mberlove

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by mberlove 20d ago
The author makes a good point, but also, the visual appeal of this blog is very readable and appealing. Not a format I would have thought of but it's a pleasant surprise.
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by mberlove 2mo ago
Asking this honestly...if certain kinds of inflammation tend to accelerate aging, and those inflammations can be controlled or decreased, does that, in effect, at least slow (if not actually reverse) aging? Granted that the headline is sen
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by mberlove 4mo ago
This specific finding is minor, but its implications are not IMHO. From the article it appears the researchers consider this a discovery in effect. If consumer hardware is already capable (in many settings) of reproducing what were formerly
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by mberlove 7mo ago
As a concept, it's intriguing. In practice, a lot of pieces need to work out just right for this particular instance of the idea to gain traction. IMHO a few factors need to be met: * Truthfulness -- granted that many topics have opini
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by mberlove 7mo ago
1. As a sporadic viewer of the newer Simpsons, the quality appears to vary. How can any show remain consistently humorous through nearly 40 years of content? And across how many writers, over time? That being said, it's fair to expect
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by mberlove 8mo ago
Everybody's got a party and if you leave, you ruin the party -- apparently. Isolated "walled gardens" are a kind of Intranet. Ingress requires buy-in (sign up, log in, identity proof, human proof); leaving means breaking out
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by mberlove 10mo ago
Is there a way to keep up to date on updates and new announcements? TIA.
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by mberlove 11mo ago
Agreed, from the article, there doesn't seem to be much of a correlation. Just two largely unrelated trends.
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by mberlove 1y ago
I'm not sure I understand the claims being made. I'm curious if this is experiential / anecdotal or if widespread. I think OSS is OSS always...being able to audit it makes it (reasonably) reliable, at least in the sense of se
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by mberlove 1y ago
I'm not aware of any SoTA outside of Veo and Sora. I've found the two of them mostly comparable for one-off use cases. Veo3 might be a bit "crisper" in some uses but this is anecdotal...I'd also be curious if anyone
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by mberlove 1y ago
I've always been interested in the little I've read of Pepys, but I had no idea about this backstory! Does anyone know when (if?) the offending passages got included in the published version?
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by mberlove 1y ago
Sometimes it seems you can "remind" the more established models, and this will bring the context back into focus (just from personal experience) but why that would work, I can only guess. What methods have you found to brute-force
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by mberlove 1y ago
I know I'm not alone in maintaining a strong feeling that we've "gone the wrong way" with tech in a lot of ways, as the meme goes, and forgotten (societally) that tech is there for us rather than the other way around. I
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by mberlove 1y ago
I see the points others are making, but I would find this a useful tool, I think. IMHO the missing factor gets bypassed on many posts like this (not just on this platform) -- the proof is in the product. Like any AI tool, the created result
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by mberlove 1y ago
Completely agree. This is a great insight. IMHO part of the growth of a programmer is learning how the code fits the context, and a large part of that is writing less code, not more, or getting rid of some entirely.
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by mberlove 1y ago
Creating an effectively physical representation of a neural net appears like a major step forward, even if this is just the first part of that step. I am surprised that this is the first instance of this kind of attempt, but maybe it's
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by mberlove 1y ago
I think the determinant will be how transparently this process is maintained.
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by mberlove 1y ago
Interesting. I view this as an antagonistic move against users, one of many in recent months and years, so I guess it's not really surprising (but that may be in large part my own preferences).
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by mberlove 1y ago
IMHO this breaks down into one of two answers: 1) I'm building something that makes a difference (if you think it does). 2) I'm building something that someone thinks makes a difference, and that person pays me (it's a payche
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by mberlove 1y ago
This is really neat, and close to something I have always wanted to implement for managing a small local notes handling system. (As a side note which may be a kind of artifact of coding turf wars, I just can't consider a Node applicati
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by mberlove 1y ago
This article read a little different than I expected from the title. I was just thinking about this topic recently through a book that surveyed historians in the 19th century. So many of them got their starts doing historical research as a
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by mberlove 2y ago
Can I ask, do you find that the benefits that other respondents are claiming (maybe younger respondents) are artifacts of a wishful thinking? Is it possible that the benefits are somewhat real, but come with downsides? I'm not leading
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by mberlove 2y ago
Tried this out, pretty interesting! Nice usable interface, though I'd personally want some more video controls. Video summaries are fantastically helpful. The processing seemed to jump through a huge amount of video really fast...was i
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by mberlove 2y ago
It's easy to get negative about a seemingly narrow technology. It's easy to want to compensate by becoming overly optimistic. I have trouble fluctuating between these since it's also easy to make convincing arguments for both
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by mberlove 2y ago
Interesting. It could be the further "down" on the foodchain your academic discipline, the more certain you might need to appear, or think you should appear -- at least this seems intuitively likely, though that is entirely guessw
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by mberlove 2y ago
This strikes a chord with me (not that I'm the only one). Every time I write longform, I intuitively want to include, "maybe", "might", "I think", but then axe them from my writing so as to not invite tota
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by mberlove 2y ago
I don't think it's so bad, but if I had to guess, it's from the division / breakdown of sections and lists, which reads a lot like the formulaic approach you get from an LLM (which is not necessarily bad, just common in
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by mberlove 2y ago
Glad to see the settings controls are getting an adjustment. That's been a minor pain point for me.
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by mberlove 2y ago
It's not a poor idea, but to work it would require further revamping of roadways. The bike lanes in most major areas are unlikely to support this well (given proximity to traffic, breaks in the lanes, etc). It may end up moot -- the
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by mberlove 3y ago
I've been plugging search engine result links for reddit and stackoverflow into archive.org to "bypass" - works more or less.

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