macinjosh

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Comment · 14 days ago
the problem is no two houses are a like and you have to navigate, crawl spaces, basements, stairs, tiny utility closets where you can't even see the bolt you are tightening. there is no way this works in real everyday homes.
Comment · 17 days ago
Many thought Apple should be competing with the frontier labs while they see themselves as competing with Nvidia.
Comment · 18 days ago
Sorry about the eggs honey, I had to use the thrusters to get past this cyclist.
Comment · 2 months ago
This comment is literally off topic. You opened the comment saying as much. So I have dutifully downvoted it.
Comment · 2 months ago
Right now we use a special algorithm to rephrase the submitted text without changing or losing meaning. Once Anthropic documents how to detect the watermark itself work to remove it more surgically can commence.
Comment · 2 months ago
Good for the EU. I am not subject to their authoritarian decrees, thank God.
Comment · 2 months ago
This is a privacy oriented web utility for removing claude's watermarks from its text outputs and image outputs.

Image files are processed locally in the browser. It removes the C2PA signals from them directly.

Text inputs use an open model (Nemotron) on OpenRouter with Zero Data Retention enabled, no logging of inputs or outputs is done on this site or by OpenRouter or their providers.

It is 100% free to use and is ad-network free.

Comment · 2 months ago
I feel like there will be a minimal UI/no screen but it will have 9 far field microphones. 2-3 cameras , an iris scanner, GPS, and lidar. This is because it is a data collection device for use in OpenAI's future models, more than it is a an assistant.
Comment · 2 months ago
I make a podcast client for iOS that detects and skips ads for you using an on device model. This allows me to sell without a subscription. I am working on v2 which will bring support for video podcasts and YouTube podcasts.
Comment · 3 months ago
This one hurts. We will miss you Mr. Dvorak! RIP
Comment · 3 months ago
Comment · 3 months ago
I make an iOS app that uses this API heavily for transcribing diverse audio of varying bitrate and recording quality. The audio often contains music, multiple speakers, sound effects. SpeechAnalyzer almost always gets it.

It can struggle with proper nouns but will return something phonetically similar.

My main gripe is that it requires a separate model download per language. I understand the why they did this (to save disk space). But it makes multi-lingual audio hard to transcribe unless you know ahead of time the languages in the audio.

As an app developer the biggest win from using Apple's model is I don't have to bundle it in my app so my app looks much smaller. If a user has many transcription apps each one could have their own model. If Apple's model is used only one copy is needed.

Comment · 4 months ago
> This is a prime example of why programmers are not seriously considered engineers.

The civil engineer who builds a great suspension bridge probably looks down on the one who builds a bridge over a irrigation ditch in a rural county using a big metal pipe covered with dirt.

Much like you may look down on train builders who make the novelty trains for kids parks.

Software engineering happens to be useful everywhere and most stuff in life is low stakes and the economics do not exist to make it perfect.

However, in aerospace, banking, and other high stakes industries software engineering projects are met with the rigor that is called for.

Comment · 4 months ago
I want a distributed social network on top of email. Emails don’t have to be human readable. A client could be built to pass and share posts among a network via email messages. Add some clever cryptography and you can build trust networks and keep out spam more reliably.

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