skygazer (u/skygazer)

skygazer commented on Mistral OCR 3 mistral.ai/news/mistral-o... · Posted by u/pember

g947o · 19 hours ago

And I believe the number is 74%, compared to OCR 2.

What matters is whether this is better than competition/alternatives. Of course nobody is just going to take the output as is. If you do that, that's your problem.

skygazer · 15 hours ago

79% win over OCR2 was just for English.

skygazer commented on SHARP, an approach to photorealistic view synthesis from a single image apple.github.io/ml-sharp/... · Posted by u/dvrp

Leptonmaniac · 4 days ago

Can someone ELI5 what this does? I read the abstract and tried to find differences in the provided examples, but I don't understand (and don't see) what the "photorealistic" part is.

skygazer · 4 days ago

Apple does something similar right now in their photos app, generating spatial views from 2d photos, where parallax is visible by moving your phone. This paper’s technique seems to produce them faster. They also use this same tech in their Vision Pro headset to generate unique views per eye, likewise on spatialized images from Photos.

skygazer commented on iPhone Typos? It's Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken [video] youtube.com/watch?v=hksVv... · Posted by u/walterbell

skygazer · 9 days ago

I pranked a friend in college by tricking him into installing a “utility” on his Amiga 1200 that swapped adjacent keys into the key stream as he typed, but only above a certain speed. He called and woke me the next morning in a panic about losing the ability to type. He would type slowly and it would work fine. Then at normal speed and he’d get constant errors. He’d quickly pull his hands up to see what keys they were over. Did he have a brain tumor? How could he be a journalist if he couldn’t type! Did he need to change majors?

Apple is unintentionally pranking the world.

skygazer · 9 days ago

Today he's an electrician.

skygazer commented on iPhone Typos? It's Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken [video] youtube.com/watch?v=hksVv... · Posted by u/walterbell

tbensky · 9 days ago

I have a lot of trouble texting, independent of the issues here. I'm just clumsy and can't seem to do it in any productive way.

I'm working on this keyboard substitute with larger keys and split up keyboards: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/icantext/id6748927092. Give it a try if you want.

skygazer · 9 days ago

Why is the first row oversized and sliding back and forth with keys sliding off screen. Hitting letters on this moving row is like a carnival game. Is that intentional or a bug on my Pro Max phone?

skygazer commented on iPhone Typos? It's Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken [video] youtube.com/watch?v=hksVv... · Posted by u/walterbell

skygazer · 9 days ago

I pranked a friend in college by tricking him into installing a “utility” on his Amiga 1200 that swapped adjacent keys into the key stream as he typed, but only above a certain speed. He called and woke me the next morning in a panic about losing the ability to type. He would type slowly and it would work fine. Then at normal speed and he’d get constant errors. He’d quickly pull his hands up to see what keys they were over. Did he have a brain tumor? How could he be a journalist if he couldn’t type! Did he need to change majors?

Apple is unintentionally pranking the world.

skygazer commented on YouTube caught making AI-edits to videos and adding misleading AI summaries ynetnews.com/tech-and-dig... · Posted by u/mystraline

echelon · 15 days ago

The examples shown in the links are not filters for aesthetics. These are clearly experiments in data compression

These people are having a moral crusade against an unannounced Google data compression test thinking Google is using AI to "enhance their videos". (Did they ever stop to ask themselves why or to what end?)

This level of AI paranoia is getting annoying. This is clearly just Google trying to save money. Not undermine reality or whatever vague Orwellian thing they're being accused of.

skygazer · 15 days ago

"My, what big eyes you have, Grandmother." "All the better to compress you with, my dear."

skygazer commented on Homebrew no longer allows bypassing Gatekeeper for unsigned/unnotarized software github.com/Homebrew/brew/... · Posted by u/firexcy

skygazer · a month ago

Hmm. I use arm64 macports instead of homebrew, and as far as I know, I download prebuilt binaries from macports without issue even on Tahoe -- are they signing them with an approved account? Or did they force me to build everything from scratch, like the old days, and I haven't noticed?

skygazer commented on Parents say ChatGPT encouraged son to kill himself edition.cnn.com/2025/11/0... · Posted by u/nh43215rgb

jaredklewis · a month ago

The ways LLMs work, the outcomes are probabilistic, not deterministic.

So the guardrails might only fail one in a thousand times.

skygazer · a month ago

Also, the longer the context window, the more likely the LLM derangement/ignoring safety. Frequently, those with questionable dependence on AI stay in the same chat indefinitely, because that's where the LLM has developed the ideosyncracies the user prefers.

skygazer commented on Apple’s Persona technology uses Gaussian splatting to create 3D facial scans cnet.com/tech/computing/a... · Posted by u/dmarcos

alt227 · a month ago

Do you believe that seeing a computer generated picture of them is more lifelike than an actual video of them talking to you live?

skygazer · a month ago

By firsthand reports of AVP users, it is.. apparently it feels like a real presence in your space, like hanging out in person.. and their recollections of the conversations weren’t of calls but of visits. The main downside being that there are so few other friend/family users, because it’s prohibitively expensive, niche, and geeky, and those that do these VR calls still do them infrequently because it’s a hassle to break out the device if you don’t use it regularly, and uncomfortable to wear for too long, let alone they typically need to coordinate calls in advance.

Still, if I were to have a long-distance relationship with a tolerant partner, or one of us traveled frequently or for long periods, I would be tempted to consider these so we could watch a show or movie and hang out despite the distance.

skygazer commented on OpenAI acquires Sky.app openai.com/index/openai-a... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

tyre · 2 months ago

Apple's AI adoption and execution has been atrocious. Siri still makes so many mistakes, Homepod can't answer anything substantial without "I've sent a link to your iPhone". If they simply let Claude back Siri, they'd be light years ahead of where they are now.

skygazer · 2 months ago

I’ve noticed very recently (last several weeks) Siri (via my HomePod) is able to competently answer some very nuanced world knowledge questions that are sourced to random but still reputable websites — it appears to paraphrase enough to appear to be directly answering your question and then cites the source website. It only seems to get fouled up if it’s possible to confuse the question for something supposedly actionable that it chokes on. I have an Amazon Echo in the same room and usually direct such questions to Alexa, but trial Siri every so often to check for progress. And suddenly Siri just started giving appropriate answers with citations. It’s like they just hooked up something new to the Siri knowledge graph, and it’s pretty good.