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cgag commented on An ode to bzip   purplesyringa.moe/blog/an... · Posted by u/signa11
pella · 11 hours ago
imho: the future is a specialized compressor optimized for your specific format. ( https://openzl.org/ , ... )
cgag · 10 hours ago
This seems very cool. Was going to suggest submitting it, but I see there was a fairly popular thread 5 months ago for anyone interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45492803
cgag commented on Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep   sciencealert.com/tinnitus... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
themdonuts · 8 days ago
I'm on the exact same boat. Same age and got it randomly this Summer. Are you able to modulate the pitch by moving your jaw sideways or wide opening it? Would be great to bounce off some ideas. I'll drop you an email if that's OK.
cgag · 8 days ago
Just moving my jaw doesn’t affect mine, but moving it to the side and flexing whatever muscles involved in that motion are definitely makes mine louder, just for a second.

I’ve always wondered if that implied there must theoretically be a way to cure or reduce it by reducing pressure in there through surgery or stretching or something. I’ve done a bunch of neck stretches in the past that I think mostly relieved my anxiety about it, but may have helped. My motivation to fix it has gone down a lot though as I’ve gotten used to it.

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cgag commented on I Want You to Understand Chicago   aphyr.com/posts/397-i-wan... · Posted by u/tonyg
cgag · 4 months ago
A plumber working on my pipes is upset, his wages are suppressed by competition from illegals getting paid under the table, while his rent has skyrocketed, and his taxes are paying for his illegal competitors food and rent and healthcare.
cgag commented on You can now disable all AI features in Zed   zed.dev/blog/disable-ai-f... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
neoden · 8 months ago
Sadly, I came back to using VS Code recently. There's a lot to like in Zed but imo that decision to write their own rendering framework is unfortunate, because of ridiculous problems in Linux still not resolved like poor font rendering, especially on low-DPI screens, or visible lags of UI which is being developed to be blazingly fast. So far, VS Code is faster for me.
cgag · 8 months ago
Doing their own rendering is one of the most attractive things about it imo. I am on macos though.
cgag commented on Has Brazil Invented the Future of Money?   paulkrugman.substack.com/... · Posted by u/Qem
Cthulhu_ · 8 months ago
Exactly, it's a solution looking for a solved problem. The digital banking you listed out-perform crypto as well, and have heaps of checks and balances, auditing, and guarantees from central banks. All that will need to be reinvented for "crypto" shit, and they need to show some proof as to why it's better before they get the billions of buy-in required.
cgag · 8 months ago
I thought it was supposed to solve the problem of being kicked out of the banking system if you offend the wrong people?
cgag commented on Fair coins tend to land on the side they started (2023)   researchgate.net/publicat... · Posted by u/seanhunter
cgag · a year ago
I wouldn't be surprised if there is something to it, but I suspected they didn't use legitimate coin flips (because it seems like a large amount of people can't really flip a coin), and looking at the videos confirms it, at least for the flips done by Bartos:

https://osf.io/6a5hy/

They're very low RPM and very low time in the air. Nothing I would accept for any decision worth flipping a coin for.

cgag commented on Large models of what? Mistaking engineering achievements for linguistic agency   arxiv.org/abs/2407.08790... · Posted by u/Anon84
nsagent · 2 years ago
You're quite right that LLMs can seemingly do some abstract reasoning problems, but I would not say they aren't in the training data.

Sure, the exact form using the made up word gronk might not be in the training data, but the general form of that reasoning problem definitely exists, quite frequently in fact.

cgag · 2 years ago
Have you seen this?

``` You will be given a name of an object (such as Car, Chair, Elephant) and a letter in the alphabet. Your goal is to first produce a 1-line description of how that object can be combined with the letter in an image (for example, for an elephant and the letter J, the trunk of the elephant can have a J shape, and for the letter A and a house, the house can have an A shape with the upper triangle of the A being the roof). Following the short description, please create SVG code to produce this (in the SVG use shapes like ellipses, triangles etc and polygons but try to defer from using quadratic curves). ```

``` Round 5: A car and the letter E. Description: The car has an E shape on its front bumper, with the horizontal lines of the E being lights and the vertical line being the license plate. ```

Image generated here: https://imgur.com/a/Ia4Q2h3

How does it "just" predict the letter E could be used in such a way to draw a car? How does it just text predict working SVG code that draws the car made out of basic shapes and the letter E?

I don't know how anyone could suggest there are no conceptual models embedded in there.

cgag commented on 1k True Fans (2008)   kk.org/thetechnium/1000-t... · Posted by u/Tomte
cgag · 3 years ago
My friend showed me a cool series of photography books he'd backed on Kickstarter called Vanishing Asia. Only after we'd finished flipping through them did I realize they were by Kevin Kelly. I just looked up the campaign (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kk-org/vanishing-asia): 2,348 backers pledged $603,420 to help bring this project to life.
cgag commented on How I learned French in 12 months (2020)   runwes.com/2020/02/11/how... · Posted by u/elamje
dorianmariefr · 4 years ago
I would say C1 is what I consider the level to tell that you have learned a language.
cgag · 4 years ago
I agree, and people should probably ignore advice from people who haven't reached it, unless they'd be content with being b2, which is a lower level than I think people realize.

u/cgag

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