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skeskinen commented on Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles arstechnica.com/gaming/20... · Posted by u/furcyd

dsego · 15 hours ago

How do you compare it to the Portal games or the Talos principle? I find those superior in puzzle mechanics, sense of achievement and playing dynamics. They can be challenging but you never feel aimlessly going around without a purpose like the Witness. There is good review of the game on youtube by the title "The Witness - A Great Game That You Shouldn't Play", it covers a lot and resonates well with my experience, the panels could've been a standalone mobile/tablet game. Everything else in the game is beautiful but frustrating.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZokQov_aH0

skeskinen · 10 hours ago

I love the Witness, like the Portal games and hate the Talos Principle. To each their own, I guess.

skeskinen commented on Fewer beans = great coffee if you get the pour height right arstechnica.com/science/2... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

skeskinen · 8 months ago

The premise of this study makes no sense. The goal of coffee brewing is to get a very specific extraction at around 20% that tastes good. If you go above the ideal, it's going to taste overextracted.

If you want to maximize extraction at all costs, you can just use immersion brewing with mixing. You don't need fancy pour-over technique.

That said, it's still interesting to learn more about the physics of extraction in pour-over coffee.

skeskinen commented on Show HN: Open-source video smart cutting github.com/skeskinen/smar... · Posted by u/skeskinen

roberja90 · a year ago

Really cool. Hoping to try this on my project. It relies a lot on chopping down vids programatically. Hoping this will help with workflow. Nice work. Great video demo too.

skeskinen · a year ago

Thank you very much! Do report back if you have time to try it. Good and bad, both are welcome

Posted by u/skeskinen a year ago

Show HN: Open-source video smart cutting github.com/skeskinen/smar...

skeskinen commented on Show HN: LanguageMe AI- Custom readings and smart flashcards to learn languages apps.apple.com/au/app/lan... · Posted by u/maxquirk

maxquirk · a year ago

I’m really just relying on OpenAI’s models for now, and supporting the same 65 languages GPT-4o supports. Was there a particular language you’re interested in that you’ve found the models produce disappointing results?

skeskinen · a year ago

Well I study Ukrainian and was just curious why it's missing, since it's on the supported list for both whisper and OpenAI TTS. I can't find a list of languages supported by GPT-4o anywhere in the release materials or API documents. It's not in GPT-4 technical report either.

I'm native in Finnish and would say that 4o writes sort of ok Finnish but definitely makes many mistakes. I'd imagine many of the languages on the list of supported ones are worse.

skeskinen commented on AI existential risk probabilities are too unreliable to inform policy aisnakeoil.com/p/ai-exist... · Posted by u/haltingproblem

skeskinen · a year ago

I'm not an expert on the subject, but this seems like a very insightful post. I especially liked the part about forecast skill analysis being impossible for tail risks.

skeskinen commented on Show HN: LanguageMe AI- Custom readings and smart flashcards to learn languages apps.apple.com/au/app/lan... · Posted by u/maxquirk

skeskinen · a year ago

Any ideas on how to reduce errors in low resource languages? How did you choose the list of languages to support?

skeskinen commented on Google halts its 4-year plan to turn off tracking cookies by default in Chrome arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/password4321

skeskinen · a year ago

No doubt Google has some awful incentives when it comes to user tracking and making money from ads. But tracking has real benefits for spam and fraud detection. So any attempt at reducing tracking can be siderailed into "personal privacy vs. public safety" discussion.

skeskinen commented on Audapolis: Edit audio files by transcript, not waveform github.com/bugbakery/auda... · Posted by u/mavsman

bluelightning2k · a year ago

A genuinely free alternative to Descript sounds very useful.

I've always liked the idea of Descript and was considering building something similar before it came out. The problem is my use case is a couple of videos a year so doesn't fit with an expensive monthly subscription

skeskinen · a year ago

I don't know if perpetual free trial fits for your definition of genuinely free, but I'm trying to build a competition for Descript at https://smartmediacutter.com/

skeskinen commented on Audapolis: Edit audio files by transcript, not waveform github.com/bugbakery/auda... · Posted by u/mavsman

hammeiam · a year ago

I've spent some of my free time over the past couple of months working on something similar. It's in a decent state but I need help from somebody who understands the .fcpxml format so you can export your edits to Davinci and FCP.

Take a look at https://matcha.video

skeskinen · a year ago

Hi, matcha.video looks very cool! I'm working on https://smartmediacutter.com which has some overlap in functionality. I'd love to have a chat about matcha and if you have any plans for commercialization, etc.

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