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Philpax

8,713karma·1,330submissions·October 1, 2013
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Dictionaries can’t give you contextual answers, clarify use in a sentence, or explain why you’re using it wrong.
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Ken Liu is Chinese-American, fyi
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You can do that today depending on what you need from the models.
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Can you link some of those libraries? I’ve always found it harder to find well-maintained libraries that solve compiler problems in Haskell as opposed to Rust.
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Reminds me of this scene in Inception: https://youtu.be/K_M201T-UsQ?t=85
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Concurrency is not parallelism - you can multitask without (adding) threads.
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That's correct - OpenRW is a from-scratch reimplementation of GTA3, while re3 is a manual decompilation that's capable of reproducing the original executable (or something very close to it).…
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The model is an encoder-decoder, which encodes some text into a latent embedding, and can then decode it back into text. It’s a feature of the model itself.
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> There is an over sampling of individuals like yourself who enjoy VR here on HN, on Reddit, or on any other tech platform where enthusiasts naturally gather. Without a doubt, yeah. > What’s the…
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Well, they probably still fingerprint you and build a profile around that fingerprint - and when you do log in, they probably associate that fingerprint with your profile.
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iirc "Interrogate CLIP" is a bit of a misnomer - what it's actually doing is generating a basic caption with BLIP ("a woman holding a pencil"), then iterating over categories …
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I think they were presenting that as a conditional, not as a sure-fire bet. With that, though: the access to the technology is getting cheaper and cheaper, thanks to no small amount by Meta's sub…
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> I don’t know that many people who would prefer this to a Zoom call. puts hand up VRChat, even in its nascent, unrefined, laggy phase, is still much more engaging than any video call I've b…
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Extreme research and development. You can look through their blog [0] to get an idea of it. They're working on technology that can't be productionised for years, potentially decades, as part…
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> And since all current XR technologies require a fully vision blocking headset, they have a fundamental problem that building a better vision blocking headset can't really solve. That's …
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Demonstrating that the tool that many developers may consult first may not be telling the full truth, and that they might need to do more research? This isn't even that egregious of a reference t…
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Very cool, and the approach demonstrated might be of interest to a similar problem we have in Ambient (our WASM game runtime that has competing processes that may need to retry interactions.) That bei…
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That was the unfortunate entity I was implying in my post, yes :(
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Compiling.
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> I used to think we'd eventually get to capability based security, but now I see we'll always be stuck with application permission flags, the almost worthless bastard cousin, instead. My…
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Many applications only need input, not output.
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Did you read the paper? What exactly do you think it does?
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I wouldn’t generalise your preferences to HN etiquette. I personally like having some context in the comments as I often check the comments before the link - that allows me to see what the community t…
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Hear, hear.
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Game preservation, options for people who can’t play CS2, keeping a clear chronology of the game’s history. Replacing CSGO with CS2 is the oddity.
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https://nitter.net/imhaotian/status/1710192828175851802 …
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