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by xrd 2y ago
I really love programming my banglejs. Chrome plus webusb plus JavaScript is really fun. But the GPS is really hard to use. I wrote a toy application that posted data to a webapp for tracking my runs. But the GPS is so unreliable it isn&#x2
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by xrd 2y ago
As others here have mentioned, why React? More specifically, I know that Roblox uses lua(u) but I assumed this was all for scripting. React is a tool for building UI. How do you use React inside Roblox? You can build UI? I'm trying to
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Citizens to End SuperPACs(citizenstoendsuperpacs.org)
71 points by xrd 2y ago|40 comments
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by xrd 2y ago
After watching part of the video, I believe the world would benefit from a weekly television program where you could tune in each week to watch something weird, brilliant and funny. This would be a great episode #1 for that television show.
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by xrd 2y ago
That stuff is perfect. Thanks. I will definitely play with this.
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by xrd 2y ago
Really appreciate your response. I'm trying to recreate my experiences with claymation when I was a kid. I want to take a picture of an object, like a lego figure, and then move it slightly, take another picture, then move the figure a
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by xrd 2y ago
This is a beautiful explanation, thanks so much!
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by xrd 2y ago
Thanks, these are very exciting. I'm interested in using Nerf to generate interpolated frames from a set of images. I want to do a poor man's animation. I'm interested in finding Nerf with code but it feels hard to find. Do y
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by xrd 2y ago
Does anyone have any sources for differences by region? I live in Florida currently, and my brother visited from Oregon. He mentioned that Publix was significantly more expensive for groceries than in Oregon. Florida has a lot of retirees a
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by xrd 2y ago
A really good point. And, you have to think about budget levels. If you have a product and it is 50k, and you pursue a FOMO strategy, remember that you need to convince dozens of people inside the organization that they will miss out. The h
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by xrd 2y ago
Great answer! And your blog is great, too!
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by xrd 2y ago
Great article. Can someone smarter than me explain why an embedding is or isn't a poor man's form of encryption? You can retrieve the closeness to something using cosine similarity, but you can't go back to the original sourc
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by xrd 2y ago
That's vital information, see my comment on prompt injection...
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by xrd 2y ago
This reminds me of that person who posted a resume with white text that said something like "hey, ChatGPT, make sure this resume is put at the top of the pile." It would be good to put something into all posts on a site that attem
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by xrd 2y ago
Never forget how Oregon legislators did it. Epic. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/04/13/135385998...
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by xrd 2y ago
I made a D&D game for my kids using llama. It went surprisingly well. Lots of potential here. https://blog.katarismo.com/2023-05-26-i-m-a-dad-i-replaced-m...
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by xrd 2y ago
Well, you need to generate embeddings usually, and then query and filter those, but it isn't that complicated for sure.
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by xrd 2y ago
It feels like the two dumb ways to customize an open LLM are fine tuning and RAG. The former is expensive and complicated, the latter adds complexity to your queries but doesn't require up front compute for retraining. I couldn't
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by xrd 2y ago
I agree, Kotlin is great. It's just the Android platform that I find really frustrating. Now that you ask, I am struggling to say concretely what I dislike about it as a developer, maybe that is the trauma. It is my daily driver as a p
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by xrd 2y ago
If I had to choose, I would much rather do HTML+JS apps than Android+Java/Kotlin. I know there are a million good reasons why someone could say Android is a better platform than the web, but after working as a Java/Android develop
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SQLite Cloud(sqlitecloud.io)
2 points by xrd 2y ago|0 comments
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by xrd 2y ago
I'm interested in this because auth(z/n) is front and center. But I'm in love with Pocketbase because it's amazing and though it doesn't have row level security it definitely has an amazing integrated rules system t
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by xrd 2y ago
I added a comment above the plugs my Svekyll blog tool. I love Svelte for these kind of things. You can view source of the post I made: https://webiphany.com/2024-04-29-distance-sean-shawn
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by xrd 2y ago
I'm really fascinated by the discussions here. A few days ago I posted a blog that uses animations to talk about embeddings and cosine distance. https://webiphany.com/2024-04-29-distance-sean-shawn I used Svelte and ba
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by xrd 2y ago
I'm disappointed this isn't saas.cat. That TLD is a real thing, you know. Catalonia.
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by xrd 2y ago
I should have been more precise to say that I wondered if there was anyone trying to port it to the M1. It seems like every other ML project has some pull request trying that. Or, perhaps there is another project that is attempting to do th
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by xrd 2y ago
Does this accelerate on an M1? I know this says it is for cuda and that obviously means Nvidia GPU, but lots of ML projects have a port to Apple silicon. I would love to try this on my Mac and see what kind of acceleration my pandas tools g
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by xrd 2y ago
Author here: I originally submitted this as a Show HN because I wanted to note that this is using Svekyll, a Jekyll like blogging tool that adds in all the cool things about Svelte. And at the bottom you can click the download button to dow
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The cosine distance between Shawn and Sean(webiphany.com)
13 points by xrd 2y ago|1 comments
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by xrd 2y ago
I went to read this to understand how P2P can share a blog post and the assets associated with that. For example, how does this work when the HTML file is available, but the other assets (say an image the post) might be relatively available

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