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andrewnc

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About andrewnc

https://andrewnc.github.io/

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    Hey this is great! How long does it take to generate the Wiki when setting up, and what have you found is the best way to keep it up to date?

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    Comment #33790938

    I think "The Gong Show" was an old tv show about amateur talents. Sometimes good, most of the time terrible and hilariously unaware. Not sure if that was what was intended here.

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    Comment #33022288

    Yes! It definitely should be

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    Comment #32871851

    My favorite part here is that it's a noun and a verb "i-kwan mo yung kwan" -> "just thing the thing"

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    Comment #32757281

    Blog post is out now https://gretel.ai/blog/introducing-gretel-amplify They get 43,300 records per second on this example, which seems to the right order of magnitude for you

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    Comment #32754179

    We have some preliminary work in this direction https://github.com/gretelai/multi-table I love the idea of "table space" though. It would be fun to traverse this space and output a…

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    Comment #32754170

    We're currently beta testing something that fits this use case directly. The models we have today are really great at capturing the original distribution, but they're not always th…

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    Comment #32752829

    We've been working hard to make it super simple to get started with useful synthetic data. If you want to know how you would go and use this for your own problems check out some of…

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    Comment #32579338

    One examples of this is back translation [0] It works fairly well as model size increases Also, shameless plug, we're pretty proud of our generated anything's at Gretel[1]. It's ta…

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    Comment #32155698

    I saw a few DALLE coverarts in there ;) very cool!

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    Comment #32122193

    Thanks for the feedback, I was hoping the course would be something of a redemption. I self published the book to prove I could do something like that. It got much more traction th…

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    Comment #32122169

    I've been a long time fan of your content! Thanks all for these criticisms, we'll definitely take them to heart.

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    Comment #32119362

    Thank you for the candid feedback! It's definitely appreciated and we'll take note

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    Comment #32119089

    Ha!! Great question, so this is our fourth round of message testing. We didn't want to A/B directly on HN cause that feels kinda disingenuous, but we've definitely been crunching c…

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    Interactive course about “everyday” data science

    Last year, I wrote the book Everyday Data Science. It was #1 on HN! [1] This year, I've been working with Jim Fisher on a new kind of interactive course. It's like a choose-your-ow…

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    Comment #31775419

    What sort of data structures are you using for frames and the timeline? Do you have a frame type that you render to some canvas? How do you handle previews etc? I've been mucking a…

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    Comment #31264841

    Thank you for this list! The grand vision is a reimagined interface (keeping some familiar things like keyframes and curves, but moving other things forward.) Without getting too d…

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    Ask HN: What tech stack would you use to write Animation software?

    Hello HN! It's 2022 and I want to write a 2d animation program a la TVPaint. Is C++ and QT the way forward still, should I use something bleeding edge like sixtyfps and Rust? Do I …

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    Comment #30704798

    I use it to code on my deep learning machine from my macbook. It makes things a bit more secure and ssh-ing is painless that way. Then I can check experiments from wherever without…

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    Comment #30590628

    I don't see why not. I think they can be used for anything a GNN / Transformer could be used for, but with better probabilistic qualities.

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    Comment #30307580

    you might find this interesting https://acme.byu.edu/2021-2022-materials

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    Comment #30105080

    So, let's say I want to implement these (or other) curves into a drawing program. How do I go about doing that? I mean to say, I want to implement a brush on canvas type interface …