simon_kun

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by simon_kun 2y ago
Google launched similar functionality in NotebookLM today. You can generate podcasts from a wide range of sources: https://blog.google/technology/ai/notebooklm-audio-overviews... Looks like you can generate from W
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by simon_kun 2y ago
possibly: request to be forgotten triggering model retraining if user data has been used to train it. dma means permissions can be revoked iirc
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by simon_kun 3y ago
I love blogs like this. reminds me of 2005.
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by simon_kun 3y ago
Today.
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by simon_kun 4y ago
This is an extremely insightful article. Strong agree with the core points made that these are copilots or co-processors rather than replacements. Maybe at some point in the future we will all be replaced (sound familiar?) but for now these
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by simon_kun 4y ago
I did it through Dry January - it's socially normalized. Made it through Jan 2019, then just keep going.
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by simon_kun 4y ago
doubtful - I'm tuning GPT3 with good midjourney prompts as we speak
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by simon_kun 4y ago
https://laion.ai/blog/laion-aesthetics/
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by simon_kun 5y ago
Do folks know that 55% of ad revenue goes directly to the creators whose content you are watching? Apps like this sound great, but ultimately damage ecosystems. YT Premium is like $11.99/mo and you never see an ad again. If you think y
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by simon_kun 5y ago
this. if a Google/IG ads team was put on Twitter ads, their revenue and user satisfaction would likely go through the roof
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by simon_kun 5y ago
How mission driven teams at FAANG build $1Tn+ market cap: 1. Product teams create utility at ~zero marginal cost per additional user 2. Platform teams drive distribution 3. Monetization teams convert utility to cash 4. GOTO 1
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by simon_kun 6y ago
I'm by far not an expert in this space, but governance coins can also be utility coins - eg provide you with certain rights to use a service, or use a service at a discount or priority in some way ( eg. see Celsius). In this way, the c
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by simon_kun 6y ago
I understand. Governance tokens are equity (usually with voting rights), and are used to generate a capital base for a decentralised product (think: crowdfunding). Not all governance tokens are airdropped and the secondary market for said t
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by simon_kun 6y ago
they will release their own governance token through an airdrop. It's the new way to fund decentralised startups - no need for VC. Essentially it's the equivalent of an IPO on day 1.
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by simon_kun 6y ago
'78 reporting in. We had a BBC Micro in our school library in Derbyshire. That coupled with the Speccys and c64's floating around at the time are probably a large part of why I'm sitting here in SF working at a senior level i
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Twitter Maps(cartodb.com)
1 points by simon_kun 12y ago|0 comments
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by simon_kun 13y ago
It's testament to Canonical that Ubuntu 8.04 LTS still gets security patches backported to 8.3. If you (still) have servers running Hardy, it's 'apt-get upgrade' time: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1789-1/
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by simon_kun 14y ago
Does anyone know of a patched version of rails 2.3 series on rubygems?
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Britain's Royal Navy in the First World War - animated(guardian.co.uk)
2 points by simon_kun 14y ago|0 comments
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by simon_kun 15y ago
Hey Alastair, great post! Understanding OSM labels and so on can be pretty time consuming. You might like the mapdig library for CartoDB that lets you drill down into your spatial data to get a handle on what's what: http://vizzuality.gith
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by simon_kun 15y ago
For those that are curious, the motherboard in these systems is a ASUSTeK P8H67-M PRO. Seems like it's a gaming board - understandable given it's an i7 platform.
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by simon_kun 15y ago
I can't find one either. In fact, AWS doesn't seem to be running with ECC RAM except for some of the GPU instances. Happy to be corrected here.
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by simon_kun 15y ago
I'm not sure AWS have updated their specs since then (all the specs for an ECU refer to a 1Ghz 2007 Xeon). We also tested our staging c1.xlarge and it scored less than the cloudharmony results indicated a c1.xlarge should.
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Hetzner EX 4S Unixbench, dd and htparm results(gist.github.com)
60 points by simon_kun 15y ago|42 comments
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Migrating from SimpleGeo Storage to CartoDB(blog.cartodb.com)
18 points by simon_kun 15y ago|0 comments
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by simon_kun 15y ago
If you mean tech as opposed to their data offerings, you should take a look at CartoDB http://www.cartodb.com . All the power of PostGIS with a lot of the pain points rounded off.
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by simon_kun 15y ago
If you're interested in the relative performance of the current crop of JS engines, you may like to check http://arewefastyet.com/?a=b&view=regress for commit by commit benchmarking over time.
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by simon_kun 15y ago
If people are interested in learning about vectors in a visual programming environment, then I highly recommend this tutorial on 2D vectors by Daniel Shiffman (of processing fame) http://processing.org/learning/pvector/
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JavaScript for Rubyists(tokumine.com)
2 points by simon_kun 15y ago|0 comments
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by simon_kun 15y ago
because when JSON is Gzip'd there's only around ~5% in it: http://goo.gl/b2Uur (the bit on geojson).

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