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by eightails 4y ago
For sure, and even training is very doable on consumer hardware these days. Techniques like Dreambooth and LoRA have dramatically lowered the compute cost of finetuning large models on specific concepts. A recent GPU can train Stable Diffus
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by eightails 4y ago
I guess that makes sense. I use Mullvad as well, and anecdotally it seemed to have a similar rate of blacklisted endpoints to Nord. I guess in Nord's case maybe its ubiquity is the problem.
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by eightails 4y ago
I'm curious, why would that be the case?
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by eightails 4y ago
"I am become and"
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by eightails 4y ago
Deja vu, I have been in this place before. It's amazing how circular the responses in this comment thread are getting. There appears to be disagreement on the surface, but in reality almost everyone is presenting a view which is at lea
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by eightails 4y ago
I think it's been raised in the context of a fair few sightings where there's supposedly been a very large craft moving silently and relatively slowly, e.g. the 2000 Illinois sightings (referenced in a great song by Sufjan Stevens
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by eightails 4y ago
And still lower than other laser systems using inertial confinement. If I'm reading NIF's recent paper right, they're claiming Q_a of above ~1.4, or Q = ~0.28 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles&#x2
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by eightails 5y ago
> But, of course, I'm overlooking something here. Because if you take the same portrait at 50mm and with, say, 20mm, it's not just the focal length of the camera that differs. What also differs is the position of each camera. T
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by eightails 5y ago
And there's also the fact that the other possibility seems so unlikely: why would you store a sensitive experimental aircraft under a transparent tarp? I can't think of any reason to do so. An opaque painted tarp seems much more
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by eightails 5y ago
> Until the computer starts telling people what to do My phone has me well trained. All it has to do is play a short message tone and I'll come running...
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by eightails 5y ago
> I'm just wondering if using cameras that are close to each other, but use different focal lengths, doesn't give the same results I can see why it might seem that way intuitively, but different focal lengths won't give an
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by eightails 5y ago
Sure, but they're not getting that 3d map from binocular vision. The forward camera sensors are within a few mm of each other and different focal lengths. And the tweet thread you linked confirms it's a ML depth map: > Well, th
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by eightails 5y ago
One question I've always had about Tesla's sensor approach: why not use binocular forward facing vision? Seems like it would be a simple and cheap way to get reliable depth maps, which might help performance in the situations whic
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by eightails 5y ago
Sounds similar to experimental designs by Rolls Royce for a diesel rotary during the 60s, in that it uses two separate parallel shafts and rotors for intake/compression and ignition/exhaust. > In the case of the Rolls-Royce Wan
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by eightails 5y ago
There's a great New Yorker article on this for those interested. It's a pretty fascinating read -- doubtless been posted here a bunch before. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/03/the-co
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by eightails 5y ago
> It seems clear to me that there is an optimal starting word, but that the best second word has to depend on the info you gain from the first. Definitely. The likelihood of a letter appearing in a given place changes depending on the le
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by eightails 5y ago
Not sure I would call Tor "perfect", but it's certainly very useful for some use-cases.
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by eightails 5y ago
Totally agree. I feel like this speaks to a general reluctance to accept uncertainty and shades of gray surrounding a topic. It often seems to me that many people prefer to have things neatly sorted into binary categories, supporting them e
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by eightails 5y ago
Yeah that's likely true. I had chosen MP3 for reasons of total compatability and 'good enough' compression, but it seems like almost all music players have good support for those formats as well. Maybe at some point I'll
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by eightails 5y ago
I agree. I was using almost entirely lossless until five years ago or so, when I did some ABX tests (there's a good foobar plugin for those interested) and realised that 256+ kbps LAME was indistinguishable from lossless 24/96 to
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by eightails 5y ago
Not appreciably different, that was the whole logic behind my thinking. In my case I have electric heaters, so doesn't make a difference compared to a gpu -- they're both effectively 100% thermally efficient.
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by eightails 5y ago
I did this last winter. Mining 24/7 on my personal rig noticeably took a bit of load off the heater and made a modest amount of ethereum. I stopped once the weather warmed as it seemed like a waste of energy.
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by eightails 5y ago
It's probably only a matter of time. I had a similar thought when I saw Mercedes new infotainment UI [0] -- the dark blue with heavy use of gradients is very reminiscent of vista-era design to my eyes. [0] https://mediacloud
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by eightails 5y ago
I suppose an optimist would say that success, even at a tiny scale, would be a step in the right direction. But you're right, it could well be possible that the effect doesn't scale up. I think gram-scale probes are definitely bei
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by eightails 5y ago
> The issue seems to be that the alcubierre drive requires things like external negative energy Yes that's traditionally been the stumbling block. But the whole point of the linked article is that they have predicted a way to meet t
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by eightails 5y ago
Though currently Android-based, grapheneos is planning to move towards a microkernel + virtualisation model eventually. I'd imagine this is several years away at least, though. https://grapheneos.org/faq#roadmap There&
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by eightails 5y ago
> I have a very weird requirement when it comes to reading digital content. It has to be 100% distraction free because otherwise I end up getting sucked into Netflix or HN Not exactly a radical recommendation or anything, but have you tr
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by eightails 5y ago
In a way it reminds me of being engrossed in reading, in that there's an almost complete suspension of awareness of the outside world in favour of the fictional one. The fact that RS users report writing detailed scripts seems to suppo
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by eightails 5y ago
As an open-source alternative, Joplin could be worth a look. It's a little different in terms of features, missing a lot of the linking which is kind of key to Obsidian's appeal, so maybe it's closer to Evernote. Still, they&
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by eightails 5y ago
Could do it in a single step with F12. I suppose then you still have to scroll/search to find the relevant nodes... "multi-step" indeed

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