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lpasselin··on Your Job used to impress people. That era just ended
A lawyer can become a locksmith in a few months (weeks? days?). If the flip mentioned is really happening, isn't it temporary?
lpasselin··on Harnessing the Universal Geometry of Embeddings
Hey, I read the paper in detail and presented to colleagues during our reading group.

I still do not understand exactly where D1L comes from in LGan(D1L, T(A1(u)). Is D1L simply A1(u)?

I also find that mixing notation in figure 2 and 3 makes it tricky.

Would have loved to have more insights from the results in the tables.

And more results from inversion, on more than Enron dataset. Since that is one end goals, even if reusing another method.

Thank you for the paper, very interesting!

lpasselin··on First images from Euclid are in
Do the captured elements move a lot during this snapshot? since it will take months? Is the difference significant?
lpasselin··on Efficient high-resolution image synthesis with linear diffusion transformer
This comes from the same group as the EfficientViT model. A few months ago, their EfficientViT model was the only modern and small ViT style model I could find that had raw pytorch code available. No dependencies to the shitty framework and libraries that other ViT are using.
lpasselin··on The Intelligence Age
Custom and _competent_ AI tutors will be a game changer for education.
lpasselin··on Amazon's Secret Weapon in Chip Design Is Amazon
Meanwhile, I had a hard time last week getting a machine with 8 gpus from azure.
lpasselin··on DiyPresso: DIY Espresso Machine
I have a 200$ mini machine and would like to upgrade. Can DIY anything. What would you suggest for a maximum budget of 1500$?
lpasselin··on Mamba: The Easy Way
The mamba paper shows significant improvements in all model sizes, up to 1b, the largest one tested.

Are there any reason why it wouldn't scale to 7b or more? Have they tried it?

lpasselin··on New embedding models and API updates
Most of the leaderboard has much lower sequence length.
lpasselin··on PhotoPrism: AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web
Last time I tried, it did not have a good android app working.
lpasselin··on Learning to summarize from human feedback (2022)
What are these websites??
lpasselin··on I used GPT to build a search tool for my second brain note-taking system
I actually tried this last year, before OpenAI released their cheaper embeddings v2 in december. From my experiments, when compared to Bert embeddings (or recent variation of the model) the OpenAI embeddings are miles ahead when doing similarity search.
lpasselin··on Using GPT-3 to pathfind in random graphs
Check out Google Minerva. https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/06/minerva-solving-quantitati...
lpasselin··on Using a Canon EOS camera as a webcam in Debian
There are attachments that insert directly into the battery hole which are connected to a power supply.
lpasselin··on Apple Announces iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus
Are they releasing a new iPad pro soon? Buyers guide says It's been 495 days.
lpasselin··on Physically Based: A Database of PBR Values for Real-World Materials
For homogeneous real-world materials
lpasselin··on I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard
How much does a pcb like this cost for a small prototyping batch of 1 or 5 for example?
lpasselin··on Deep Learning Papers Are Kinda Bullsh-T
One detail some might not realize is the fact that research code is often a heaping pile of garbage written by a single graduate student. Some are ashamed of their code and simply don't want to publish shit code. Also, strategically, it is probably better to _not_ publish code than risk being rejected by a future job interviewer because your research code is shitty and you didn't prioritize refactoring it.

With that being said, this is not an excuse for refusing to share paper code or making sure the experiments are reproducible.

lpasselin··on Federal Reserve raises rates by 0.75%
Are you saying the IRS does not adjust tax brackets to follow inflation properly?
lpasselin··on How to stop junk mail
In Canada, you can call or simply add a post it on the letter saying "this person moved". The mailman will reroute future letters.
lpasselin··on Reloadium – Advanced hot reloading for Python
I've been waiting for a tool like this for a long time!
lpasselin··on Linux Touchpad Like MacBook Update: Touchpad Gestures Now Shipping
Which Chromebooks?
lpasselin··on Ask HN: Is it possible to use AI to program a synthesiser to mimic a sound?
I have never worked with audio ML but I am sure what you describe can be done.

Latency might be problematic?

Look into projects using torchaudio

lpasselin··on CT scans of AirPods evolution
Maybe slight variations of position in the ear can be compensated?
lpasselin··on Using mechanical tools improves our language skills, study finds
Any of his videos. He is captivating to watch
lpasselin··on Attaching to a Raspberry Pi's Serial Console (UART) for Debugging
Did you know you can enable ssh by placing a file at a specific place on the SD card?

From the documentation page on remote access

For headless setup, SSH can be enabled by placing a file named ssh, without any extension, onto the boot partition of the SD Card. When the Raspberry Pi boots, it looks for the ssh file. If it is found, SSH is enabled and the file is deleted.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/computers/remote-a...

lpasselin··on Django 4.0 will include a built-in Redis cache back end
Last year I tried Huey for a project where usage was very lightweight. Performance was more than enough with SQLite. Unfortunately Huey with SQLite was not great at handling unexpected crashes like server and docker restarts.

Switching to Redis solved all of these issues.

Maybe it's better now.

lpasselin··on How to Replace Docker with Podman on a Mac
I assume `podman-machine` is different than `podman machine`

See Marcos install https://podman.io/getting-started/installation

Also there are active issues and PR related to `podman machine`.

lpasselin··on How to Replace Docker with Podman on a Mac
Now there is `podman machine` which makes most of this article outdated.
lpasselin··on Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods
Tested podman to replace docker (the cli) on a mac yesterday Most of it works fine. They have an easy way to setup a vm now with `podman machine`: https://podman.io/getting-started/installation#macos

If you want the management GUI, install cockpit: https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit-podman

Try podman, you'll be impressed.

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