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Comment · 4 days ago
I don't understand what I'm exploring. Is it explained anywhere? To me it just looks like random buildings with random locations and heights are assigned random Wikipedia articles. Is there any rhyme or reason to the location of the buildings, their height, and which windows are illuminated in which color?
Comment · 3 months ago
The alternative being closing the doors on the person's arm and likely injuring them to avoid a minor incovenience?
Comment · 7 months ago
The precondition on the link you shared has -1 <= x && x <= 1, so 99 is way outside of that range. But even so, testing for x=1, which is supposed to be inside that range, 0.5 doesn't seem tolerably close to 0.4142.
Comment · 7 months ago
I'm guessing their issue isn't about the vowel, it's about the number mismatch between the singular article "an" and the plural noun phrase "frequently asked questions".
Comment · 7 months ago
It can change sometimes, but not very reliably. For example try this:

"I’m not sure our professional values are currently aligned, but I wish you the best in your future endeavors."

It translates to

"I don't like how you work, so get lost."

Comment · 8 months ago
Example 1 is a declaration in Go. Example 3 is a declaration in Python.
Comment · 10 months ago
I guess the reasoning assumes that you have multiple eggs in your basket. A 95% chance of failure is bad if you're pinning the whole business on it, but if you have a variety of 5% chance deals, then it can make sense to pursue them, which is basically what venture capitalists do.
Comment · 11 months ago
> Most twelve month olds struggle to support their head

I don't know about the other claims, but this one is false. It would be somewhat concerning if a 6-month-old struggled to support their head.

Comment · 1 year ago
Which one do you have in mind? For each of those three constraints mentioned, I can think of a reason why it's not like the other two, but there's not one in particular that seems to stick out especially.
Comment · 1 year ago
Their example "understanding and translating vertical Chinese spring couplets to English" has a lot of mistakes in it. I'm guessing the person writing the blog post to show off that example doesn't actually know Chinese.

What is actually written: Top: 家和国盛 Left: 和谐生活人人舒畅迎新春 Right: 平安社会家家欢乐辞旧岁

What Ollama saw: Top: 盛和家国 (correct characters but wrong order) Left: It reads "新春" (new spring) as 舒畅 (comfortable) Right: 家家欢欢乐乐辞旧岁 (duplicates characters and omits the first four)

Comment · 1 year ago
How is the gameplay related to the information? The connection seems pretty contrived to me.
Comment · 2 years ago
Why isn't SendGrid on the list? It seems to have a similar pricing level
Comment · 2 years ago
If people want to live in rural areas, that's fine by me. They don't particularly contribute to the problems with car-centric infrastructure in the US. The main complaints are how most cities in the US are designed in ways that are hostile to anybody who doesn't have a car, such as:

- making it difficult to get around safely by bike

- zoning restrictions that force development to be clumped in certain areas

- underdeveloped public transport with infrequent stops and limited range

- parking space requirements that limit development

- food deserts where people have to drive long distances to get groceries

There are many places in the world that have solved these problems. I don't get why it's so inconceivable to solve them in the US.

Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
> As a photographer, I care about robustness of the visual output. Which means, as a designer, designing for the worst possible image and taking numerical metrics with a grain of salt.

I think it's kind of silly how the author pooh-poohs averages and demands that whoever is working compression algorithms should focus on the worst possible image. If you know anything about information theory, you know that is literally mathematically impossible to make a compression algorithm that always performs well in the worst possible case.

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