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awegio

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    Comment #37844206

    In their FAQ > How does it work? > Using a "Virtual Distributed Filesystem" (VDFS), in other words; a decentralized database that emulates a filesystem. It indexes hardware filesys…

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    Comment #37836907

    It depends on your web browser. Just see what happens here https://webauthn.io/ Firefox on Desktop tells me to "touch my security key". Not sure how that works. Firefox Android giv…

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    Comment #37525819

    You need a compact encoding for chess engines that explore billions of states as fast as possible to plan the best move.

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    Comment #37473930

    > There's exactly one hit There are N possible sequences, and you try N times with a success probability of 1/N each (because it is a good hash function). This means the expected n…

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    Comment #36759218

    A language model estimates the probability of a sequence of words P(w_1, ..., w_n) or equivalently P(word | context). For compression, word sequences that have higher probability s…

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    Comment #36692118

    > put programs in custom sandboxes, where /bin/bash is found exactly where they expect to find it NixOS can do that, I think it was necessary to get Steam games running https://nix…

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    Comment #36645435

    Why? Only if you would reuse the same data multiple times, or if you use a unique random generator that is easily distinguishable from other data. So maybe don't use the 5x5 island…

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    Comment #36430637

    That's probably because you confused Vim and Kakoune key bindings. Kakoune - n: next match - alt+n: previous match - shift+movement: extend selection by movement Vim - n: next - sh…

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    Comment #36389492

    > Node packages work much better Are you sure about that? I haven't seen a node app built from source on nixpkgs yet. That includes Electron apps like Signal Desktop, which is a bi…

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    Comment #36249563

    DeepMind's blog post on AlphaDev says: > AlphaDev uncovered faster algorithms by starting from scratch rather than refining existing algorithms Finding that specific optimization, …

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    Comment #36157698

    Then just use an Ad Blocker. The actual problem is SEO spam though.

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    Comment #36151063

    > mental models, each with a degree of uncertainty, to some overall business strategy That actually sounds a lot like model based reinforcement learning. AlphaGo still had an expli…

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    Comment #36061038

    It looks like this is a high level interface more like Intents on Android, e.g. in the video it opens the Logo Templates page of Adobe Express probably without automated UI interac…

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    Comment #36060893

    > It sees what you're seeing. In the video the user drag&drops a file into the copilot window. How do you know that it can see your screen? I believe "works with all apps" only ref…

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    Comment #36045647

    If I understand correctly, the proposed act restricts the use of spyware, and apparently some actors want to keep some loopholes. The title reads like the EU wants to allow uses of…

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    Comment #35955164

    According to the internet what you wrote is the distribution of min(random(), random()), but the distribution of the product is different. Product: https://math.stackexchange.com/q…

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    Comment #35954931

    In more formal terms, since it is a uniform distribution you can write random(x) = random()*x then you can easily see that random(random(random())) = random()*random()*random() The…

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    Comment #35836879

    How did you realize it here? This user has multiple comments in this thread but this one actually sounds more normal than the others. I find it very uncanny to see comments like th…

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    Comment #35788724

    So like almost every news website they added a title picture to every article to drive engagement. The problem here is that they used a picture where a face was visible, they have …

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    Comment #35764789

    Well, it's about workforce, not the shareholders. There is probably some correlation between morale and stock price, though.

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    Comment #35740019

    Related: The Hardware Lottery ( https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.06489 ) It goes both ways: processors are built to accelerate existing applications, and applications are built to run wi…

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    Comment #35712778

    Here is the original post by the photographer in German: https://www.alltageinesfotoproduzenten.de/2023/04/24/laion-e... He sent an initial demand that LAION declined. He did not w…