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joshcartme commented on The first Media over QUIC CDN: Cloudflare   moq.dev/blog/first-cdn/... · Posted by u/kixelated
vient · 6 days ago
Oh, I see - hard refresh consistently shows HTTP/2 but after one or two soft refreshes it becomes HTTP/3 for me until next hard refresh.

Edit: it is always second soft refresh for me that starts showing HTTP/3. Computers work in mysterious ways sometimes.

joshcartme · 6 days ago
I restarted FF and am now seeing something similar. Hard refreshing alternates between 2 and 3, and soft refreshes quickly get back to 3 most of the time
joshcartme commented on The first Media over QUIC CDN: Cloudflare   moq.dev/blog/first-cdn/... · Posted by u/kixelated
vient · 6 days ago
Limited to macOS? Does not reproduce in FF 141 and 142 on Windows.
joshcartme · 6 days ago
It reproduces for me in FF 142 on Windows. When I first went to https://cloudflare-quic.com/ it said HTTP/3, but after a few hard refreshes it says HTTP/2 and hasn't gone back to 3
joshcartme commented on Why is D3 so Verbose?   theheasman.com/short_stor... · Posted by u/TheHeasman
moron4hire · 7 days ago
This is why I've always found it weird that people consider D3 to be a charting tool. Yes, people have used it to build a lot of charts, but it's really just a streaming data processing tool. It doesn't provide anything specific to charting[0]. All of that part, you're still left to figure out on your own.

[0] At least in the core, I'm not too familiar with the full ecosystem and what is considered official in terms of plugins. Everytime I've tried to use it, I've not found the documentation leading me to using anything more specifically oriented towards charting.

joshcartme · 7 days ago
At least these days I think Plot, https://observablehq.com/plot/getting-started, which uses D3 under the hood and is from the makers of D3, is probably the closest thing to an official charting tool built on top of D3.
joshcartme commented on GPU-rich labs have won: What's left for the rest of us is distillation   inference.net/blog/what-s... · Posted by u/npmipg
npmipg · 20 days ago
Hey, I'm the author of the post.

The image has been fixed, and the point I'm making is that proprietary models are almost always ahead, and this gap is widening. OS models that are nearly at the same quality are usually distilled versions of proprietary models, or somehow get training data from them. Sometimes, after massive, expensive training runs models are open sourced anyway, and at some point that becomes unsustainable.

The difference between a top model and a model with a similar ELO might seem small, but the value of even a marginal increase in intelligence is extremely high--for example I only use the best coding model for coding, whatever the cost.

There's also lots of evidence that large labs are only getting started. In the past year, they have secured massive amounts of compute, which is still not utilized well. I expect lots of big training runs in the future, which will shift the gap further between OS and proprietary models.

The major problem for these companies is they spend hundreds of millions of dollars training a model, and then someone comes in the next day and distills something almost as good for far less money (still a VERY large sum of money.)

I don't know how this will be resolved long term.

joshcartme · 18 days ago
Thanks for clarifying!

I think I'm getting it now: OS models are getting closer, but only via distillation. Not by training a new frontier model which is out of reach for economic reasons.

joshcartme commented on GPU-rich labs have won: What's left for the rest of us is distillation   inference.net/blog/what-s... · Posted by u/npmipg
joshcartme · 20 days ago
Maybe I'm totally misreading this, but it seems like the post contradicts itself. At the beginning of the third paragraph:

> Impressively, open source models have been able to quickly catch up to big labs.

And then the beginning of the fourth:

> Open-source has been lagging behind proprietary models for years, but lately this gap has been widening.

Followed by a picture that is more or less inscrutable.

joshcartme commented on Mistral Releases Deep Research, Voice, Projects in Le Chat   mistral.ai/news/le-chat-d... · Posted by u/pember
M4v3R · a month ago
I think they've buried the lede with their image editing capabilities, which seem to be very good! OpenAI's model will change the whole image while editing messing up details in unrelated areas. This seems to perfectly preserve parts of the image unrelated to your query and selectively apply the edits, which is very impressive! The only downside is the output resolution (the resulting image is 1184px wide even though the input image was much larger).

For a quick test I've uploaded a photo of my home office and asked the following prompt: "Retouch this photo to fix the gray panels at the bottom that are slightly ripped, make them look brand new"

Input image (rescaled): https://i.imgur.com/t0WCKAu.jpeg

Output image: https://i.imgur.com/xb99lmC.png

I think it did a fantastic job. The output image quality is ever so slightly worse than the original but that's something they'll improve with time I'm sure.

joshcartme · a month ago
Wow, that really is amazing!

I couldn't help but notice that you can still see the shadows of the rips in the fixed version. I wonder how hard it would be to get those fixed as well.

joshcartme commented on Creating Mezzanine themes, Part 1   bitofpixels.com/blog/mezz... · Posted by u/pajju
andybak · 12 years ago
It's Django. There wasn't much around when I started it (I think there was only Django CMS).

In similar in some ways to FeinCMS in philosophy and I borrowed a small amount of code from Fein. It's not quite as cleverly coded but actually simpler in some respects (in a good way).

And there are

joshcartme · 12 years ago
It looks like you comment may have been cut off, it sounds good. I'd say go for it, see if you can develop a community around!
joshcartme commented on Creating Mezzanine themes, Part 1   bitofpixels.com/blog/mezz... · Posted by u/pajju
pajju · 12 years ago
Part 1 — Working with Base.html http://bitofpixels.com/blog/mezzatheming-creating-mezzanine-...

Part 2 — The HomePage http://bitofpixels.com/blog/mezzatheming-part-2-the-homepage...

Part 3 — Pages, extra DRY http://bitofpixels.com/blog/mezzatheming-part-3-pages-extra-...

Part 4 — To the blog, and beyond http://bitofpixels.com/blog/mezzatheming-part-4-style-the-bl...

Themes developed so far: http://mezzathe.me/

Finally I love the way its going and the good patterns, its looking like the Python Wordpress. :)

A Great initiative for the whole Python and Django ecosystem. Looks like the next Python Wordpress?

joshcartme · 12 years ago
I'm the author of those blog posts and I just now saw that this had made it's way onto HN, glad I could generate some discussion and good publicity for Mezzanine. Thanks for sharing it!

u/joshcartme

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