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by jamez 3mo ago
My same thought, precisely. Funny how certain expressions are now toxic telltale sign.
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by jamez 1y ago
We're in good hands! /s
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by jamez 2y ago
The article reads a bit parochial, with scarce mentions of market dynamics. Capers are definitely an uncommon sight in the US. In Italy you will occasionally spot this bad boy: https://www.amazon.it/Capperi-Sotto-Sale-secch
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by jamez 2y ago
No, or at least: not yet.
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by jamez 2y ago
I'm probably not the best person to elaborate on why societal anxieties arise every time our place in the universe shrinks. I guess observing reactions to copernican heliocentrism could be a good starting point. We're witnessing s
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by jamez 2y ago
Well spotted. The agent does in fact assess whether or not the information it's processing is already in its vector DB. I'm still unclear if what you noticed is due to the LLM failing (Mixtral is good, but not great), or something
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by jamez 2y ago
I did! I want to switch to Mixtral-8x22B, time permitting. During the development of Stream of Consciousness I already swapped LLMs twice. This space is moving incredibly fast.
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by jamez 2y ago
LLM: Mixtral-8x7B text-to-image: one of the leading commercial models, whose TOS I may or may not be violating.
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by jamez 2y ago
The text-to-image model is an important component, but the current model in use is IMO good enough. My view for this project is that the internal monologue is more important than the output, so my wish is instead for a better open-weight LL
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by jamez 2y ago
Glad you like it! One of the things I tried to emulate is the notion of obsessions, which I believe is an important component of the creative process. It seems like Livia got obsessed with Dutch Proverbs and slowly drifted to "Dutch pr
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by jamez 2y ago
Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I fully agree re: the importance of art and the absurdity of the concept which, I hope it's clear, is embedded in the spirit of this project. On the topic of the performance and worries that somethi
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by jamez 2y ago
Thanks for reporting. Fixing that pronto.
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Show HN: Stream of Consciousness – watch an artificial persona making art(streamofconsciousness.net)
75 points by jamez 2y ago|31 comments
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by jamez 3y ago
So great to see interest in ePaper screens. Picture frame projects specifically seem to be gathering steam. Shameless plug: I built a solar ePaper frame that displays Google Photo albums or loads pictures from an sd-card. https:/&#x
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Replace your fine-tuned text-DaVinci-003 with Mixtral(jamez.it)
2 points by jamez 3y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: A Sign In Space – simulating a message from ET(asignin.space)
14 points by jamez 3y ago|3 comments
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by jamez 3y ago
So far, I've shared the instructions on how to build a custom solar engine, which was the most time-consuming portion of the project. Coming up next: high level directions on how to build one from scratch.
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by jamez 3y ago
I did, though I appreciate the appeal of recycling a screen no longer loved.
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by jamez 3y ago
Just a few days ago I stumbled upon Exeger and its promising Powerfoyle material. Looks like Big E Ink is already on it: https://www.powerfoyle.com/news/exeger-and-e-ink-partner-to-... To me, the most elegant way of re
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by jamez 3y ago
Indeed, it doesn't! I've been splurging on UV protecting glass for my frames and I hope that will make them last longer. Other than that, I try to position the frames close to windows, but not so much that they would receive many
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by jamez 3y ago
Nicely done. Have you tried connecting it with a larger panel and see if you can get rid of that battery draining during Winter? I'm curious to hear how your battery copes over time.
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by jamez 3y ago
I agree. The brain does a lot of the interpolation that fools us into thinking there's more colors. Here's another example of interesting results: https://twitter.com/liviopacifico/status/1361928583405391
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by jamez 3y ago
I really enjoyed the work you put into finding the best images for the medium. It matters! For instance, I noticed that in the black-white-red ePaper, photos with a subject containing a lot of red hue really pop out. Container and content s
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by jamez 3y ago
Thanks for your comment. You are definitely right about "forever" not matching reality, which is why I placed it between quotes. In this case, what this means to me is a device that could outlive its creator. I take your point abo
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by jamez 3y ago
Giving new life to an old eReader using solar power is as optimistic an image of the future as I can get right now. There are dozens of us... DOZENS! Ditto for the build-your-own kit.
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Show HN: My solar-powered, ePaper digital photo frame(jamez.it)
154 points by jamez 3y ago|41 comments
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by jamez 3y ago
This is excellent, I could see using this as a foundation to build a set of drink coasters. A couple of years ago I used wad2svg to penplot every level in the original DOOM. The result: https://twitter.com/liviopacifico&#x2F
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by jamez 3y ago
Thank you both, this is a good suggestion. I'll leave the short connection on screen, comparing it with the long and windy path is fun.
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by jamez 3y ago
To be clear - the point is not to display what can or cannot be connected. The emphasis on this project is about the long and tortuous path chosen. I take your point about the limits of knowledge graphs written manually vs LLMs. IMHO it&#x2
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by jamez 3y ago
TF-idf would definitely be something very interesting to try, though I also treasure the serendipity brought by the "blindness" to the content.

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