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notacanofsoda··on A thin gold layer could be the secret to glasses that don't fog
I'm partial to "X after Y" myself. Example: Stock market crashes after man eats a hot dog. Implying causation is great clickbait.
notacanofsoda··on Shanghai Disney shuts: Visitors unable to leave without negative Covid test
I don't agree with the parent commenter, but wasn't Captain Marvel originally male? The female character of Captain Marvel in the movies was known as Ms. Marvel in the comics (until 2012): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Danvers.

Similar story with Spider-man: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Morales. There hadn't been an African-american spider-man until 2011.

I'm not a comic book nerd, so I'm probably entirely wrong about this.

notacanofsoda··on Shanghai Disney shuts: Visitors unable to leave without negative Covid test
Where do people sleep in the park?
notacanofsoda··on Using AI to compress audio files for quick and easy sharing
Audio hashing (acoustic fingerprinting) already exist for detection of copyrighted music and are more efficient. See Shazam
notacanofsoda··on Why we chose not to release Stable Diffusion 1.5 as quickly
Sounds like they wanted to remove NSFW training data and re-train their models before release.
notacanofsoda··on Why we chose not to release Stable Diffusion 1.5 as quickly
1) Who is Daniel Jeffries? There's no explanation of how he's related to Stability.

2) StabilityAI gave RunwayML compute time for them to train Stable Diffusion (they're also the creators of the original model). It's weird to categorize them as " other groups leak the model". They're the ones that created the model! (Source: https://huggingface.co/runwayml/stable-diffusion-v1-5/discus...)

notacanofsoda··on How a film camera superimposes the date onto photos [video]
Huge fan of your videos. What are the chances of quitting your day job and working on side projects/youtube videos full time, like StuffMadeHere?
notacanofsoda··on DeepNet: Scaling Transformers to 1k Layers
I love the tl;dr for practitioners part. All ML papers should have one.
notacanofsoda··on Snowflake acquires Streamlit for $800M to help customers build data-based apps
Is this strange to anyone else? Streamlit and Snowflake occupy fairly different niches.
notacanofsoda··on “Peek Performance” Apple Event Scheduled for Tuesday
> “No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame,” said Rob “CmdrTaco” Malda on Slashdot on October 1st, 2001. (The Nomad, if you're wondering, was a pre-iPod MP3 player that was the size and shape of a Sony Discman in its early incarnations)
notacanofsoda··on I have formally accepted the CEO job at Cruise once again
Can someone provide more background? Did he leave the CEO position before? Who was CEO in the interim?
notacanofsoda··on Pangolin desktop environment for Fuchsia and Linux written in Flutter
It could be confused with Ubuntu Precise Pangolin, if people search "Pangolin Ubuntu"
notacanofsoda··on Show HN: Programming Time - Playing card game to teach your kids Python
Great idea, similar in spirit to spaced repetition. I wonder if the cards can be simplified to reduce the time it takes to solve a card (possibly more fun due to faster reward) but still retain the same level of knowledge.
notacanofsoda··on Launch HN: Hyperbeam API (YC W22) – Multiplayer embeds of any website
Neat, looks like Mighty app but multi-user. Interesting that both companies are YC funded.