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franzb

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About franzb

Director of Rendering at Adobe.

Founder and lead of appleseed, an open source, physically based production renderer (https://appleseedhq.net/).

Email: beaune@adobe.com

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    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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    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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    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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    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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    https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/3465e0c6-f5b2-4c42-95eb-2936148...

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    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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    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.