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by xiii1408 4mo ago
> The article points out that nobody made a movie about this guy. What are you talking about? The article doesn't say no one made a movie about him. There are at least three Chinese movies and a TV series about him.
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by xiii1408 4mo ago
https://www.lysator.liu.se/hackdict/split/avatar.html
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by xiii1408 5mo ago
Hot damn, fed it part of an unpublished blog post I wrote, and it got me immediately. I'm not famous or anything. I've written some academic papers and had a couple blog posts trend on HN, which are surely in the training set. It
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by xiii1408 1y ago
It's not at all comparable. ADS-B is opt-in: you place an ADS-B out transmitter in your plane and turn it on to transmit your position [1]. You're perfectly free to turn your ADS-B off if you like. It's not even required f
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by xiii1408 2y ago
People do these same sock puppet studies on Twitter/YouTube/etc. and find biases there as well. There's a lot of literature out there. Here's a recent study on YouTube from the same author as this TikTok study finding l
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by xiii1408 2y ago
I think this is a valid point and a really interesting question. If that's the standard, we need to regulate all recommendation algorithms. (i.e. put limits on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube as well.) How could we regulate this? I
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by xiii1408 2y ago
I think the key metric missing here is how long the user watches each video. Likes and replies are probably helpful too, but when I've used short-form video content apps like TikTok, Reels, and YouTube Shorts before, they've gotte
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by xiii1408 2y ago
Perhaps I should have been more clear. It's TikTok, so of course the only way to collect recommendations is to watch videos. Some studies watch the whole video, some just watch part of it, but it's TikTok, so fundamentally you&#
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by xiii1408 2y ago
It's another sock puppet study: https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.17831 Very similar methodology to an earlier study the government cited in their case against TikTok: https://networkcontagion.us/wp-conte
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by xiii1408 5y ago
Yeah, I'd say this is exactly what's going on at big tech companies. Add to that the need for an interview process that is very standardized for (1) scalability in a large company and (2) legal protection against discrimination (
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PGAS in C++: Building Distributed Data Structures Using RDMA(youtube.com)
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by xiii1408 5y ago
There's also the problem of content which doesn't have subtitles to begin with---YouTube's automatic subtitle generation is great, but could be improved and expanded to languages other than English.
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by xiii1408 5y ago
Yes! My perennial problem is that most Chinese TV content has excellent subtitles, but they're burned in to the videos. So if I want to watch a Chinese show with a friend who doesn't read Chinese, there's no option even for
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by xiii1408 5y ago
Becoming more and more surprised by intentionally misleading headlines these days.... Shocker---you might be required to be vaccinated in order to live in a facility for ultra-sick kids, many of whom are immunocompromised. I guess that&#x2
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by xiii1408 5y ago
Pretty interesting! I tried this both English -> French and French -> English. English -> French seemed to work best, with the AI output have a very similar timbre to my real voice. Not hyperrealistic for me, but decent enough gi
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by xiii1408 5y ago
Unfortunately probably none, unless you live pretty far north. We're pretty close to the speed of light limit* when it comes to latency between the US and Asia, which makes sense as a straight line is over the Pacific anyway. (e.g.,
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CppCon 2021: “GraphBLAS: Building a C++ Matrix Library for Graph Algorithms”(youtube.com)
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by xiii1408 5y ago
Considering all the crazy shit that goes down with CSGO skins, which have a much more controlled market than NFTs, I find this pretty unsurprising. For anyone unfamiliar with the CSGO skins market and the explosion of illegal gambling sites
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by xiii1408 5y ago
Ooh, great to hear!
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by xiii1408 5y ago
I'm extremely excited about this project. If the product reviews end up as positive as the pre-production reviews, my next laptop is definitely going to be a Framework Laptop.
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by xiii1408 5y ago
There was an excellent article in Harpers about this a few months ago: https://harpers.org/archive/2021/04/lost-in-thought-psycholo... I had no idea, but schizophrenic breaks and other psychological symptoms
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by xiii1408 5y ago
+1 to the Toshiba CB-35 Chromebook. It is an excellent laptop fr running Linux, although a bit outdated at this point. If I hadn't shattered mine's screen in a bike crash, I probably would still be using it today. Not sure what
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by xiii1408 5y ago
Yeah, this. I've used Ethernet bridge on old Netgear 802.11n routers, and it's quite fast.
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by xiii1408 5y ago
1) It runs Linux, so you're limited to 0 A.D. 2) No, it has the extremely expensive server GPUs, so their drivers should be normal.
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by xiii1408 5y ago
Dude it's just a bunch of GPUs with a fast network... Source: Berkeley PhD student in supercomputing, have access to Perlmutter.
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by xiii1408 5y ago
Not really. Zoom applies lots of noise canceling and other filters, so your raw audio doesn't correspond to what you actually sound like to other people (unless you use "original audio").
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by xiii1408 5y ago
I think one of the things people often overlook is the distance between the mic and your mouth. The closer the mic is to the source, the higher the signal-to-noise ratio will be, so the less echo and background noise you'll get. Many
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by xiii1408 5y ago
I was lucky enough to realize, a month into the pandemic, that I would be having all meetings on Zoom for at least 3-4 months. I did three things, which seemed a little excessive at the time, but turned out to be great investments, since I
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by xiii1408 5y ago
Depends on the particular trial, but the clinical trial data used to get FDA approval usually measures symptomatic cases , which is a combination of coronavirus symptoms and positive PCR test. There's some additional data which indica
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by xiii1408 5y ago
This is an excellent point, and exactly the reason why the UK decided to stop administering the AstraZeneca vaccine to people under 30. Not sure why you're being downvoted. For people under 30, particularly women, the risk of blood cl

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