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Comment · 1 month ago
I'm on mobile so I'm not able to check, but can the will-change and contain attributes reduce the cost?
Comment · 3 months ago
> Although logic connectivity is not layout-dependent in the current prototype, we envision a future where physical proximity directly influences or determines logical connections. In this ultimate view, the circuit behaves like a digital organism whose physical form and logical connections evolve together under local structural constraints.
Comment · 4 months ago
Not all bugs are buffer overflows, many are just the code not doing what it claimed at a high level
Comment · 4 months ago
Comment · 4 months ago
405 Method Not Allowed is trivial to fall back to POST. How do you know the GET request behaved incorrectly?
Comment · 4 months ago
Seems like the README is heavily vibed, as it seems to not even understand what the repo does:

> Local AI & LLM Ready: By reducing complex pixel streams into structured logical strings, ASCILINE acts as a perfect bridge for AI. Instead of feeding heavy computer vision models, lightweight LLMs can process semantic video summaries.

In what way is this semantic/structured?

> Bypassing Browser Constraints: Modern browsers aggressively throttle autoplay videos, and ad-blockers restrict traditional media frames. To the browser, ASCILINE is simply "JavaScript updating a canvas"—completely invisible to media restrictions.

So... just render the video to a canvas? What does ASCII have to do with it

Comment · 5 months ago
> LLMs are good at predicting words, since each word in the id is ~1 BPE token. But uuids are random hex characters, this is where LLMs struggle to output the right ids.

If true then that indeed seems like an improvement, I think I just need measurements of actual hallucinations. Calling hex random but a selection of words not seems humanly biased? If anything, being random is good because it's saying there's no semantic influence. I'd think that words are more likely to be hallucinated as certain words only follow certain contexts, which is less true for numbers

Comment · 5 months ago
I don't like that they're not apples to apples; less bits so of course it'll take less tokens.

> Where UUIDs cost ~23 tokens and get hallucinated by LLMs

How does this solve the hallucination problem?

Just removing the - from the example UUID takes it from 26 tokens to 18

Comment · 5 months ago
LLMs aren't relevant to aviation and medical devices
Comment · 7 months ago
The free battery deal ended in January, but you're likely better off as mine ended up getting a damaged screen while being transported for mail in (because all local stores stopped doing the program), and they wanted to charge me an extortionate price to fix the screen. Support were useless
Comment · 7 months ago
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Comment · 9 months ago
It's monetisation. If they put a paywall on the video, your browser has the functionality to play the video but you're forced to pay to use that functionality.

Also wrt phone, it's different because I paid for the phone. But also I'd just use a different camera app?

Comment · 9 months ago
While I'm not pro YouTube, I think it's fine for companies to decide how to monetise their product, including things which were originally free. If you don't like free services, stop using them

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