ComputerPerson

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by ComputerPerson 26d ago
Great comment. Wish it was the top one so I didn't have to read through the others to get here. Do you have thoughts as to how the courts would debate the deletion that you could present on a similar intellectual plane?
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by ComputerPerson 27d ago
I agree, but this is getting lost in the weeds. The simpler issue is that "mimic" doesn't apply to LLMs in the domain of biology. That would be like saying a digital recording of a bird's flight mimics the bird. Whether
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by ComputerPerson 28d ago
Hard disagree on number 4. Open-ended questions that facilitate conversation are ideal. (They are an art form in themselves.) Since we're being analytical, you need a scaffold for the conversation, and questions are a better way to b
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by ComputerPerson 29d ago
This is unfair to the ACA and factually incorrect. ACA subsidies (median household size) [1] are designed to start above the 50th percentile (income) [2]. The details matter. If you're a single person living alone at an income of $70,0
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by ComputerPerson 1mo ago
ChatGPT is, indeed, part of the revolution. Analogously to the early 1900s, I see this more as another machine that changed the factory landscape. For example, fine fabrics were mass-produced and turned into dresses. From there, fine dresse
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Ask HN: What's the AI Revolution "Model T Ford"?
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by ComputerPerson 1mo ago
It's very common. PaddleOCR is enough to get extremely well-done bounding boxes, and it runs very fast on a $150.00 GPU. There's always room for improvement, though. I suspect a tool will emerge for highly detailed OCR that implem
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by ComputerPerson 1mo ago
Are you familiar with the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae? It's a project that may meet your needs. Paywalled, unfortunately, but I assume it would be a one-time expense.
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by ComputerPerson 1mo ago
You're the second person to mention handwriting. I think it might be handwriting-specific; perhaps Anthropic has a better corpus for this. I really wouldn't know, though. Anthropic models barf out copyright issues for my use case,
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by ComputerPerson 1mo ago
My use case isn't in the realm of old-school OCR, so it's not a good comparison, but anyway: As another user pointed out, it's surprisingly random (task-specific). Llama Scout outperformed Gemini Flash 2.5 on a benchmark I bu
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by ComputerPerson 1mo ago
I've got a scan from a book that I OCR with new releases. Ligatures, critical sigla, Fraktur letterforms, subscripts, superscripts, etc. Nothing special about this model for overly-detailed work like mine. It's been a while since
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by ComputerPerson 1mo ago
Which is not great for history, right? Seems like a real detractor. You pretty much need $30/m subscriptions for historical data. Not that it couldn't be worked into this.
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by ComputerPerson 1mo ago
I use the CLI, too, but I enjoy watchinng people use the desktop apps. It seems like the desktop apps may be a little bit better suited for human-in-the-loop work. If you're already switching back and forth between a mouse, having an I
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by ComputerPerson 1mo ago
I'm only familiar with the Anthropic equivalent, but the cognitive load is different as opposed to necessarily better or worse. I have friends who prefer mousing around the UI. Tabs for long-running often-compacted sessions is a diff
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by ComputerPerson 1mo ago
It's that I'm not naturally inclined to accept things/matches that appear ideal on the surface. Though in this case they aren't scams at all. I don't know how to articulate it, that's just my best shot. I'
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by ComputerPerson 1mo ago
>failing at online dating I think people fall into the trap of thinking things are too good to be true (so they must not be true). This results in abandoned relationships that would have been better than 99% of those from pre-online-dati
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by ComputerPerson 1mo ago
How are people getting models to CTF when I can't even simulate a reverse engineering attempt on an open source project? I'm glad I can't, but I'd like to be informed. Is it prompt engineering or just some model/har
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by ComputerPerson 1mo ago
I'm exclusively using the third chart. The selection process would naively be y=mx+b with some reasonable variables. It would be a downward diagonal (you would move it right until only a few remained), and you would pick the one farthe
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by ComputerPerson 1mo ago
Similarly contrary: I don't know why people aren't talking more about Python. Am I interpretting the final vs. graph incorrectly? I've got some education in materials engineering; it'd be trivial to drop a curve (line) f
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by ComputerPerson 1mo ago
There was a good discussion yesterday on the DeepSeek Flash release thread about this. There's a large market, very large, who want the best regardless of what it costs. Probably a large enough market to keep that domain of research af
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by ComputerPerson 1mo ago
I've never done it but would be interested because it cuts out the burden of worrying about costs. Maybe I'm mistaken on energy cost here. There's a constant raincloud that follows me around regarding limits, and it would be
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by ComputerPerson 1mo ago
This reminds me of UX. Seems like it could be a subdomain. I think I disagree with your basic point, though what you say about normal vs. hard is funny. I'm fortunate enough to work with a UI/UX pro, and these things have right an
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by ComputerPerson 1mo ago
Difficulty settings, though. He mentions them only briefly (in this incredible article). Normal varies so much. As a "cozy" gamer, I want the standard setting to be something I can play without having to switch my context to to
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by ComputerPerson 1mo ago
One, their functionality is bad, two, we don't want to block robot traffic. We're redicting it to a separate sever so that overly-large waves don't bring down our main servers. We definitely want to be scraped. To your point:
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by ComputerPerson 1mo ago
Basically volunteer-run. Which makes sense in this context; what gets worked on is mostly about what people want to work on.
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by ComputerPerson 1mo ago
Man I love toruses/tori For those inclined to multivariable calculus, do your dopamine crow brain a favor and set pencil to paper. It's super-intuitive because everything's a circle. The equation for calculating volume is bea
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by ComputerPerson 1mo ago
What kind of uptime/expectations/etc. are you working with? Scraper "attacks" don't take down our robot-specific server very often; it's safe for us to take heavy-handed approaches that sometimes redirect users
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by ComputerPerson 1mo ago
There are definitely patterns you can use against the scrapers. This maintainer just didn't have time for it, which is understandable. We direct scraper traffic to a bot-specific server using Cloudflare's load balancer, slowly ana
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by ComputerPerson 1mo ago
You can see on the bar chart that this is mostly rebound from Q1 contraction. I was curious: professional/scientific/technical saw little to no growth; the areas that would be most affected by AI.
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by ComputerPerson 1mo ago
Woah, bad day? I've noticed or experienced absolutely none of this. The closest thing I can relate to is that I operate on a different intellectual plane from some of my blue-collar friends. This causes a divide and probably limits int

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