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franzb
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About franzb
Founder and lead of appleseed, an open source, physically based production renderer (https://appleseedhq.net/).
Email: beaune@adobe.com
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Comment #43859288
Wouldn't an AoT Python-to-x86 compiler lead to a similar situation where the x86 processor would "run Python directly"?
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Comment #43573902
Adobe | Rendering Software Engineer in Test | On-site or remote, US or Western Europe We’re a close-knit, remote-first team of engineers building next-generation, interactive rende…
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Comment #43481004
What makes his library “standard”?
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Comment #40643638
This isn't about AI research, it's about delivering AI at unimaginable scale.
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Comment #40602119
A striking picture! Thanks for sharing!
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Comment #40601880
For your first question: https://platform.openai.com/tokenizer
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Comment #39638638
Understandable but unbearable: these aren’t mutually exclusive.
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Comment #39638627
A dumb thumbnail is a useful signal to know that I won’t want to watch the video anyway :)
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Comment #39635420
Interesting, I’ve never heard about that. Do you have a source?
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Comment #39479107
Reminds me of this saga I went through as an early adopter of AMD Threadripper 3970X: https://forum.level1techs.com/t/amd-threadripper-3970x-under... HN discussion: https://news.yc…
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Comment #39267638
I built an app to make dealing with Jira less painful. It caches Jira tickets in a SQLite database, then uses GPT-3.5 to translate natural language queries into SQL that it then ex…
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Comment #39082645
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/3465e0c6-f5b2-4c42-95eb-2936148...
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Comment #38952847
This is absolutely amazing! It brings back great memories of my childhood when I was doing similar mock UIs in QBasic, then QuickBasic, Turbo Pascal and Turbo C. Thanks for sharing…
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Comment #38741848
I imagine it ran server-side (on Windows).
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Comment #38639268
Why is this on GitHub?
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Comment #38320819
Indeed, absolutely unbearable.
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Comment #38216777
From the variety of intonations based on context, I doubt it’s speech synthesis.
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Comment #37982625
One can also learn a great deal from their own (seasoned) engineering manager.
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Comment #37533249
Happens to mine all the time! I figured a while back that he was just staying on the outdoor bench of a neighbor, and he had access to the food of her cats.