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siddbudd··on Animate Anyone: Image-to-video synthesis for character animation
They made the model learn by watching TikTok videos. WYSIWYG.
siddbudd··on Understanding Deep Learning
Some Google-fu for you:

based on a table of contents? You can download the draft of Chapters 1-21 (500+ pages) from the linked site.

Who is the author ? Simon J. D. Prince is Honorary Professor of Computer Science at the University of Bath and author of Computer Vision: Models, Learning and Inference. A research scientist specializing in artificial intelligence and deep learning, he has led teams of research scientists in academia and industry at Anthropics Technologies Ltd, Borealis AI, and elsewhere.

Have they published anything else highly rated ? Author of >50 peer reviewed publications in top tier conferences (CVPR, ICCV, SIGGRAPH etc.) https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fjm67xYAAAAJ&hl=en

Are there good reviews [...] The book has not been published, this is literally a free draft that you are looking at. The book is listed on Amazon as a pre-order for 85USD.

siddbudd··on Stable Video Diffusion
"2 more papers down the line"...
siddbudd··on Typst – Compose Papers Faster
Yep, Martin Haug wrote his Master's thesis [1] about it.

[1] https://www.user.tu-berlin.de/mhaug/fast-typesetting-increme...

siddbudd··on Videos of Godotcon 2023
I found the talk about SwiftGodot amazing. Do we really need to be reminded in this context about what the speaker did 20+ years ago? Like, any relation to the talk or to Godot AT ALL?
siddbudd··on Omnivore – free, open source, read-it-later App
I just wrote to the them about this. Devs of new stuff are often approachable with improvement ideas.
siddbudd··on Recursive Recipes
Recipe for cheese:

    "Go and buy it."
I get this website is a joke, but it is a pretty bad one.
siddbudd··on Show HN: Extract an RSS feed from almost anything
41$ or 59$ per month to get content in RSS form rather than visiting a couple websites and that's just the basic, not the professional version? SOLD!
siddbudd··on Fedora Asahi Remix first impressions
vast majority of stuff in the aur has no arm version, how about COPR?
siddbudd··on Show HN: LearnLingo – Converse with an AI-powered language tutor
I would not sign up unless I know what languages are supported. This really should be mentioned on the front page.
siddbudd··on Show HN: I made a customizable iOS browser for minimalists and myself
only spent 3 minutes with it (Quiche v1.1 on iOS 17.0 21A5277j) so far, good first impressions.

couple bugs though: 1. "Opening the keyboard automatically when I open a new tab." This does not work for me, new tab opens and the (empty) address bar is on the very bottom, close keyboard button on the right, but there is no keyboard to close, I still need to click inside the address bar for the keyboard to show up.

Once the keyboard is open, I tap the close keyboard button on the right, click again inside the search field, the keyboard starts opening, but closes right away, leaving again just a search field and a close keyboard button on the very bottom, but no actual keyboard.

As you can see I am running iOS 17 Beta, but I don't experience similar keyboard bugs in any other app, so probably not related to the Beta itself.

2. On another note, when clicking a bookmark and going to the tab switcher right away before the page has loaded, the preview of the tab is totally black and no tab name appears under it either. Not even if I stay on the tab selector page. I actually need to tap it again and then return to the tab selector. This might not be an issue for a single tab, but I just tested opening 5 pages in new in a row, and had no idea which tab is which in the tab selector. If I then tapped one of the tabs that has obviously loaded in the meanwhile, still only the thumbnail preview and name of that one tab was updated on the tab selector, not the other tabs, those were all still black and nameless.

My suggestion is either take over the bookmark name as tab name temporarily, until the actual tab name is loaded and/or auto-refresh the tab selector page with thumbnail preview and tab name every once in a short while (100ms?).

siddbudd··on Egregoria: 3D City Builder without a grid
Is Metropolis 1998 going to be Windows-only?
siddbudd··on Show HN: Manabi Reader – Learn Japanese by Reading on iOS and macOS (SwiftUI)
Under Beginners > NHK News easy I cannot scroll the content of the webpage, so I only see a photo and a couple lines of text. I can make the font smaller, then it all fits, but then it is too small to read. No such problems on MATCHA Japan Travel.

Then again, I cannot scroll the list of "Blogs" or "Spoken Audio" either. How many entries I can see depends how I resize the window.

