nmacias
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Comment · 22 days ago
The hardest problems, but not yet a website that can scroll on an iPhone 17 Pro without stuttering reflow.
Comment · 1 month ago
I had an synology NAS power blip which caused a long term time machine to become completely corrupt, like, i’m not confident its quite so compatible with non apple disk formats
Comment · 2 months ago
I take this story as a clear sign that they are careless & it most likely IS happening at some scale in systems that generate/personalize ad variants, chatbots, suggested interactions, etc. For another example of shipping very inappropriate things:
- https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-ai-chatbots-sex-a25311bf - https://www.404media.co/instagram-is-blocking-minors-from-ac...
Back to the original inference, anyway… generative ad Personalization instances DO NOT (afaik) appear in the public repository of ads. Researchers can't see it, but do we have to strain our imaginations to think that things like nudify apps aren't taking advantage of tools that do things like drop user avatars into their pitch? e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1uhy9yn/instagram_...
I don't have a specific citation to offer, but tbh I've seen enough.
Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 6 months ago
GOOG-411 was "competing" with a strong company (1-800-FREE411) by serving no ads in a category worth ~$3.5B at the time. It was inexplicable at the time, but they did this to get voice samples, way back when. For reasons like that, I expect that this category of training is baked — but I don't have current domain knowledge fwiw.
Comment · 7 months ago
So, Quri (2009, now part of Trax), which was the startup copy of Proctor & Gamble's retail intelligence operations. But now like a sponge for any AI budgets not earmarked for hardware.
Comment · 2 years ago
most audio and video schemes support streaming, in the case of MP3 we are talking about frame-based compression
I guess to restate my curiosity: are things like Animation Pose Compression in Unity or equivalents in other engines remotely as good as audio techniques with hardware support? The main work on this seems to be here and I didn't see any references to audio codecs in the issue history fwiw. https://github.com/nfrechette/acl
Comment · 2 years ago
the shoulder rotation plotted at various frequencies sparked for me: is there an "MP3" of character animation data? The way that we have compression optimized for auditory perception… it feels like we might be missing an open standard for compressing this kind of animation data?
edit: Claude is thinking MP3 could work directly: pack 180Hz animation channels into a higher frequency audio signal with some scheme like Frequency Division / Time Division Multiplexing, or Amplitude Modulation. Boom, high compression with commonplace hardware support.
Comment · 2 years ago
AdderaLLM was right there
Comment · 2 years ago
Has anyone tried to make a Yahoo! Directory vision of YouTube/web video?
This isn’t going to get better on behalf of YT product teams, and Sora et al are going to ratchet up the stakes
Comment · 2 years ago
Based on the polished rib bone / leatherwork precedent, I am going to presume these were fabric-softening dryer balls.
Comment · 2 years ago
this site, yikes. In summary, we don’t know what happened yet, but you assume it’s the direct and obvious outcome of <your political issue>? And that <many people are saying>?
In that’s the game, then, I suspect the Spotify team was onsite to record a behind the scenes at Boeing podcast, and in the process replaced the locking nuts with Joe Rogan stickers.
Comment · 2 years ago
Location: San Francisco, CA
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: design, browser-oriented code, GIFs
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ho5lIt8UubFM8HELmqb0I6Ub-Ut...
Email: linked from portfolio (https://rockinghelvetica.com)
I’m a designer with a couple of decades’ worth of practice across the entire space of creating & nurturing digital products. I like fuzzy problems. Pretty good at naming things.
Remote is viable. For initial teams and cofounder-shaped opportunities, I’d prefer to work in-person in SF.
Comment · 4 years ago
I get that idealists will be up in arms about user-agent based self-censorship and still feel this way. It’s reversible immediately if it was proven to be harmful.
Comment · 4 years ago
I think that Apple should insist that webviews used this way identify themselves via JS as monetization containers, with clear definitions for when and why subject to App Store review. Done.