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xenostar commented on Spaced repetition systems have gotten better   domenic.me/fsrs/... · Posted by u/domenicd
echan00 · 4 months ago
Shameless plug of my language app, dangerous.

Our language app is largely based on using LLMs and spaced-repetition. We explain the context behind every word and phrase, provide additional usage examples and cultural notes, and also use speech recognition to test recall and pronunciation.

We're invite-only at the moment, but happy to pass along invite codes to anybody who may find it useful.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dangerous-language-skills/id67...

xenostar · 4 months ago
I’m also very interested in an invite, this sounds like a very novel concept!
xenostar commented on Mark Zuckerberg on Apple’s Vision Pro headset   theverge.com/2023/6/8/237... · Posted by u/astlouis44
wiz21c · 2 years ago
I alreday feel exhausted when I walk my town because there's so many information to process: front of shops, advertising, road signs, people, cars, bikes, nice buildings,... If I had to add yet antoher layer of information on top of that, it would be exhausting.

Now, if I was someone who works in construction, I'd be happy to have glasses that add the position of eletrical wire in the wall where I'm going to drill a hole :-)

xenostar · 2 years ago
If the headsets are good enough you could actually use them to remove information from your view as you walk instead of adding more to it.
xenostar commented on GPT-4   openai.com/research/gpt-4... · Posted by u/e0m
Hoyadonis · 3 years ago
Of all the areas Silicon Valley has disrupted, it's profoundly frustrating that political lobbying isn't one of them. I'm not aware of any startups even attempting it.
xenostar · 3 years ago
How exactly would they disrupt it?
xenostar commented on Firefox’s New WebSocket Inspector   hacks.mozilla.org/2019/10... · Posted by u/feross
digitarald · 6 years ago
I'd love to hear what other things come to mind regarding feature parity. We have been hitting a few of those out of the park lately and are slowly running out of obvious ones crossing fingers
xenostar · 6 years ago
When I change a CSS property in the Rules tab under the Inspector, and I press ctrl/cmd+z, it doesn't set the property back to what it was before I changed it. And obviously ctrl/cmd+y doesn't go forwards.

It's amazing how such a small change makes it so much more difficult to use the Firefox dev tools compared to Chrome. Sometimes I just want to toggle between CSS values and see what is changing, or undo a few changes I made.

xenostar commented on Facebook open-sources a speech-recognition system and a machine learning library   code.fb.com/ai-research/w... · Posted by u/runesoerensen
amelius · 7 years ago
> As much as I sometimes criticize FB and Google over privacy issues, they also do a lot of good by realeasing open source systems.

You realize that they do this so top researchers still want to work for them?

xenostar · 7 years ago
And is that is a bad thing? The work still gets released and can be used by anyone.
xenostar commented on World of Warcraft: one simple line of code can cost you dearly (2016)   gdatasoftware.com/blog/20... · Posted by u/bdz
Drdrdrq · 7 years ago
Curious - have they made any of the numbers public?
xenostar · 7 years ago
As far as I’m aware not since wrath of the litch king expansion.
xenostar commented on Apple becomes the first $1T company   washingtonpost.com/news/b... · Posted by u/fmihaila
chatmasta · 7 years ago
We can still complain about their walled-garden approach to software distribution, particularly the extortionist 30% fee and handicapping of non-native apps. Or their kowtowing to the Chinese censors.
xenostar · 7 years ago
> Or their kowtowing to the Chinese censors.

And what exactly is the alternative option for them there? They can either follow the rules in China or completely lose all of their business. That is on China, not Apple.

xenostar commented on Amazon warehouse workers 'peed in bottles' fearing punishment for taking breaks   pulse.ng/bi/tech/undercov... · Posted by u/vezycash
laythea · 7 years ago
I am in no way an Amazon supporter, however I fail to see how any single company can "wipe out your career". As a skilled engineer, you have many options. And incidentally, from the sounds of it, it seems like if they let someone go, they would be doing that someone a favor.
xenostar · 7 years ago
Pretty sure he means to wipe out your career within the company.
xenostar commented on Google and LG creates VR AMOLED 120 Hz at 5500 x 3000   blurbusters.com/google-an... · Posted by u/methyl
xenostar · 8 years ago
I'm looking forward to the next generation of VR headsets immensly. A lot of people have been quick to jump on the "VR is already dead" train, but having picked one up during Christmas this year, it's obvious how much potential is there.

There are a few things that need to be accomplished before widespread adoption:

- Removal of wires. It restricts movement too much and removes immersion. The new HTC headset is a step toward this.

- Higher resolution screens. VR AMOLEDs like this are a step in the right direction.

- Prices for GPUs need to go down, and/or a few more years are needed for average computers to be able to render high frame-rates without breaking the bank.

- Headsets need to be lighter and smaller.

- Removal of sensor placement the room. This will be harder to do, but cameras/sensors built on the headsets themselves could potentially accomplish this.

The way I see it, we're in the iPhone 1 stage of VR right now. Imagine the iPhone X version: lighter, smaller, higher resolution, more colors, higher frame-rate, less hassle. These are all inevitabilities, and at that point it will become much easier to adopt the technology. We're also missing a true "killer app" that will get people to purchase a headset JUST for that. I think it will take some sort of truly massive MMO the likes of WoW to accomplish that.

The future is definitely exciting in this field. I hope hardware vendors don't give up and can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

u/xenostar

KarmaCake day57January 5, 2017View Original