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by blaesus 13d ago
May I ask what you used Gemma 31B for? Last time I try it wasn't bad but then it wasn't particularly good either.
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Show HN: Llamada – minimalist toolkit to define functions with prompts(github.com)
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by blaesus 11mo ago
"Summarization of what a search engine would return" is good enough for many of my purposes though. Good for breaking into new grounds, finding unknown unknowns, brainstorming etc.
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by blaesus 1y ago
Couldn't enjoy it at all. One of the first scenes shows MI6 officers, during WWII, making plans on a post-1991 world map, with reunified Germany and independent Baltic countries, etc. Kills immersion for me immediately, along with the
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by blaesus 5y ago
Random note: Subaru China published their new BRZ today, which is distinguished by its boxer engine, with (somewhat) symmetric pistons.
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by blaesus 6y ago
I quit a YC-funded start-up based in Shanghai in 2016 to be nomadic for nearly a year. Stayed in 10 countries around the Pacific (Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, US, Canada etc.). My primary take-away from the the journey is that my wanderl
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by blaesus 6y ago
The company has an account on Bilibili[0], where its Chinese name is specified as 鲸鲮. 鲸, romanised as Jing, means "whales" (the animal). So JingOS would be "WhaleOS". (鲮, romanised as Ling, is another water animal known
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by blaesus 6y ago
Used to work in a newspaper in Hong Kong and we have a statue of Guan Yu as well... Anecdotally, the triad worships Guan Yu with black shoes while the police worships him with red shoes.
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by blaesus 6y ago
Preview can modify images. There's a button with a pencil icon that toggles a toolbar for simple image editing, such as adding lines, shapes, or texts.
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by blaesus 7y ago
My parents (who grew up in rural China in 1960s) love to talk about chopping firewood or collecting mushrooms in the forests, alone or with their siblings, when they were 8 or 10 or something. They often give me parenting advices like &quot
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by blaesus 7y ago
French and Castilian and friends are standardized against some spoken variant. And spoken languages inevitably change over time. Latin is standardized against the writings of the classical authors, and to a lesser degree, the medieval autho
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by blaesus 7y ago
Caesar is dead; Romans are no more. Their opinions matter not; what matters is whether we and the future generation consider these authors to have spoken in the same tongue.
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by blaesus 7y ago
Indeed, about 29% of English vocabulary came from French; yet another 29% are directly from Latin[0]. Take your comment as example: excluding the Anglo-Saxon words, 5 are directly from Latin and 2 from French: Latin words: Latin, Latinus vo
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by blaesus 7y ago
Latin is "dead" and that's its advantage. English is well "alive", and living implies mutation. In 500 years, our children would be reading our English as we read Shakespeare (that is, with difficulty); and in 1000
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by blaesus 7y ago
Superheroes are so...conservative. Nothing ever changes. If you want to change the game then you're probably the villain, who is to be stopped by the superheroes, who don't really have a plan themselves. Batman has huge wealth and
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by blaesus 7y ago
Especially the "Angevin Empire"[0], when Kings of England also ruled large portions of Kingdom of France. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angevin_Empire
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by blaesus 7y ago
I am Chinese living in China. Nationalism is on the rise lately in China, not just for domestic reasons, but also as an reaction to nationalistic moves from "the West" like this one. It's a recurring theme, not just in govern
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by blaesus 7y ago
Went to Shanghai Expo 2010. Honestly it's a rather uninspiring event. Exhibitions were primarily organised by countries, which tend to be more particular about some specific culture than visionary about the future. The theme was "
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by blaesus 7y ago
`zh-CN` and `zh-TW` are generally just old-school ways to say "simplified Chinese" and "Traditional Chinese" (two similar writing systems). The confusion comes in as the Chinese language family has multiple dialects and
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by blaesus 7y ago
Writing formulae are like design patterns. They give us names to think and talk about structures, but too often become dogmata.
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by blaesus 7y ago
Former journalist here. This structure is also known as "inverted pyramid"[0]. CIA has a book[1] that details the process to apply the structure recursively to build an article. Beware of the potential pitfalls of "stating th
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by blaesus 7y ago
Immux | https://www.immux.com | Systems Software Engineer | Remote | Full time We are building a fast and easy-to-use immutable database engine and a computing service that provide first-class citizen support for functional prog
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by blaesus 7y ago
Immux | https://www.immux.com | Systems Software Engineer | Remote | Full time We are building a fast and easy-to-use immutable database engine and a computing service that provide first-class citizen support for functional prog
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by blaesus 7y ago
Thanks. I hate to say this but I worked on my machine...
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by blaesus 7y ago
Immux | https://immux.com | Systems Software Engineer | Remote | Full time Immux is building an immutable database and a computing service that provide first-class citizen support for functional programming, versioned and audita
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by blaesus 7y ago
By the way, Chinese "barrage" (弹幕） video/livestream sites (think YouTube, but comments fly over the pictures of the videos like bullets, hence the name), including Bilibili (listed on Nasdaq), Acfun and Douyu, blocked the bar
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by blaesus 7y ago
Before perhaps 19th century, marriages had little to do with love but everything to do with social status and wealth.
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by blaesus 7y ago
Yes. Many Chinese developers are not fluent English users though. There's a "Chinese StackOverflow" called segmentfault.com, and I often see people asking fellow developers in WeChat groups. Source: Am Chinese in China
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by blaesus 7y ago
The Anki card viewer is very customisable, because it's actually a web browser (on Mac it's an old Safari). Most pre-modern CSS and JavaScript work. Data can be stored in card fields, and inserted into JavaScript tag like old-scho