Testing on a Mac (MB Air - M1) with latest Ventura.

siddbudd··on Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake
Nothing special indeed about a Macbook Air M1. I need to hear my machine working, but this thing does not even have a cooling fan. I can always put on noise-cancelling headphones if my machine sounds like it's about to lift off. Not to mention Apple Silicon is a joke, the Threadripper in my almost mobile workstation beats it any time. Meanwhile the battery cannot even last a standard Earth day, so why not just stick to power outlets?

All kidding aside, the (lack of) ports and the non-upgradability can be meaningfully criticized, but then again a lot of competitors are copying those anti-features. But to say there is nothing special about these machines... well, maybe not to you. Some people hate noisy laptop fans, and this total silence is a game changer.

siddbudd··on Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
I command clicked (on a Mac, equivalent to Ctrl click on Win) on a link. It did not open in a new tab, but the same tab. That alone makes me not want to test it further, because 1) that should be default and 2) whenever I see a list of links, I would like to be able to open more than one of them in the background before actually checking them out.
siddbudd··on Artificial brains help understand real brains
Called the "bare infinitive". Use your favorite search engine, many sites will explain it better than I can.

Short: "Help is a verb that can be used with or without to and with or without an object before the infinitive. When we use it without an infinitive it sometimes sounds more informal." (from Bare infinitive - Learning English | BBC World Service)

siddbudd··on Show HN: Pot is a cross-platform translation software
The Mac (Apple Silicon, what you call aarch64) version does not run: "pot is damaged and can’t be opened. You should move it to the Trash."
siddbudd··on The Open Buddhist University
"Zero latency search" sounds nice, but searching for either "prajñā" or "pāramitā" (with or without diacritics) yields 0 results. FYI, those are absolute basic terminology of Mahayana Buddhism (Mahayana texts constituting a massive part of the Buddhist corpus).

After a quick glance I would say it is a Therevada "University" with a few texts (but no courses) on other Buddhist schools.

siddbudd··on YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers
Is there an ad-blocker that simply blurs and silences the ads on YouTube?
siddbudd··on Show HN: What do you think about my metasearch engine?
I searched for a name. It autocorrected (a la "Results for ...") to a similar word, but did not show that anywhere (there was no "Results for..."), and there was no way to change that (enforce my literal search phrase).

Looking at the comments below this seems extremely untested.

siddbudd··on The Pawn’s Gambit: On adapting Stefan Zweig’s “Chess Story”
404 for me
siddbudd··on I've procrastinated working on my thesis for more than a year
I would love this to be turned into a text editor. You set up a target, e.g. 20K chars and start typing away. No formatting, no distractions. The program always just shows the current line, or even just the 10 characters, while previous lines fade out into black with no way to reveal them. Only after hitting the target is the entire text revealed.

Optionally with some reward animation/sound after every target/10 characters.

siddbudd··on What’s Left in the Apple Silicon Transition
I am not experiencing any crashes on mine. Of the listed apps I use IINA, qBittorent, Sublime Text. I use around 30 apps frequently, none of them are crashing.

Have you tried reinstalling everything from scratch? If yes, then it is very likely a HW issue. If others suggest a better method for checking where the fault lies, other than reinstalling, then follow their advice.

siddbudd··on Games don't treat death like death
you obviously have not read the linked article
siddbudd··on The Dawn of Mediocre Computing
> Everything "made by AI" is made by humans, as AI is a tool.

Man can build machines that build stuff, whether it is furniture, electronics or food productions. Those products are not man-made but machine-made. It's no different with "art", whether visual arts or text production.

AI is most definitely not like a paintbrush. A production line of cars is not a screw driver and a highly automated toast bread factory is not a knife.

It has nothing to do with thinking, but with level of automation.

siddbudd··on Ask HN: What are some of the best books you have read in 2022?
I Contain Multitudes. By Ed Yong. Everyone should know more about bacteria. Especially considering we are carrying trillions of them in our body and further gazillions surround us. And yes, we are related, more than you'd think.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27213168-i-contain-multi...

siddbudd··on My Fanless OpenBSD Desktop (2021)
I know a lot of people for whom the sound of their iPad (Pro) or MacBook is good enough. Those are even thinner than most monitors.
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