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I recall doing a rather large technical case for using raft and a replicated log for water industry back in 2017 it must have been. That's from knowing nothing about the shape of c…

> I was surprised how well the bird was getting around. SurvivorBias.png except it's a silhouette of a goose with numerous red arrows drawn over it.

You'd be surprised what's in there, a few forms of NNs are already supported for denoising, speech detection. I think having this flow out to all of the deps of libav is a greater …

More precisely libavfilter, so it's also soon in mpv and other dependent players. This is going to be great for real-time audio translation.

The fact that you think it was suggested _by_ them is I think where your mental model is misleading you. LLMs can be thought of metaphorically as a process of decompression, if you…

What technologies we have in 2025!

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It seems to be the "conversation" part, not necessarily "communication", one of the early stages in children's language acquisition is teaching the flow of back and forth responses…

No, it doesn't, Turk is what we call Turkish people too.

Getting to the end of the year when me and my senior team are rationalizing performance reviews for next January. Last year with inflation peaking at 11.1% - we normalise to a stan…

The "chemical burns" in the title are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_mustard burns, a blistering agent and schedule 1 substance under the chemical weapons convention.

Completely not the focus of the article, and you've turned the result of an error rate of 0.8 percent for gender classification of light-skinned men and a 34.7 percent error rate f…

Always curious of how you walk around the latent space in these, are you just linearly interpolating between two random high dimension points?

background for those unfamiliar with this: https://news.itsfoss.com/hypocrite-commits/ and Kangjie Lu's response: https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~kjlu/papers/clarifications-hc....

When I'm bored and looking for distraction, I'll often get as far as reader.goog in the address bar before I remember :(

That opening paragraph is hellishly depressing.

It's an article post on the paywalled site platformer.news (Alexa Rank 57,888, most of the sites visitors coming from cnewton.org) by the San Francisco based founder and writer of …

A meta-response: https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/should-we-pause-the-5g-roll-...

Can't let this pass without the old classic: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/704080v1 In the United States, supercentenarian status is predicted by the absence of vital reg…

No, but it's pretty good at retraining the final layer of low memory networks like MobileNet - weirdly a workload that the V100 is very poorly suited for...

Almost a yearly tradition: https://www.congress.gov/search?q={%22source%22:%22legislati...

A retraction for being one week out with their predictions and not expecting a new vaccine to get exceptional early distribution authorization?