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Incredible definition of "flies."

Can I get an FPS overlay for this?

"Blast-N-Peen" got a good chuckle out of me. On the other end of the spectrum, Ken Riddle at Electronic Memories was unsettlingly spare, a little bit sinister in its lack of graphic expression of any kind.

I also found eleven labs gave me the best results when transcribing French dialog from a 60s television show. Voxtral's output format was the easiest to work with when attempting to create actual subtitles.

I think people misunderstand the utility of Mistral's OCR. It's not going to beat SOTA models for extraction on edge-case docs, but it's MUCH cheaper and faster and does an excellent job on simple ones. I've been working on converting PDFs to EPUBs and Mistral has been making steady improvements. On a chapter of Bleak House it was able to extract and tag the header, titles, and references at the bottom every time. The only thing it struggled on was line numbers in the right margin which it correctly tagged as "aside text" 3/5 times, but always separated from the core text each time. The important thing to keep in mind is that there's no prompting needed, just upload the PDF and voila!. There's even a batch mode with a 50% discount.

Nice! I test if models know which tubes I can use for an amp given the power and number of pins.

> BMW's own PressClub release described the advertisement as a special surprise for drivers...

That one got a chuckle out of me

Lots of nice features but the UX and UI are so painful that it's not worth jumping from the stock kobo reader for me.

It's nice to have another option though and if the UX improves one day maybe I'll use it as my main reader.

> As Fry says, the limit to someone's understanding is never their ability to understand. The limit is always in their motivation to care. And she sees her role as being to provide that motivation.

> "I think what you need to do," she says about the key to connecting with a wide audience, "is to create a hole in people’s imagination. If I can create just a moment where you want to know the next bit – you know exactly the size and shape it needs to be to fulfill your craving for that exact piece of information – then everybody's in."

I wish we had more teachers that thought like this.

Hardly science fiction. I respect a lot of Simon's work, but his credibility gets chiseled away a bit each time he participates in these kinds of echo chamber posts that are basically secondhand marketing.

Runs great on mobile!

I wonder how much of the annoying aspects of the podcasters can be controlled by the custom user instructions. I hate sitting through the patter of how "we're not political, just reporting the views of the sources."

Except for the prize committees outsourcing roughly the same sets of judges, they work a lot like how you’d expect. The judges pickup a bunch of books and choose the ones they like the most. Since the author makes it clear how subjective the process truly is, you can assume that personal biases play a huge part in how winners are chosen.