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by ycombiredd 9mo ago
So, I posted this link. I actually did so assuming it likely already had already been submitted, and I wanted to discuss this with people more qualified and educated in the subject than I. The authors of this paper are definitely more qual
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Verbalized Sampling: How to Mitigate Mode Collapse and Unlock LLM Diversity(arxiv.org)
1 points by ycombiredd 9mo ago|2 comments
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by ycombiredd 9mo ago
Yeah, just following up to my grandparent comment to say "wow. Holy shit. It is how it looks." I'm not sure why I was surprised; maybe I'm an optimist, or as I suggested in my first comment, a bit naive. In my defense, I
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by ycombiredd 9mo ago
Maybe I am missing something or am just naive, but isn't it fairly common for social media accounts of well-known figures to be taken over (hacked/phished/whatever) for the purpose of shilling some crypto scam? Launching a me
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by ycombiredd 9mo ago
Thank you, on both counts.
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by ycombiredd 9mo ago
It is interesting, for sure, that they are using a gmail.com email address for a role account apparently currently for which the recipient is CPT John Hutchison as of May 2025 [0] But that's not what actually inspired me to write this
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by ycombiredd 9mo ago
I can't quite figure out what sort of irony the blurb at the bottom of the post is. (I'm unsure if it was intentional snark, a human typo, or an inadvertent demonstration of Haiku not being well suited for spelling and grammar che
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by ycombiredd 9mo ago
I think he's saying that he (GlenTheMachine) is Glen Henshaw, "space roboticist", and (understandably) was a bit excited that a somewhat famous document contains a "law" bearing his name as attribution was posted by
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by ycombiredd 9mo ago
> Couldn't you send data at megabits per seconds over a mile long copper wire Yes, but you need the bare copper wire without signaling. We operated a local ISP in the 90's and did exactly that by ordering so-called "alarm
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by ycombiredd 9mo ago
Sorry, I didn't mention class names because the article explicitly did and I assumed that my aversion to the extra typing would be presumed by a reader of my comment. My mistake. So yeah, I guess what wasn't obvious from my stat
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by ycombiredd 9mo ago
As someone who writes html only rarely (I'm more of a "backend" guy, and even use that term loosely.. most of my webdev experience dates back to the CGI days and often the html was spat out by Perl scripts) and usually in vim
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by ycombiredd 9mo ago
Cool. I could have been clearer in my post; as I understand it actual NTSC circuitry used different coefficients for RGBx and RGBy values, and I didn't take time to look up the official standard. My specific pondering was based on an a
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by ycombiredd 9mo ago
Rommety was at the helm my entire tenure at IBM. Without wanting to actively bash a former employer, I will say that reading this made me sad, and nostalgic for an IBM I never worked for.
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by ycombiredd 9mo ago
Interesting that the "NTSC" look you describe is essentially rounded versions of the coefficients quoted in the comment mentioning ppm2pgm. I don't know the lineage of the values you used of course, but I found it interestin
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by ycombiredd 9mo ago
I dunno. I left around 1999, just before the EarthLink merger. Related, while doing a quick search to see if I could learn anything about what you described I found Wikipedia quoting NYT as writing about EarthLink in 2000: "second larg
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by ycombiredd 9mo ago
Yes. I worked for the world's largest ISPs (NETCOM (#1), which merged with Mindspring (which was considered #2), which merged with EarthLink (the previous #3, then #2 to the post-NETCOM Mindspring). It was funny, in hindsight, that eve
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by ycombiredd 10mo ago
Hah yes, I've come to unashamedly - by muscle memory since the 1990's - find myself always typing 'ps auxw[w...]', where [w...] is some arbitrary number of w's depending on how heavy my index finger feels at the mo
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by ycombiredd 10mo ago
After my initial thoughts of curiosity and admiration, I couldn't help but ponder how they now have to deal with a bunch of dead 30-meter tall trees in an urban area. Almost makes the landscape architect from the 60's seem a bit l
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by ycombiredd 10mo ago
Wait... I had to do a double take for this one. To me, the funniest thing is the AlgoDrill leet code post being on the front page both today and ten years from now. Subtle and hilarious.
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by ycombiredd 10mo ago
Is it naive of me to ask why it is being just casually accepted that a major ISP is mitm'ing TLS traffic?
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by ycombiredd 10mo ago
Could be. Long ago I tried to sign up for an Apple Dev account, having bought a cheap used Mac mini just for the purpose, but learned in the process that they were only allowing signups from Intel Macs and not Power PC Macs, much to my chag
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by ycombiredd 11mo ago
It would, but it would be platform-specific and an external dependency. It was my first thought too until I started planning out it working cross-platform.
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by ycombiredd 11mo ago
My first guess wouldn't be routing, but traffic-shaping. Perhaps the VPN you use is on a protocol/port that isn't outright rate-limited and since ATT can't peak inside your tunnel to see what you are doing with the bandw
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by ycombiredd 11mo ago
The author's short diversion about the hassle of using a random website for zip2iso functionality and asking about a cli tool for doing such conversion lead me to create this cross-platform python script with no external dependencies:
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by ycombiredd 1y ago
You might find this a useful companion to your tool. https://github.com/scottvr/retree
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by ycombiredd 1y ago
Here's a Medium version if you don't like clicking PDFs. https://medium.com/@scott.vr/part-of-your-world-e6a0d78d46b9
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LLM Copyright/Plagiarism filters trivially bypassed with 0% detection [pdf](paperclipmaximizer.ai)
1 points by ycombiredd 1y ago|2 comments
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by ycombiredd 1y ago
I evaluated the Copyleaks copyright/plagiarism detection platform’s ability to detect phonetically and semantically equivalent text that differs orthographically from the original source using tools I made and link to in the paper. Cop
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by ycombiredd 1y ago
Here's the current supported tunings: $ gtrsnipe --list-tunings Available Tunings: - STANDARD : E4 B3 G3 D3 A2 E2 - E_FLAT : Eb4 Bb3 Gb3 Db3 Ab2
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by ycombiredd 1y ago
There's quite a bit more involved in the scoring, such as string hopping, runs on the same string, etc. I invite you to run --help and look at the mapper config tunables. Ideas for improvement are welcome.

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