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by GrantS 1y ago
Wow, as others have said below, disabling the “Slide to Type” feature in Settings > General > Keyboard makes typing work well again on iOS. I cannot believe I put up with this awful typing experience for the past year/years. This
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by GrantS 2y ago
This is an amazing archive of interviews. The audio quality is astounding — you would think these were podcasts from this week. I enjoyed the 1959 discussion with Arthur C. Clarke as well: https://studsterkel.wfmt.com/progra
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by GrantS 2y ago
You can absolutely specify your own lyrics and structure to Suno.
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by GrantS 2y ago
A few small things as I think of them: -To practice for the moment of a real launch command, he would receive encoded messages every day that had to be manually decoded as quickly as possible — this decoding would be done independently by h
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by GrantS 2y ago
Coincidentally, I just toured the South Dakota minuteman launch control facility this week [1] and it was fascinating. The park ranger giving the tour was a veteran who manned the facility decades ago — amazing stories. You need to book ti
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by GrantS 4y ago
Since the technical nugget is hidden in the code, the fun trick here is to alternate on odd and even steps between moving toward a duck in the latent space image and moving toward a rabbit in the 90-degree rotated version of the latent spac
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by GrantS 4y ago
Possibly a reference to the 1956 Isaac Asimov short story "Someday": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Someday_(short_story) "The story concerns a pair of boys who dismantle and upgrade an old Bard, a child&
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by GrantS 4y ago
Eternal inflation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_inflation A more reader-friendly explanation: https://medium.com/amazing-science/if-inflation-is-true-then...
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by GrantS 4y ago
Yes, the situation works. The fact that the first two logicians say “I don’t know” means they do want beer but they are unsure if everyone wants beer. The last logician knows this and can say “yes” at the end. If either of the first t
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by GrantS 4y ago
I noticed this phenomenon when asking for a story involving Stephen Hawking, Darth Vader, and Wookiees. I spelled it “Wookies” by mistake and ChatGPT used my misspelling throughout the story despite seemingly getting all the other details c
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Stretch iPhone to its limit: 2GiB Stable Diffusion model runs locally on device(liuliu.me)
749 points by GrantS 4y ago|175 comments
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by GrantS 4y ago
OpenAI announced and released CLIP on GitHub on January 5, 2021: https://github.com/openai/CLIP You need CLIP to have CLIP guided diffusion. So the current situation seems to trace back to OpenAI and the MIT-licensed
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by GrantS 5y ago
Aha! This explains a 20-year-old mystery bug! In undergrad, one of my side projects was a procedural 3D world from scratch (kind of Myst meets Halo), including physics, graphics (OpenGL), and the raw synthesized sound of ocean waves and pla
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by GrantS 5y ago
Yes, this is both the most misunderstood and the most amazing (and unpredicted?) thing about GPT-3 et al. You have to tell it who it is and what the rules are. And it gains or lacks knowledge depending upon who it thinks it is answering as
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by GrantS 6y ago
ELI5 is: If the universe is computable, might we be in the simplest computable universe or the fastest computable universe? Can computer science and math help us figure out the reasons for the physics that run our world?
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The conditional probability of shark attacks (2015)(swim4good.com)
1 points by GrantS 6y ago|0 comments
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by GrantS 6y ago
I thought the overhang was going to be along the lines of the following, whether realistic or not: -GPT-3, as is, should be the inner loop of a continuously running process which generates 1000s+ of ideas for "how to respond next"
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by GrantS 8y ago
Agreed, it takes awhile to get there but the core idea comes toward the end: The genius — sometimes deliberate, sometimes accidental — of the enterprises now on such a steep ascent is that they have found their way through the looking-glas
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by GrantS 9y ago
Beautiful -- several years ago, I created an iOS app that does this live on screen in real time (via CoreImage filters, saving a video of the trails building up) but then never released it. I should probably just put it out there -- it was
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by GrantS 9y ago
100% correct. There is no way they included a depth sensor in this device just to blur the background. They may also be aiming to map any Amazon clothing purchases to 3D body shapes for a purely data driven approach to clothing recommenda
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by GrantS 10y ago
Does anyone know if the languages all live in the same 300-dimensional space, or are they each trained independently? (i.e. do words and their translations have similar vectors?)
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by GrantS 10y ago
Here is some of that IIHS research [1] from Jan 2016 that gives lots of raw crash numbers broken down by manufacturer, type of system (AEB/FCW), injuries involved, etc. Really informative. Some excerpts from "Effectiveness of For
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by GrantS 10y ago
Since it's not mentioned in the article, this is also called bilateral filtering [1]. The external links section of the Wikipedia article lists some famous SIGGRAPH papers describing fast implementations, and there is some code availa
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by GrantS 10y ago
While you would never do this kind of training on your user's machines (which takes multiple weeks even with a powerful GPU), you should be able to apply the trained model to a single photo nearly instantaneously. So the real roadbloc
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by GrantS 10y ago
Impressive work, Daniel! Do I understand correctly that any image prediction for which the deltas are smaller in absolute value than the full JPEG/DCT coefficients would offer continued compression benefits? As in, if you could "
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by GrantS 10y ago
Yes, the results of all the learning can be saved in a compact form which is efficiently run on the device. Apple just yesterday unveiled their neural network API [1] which they are presumably using for these tasks. The description states
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by GrantS 10y ago
Images don't necessarily map directly onto a word2vec-like solution but the closest thing is pre-trained deep networks, for example: http://caffe.berkeleyvision.org/model_zoo.html You're right that bag of words wi
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by GrantS 10y ago
For anyone interested in the computer vision side of this topic, the author here is using a variant of color histograms, which was state of the art around 1990 [1][2]. Since 2003, bag of visual words approaches have usually meant extractin
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by GrantS 10y ago
To clarify, there's no "my simulation" and "your simulation" in the present discussion. What's potentially being simulated is the entire universe, with no privileged viewpoint. That the universe is being simu
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by GrantS 10y ago
He's using the quickness with which we've progressed to VR as an existence proof that creating universes is not as hard as once expected, such that "universes" might actually be numerous and commonplace. From there, it&

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