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Comment · 2 years ago
Please please keep your Y axis range consistent.
Comment · 2 years ago
Fine, then charge $1 and don't auto-convert to a subscription. That practice is what is offensive.

Or if it's just a few users don't ruin the free trial for everyone based on the actions of some bad apples. Spend some time on IP based screens etc.

Comment · 2 years ago
Just say "No" to "Free" trials that require a credit card on file.
Comment · 2 years ago
An LSTM takes a series of values and uses a combination of gates to determine critical information to hold on to or forget as a sequence unfolds. This is a compressive technique that removes the requirement of having all previous sequence information at the time of a particular inference.

This paper "compress sequence information into an anchor token" which is then used at inference time to reduce the information required for prediction as well as speed up that prediction. They do this via "continually pre-training the model to compress sequence information into the anchor token."

Comment · 2 years ago
Someone explain to me how this isn't reinventing LSTMs please.
Comment · 2 years ago
I don't care about learning Mandarin, I want to find out how this guy's motivation system works and then download it into my brain.

Doing a PhD and learning Mandarin as a side project?! Doing hours of Anki practice and new note taking, some of it while running on a treadmill? There's just a crazy amount of drive (and what sounds like an epic memory) here.

I don't think people consider base motivation enough when thinking about processes and this guy won some kind of biological and/or upbringing lottery.

Comment · 2 years ago
Imagine you've had an idea bouncing around in your head, or even an emotion, for a long time and you've never been able to express it. Then one day you push a button and a piece of art captures what you've been feeling perfectly.

It's not the craft that drives attachment in this case but the emotional resonance of something that you think should exist finally existing.

Comment · 2 years ago
Functionality for a demo launch: 9.5/10

Creepiness: 10/10

Comment · 2 years ago
This is now my head-canon.
Comment · 2 years ago
I've encountered this in the Pittsburgh area with AHN. Trying to get a provider results in printed lists of outdated numbers, practices not accepting patients, etc.

Frankly I think we need to start breaking laws. A startup needs to offer straight up good care and fuck the web of infinite regulations which support America's for profit health failure.

Doctors can lose their licenses pretty easily so it's going to have to be a straight tech play. Offer as-good-as-possible care entirely outside of the medical profession. AIs are getting good enough that despite the obvious errors they make they are still better than the nothing-burger of care we get here.

Comment · 2 years ago
Ahh escape velocity hadn't thought of that, thanks. So it would take something like Oumuamua to be much faster?
Comment · 2 years ago
Astrophysics peeps, why is it that the danger seems to be only tied to the mass of the object. Given p=mv is (relative) speed essentially the same for all of them or otherwise inconsequential?
Comment · 2 years ago
Anyone have reliable numbers on the file sizes here? Doom.exe from my searches was around 715k, and with all assets somewhere around 10MB. It looks like the SD 1.4 files are over 2GB, so it's likely we're looking at a 200-2000x increase in file size depending on if you think of this as an 'engine' or the full game.
Comment · 2 years ago
I'd like to see a doc that outlines how Reticulum handles standard network failures and attacks. Ok, the network just got partitioned, what happens? Ok someone is spamming announce messages trying to eat the 2% bandwidth allocation of everyone on the network, what happens?

That would help me quickly understand the properties of this system.

Comment · 2 years ago
How does this compare in terms of speed, quality, and price to sending images to VLMs like GPT-4o or Claude 3.5?

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