driscoll42

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by driscoll42 4mo ago
Several tools similar also can take in previous starts that are partially correct and use them to get closer. For my work, I am finding the local-mip package great for finding primal solutions better than CP-SAT, and then using HiGHS for my
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by driscoll42 7mo ago
Interesting problems don't exist in a vacuum. I'm sure it was an interesting problem to figure out how to track people who opted out of tracking, how to build gas chambers, how to add lead to gasoline, doesn't mean one should
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by driscoll42 7mo ago
While I agree, there's plenty of people who refuse to watch anything that's not sharp. I think there's room for both to exist, just clearly labeled as "original" and "AI Upscaled to 4K"
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by driscoll42 7mo ago
I used to work for a drywall manufacturer who still owned their own mines despite efforts to divest from them by some. They always viewed it as a structural advantage to still own them and not be wholly dependent on the coal plants (which e
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by driscoll42 9mo ago
When Roomba thought it was about to be acquired by Amazon, it did lay off 10% of its staff - https://www.therobotreport.com/irobot-laying-off-10-of-staff... . and after the deal was canceled, it was disclosed that they had r
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by driscoll42 10mo ago
The best open source OCR model for handwriting in my experience is surya-v2 or nougat, really depends on the docs which is better, each got about 90% accuracy (cosine similarity) in my tests. I have not tried Deepseek-OCR, but mean to at so
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by driscoll42 10mo ago
In what world is that the "average experience" in American cities?
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by driscoll42 1y ago
I looked into this a bit earlier this year. I'm mixed on it. While the FOSS in me wants it all open-source and available to use given that I'm basically labeling training data for them for free, and they are funded by donations&#x
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by driscoll42 1y ago
Fair, looking at the ASR leaderboards it is truly better - https://huggingface.co/spaces/hf-audio/open_asr_leaderboard and NVIDIA's Canary might be even better? Will try these out. Appreciate bringing these t
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by driscoll42 1y ago
Compared to all Whister models? Or the faster ones? And which version of Whisper? All for a faster, more accurate model, but need a bit more.
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by driscoll42 1y ago
To suggest another "simple" example, Air Conditioning. It made half the world vastly more livable, and now anywhere in the world you could work every day of the year, reduced deaths and disease. At least currently, AC has had a gr
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by driscoll42 1y ago
It's not quite that specific, but close enough: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/01/business/dealbook/pornhub... https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/08/califo
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by driscoll42 2y ago
So, I did some OCR research early last year, that didn't include any VLMs, on some 1960s era English scanned documents with a mix of typed and handwritten (about 80/20), and here's what I found (in terms of cosine similarity)
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by driscoll42 2y ago
RetroMags - h https://www.retromags.com/ has 5218 various gaming magazine issues and strategy guides one can download to check out! Looks like the VGHF and RetroMags are working together from forum posts, with the VGHF doing
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by driscoll42 2y ago
This, if your workout plan for the day has you running is six miles a day, rather than just running the same path over and over again, might as well have fun with it and add a bit more fun to your workout.
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by driscoll42 2y ago
It has been as low as $5 - https://isthereanydeal.com/game/sid-meiers-civilization-vi-p... and it's $10 at Green Man Gaming right now - https://www.greenmangaming.com/games/sid-meiers-civiliza
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by driscoll42 2y ago
I visited Tokyo a few months back, and while the convenience stores seemed nicer than equivalents in America, I also wasn't particularly impressed. I think if I had just encountered them I'd be impressed, but the internet has hype
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by driscoll42 2y ago
100% I hate the videofication of the internet. So much content is locked behind a video that is vastly more difficult to pull detail out of and search and just text. Videos are a great supplement to most text, but rarely do they make a good
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by driscoll42 2y ago
There's a wonderful blog post on the PS3 Architecture - https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/playstation-3/ that gives a good overview of the Cell processor with linked resources if you want more de
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by driscoll42 2y ago
While I get the privacy argument, I hate the trend towards mobile-only with the internet. With the Timeline it's so much easier to use my computer and see a giant map of the world and a mouse to poke around.
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by driscoll42 2y ago
Funnily, the blog author has an article all about how demography of ancient Rome was determined - https://acoup.blog/2023/12/22/collections-how-many-people-an... By our standards they did not conduct a true c
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by driscoll42 2y ago
For OCR of handwriting, I did some comparative analysis a year back, and I found that Tesseract was... not good. However TrOCR was okay , certainly the best of the FOSS solutions. But Textract from Amazon was the best one by far far for ha
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by driscoll42 2y ago
Stanford's NLP Group has a good list of more specialized NLP coursers ( as well as CS224N, basically their CS388) - https://nlp.stanford.edu/teaching/ CS 124: From Languages to Information CS224n: NLP with DL from
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by driscoll42 2y ago
Did you look at the Assignments? The [code and dataset download] links?
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by driscoll42 2y ago
Even in a non-capitalist society, you still need high quality teachers and ideally some way to measure them. And it's not like eliminating capitalism in any way would prove to end poverty.
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by driscoll42 2y ago
There was a study by the Federal Reserve that came to the conclusion last year that rewards cards is basically a money transfer of ~$15 billion from poor to rich per year. Discussion on Hacker News about it: https://news.ycombina
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by driscoll42 2y ago
Yup, the SHVC-2DCON-01 was only used by Mega Man X2, the direct link worked for me: https://snescentral.com/pcbboards.php?chip=SHVC-2DC0N-01 , though X3 used a different board, the SHVC-1DC0N-01 ( https://snescent
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by driscoll42 3y ago
Is there any syllabus/list of topics covered without having to register for it?
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by driscoll42 3y ago
There were a number of headlines a while back about ChatGPT suggesting recipes that could create chlorine gas, create a poison, called for human flesh, and others.
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by driscoll42 3y ago
I usually look at rtings robot vacuum reviews for recs: https://www.rtings.com/vacuum/reviews/best/robot

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