wsgeorge

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by wsgeorge 3y ago
Funny I saw this just when I had pg's Economic Inequality open in another tab, with the intension of settling down later to read it. I'm now listening to it. :)
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
> Somehow nobody ever complains about the depictions of Jesus as a white man with flowing blond hair. Many people do, actually. And my art history may be bunk, but comparing depictions of Jesus in Medieval vs Renaissance European humanis
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
Sora, within the last few days. But it's mostly been GGML and the community making accessible inference at the edge a reality. Can't beat that, tbh.
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
> The newest term is "Owners Retreat" This makes a lot more sense for what I'm planning to build. We're used to calling it "Master bedroom" where I'm from, but I always imagined I'd want some sort
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
Cooking, cleaning/home improvement, working out... Just imagine what you would do if someone took all your screens away for a few hours.
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
Not an insider: can you share some perspective?
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
I would guess that a) they assume their users will have a lot of GPU ram, b) actual running costs will depend on what inference engine/framework you're using (for example, some GGUF quants are very cheap).
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
Link to actual Google Support post from the article is broken.
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
> but this crosses some sort of professionalism boundary? I don't know. I assume any organisation interested in directing online discourse about subjects it is vested in does something like this. Especially political organisations.
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
> How do you retain information? I don't try to. I write down/bookmark what I feel might be useful for future reference... > I'm trying to improve my ability to learn and retain Then it maybe depends on what you're
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
I vaguely remember reading about a research effort into this earlier this year, and I'm positive it wasn't what sp332 linked to. Would be glad if I can find the link.
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
Did a quick search for Classical Music, and, this Mozart sounded particularly haunting: https://jukebox.openai.com/?song=802878499 Without any more context I don't know what's happening here, but I guess these are
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origin_of_Consciousness_in...
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
Currently using SDXL (through Huggingface Diffusers) on an M1 16GB Mac. Takes on average 4-5mins to generate an image. It's usable.
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
I discovered this song last Christmas, and it'll probably be my festive favourite for a long time. Moved me to tears on the first listen. Still does, sometimes. RIP Mr Shane.
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
> until it becomes feasible to reduce it to a Google Glass-like form factor Doesn't Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses do this?
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
> Didn’t they learn their lesson with the Concorde? What was the lesson?
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
Kaparthy uploaded a 1hr talk to YouTube recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjkBMFhNj_g
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Contextualising Slavery as a Labour Issue(medium.com)
1 points by wsgeorge 3y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Has the quality of Meta's social media products fallen?
1 points by wsgeorge 3y ago|0 comments
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
> If the author also develops for Android, he probably knows what that's like. Yes, the author is aware of the pain on the other side :D
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A Small Inconvenience of Being an iOS Developer(medium.com)
1 points by wsgeorge 3y ago|2 comments
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
I'm with you on this. Also, this hopefully brings the "Open"AI puns to an end. And now there's several fun ways to read "Microsoft owns OpenAI". :) If OpenAI gets back to actually publishing papers to everyone&
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
In the "malice vs stupidity" debate, I'll say this is the former. > Kenya Power, the firm that distributes power in Kenya, is now thinking about building transformers that don’t use oil. Such transformers are not widely us
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
I remember one of my firsts. My first smartphone was a cheap Android I got for school work, back in 2012. The first app I installed was Twitter. I went to Google Play on my laptop, hit "Install", and a few seconds later, a downloa
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
Off topic: this is my first time hearing of rinse aids. It really feels odd (to me) that such a thing would exist. I thought we all just used water and a napkin. I also have no experience with dishwashers, so how different is dishwater dete
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Aliyah(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by wsgeorge 3y ago|0 comments
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
Yup, pretty much this. Thank you!
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
I've had similar experiences working with people and my big takeaway is that communication is fraught with such little challenges. Best way I've found to avoid this is to leave as little to assumption as is reasonable to. A part o
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
This was not very helpful, to be honest. From what I gathered, what you mean is that when elites are concerned about showing off their status, by pretending to be non-elite, it means inequality has gotten to a breaking point. If that's

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