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Nowado

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About Nowado

Social/cognitive psychologist with Python. Break things and break things.

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    Comment #42025084

    Probably ONNX.

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    Comment #39720950

    Last time I tried it, app literally just read papers. As in parsed arxiv pdfs text2speech. It was an awful misunderstanding of the medium. Unless it was rebuilt significantly over …

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    Comment #39677500

    I'm not sure if it's the most modern setup there is, but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPtG_38Oq8o gives exceptionally friendly explanation.

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    Comment #39583458

    There is even more fun aspect. 'Survival' for cancer tends to be defined as surviving 5 years. The earlier you catch, the more patient had left to live anyway.

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    Comment #38648896

    You really don't want to have white text on light grey buttons. Fun little thing otherwise!

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    Comment #37760447

    General tendency for internet content tends to be strong separation between creators and consumers, in particular limited interest of consumers in other consumers (think twitch cha…

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    Comment #37759835

    Do you have some user research you could share? I remember thinking about this exact problem (branching conversations, in particular audio), but I couldn't find a reasonable consum…

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    Comment #37429678

    Interesting, do you happen to have some quantitative results on this/additional insights/etc? I've interpreted transformer vector similarity as 'likelihood to be followed by the sa…

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    Comment #37330088

    I was thinking about similar solution (actually, textblaze funded by YC is pretty much that) but I didn't like remembering the shortcuts part. So I made a different kind of indexin…

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    Comment #37281687

    ++ with mere MA in cog sci and psychology. If you really wanted to get EEG to work for typing, maybe you could train someone to map thinking about specific kinds of things to the k…

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    Comment #37274950

    Gives me captcha loop : (

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    Comment #37256423

    Isn't this how copilot 'just' works, except with comments? What's the advantage over copilot?

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    Comment #37110249

    It bothers me way less when it's not a medical treatment research.

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    Comment #36982383

    Phonetic diagrams aren't feedback though. You would explain how to do something correctly, but user wouldn't know what elements they need to change, unless they figure out on their…

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    Comment #36982265

    I was thinking about a piece of this problem earlier and I'm curious if you figured out element that I didn't: How do you provide feedback on how someone mispronounces a phrase?

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    Comment #36723508

    Are you trying to say you correctly estimate your own projects?

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    Comment #36688758

    Isn't it beautiful, how new wave of couchsurfing scales into airbnb without having to become a new entity along the way?

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    Comment #36370954

    Anyone interested should just Google 'Elizabeth Loftus'. She convinced people of a bunch of things that never happened, some of them very quickly. Standard example is getting peopl…

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    Comment #36292684

    Those are very different sentences and that difference makes them hold some content. Especially content like numerical values and limitations, making the whole thing waaaaaay less …

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    Comment #36283871

    Everything causes neural rewiring in animals after a single use. That's what experience is. This sentence says nothing.

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    Comment #36258172

    It takes quite a bit of forethought to do something that hurts users of an app without hurting the owners of the app. The experience you're describing is part of the point and it's…

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    Comment #36217613

    Let bluesky open. Digg was doing fine until it was gone within a week.

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    Comment #36114219

    Pointing out the population size of India to suggest it's the measure to use when judging quality of a democracy has yet to be used in context of India behaving like a democracy.

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    Comment #36020394

    You may want to read on history of polygraph. Notion that a tool giving yes/no answer needs to have it's answers relate to ground truth is very academic and generally frown upon by…