swordsmith

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by swordsmith 9mo ago
Seems very oriented toward model architecture and inference engineering. Maybe add some more on model training flow, distillation, data generation, SFT and RL techniques?
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by swordsmith 10mo ago
Seems like he thinks RLVR == learning from binary reward for the whole chain, completely discounting techniques to provide denser rewards like process reward supervision?
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by swordsmith 10mo ago
> No one wants 125 million thoroughly non-Sinicized Japanese inside the country; that would be seen as an endless headache, not a prize. I don't think what you claim the people want matters (if even true). Look at Tibet and Xinjiang
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by swordsmith 1y ago
lol you can go ask Thomas Rearden himself if Ctrl-labs "invented" gesture recognition from sEMG.
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by swordsmith 1y ago
The technology was "invented" by CTRL-Labs like how OpenAI "invented" transformer-based language models.
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by swordsmith 1y ago
Virtual keyboard is completely doable, but too slow.
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by swordsmith 1y ago
He's scribbling with his finger. Typing can also work, but handwriting is simply faster and easier to decode. sEMG signals correlate with *muscle* activation. When your fingers move, the actuators are the muscles in your forearm, and t
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by swordsmith 1y ago
One device at a time!
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by swordsmith 1y ago
Everyone focusing on consumer prices. But tariffs also function to incentivize domestic reindustrialization, which has huge national security implications. You see this clearly in the venture space as increased investment interest in hardte
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by swordsmith 2y ago
Came to the comments to see this. Stamping has all sorts of problems with alignment, stamp resolution, contact quality, etc, it's not clear whether this so called "simplicity" still holds after scaling up the resolution even
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by swordsmith 2y ago
Thanks for the reference, I suspected it would be EMG as well. Especially in the video you can see how the patient modulates his eyebrow, facial muscles, and mouth. The vestigial muscle movements can be decoded to speech with the help of LL
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by swordsmith 2y ago
I use Foundry for work. It makes data ingestion, cleaning, quality check and automation easy. After all the data is ingested, running analysis/RAG on them become extremely easy. Basically, it's end-to-end data engineering and anal
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by swordsmith 3y ago
Hard agree. This type of app looks awesome in theory, but also makes me want to really organize my thoughts, make sure the tags are not too redundant, and think about how to merge with my previous notes (a lot of which is on paper). Then th
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by swordsmith 4y ago
> Sometimes I think that part of this site's audience only considers art from a consumer-product perspective Imagine you are an artist. You as a patron connect and talk about a piece of art, you walk away happy and feeling connected
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by swordsmith 4y ago
> I've been seeing content on Tiktok where even 100 miles away they're seeing small dead fish which is apparently according to the folks making the videos a massive red flag. It's interesting that you mention that you saw
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by swordsmith 4y ago
That may be the case in the past, but the factors that enabled the Chinese manufacturing (low to medium range) dominance are largely declining: abundant growing labor force, stable world trading and geopolitical environment.
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by swordsmith 4y ago
> I seem to recall Xerox Parc was designed to foster serendipitous meetings between departments. This has been a common argument about returning to office, especially for R&D jobs. But in my experience in corp R&D, people are so
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by swordsmith 4y ago
> Humans weren't meant to live like this. I agree. It would do those people good to get a life outside of work...
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by swordsmith 4y ago
> I’m open to being proved ignorant here. Can you think of some examples where tech was obviously ahead of its time and not accepted? Google glass as an AR device
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by swordsmith 4y ago
So with these generative models running rampant, what's to even motivate aspiring artists to develop and hone their craft, if their years of work can be copied so easily? Maybe it doesn't practically matter, because some art style
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by swordsmith 5y ago
I actually LoL'd reading this. You can buy packs of 10 small notebooks (each the thickness of 10 of these cards) for $15 on Amazon, they work just as well if not better. A notebook is much easier to carry than a stack of cards with a w
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by swordsmith 5y ago
These other countries don't have calls to defund the police for one
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by swordsmith 5y ago
Does this provide real time "coaching"/suggestions during the game for League? I remember there used to be this application called "bwcoach" for Starcraft Broodwar, that would yell at the player if he's not bui
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by swordsmith 5y ago
+1 on this. Matlab toolboxes are much more well tested, has thorough documentation and work much better out of the box, especially for controls and signal processing. Working with scipy can be a pain sometimes with incorrect or unstable res
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by swordsmith 5y ago
> Here's another from 2010 with a similar result under similar conditions: https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/ws/files/11410334/cecotti_tnsre.pd ... Within the abstract: > The average accuracy and informatio
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by swordsmith 5y ago
From your top level comment: > a nurse a laminated piece of A4 paper and a patient who can blink get about 15 characters How is this a relevant comparison? 15 characters per minute is much less than the 15 WORDS per minute performance th
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by swordsmith 5y ago
Sure, a word can evoke all sorts of meaning, other brain process, etc. The decoding principle leveraged here is exactly as I indicated. It's decoding motor activation associated with imagining speaking a word, from the speech-motor cor
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by swordsmith 5y ago
Unless you have years of experience at IC design companies, where would you even get the experience for IC design and implantation without a PhD?
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by swordsmith 5y ago
That's not talent flight. He was likely pushed out. But Elon's companies are a grinder though, one of the cofounders Vannessa Toulosa is now at FB.
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by swordsmith 5y ago
> true consumer BCI does require an implant. Good luck convincing millions of people getting a brain implant.

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