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gillesjacobs
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About gillesjacobs
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Comment #49279602
The custom complications on WearOs watch faces do it for me. I can see my investment portfolio value change right from my wrist.
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Comment #49271933
Cool, there is no check on the direction of the camera. Various camera's I checked do not seem to point in the direction of the sun during totality. It does filter candidate camera…
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Comment #49168198
And I'd rather see the Mona Lisa.
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Comment #49167737
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Comment #49116931
https://youtu.be/uJblcC4lKYw This video benchmarks slop-style indicators with different skill/prompt solutions including the STE skill vs. George Orwell's six rules of writing prom…
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Comment #49045569
They asked to put EU buildings on there to grab power and cultural capital. The EU is centralizing and consolidating by any means necessary.
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Comment #49038836
Because their fear-based marketing gave the US gov justification in blocking them for a while. They wisely didn't do that for Opus 5.
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Comment #49033526
Same person that was mocking the hands in image generation in 2023, is the same person that was saying 'hands are fixed but it can't generate "the red dog jumps over the jump rope …
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Comment #48999280
In ML, you want to test general capability of a model (generalizability), because you want it to perform well on unseen tasks. In that benchmark, the literal reference is leaking t…
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Comment #48999173
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Comment #48823718
Except the only need Chat control is fulfilling is the governments and bureaucrats need to control and check all civilian communications.
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Comment #48636986
> this is wildly incorrect in an academic context. Worked for me in my academic career ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Of course if you suspect a work is poignant, you should read it, then cite it.
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Comment #48628343
Which work has more value: the abstract description of a catalogue of potential model architectures or their validated application trained on real data? In the Schmidhuber case the…
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Comment #48628308
Of course, but if you haven't read them you also shouldn't cite them. And that's where Schmidhuber goes off the rails: publicly shaming published papers into citing you isn't good …
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Comment #48361350
With some caveats, you wouldn't be able to connect two 4k monitors to a dock without TB5.
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Comment #47732757
https://web.archive.org/web/20260402155236/https://www.redha... Archive URL to original paper
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Comment #47454480
I stand corrected, that is pretty scummy. I bet Moonshot is going to make them open their wallets to avoid legal trouble.
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Comment #47452678
They probably licensed it. Still a bit deceptive not to mention it on the model card/blog post, but companies whitelabel all the time without mentioning. It goes against the ML com…
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Comment #47452644
Cursor is mostly an IDE / coding-agent harness company. So it probably makes sense for them not to train their own base model, but instead license something like Kimi and fine-tune…
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Comment #46619480
I liked his cartoons and he did no wrong.
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Comment #46486638
You're underselling this as a process manager, it could also be a productivity tool with some prompt changes; Determine procrastination apps: games, non-professional chat, video st…
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Comment #46233808
https://archive.ph/awvmJ
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Comment #45632782
They save money by cheap labour and batching large quantities for analysis. For the consumer this means long wait times and potentially expired DNA samples. I tried two samples wit…
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Comment #45132434
Nice framing for PMs, but technically it is way too rosy. MCP is real but still full of low utility services and security issues, so “skills as plug-ins” is not production ready. A…
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Comment #45065658
I am always on the lookout for new document extraction tools, but can't seem to find any benchmarks for PageIndex-OCR. There are several like OmniDocBench and readoc. So... Got ben…