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Bromeo commented on Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation minimaxir.com/2025/11/nan... · Posted by u/minimaxir

Bromeo · 4 months ago

This works with the openrouter API as well, which skips having to make a google account etc. Here's a Claude-coded openrouter compatible adaptation which seems to work fine: https://github.com/RomeoV/gemimg

A 1024x1024 image seems to cost about 3ct to generate.

Bromeo commented on The Principles of Diffusion Models arxiv.org/abs/2510.21890... · Posted by u/Anon84

leptons · 4 months ago

Reading this reinforces that a lot of what makes up current "AI" is brute forcing and not actually intelligent or thoughtful. Although I suppose our meat-minds could also be brute-forcing everything throughout our entire lives, and consciousness is like a chat prompt sitting on top of the machinery of the mind. But artificial intelligence will always be just as soulless and unfulfilling as artificial flavors.

Bromeo · 4 months ago

Are you familiar with the "Bitter Lesson" by recent Turing Award winner Rich Sutton? http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html

Bromeo commented on Typst 0.14 typst.app/blog/2025/typst... · Posted by u/optionalsquid

tapia · 5 months ago

If you make a lot of slides with latex, then it is definitely worth it to try typst. I have a lot of presentations in latex for lectures and such things, with many animated tikz figures. But the compilation times are huge. At some point it is very time consuming to iterate. With typst, it compiles so fast that you don't have to fear to start a compilation. I finish my presentations much faster now.

Cetz has been working very good for me. I was really unsure that it could replace tikz for my applications. But apparently, as long as you have good geometrical primitives (lines, rectangle, circles, etc) you can do a lot. Also it is much nicer to program and make real functions with typst. It is true, the typst options to replace beamer are still not quite there in comparison, but they are definitely in a very useful state. See for example typst-presentate [1].

[1] https://github.com/pacaunt/typst-presentate

Bromeo · 5 months ago

One thing I'm missing when making slides with typst is the ability to show short videos or animated gifs. Although to be fair this isn't easy in beamer either.

Typst can actually include gifs, but they don't move for me. I have some hopes that perhaps one could make slides straight in html which could alleviate the issue.

Bromeo commented on Apertus 70B: Truly Open - Swiss LLM by ETH, EPFL and CSCS huggingface.co/swiss-ai/A... · Posted by u/denysvitali

denysvitali · 6 months ago

Report: https://github.com/swiss-ai/apertus-tech-report/raw/refs/hea...

Key features

Fully open model: open weights + open data + full training details including all data and training recipes

Massively Multilingual: 1811 natively supported languages

Compliant: Apertus is trained while respecting opt-out consent of data owners (even retrospectivey), and avoiding memorization of training data

Bromeo · 6 months ago

Looks like the performance is pretty decent, somewhere around Llama3.1 for general knowledge (Tables 17) but still a bit behind in Code and Reasoning (Table 18). Llama3.1 was released about one year ago.

Bromeo commented on Privacy Pass Authentication for Kagi Search blog.kagi.com/kagi-privac... · Posted by u/b3n

amazingamazing · a year ago

Do people have news articles of Microsoft, Google et al using search history to the searcher's detriment? How frequently does this happen? I'm imagining it must be like one in a million.

Bromeo · a year ago

Per-user search history can directly be sold to advertisers, no? I was under the impression Google and Microsoft do that, or at least use it internally to build a profile of each user, again used for advertising.

Bromeo commented on ChatGPT Search openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/thm

rurban · a year ago

I just detected perplexity for a proper AI search yesterday. My test question today was: Which cbmc solver is multi-threaded?

Perplexity gave me the correct and best answers, with links to the relevant arxiv papers.

The new ChatGPT search gave me only cadical as answer, plus 2 irrelevant wrong answers (not multi-threaded), but missed all other multi-threaded solvers. => It's crap.

Neither Google nor ddg gave me any relevant links. Couldn't try kagi, since my trial phase is over.

Looks like the fellow who was invited to the Google funeral was right. Google search is dead.

Bromeo · a year ago

Kagi answers that there is "CBMC", which is single-threaded, but that there are extensions "Deagle" and "Yogar-CBMC" that provide multi-threading for CBMC. It gives links to the papers for all three, however some of them are closed access (or in other words, fact checked, unlike arxiv).

Bromeo commented on Git commit with hash `0000000` github.com/JuliaAPlavin/M... · Posted by u/Bromeo

Bromeo · a year ago

I just stumbled across this commit and couldn't believe my eyes, thought it may be interesting to some of you as well.

EDIT: Looking further into it, it looks like there's almost two thousand commits on github starting with this exact hash: https://github.com/search?q=hash%3A0000000&type=commits&p=1

Bromeo commented on Show HN: Mdx – Execute your Markdown code blocks, now in Go github.com/dim0x69/mdx... · Posted by u/dim0x69

dingnuts · a year ago

ah, someone has reimplemented another feature of Org Mode.

Well, this will mean Org files exported to Markdown can remain executable just like they were in Emacs, so maybe this makes Org Babel more valuable as well, for those of us that prefer a structured markup language for notes and literate programming

And thanks to pandoc it's not hard to go back and forth

Bromeo · a year ago

Yup, looks like org-babel is at least 15 years old. https://github.com/taruti/org-babel/tree/master

I don't think it ever had huge adoption across whole teams, but I hope if there are new implementations that they take away a number of lessons you can gather from 15 years of org-babel.