wsgeorge

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by wsgeorge 3y ago
Because maybe there's some advantage to be had by reducing dependencies when you can afford to? And maybe they value SOC expertise, since they do other tech besides cars?
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What Mythillogical Got Wrong about Asante(medium.com)
2 points by wsgeorge 3y ago|0 comments
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The Changing Faces of the Romans(wsgeorge.medium.com)
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Ask HN: How will you fix advertising?
2 points by wsgeorge 3y ago|3 comments
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
He's an engineers who's been involved (or close to) some of the most influential technologies/products in use in the last 10 years, and his blog posts are quite celebrated and respected. Think of him as an essayist. Like Paul
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
I'm surprised it went for so little. And wouldn't those islands be a crime scene anyway?
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
Would it be fair to just let the Brazilian government have its way with how these services are consumed within their country?
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
> programming is how you talk to computers and phone Close enough to what I would have gone for. Programming is a special way to tell computers to do stuff. Then, give them a list of things to act out (so it'll be a little more fun)
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
Well, this is neat. It's an actual demo you can play with. Not bad for a launch, and thank you. I'm tired of waitlists and gatekeeping.
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
1. Twitter seems to be shipping a lot more 2. Community Notes are a useful feature. Usually on social media, the comments/replies to a post provide much-needed additional context. CN bakes this into the product. IIRC this was a pre-Mus
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
In spite of the problems this has caused, contemporary society will eventually have to accept the place genetics and tradition has in forming ethnic identities, if it intends to ever value distinct ethnicities.
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
> The apple ecosystem is just such a seamless and enjoyable experience. Airdrop This has not been my experience with Airdrop, unfortunately. Transferring files from my iPhone to my 2015 MBP via Telegram is far more predictable experience
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
> Then I have to question. Who is being influenced culturally by the US preference for iPhone? I'm not sure how much the "US preference" plays in this, but in my country, the iPhone is the aspirational device. Apple hardwa
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
> Android is quite popular in Europe and Asia. ...and Africa. Couldn't have gotten into mobile app development in my student days without cheap, readily available Android devices. It was also a great help that Android dev tools are
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
> Android SDK is harder to learn Google has made a lot of effort to fix this with AndroidX and Jetpack libraries, and the push for Modern Android Development (MAD).
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Pope Joan(worldhistory.org)
1 points by wsgeorge 3y ago|0 comments
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
So, this is what they warned us about :\
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
> a few seconds later you realise, you're already using the product. I only realised this after reading your comment. That was an unexpected/pleasant surprise.
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
> Neither were public facing Which sort of illustrates the point...
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
The real question is if it is sufficient to be indistinguishable from creative.
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
Big if true. One reply in the thread insists that they don't get the same output when copy-pasting the minified code. Can anyone confirm?
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
Oh I'm super excited about singing synths! I write mainly for choirs, and it'll be a game changer to have software actually perform this music!
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
> Will a model that small suffer heavily from a 4bit quantization? From my experience with quantized 7B llama models, avoid 3B if you can. Without benchmarks, I think this is a decent rule of thumb.
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
Oh this is good. :)
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
If you can run any models on llama.cpp, that might be a good indicator of which StableLM models you'll be able to run. I easily ran 7B int 4 ggml models on an MBP with 16gig RAM. Same works on a MBA with 8 gig RAM, but you'll have
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
Somewhat ironic that this post is flagged. No community is perfect, and HN has its biases which turn ugly when posts about certain things show up. Best to assume it's humans being human and ignore it. I've found that to be a good
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
That's a terrible name. I hope he doesn't go with that.
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
At this stage of LLM-based AI, you can consign everything to the "a demo project" bin, because adoption is in no way at par with more traditional tools. Meaning, the area is skewed towards popularity/interest, and for that, G
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
> Imagine you would like to influence an individual’s opinion in a very specific way. You make it sound like this isn't already known, and already done well before mass media existed. AI is just going to make it easier to pull off t
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by wsgeorge 3y ago
A 14-line poem with a consistent rhyme scheme and meter. Perhaps my request should have been more specific.

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