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Philpax

8,713karma·1,330submissions·October 1, 2013
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Congratulations on being both racist and classist at the same time!
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Why do you think that?
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No, but they are more or less a monopoly over PC gaming. Yes, there are alternatives, but they are a tiny percentage of the market, and your ability to sell to the PC market will be severely limited. …
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Generation is a means to an end. It's up to the user to decide what that end is: it can be absolute naff, or it could be a solo auteur's masterpiece. The problem isn't AI, it's Va…
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I can pretty trivially generate something using a LLM that I doubt was in the training set or has ever been written down by humans. Do you have reason to believe that's not the case?
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I can see your viewpoint, but at the same time, if there's nothing of the original training material in the output, what exactly is being stolen and resold? I guess I'm saying that I can see…
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I more or less agree with you (I'm not convinced that training models on the imagery of the internet isn't fair use), but I wouldn't rule out a CC0 model just yet. There's Mitsua D…
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We've just tested internally with Firefox nightly with WebGPU enabled (you should also be able to test this with the fix Fredrik just pushed out), but it doesn't seem to work - Firefox'…
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Thanks for the feedback! > Input latency is too much for first-person or third person games. Do you plan to add client-side prediction? Can developers handle that themselves? Somewhat, and yes. I&#…
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> Found them. There is no singular Launcher client. They are tucked away inside each individual games' "store page" under a dropdown. Yep. This is temporary; we have a native version…
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Funnily enough, we've never actually been on WebGL! The runtime's built against wgpu [0], which is an abstraction layer that supports the native rendering APIs, WebGPU, and yes, WebGL. Howev…
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Absolutely, yeah. I've actually just opened an issue for this: https://github.com/AmbientRun/Ambient/issues/1038 Rest assured we'll have this sorted for the n…
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Yeah - unfortunately, Chrom[e|ium] on Linux doesn't support WebGPU yet: https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/wiki/Implementation-Status#... As one of the folks using L…
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Hah, if only :) CPTO stands for Chief Product & Technology Officer; it's becoming more popular, especially among startups that need someone who can both define a vision and execute on it. Tha…
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Hi HN! I'm one of the engineers working on Ambient; I'm primarily responsible for the devex, but I work on all aspects of the runtime and platform. (We're a small team!) Our CPTO is Fre…
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I had the same reaction; it seems like a brand you wouldn’t want to use in this space.
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Well, I don’t think you can really stop people from talking about new technology on a forum for hackers…
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baffling that you think 3.5% of the world's population is a niche
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Er, what gave you that impression?
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Not all PID controllers are destined for embedded. They’re quite useful in gamedev, for example.
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> What can’t be found in an open source project? AI first layer inspection and lidar? Not having to fuck around to assemble and use your printer. I had the spare time and patience to maintain my pr…
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"Simple-minded"? Please don't be an embarrassing stereotype.
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If you used that wording, I'd have called you racist too.
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iOS 17 is basically doing that: https://www.macrumors.com/guide/ios-17-keyboard/ …
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I was hoping that this would go more into the details of dataset selection and what makes for high-quality data, but it seems to be more a prelude to a Lit-GPT advertisement :/
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"other"?
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Is any post that is unusually helpful just assumed to be the product of a LLM now?
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