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Choco31415

207 karma · joined December 17, 2016

Programmer, AI researcher, videographer, and more.

GitHub: https://github.com/Choco31415

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Choco31415··on I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots
I’ve seen the intro to an audiobook be used as an ad.
Choco31415··on GIMP Development Update
The beginning of “XCF” sounds similar to the beginning of “Exit”.

With “a” vs “an”, the pronunciation is more important than the spelling.

Choco31415··on Danube's record low levels force shutdown of Hungary's only nuclear plant
There's plenty of work happening with adapting non evaporative cooling loops for data centers. Maybe that can be applied here too, even if to mitigate some of the cooling needed?
Choco31415··on Solving 20 Erdős Problems with 20 Codex Accounts Running in Parallel
According to a quick google search:

"He is currently CTO at Xinobi AI, a Japan-based startup developing personal AI agents."

Choco31415··on Firewood Splitting Simulator
I chopped so much wood that the browser was starting to lag. Thanks for sharing the simulator, it was fun!
Choco31415··on Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format
Except some people want to win and don't care about their own personal performance.
Choco31415··on Italian TV Copyright-Strikes Nvidia over Nvidia's Own DLSS 5 Footage
Disputes between large companies can still lead to extra pressure to reform the DMCA system.
Choco31415··on Optimization lessons from a Minecraft structure locator
Adding onto this, the Noita Eye messages are a great read for someone who has some spare time:

https://noita.wiki.gg/wiki/Eye_Messages

Choco31415··on Ask ChatGPT to pick a number from 1-10000, it generally selects from 7200-7500
The random numbers seem to be really stable on the first prompts!

For example:

pick a number between 1 - 10000

> I’ll go with 7,284.

Choco31415··on Hazardous substances found in all headphones tested by ToxFREE project
They do go into the levels of chemical found. From the article:

"Up to 351 mg/kg of bisphenols detected—35× higher than proposed EU limits"

There is far more data available in the orginal report:

https://arnika.org/en/publications/the-sound-of-contaminatio...

Choco31415··on Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock
I’m still doing great even with an M2!
Choco31415··on MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max
There's still a difference when it comes to die size and transistor counts dedicated between the two core types.
Choco31415··on IRS Tactics Against Meta Open a New Front in the Corporate Tax Fight
Archive.today has several aliases including archive.ph, but archive.org is managed by the Internet Archive and unassociated.
Choco31415··on Show HN: C99 implementation of new O(m log^(2/3) n) shortest path algorithm
What makes you know this is AI generated? I’m not seeing any obvious signs at first glance.
Choco31415··on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
It's not incomprehensible. Discord makes it so much easier to organize communities than most other platforms.

Telegram, Slack, Facebook, Team Speak, Reddit, GroupMe, nothing really offers the same feature set and ease of setup that Discord does.

Choco31415··on Ask HN: Why all the sudden people are writing browsers with AI?
But that would produce Firefox.

The goal with these tests is to see if the models can make something new, not just copy an existing solution.

That is the goal, at least.

Choco31415··on France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc.
I’ve used OVH for multiple projects and they’ve been wonderful to work with.
Choco31415··on Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI
We can wait for that to start appearing in tests or benchmarks first.
Choco31415··on At least 3 dead after UPS plane crashes at Louisville airport; fire spreading
I’m currently in Louisville and the smoke trail was visible for miles.

Here’s hoping that anyone injured makes a full recovery.

Choco31415··on Apple M5 chip
Not quite. The announcement mentions that:

“M5 delivers over 4x the peak GPU compute performance for AI”

In this situation, at least, it’s just referring to AI compute power.

Choco31415··on Leaked Apple M5 9 core Geekbench scores
Here’s the multi core Geekbench progression:

M1: 8350

M2: 9700

M3: 11650

M4: 14600

M5: 16650 (estimated)

This is assuming an 8% uplift as mentioned. Also nice.

Choco31415··on Apple Debuts iPhone 17
Can confirm. I’m currently on Mint and have used Tello before. They both offer great service.
Choco31415··on The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles
Just tried that canard on GPT-4o and it failed:

"The word "strawberry" contains 2 letter r’s."

Choco31415··on The Halting Problem is a terrible example of NP-Harder
A sequence is easy to verify. Choosing the sequence not so much.

Roughly put that is the certificate definition of being in NP.

Choco31415··on Show HN: How good is your color vision? Find out in my new game
The game beeps if you get a guess incorrect.
Choco31415··on Mothbox 4.0
BioCLIP won the CVPR best student paper award: https://cvpr.thecvf.com/Conferences/2024/News/Awards

Having talked with Sam, they're working on BioCLIPv2. So expect even better results sometime soon.

Choco31415··on Antibiotics damage the colonic mucus barrier in a microbiota-independent manner
To clarify, I was on the medication for six months.

It caused a gut condition that involved nausea, insomnia, and made it difficult to concentrate.

It was also causing me psychologically to feel as if the rug had been pulled out from under me - I didn't know what I was doing anymore.

Choco31415··on Antibiotics damage the colonic mucus barrier in a microbiota-independent manner
For me that wasn't the case. I took antibiotics as directed by my dentist and it caused years worth of issues.
Choco31415··on Windows 11 is now enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission
I just installed Ubuntu on my self built computer with Nvidia GPU. It's working really well!
Choco31415··on HH70, the first high-temperature superconducting Tokamak achieves first plasma
High temperature superconductors don't have to work at room temperature. As it doesn't require liquid nitrogen cooling, it's a lot easier to maintain and run.
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