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hexomancer

2,328karma·288submissions·July 25, 2016
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Shameless plug: If you are looking for a minimal, customizable PDF viewer with vim-like keybindings and some special features for reading research papers and textbooks, check out sioyek: https:/…
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We don't have a rigorous understanding of neural networks.
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Computers have been playing chess way better than humans for many years, yet it has not prevented people from playing chess and enjoying it. Also human chess game have way more viewers than computer g…
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Originally "computer" was used to refer to people who would "compute". They were all replaced by electronic computers. I don't think many would claim that the world would be a…
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Here is a child-like, practical definition of intelligence: "ability to solve problems".
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> That sounds a bit early - whats your source? The source you linked already cites it as the first arc lamp. > But either way, is knowing the electron knowing electricity? There are so many prop…
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Electron was discovered 1897 but the first lightbulb was 1802. There are more examples as well, as another user has commented, we didn't know what fire is until relatively recently but we have be…
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We didn't know what electricity really was when we created electric lightbulbs.
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Well you claimed existing tools can do this in "real time" so 20 seconds is way more than that.
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Thank you, I am aware what feather edges is. Here are the original photos: https://imgur.com/a/SgQ38bw https://imgur.com/a/Gi0IZtB Can you apply feather edg…
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Can you show me how "basic photoshop tools" can do this in 20 seconds?: https://ahrm.github.io/images/2023-01-02-three-eyes/inpainti... …
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I didn't really spend any time to make the result look good (I am not an artist, I was more interested in the technological aspect rather than the art aspect).
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This list is extremely non-verbal.
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Sioyek is a PDF viewer optimized for research papers and textbooks. These are the release notes for the 2.0 version.
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> nobody wants to communicate with a bot. The number of ChatGPT submissions in the past week begs to differ.
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What are you talking about? Look at 27 seconds into the video. Many of the zip codes are wrong.
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Shameless plug: I was frustrated with the poor UI of notebook-based frontends so I wrote a desktop version here: https://github.com/ahrm/UnstableFusion . Here is a video of some …
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Sorry, maybe I reacted inappropriately. But I think we don't realize what a privilege reliable access to internet is, until it is taken away.
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> It would be truly wonderful Well here in Iran we are going through that as we speak (there are ongoing protests and government has shut down the internet, it is only available early in the mornin…
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I am not sure :|. I don't see how this is any different from running, say, a gradio application though.
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the 255s should be 256.
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