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samuelzxu

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About samuelzxu

Website: https://samuelzxu.github.io/projects

Twitter: @sabumpkis Linkedin: https://linkedin.com/in/samuelzicongxu

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    Comment #49218834

    Thank you! Let me know if you have any feedback, happy to chat :)

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    Comment #49211024

    Thanks for the input! I'm aiming it at students and parents, highschool-level for now.

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    Comment #49211005

    Ah it requires a special camera that only macbooks have :( But I'm working on a tutorial to get it working via an iPhone stand + continuity camera!

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    Comment #49210986

    Thanks!! I have voice mode working on the MacOS app - working on getting it going on Safari as well :) https://apps.apple.com/us/app/knowable-the-visual-ai-tutor/i...

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    Show HN: AI Tutoring with Visual Grounding

    I've always felt that AI tutoring as we see it now is going in the wrong direction. I made Knowable as a way to see if it's possible to have a real AI tutor. Because of hardware li…

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    Show HN: Visual AI Tutoring in the Browser

    Been working on this full-time for a few months now. It's an AI tutoring application that takes in context on your page via Desk View, and responds like a real tutor would. It only…

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    Show HN: Knowable, the AI tutor that follows your work on paper

    I'm building the AI tutor that I wish I had when I was a kid. It's capable of following your thought process through the MacOS webcam as you do rough work and propose meaningful hi…

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    Comment #48397860

    I think we just haven’t spent enough time creating the systems to help people learn faster - so far, only the systems that teach AI to know more and for people to rely on AI to ret…

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    Comment #48395539

    AI + Education is really interesting but also pretty tough to get right. Working on something that is hopefully going in the right direction: https://knowable.ca

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    Comment #48386653

    I'm working full-time on a personal AI tutor that just requires a recent Macbook, available for free on the Mac App Store! You'll get a full ~60 minutes. Vision LLMs are awesome. H…

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    Comment #47847016

    Been using Shinka Evolve for a while now, but sometimes I just want it to use claude code only (they require lots of API keys for a model ensemble). So, I made claude-evolve, a cla…

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    Comment #35645259

    Sprites are AWESOME! They look so cool, does anyone know a good place apart from wikipedia to read about them?

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    Comment #35630792

    Woah! How is this not more popular? I don't see it referenced in the naturalspeech2 paper anywhere.

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    Comment #35630755

    Does anyone know how many words would correspond to the diffusion model's batch size of 6000 frames?

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    Comment #35321697

    Curious to know whether anyone else here have read this, and their thoughts on it. I've just finished my first reading and found it entirely impossible to stop until I had read the…

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    Comment #35275354

    Thanks for the feedback! I tested the app out on my android tablet, and my S pen worked fine on my tablet. I'm not sure about Windows though ...

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    Comment #35275327

    Thanks for the feedback! Yeah, it fails in some very simple cases, but does really well in others. I believe it does the best if your letters are tightly grouped, and can even reco…

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    Comment #35267486

    This is a handwriting-to-text converter! Just follow the instructions on the page and you're good to go :) Background: I've been tutoring on the side for a while and it's apparent …

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    Show HN: Unscribbler – Simple Handwriting Reader

    This is a handwriting-to-text converter! Just follow the instructions on the page and you're good to go :) Background: I've been tutoring on the side for a while and it's apparent …

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    Comment #35016121

    There's also this paper with very similar methodology called Mind-Vis, and also accepted to CVPR 2023. https://mind-vis.github.io/