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AkshatJ27

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Mail me at hey@akshat.sh to talk about anything :)

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AkshatJ27··on Releasing v1 of GPT-JT, fork of GPT-6B fine-tuned on 3.53B tokens
It's mainly for text classification, which explains why it's not really giving comparable outputs to GPT3
AkshatJ27··on FreeTube – A Private YouTube Client
I believe they have a manager now, like the vanced mananger. https://github.com/revanced/revanced-manager
AkshatJ27··on Fake HN titles generated by GPT-3
It averages around 0.0005$ per request according to the footer. Could this end up costing the author quite a bit due to HN traffic? Also, whats stopping bad actors from writing a script to continuously fetch the page?

I wonder if some sort of caching might help lower costs.

AkshatJ27··on 22-11-22 22:11:22
ah, my bad.

This should work for 134:

`ruby -r date -e '0.upto(4e9){b=DateTime.new(0)+_1/86400r;puts b.strftime"%y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"if(c=b.strftime"%y%m%d%H%M%S")==c.reverse}'`

AkshatJ27··on 22-11-22 22:11:22
~~`b=DateTime.new(0,1,1)+_1/86400r;`-> `b=_1/86400r+DateTime.new 0`~~ oops
AkshatJ27··on 22-11-22 22:11:22
`ruby -e 'require"date";0.upto(4e9){b=DateTime.new(0,1,1)+_1/86400r;c=b.strftime"%y%m%d%H%M%S";p b.strftime"%y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"if c==c.reverse}'`

142? Sorry if I broke anything, on phone.

AkshatJ27··on 22-11-22 22:11:22
Some saves: `Rational(d,86400)` -> `d/86400r`

Get rid of the variable `a` since it is used in only one place.

`DateTime.new(0,1,1,0,0,0)` -> `DateTime.new(0,1,1)`

also in newer ruby versions you can use numbered parameters to replace d with _1 and remove `|d|`

Pretty sure there might be some more which i do not see immediately :)

AkshatJ27··on Termux on Android 5 or 6
to be able to run stuff on the years old android phones
AkshatJ27··on Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)
> Possibly, the model could be trained on the actual content of the link. But I suspect just using the short title might be better. Larger concentration on the actual material there, websites contain lots of text which is useless.

Most people do not read the article before commenting, you do not have to train the AI to do that.

AkshatJ27··on Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5326511
AkshatJ27··on Z-library founders arrested in Argentina
> Z-Library is a popular (and illegal) library. They have taken the Library Genesis collection and made it easily searchable. On top of that, they have become very effective at soliciting new book contributions, by incentivizing contributing users with various perks. They currently do not contribute these new books back to Library Genesis. And unlike Library Genesis, they do not make their collection easily mirrorable, which prevents wide preservation. This is important to their business model, since they charge money for accessing their collection in bulk (more than 10 books per day).

(http://annas-blog.org/blog-3x-new-books.html)

AkshatJ27··on Crypto exchange AAX suspends withdrawals
Most people use fiat, there is no way to use a credit card to buy crypto on a DEX. Also, transaction fees are usually higher and some coins just cannot be supported unless wrapped, like trading bitcoin on an ethereum DEX requires you to use WBTC or similar tokens, which are usually costly to wrap/unwrap and might even be centralized.
AkshatJ27··on FTX fiasco sparks billions of dollars of outflows from exchanges
Is this satirical? P2P exchanges exist.
AkshatJ27··on Bubbles
If you move your mouse really really fast, you can get through the bubbles without popping them.
AkshatJ27··on Palmer Luckey Made a VR Headset That Kills the User If They Die in the Game
Is the headset still usable after killing a person?
AkshatJ27··on Lab-grown blood given to people in world-first clinical trial
People get paid to donate blood?
AkshatJ27··on Show HN: Stable Diffusion print-on-demand apparel
I expected it to somehow fill the entire shirt, but apparently it just makes a rectangular patch of the image on a plain black/white shirt. Also, the speech to text doesn't seem to do that well.
AkshatJ27··on Show HN: Podcastsaver.com – a search engine testbench dressed as a podcast site
Clickable link: https://podcastsaver.com
AkshatJ27··on The Docker+WASM Technical Preview
For some reason I thought this was gonna be a demo of running docker in your browser through WASM. kinda disappointed that's not it :p
AkshatJ27··on Colleges that ditched admission tests find it harder to fairly choose students
In india due to less resources for the poor compared to the rich, the government has 'reservations' for the economically weaker section, i.e. at least X percent of the students who will be given admission will be from economically weaker sections.

On the negative side, we also have reservations depending on your caste, so whether or not you get admission into a prestigious institute depends on your family history.

AkshatJ27··on Your website should work without JavaScript (2021)
This reads like satire.
AkshatJ27··on How to prove you know a secret without giving it away
Oh, I was thinking of a pen-and-paper maze, not a real life maze
AkshatJ27··on How to prove you know a secret without giving it away
> For a simple way to understand this idea, let’s suppose you want to show your friend that you know how to get through a maze, without divulging any details about the path. You could simply traverse the maze within a time limit, while your friend was forbidden from watching. (The time limit is necessary because given enough time, anyone can eventually find their way out through trial and error.) Your friend would know you could do it, but they wouldn’t know how.

How would your friend know you solved it though? Does he have to take your word for it? Doesn't that defeat the purpose? This analogy seems flawed, correct me if I'm wrong

Edit: I misunderstood the kind of maze the article is talking about. Apparently it's not the pen and paper version.

AkshatJ27··on Pico.js – A face-detection library in 200 lines of JavaScript (2018)
From the demo[0], It seems to do really well, until you turn your head even just a tiny bit. At which point it stops detecting.

[0]: https://nenadmarkus.com/p/picojs-intro/demo/

AkshatJ27··on If India's Ruling Party IT Head report a post, Meta will take it down
> The government targets Muslims openly, turns a blind eye to crimes against them, and supports hate rhetroic until it gets international attention from countries that affect their economy (The Arabic gulf).

Do you have any source for these claims.

AkshatJ27··on Blogless – Writing articles online without a blog (2021)
So it's just a static site generator for blogs....?
AkshatJ27··on USB kills off SuperSpeed branding
Someone here doesn't understand jokes.
AkshatJ27··on Show HN: Red Goose – Convert your website to mobile app
The irony...
AkshatJ27··on Learn how to unleash the full potential of the type system of TypeScript
This reminded me of the Typescript type-level Quine. https://youtu.be/UzE6d1ueT_E
AkshatJ27··on Stripe has decided to nuke my entire business
More detail?
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