are going to be all about asymmetrical ex
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The problem is you're violating other people's privacy, then uploading it.
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They innovate to infiltrate. 20ish years ago Steve Mann was beat up for invading people's comfort zone with AR glasses, then Google's AR users were "glassholes," now Meta is trying to make it cool. As much as I think AI
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I hope HTC can keep the torch burning. They're a small player against some real giants. Their newest headset has two USB-C ports, even though it already has eye tracking built in (unlike Quest). Making it more open ended is good for th
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This was reduced to rubble on reddit for being an advertisement, with the suggestion being the testing is rigged to their product.
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I like LocalLLaMA because it's not just for algorithm/math experts, it's for people who want to use LLMs locally (as the name says), so there is often practical discussion on how to use "off the shelf" models and ki

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