nigma
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Comment · 2 years ago
I'm having a lot of fun chatting with characters using Faraday and koboldcpp. Faraday has a great UI that lets you adjust character profiles, generate alternative model responses, undo, or edit dialogue, and experiment with how models react to your input. There's also SillyTavern that I have yet to try out.
Comment · 3 years ago
I hate this kind of clickbait marketing suggesting the project is delivering 1/100 of the size or 100x-35000x the speed of other solutions because it uses a different language for a wrapper around core library and completely neglecting tooling and community expertise built around other solutions.
First of all the project is based on llama.cpp[1], which does the heavy work of loading and running multi-GB model files on GPU/CPU and the inference speed is not limited by the wrapper choice (there are other wrappers in Go, Python, Node, Rust, etc. or one can use llama.cpp directly). The size of the binary is also not that important when common quantized model files are often in the range of 5GB-40GB and require a beefy GPU or a MB with 16-64GB of RAM.
Comment · 3 years ago
I’m using Jupyter Book (https://jupyterbook.org/) to build all kinds of daily reports and it works really well.
Individual notebooks can also be converted to HTML or pdf with nbconvert using command line or “download as” menu item.
Comment · 3 years ago
Mine came with a manual in German and some hardly readable photocopy of a translation written on a typewriter. That was a steep learning curve for a kid. Fortunately there were a lot of young and older folks who shared knowledge, engaged into demo scene or just played games. Later on I got a couple books and subscribed to the C&A magazine which helped me a lot with diving into graphics programming, extension ports, SID, etc.
The best part about C64 was it immediately booted into a Basic prompt that invited you to experiment with the hardware, like typing these magic POKE commands to set screen and text colors.
Comment · 3 years ago
Just guessing, but there may be other devices providing DNS service on your network. For example I have found that AppleTV is listening for DNS queries on a couple ports and MacOS will happily fallback to that.
Comment · 4 years ago
Wavelets are fun. I first heard about them in the early 2000s when I read about JPEG 2000 image compression format [1]. Back then the primary tool to play with signal transformation was the Matlab Wavelet Toolbox. As I got more interested in the topic I started work on PyWavelets [2] Python package for my master's thesis about medical signals processing and ML classification.
I'm not actively involved in the package development anymore but it is still maintained [3] and there is a great chance that you have it already in your Python environment as a dependency of scikit-image/scikit-learn. Just give it a try, it's very simple:
>>> import pywt
>>> cA, cD = pywt.dwt([1, 2, 3, 4], 'db1')
Comment · 4 years ago
There are many reasons for using other databases like PostgreSQL or MySQL in production - feature set, (managed) hosting, backup and replication, etc.
SQLite is primarily embedded/local database and cannot be easily separated and shared over network [1] between multiple disposable backend/worker instances.
Comment · 6 years ago
The MBP 2015 with discrete GPU is hardwired to output video signal through AMD M370X. It can get quite noisy when just connected to an external display.
Comment · 7 years ago
Apple is creating a false sense of privacy with their privacy-focused marketing. I appreciate their efforts building secure products but without a way to block or filter 3rd party app network data they leave their users vulnerable.
Also many ad-blockers that could filter app traffic were nuked from the App Store. I wish there was a way to firewall network traffic in the same way it is possible on other systems.
Comment · 7 years ago
It looks that Miranda IM (initial release in February 2000) is still actively developed - https://www.miranda-ng.org/.
Comment · 9 years ago
Why software updates and especially security bug fixes are not covered by manufacturer warranty as it is with hardware issues? Or maybe they are but no one enforces that?
In other words if I buy a phone with 2y warranty (a standard duration in many European countries) it would be reasonable to expect that any security updates (device fixes) will be provided in a reasonable time within that period starting from the purchase date.
Comment · 9 years ago
It depends on the revisit time, spatial resolution, region of interest, cloud coverage and product type. For example Landsat 8 images the entire Earth every 16 days, Sentinel-2 revisit time is ~5 days with 2 satellites and MODIS provides daily data but at moderate spatial resolution (> 250m).
We expect both the spatial resolution and revisit time to improve as more companies are launching satellite constellations.
Comment · 9 years ago
They already provide Earth Engine platform which is more complete both in terms of available datasets as well as developer APIs.
AWS product basically consists of open remote sensing datasets uploaded to S3. This is convenient if you deploy on AWS (transfer costs) but still have to develop all the data processing.
Comment · 9 years ago
I turned off JavaScript and Cookies for all sites a few months ago and only whitelist (or open in another Chrome profile) when they refuse to display or need an authenticated session.
There are some sites that require JS to render, but the great thing is that majority of pages I visit work just fine as plain html/css. In general I feel less distraction from popups, overlays, ads, etc.
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