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by baxter001 1y ago
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by baxter001 1y ago
I recall doing a rather large technical case for using raft and a replicated log for water industry back in 2017 it must have been. That's from knowing nothing about the shape of consensus algorithms to almost getting one adopted. To m
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by baxter001 1y ago
> I was surprised how well the bird was getting around. SurvivorBias.png except it's a silhouette of a goose with numerous red arrows drawn over it.
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by baxter001 1y ago
You'd be surprised what's in there, a few forms of NNs are already supported for denoising, speech detection. I think having this flow out to all of the deps of libav is a greater good than notions of lib purity.
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by baxter001 1y ago
More precisely libavfilter, so it's also soon in mpv and other dependent players. This is going to be great for real-time audio translation.
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by baxter001 1y ago
The fact that you think it was suggested _by_ them is I think where your mental model is misleading you. LLMs can be thought of metaphorically as a process of decompression, if you can give it a compressed form for your scenario 1 it'l
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by baxter001 1y ago
What technologies we have in 2025!
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by baxter001 3y ago
It seems to be the "conversation" part, not necessarily "communication", one of the early stages in children's language acquisition is teaching the flow of back and forth responses and pausing for the other to speak
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by baxter001 3y ago
No, it doesn't, Turk is what we call Turkish people too.
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Ask HN: Handing reviewee yearly reward discussions
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by baxter001 3y ago
The "chemical burns" in the title are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_mustard burns, a blistering agent and schedule 1 substance under the chemical weapons convention.
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by baxter001 5y ago
Completely not the focus of the article, and you've turned the result of an error rate of 0.8 percent for gender classification of light-skinned men and a 34.7 percent error rate for the same classifier on dark-skinned women - into som
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by baxter001 5y ago
Always curious of how you walk around the latent space in these, are you just linearly interpolating between two random high dimension points?
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by baxter001 5y ago
background for those unfamiliar with this: https://news.itsfoss.com/hypocrite-commits/ and Kangjie Lu's response: https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~kjlu/papers/clarifications-hc....
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by baxter001 5y ago
When I'm bored and looking for distraction, I'll often get as far as reader.goog in the address bar before I remember :(
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by baxter001 6y ago
That opening paragraph is hellishly depressing.
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by baxter001 6y ago
It's an article post on the paywalled site platformer.news (Alexa Rank 57,888, most of the sites visitors coming from cnewton.org) by the San Francisco based founder and writer of platformer.news Casey Newton, the article title ends i
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by baxter001 6y ago
A meta-response: https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/should-we-pause-the-5g-roll-...
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by baxter001 6y ago
Can't let this pass without the old classic: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/704080v1 In the United States, supercentenarian status is predicted by the absence of vital registration. The state-specifi
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by baxter001 6y ago
No, but it's pretty good at retraining the final layer of low memory networks like MobileNet - weirdly a workload that the V100 is very poorly suited for...
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by baxter001 6y ago
Almost a yearly tradition: https://www.congress.gov/search?q={%22source%22:%22legislati...
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by baxter001 6y ago
A retraction for being one week out with their predictions and not expecting a new vaccine to get exceptional early distribution authorization?
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by baxter001 6y ago
As it says "still an unlikely and far-future scenario" the author thinks it's prediction, simply a 'scenario' but is too myopic to see the unfeeling machine he's already inside. Which is a shame as it may help
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by baxter001 6y ago
I love how many of these AI horror thought experiments are so close to realizing the horrors of global capitalism but they're too close to see it.
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by baxter001 6y ago
"signalling status with ear-accessories Airpods Pro are gonna do a better job these days." Excellent point, one doesn't need an earphone that looks like traditional jewellery if the earphone is already fulfilling the purpose
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by baxter001 6y ago
Interesting insights into the thought process of the author, there's very little as to positive statements of why you'd want to use this format, but they do however spend a great deal of time discussing neutral features and edge
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by baxter001 6y ago
Is that those two french brothers who tried to publish fake physics papers?
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by baxter001 6y ago
That 'heatmap' looks suspiciously like the blurred brightness channel of the image.
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by baxter001 6y ago
Is it not clear that they're not complaining about the literal situation of credit card breach, but rather using it as analogy to being informed of a breach after the fact?
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by baxter001 6y ago
This is a very heterogeneous text, pulling in the psychology of perception, economic theory, a description of how regressions work and static analysis of a whole host of programing languages along with R snippets on how to perform the ana

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