tlack

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by tlack 2mo ago
It seems like everyone is more worried about how something was made rather than what it is or whether or not the work is good on its own merit. Ironic from a group that is surely using AI tools in their own work.
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by tlack 1y ago
If your application is pricing sensitive, check out DeepInfra.com - they have a variety of models in the pennies-per-mil range. Not quite as fast as Mercury, Groq or Samba Nova though. (I have no affiliation with this company aside from bei
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by tlack 1y ago
Vast.ai is a well known provider in that category. Runpod also has an offering in this space but I think they’re shifting toward more managed-by-them rental services. If you want someone to take you up on that offer you gotta specify a % di
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by tlack 1y ago
Sounds great to me! Just be sure the AI is capable of taking on various personas because not everyone you meet is a believer in nonviolent communication.
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by tlack 2y ago
A tip, Miami guy to Miami guy - the best devs eschew PHP like the plague. The remaining PHPers are desperate work-a-day sorts who will not be bringing the latest hotness to your project. Hire an Elixir or Haskell expert and you're gonn
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by tlack 2y ago
I believe the parent poster was referring to recent efforts in New York State to require licensure and background checks to purchase a 3D printer [1] [1] https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A2228
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by tlack 2y ago
Kudos on your bold undertaking! I've been a side-lined QNX admirer for some time, though not a potential user in most cases. A good next step would be a series of blog posts where the author takes on common types of enthusiast projects
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I'm not mutable, I'm partially instantiated(blog.dnmfarrell.com)
225 points by tlack 2y ago|71 comments
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by tlack 2y ago
I believe the tree-wrangler you mentioned is Aaron Hsu, author of the Co-dfns APL "compiler" that Trap uses. Here are some videos related to his work: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDU0iEj6f8duXzmgnlGX4...
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Trap – Transformers in APL(github.com)
95 points by tlack 2y ago|30 comments
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by tlack 2y ago
Do you find you really need that level of “resolution” with memories? On our [1] chatbots we use one long memories text field per chatbot <-> user relationship. Each bot response cycle suggests a new memory to add as part of its promp
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by tlack 2y ago
I have read a lot of reports that the job market is pretty bad. But, bad or good, I think all you can really do is keep trying! Don't let a few rejections stymie your long term goals. Your family needs you to keep putting one foot in f
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by tlack 2y ago
Sad day! This guy was a hilarious and talented writer. If anyone is looking for a book to pick up this weekend, I'd recommend checking out some of his work, especially if you like hard drinking Jewish nihilist detectives.
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by tlack 3y ago
In Auto1111, that just uses Image.blend. :) https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/blob...
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by tlack 3y ago
how I wish it had a strength setting.. you can try blending the before and after with PIL but it will probably look even more disturbing strength = 0.5 horrific_image = Image.blend(image_with_normal_skin_and_teeth, kinda_awfu
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by tlack 3y ago
GFPGAN is decent but kinda heavy handed: https://github.com/TencentARC/GFPGAN Worth a shot!
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by tlack 3y ago
I haven't used it for search, but I believe Insightface's embeddings can be used for this purpose. https://insightface.ai/
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by tlack 3y ago
Try LAION Aesthetics: https://laion.ai/blog/laion-aesthetics/
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by tlack 3y ago
I still like that setup for using trees in low level languages. But personally I’ve been working at higher levels of the stack the last few years, where these kinds of decisions seem less important. And on another level, it seems like coder
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by tlack 3y ago
Always surprising to click through a link on HN and discover it is one's own work. For a time I was very interested in lightweight array-based implementations of common data structures and this one seemed particularly handy.
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by tlack 3y ago
Love & recommend Roboflow. Thanks for releasing this yall!
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by tlack 3y ago
I am experimenting with building software using the ReAct tool prompting pattern, using Llama derivative models like Manticore13B, Airoborous, etc. I script it all together using Microsoft Guidance with Llama.cpp and AutoGPTQ. Works pretty
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by tlack 3y ago
On the LLM side: the cost / amount of resources that need to be brought to bear for long periods of time On the Stable Diffusion side: labeling, best practices, file management, quality control
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by tlack 4y ago
Diffusion systems can’t render a great image given just “a dog” as the prompt. Imagine all the different kinds of dog images the user might be expecting. A good prompt engineer understands the scope of keywords trained into SD and can trans
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by tlack 4y ago
Has anyone else switched to Caddy and seen similar performance improvements? I've been blindly using Nginx for years but have no love for that configuration file..
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by tlack 4y ago
It's good for challenges with lots of tabular data with a consistent shape and relatively simple business logic. You can get data in and out via CSV, HTTP, websockets and more, so it's not too hard to connect up with other systems
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by tlack 4y ago
Honeymoon continuing for me since day 1. This is the best SNR on the internet.
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by tlack 4y ago
Not quite an SPA, but we migrated our data-heavy site Classic.com from Next.js to Phoenix + LiveView + Surface. Despite me being the only person with Elixir knowledge on the team at start, it only took our small team ~5 weeks to get a pixel
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by tlack 4y ago
You can feed in any combination of image or text and get an equivalent array of 768 floats. By comparing two of these arrays to each other you can determine semantic similarity between two images, text and an image, text and other piece of
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by tlack 4y ago
I quite like the Telegram API, but it took some backflips (websockets style ones) to hook up a single instance of the bot code (Elixir) to multiple rendering GPUs

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