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youssefabdelm··on MKBHDs for Everything
How many frames a second does this webcam do? What's the quality like? Shit.
youssefabdelm··on MKBHDs for Everything
anything old https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k5bdedDPPs
youssefabdelm··on MKBHDs for Everything
It is clickbait. And people who think the product is shitty seem numb to that point because they're like "yeah it is shitty, just like I thought!"

The actual video is way more balanced. Why not call it "Humane AI Pin: Pretty Bad" or something? But the worst...? There are waaay shittier products he's reviewed.

MKBHD is a millionaire... why clickbait?

People are like "Honest reviews are important"... yeah, exactly and we're saying the same thing. the concern is about dishonesty for clicks.

All sides in this argument have a kernel of truth that is being exaggerated somewhat.

That being said I trust him, just think he was off on the clickbait-iness.

youssefabdelm··on MKBHDs for Everything
Many are negative but clickbait is rampant on youtube. There's a habit of exaggeration to get views to make money. It is a predator-prey bloodbath where the audience is prey.
youssefabdelm··on DBRX: A new open LLM
At this point it's a cliché to share this article, as much as I love gwern lol.
youssefabdelm··on Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor
I feel like I'd much prefer this as an API I can request and get realtime updates from so that I can hook it into any application. Is that on the roadmap?

Also latency seems to be a bit slow, wish it was faster, maybe thats due to traffic now

youssefabdelm··on A formula for responsive font-size
If you're on Mac, I recommend the Arc Browser, and using their Boost to adjust sites with custom css with the font + bold specification you want. Or a chrome extension, but I'm sure you've already found a similar solution and it's annoying to just have to re-do that everytime.

I wonder if there are custom CSS chrome extensions that allow you to apply a font to all sites not just one.

youssefabdelm··on My favourite animation trick: exponential smoothing (2023)
Exactly, to the OP of parent comment, this talk is a great overview of exactly this point: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2018/803
youssefabdelm··on Claude 3 model family
Yeah, cause these are the kinds of very advanced things we'll use these models for in the wild. /s

It's strange that these tests are frequent. Why would people think this is a good use of this model or even a good proxy for other more sophisticated "soft" tasks?

Like to me, a better test is one that tests for memorization of long-tailed information that's scarce on the internet. Reasoning tests like this are so stupid they could be programmed, or you could hook up tools to these LLMs to process them.

Much more interesting use cases for these models exist in the "soft" areas than 'hard', 'digital', 'exact', 'simple' reasoning.

I'd take an analogical over a logical model any day. Write a program for Sally.

youssefabdelm··on Groq runs Mixtral 8x7B-32k with 500 T/s
Correct me if I'm wrong but it seems from the docs that the answer is no?
youssefabdelm··on Groq runs Mixtral 8x7B-32k with 500 T/s
Do you guys provide logprobs via the api?
youssefabdelm··on Groq runs Mixtral 8x7B-32k with 500 T/s
Can you explain if this affects quality relative to fp16? And is mixtral quantized?
youssefabdelm··on Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced
Anyone know if they launched it in the API?
youssefabdelm··on Ask HN: How to turn off DRM screen recording detection in macOS (at the root)?
Tried it, but was already set to Allow All Auto Play. Tried toggling it off and on, still black.
youssefabdelm··on Ask HN: How to turn off DRM screen recording detection in macOS (at the root)?
Probably joking but if not, don't want to, it's too useful.
youssefabdelm··on Apple Vision Pro review
> people want to enjoy photos, videos, movies with other people and it can't include them

Eh... I prefer empty cinemas

No loud babies, no popcorn sounds, no people explaining the plot to people not paying attention, just me and the world of the film. Bliss.

youssefabdelm··on Compressing Text into Images
Yeah it does look like noise but not quite... it does seem to have a texture of its own and I'd be curious what other books look like
youssefabdelm··on WLJS Notebook – Open-source web-based notebook interface for Wolfram Language
This is amazing, all it needs is a few design touchups and it could even be better than Mathematica. Wish programmers had a deeper intuition there sometimes. But then again how much time would be left for the programming side.

I recommend reading a few Tufte books, make the plots a bit more fancy, tweak button positioning, styling, remove redundant notifications like when you X something and get 10 "removed" etc

youssefabdelm··on Whisper: Nvidia RTX 4090 vs. M1 Pro with MLX
Does insanely-fast-whisper use beam size of 5 or 1? And what is the speed comparison when set to 5?

Ideally it also exposes that parameter to the user.

Speed comparisons seem moot when quality is sacrificed for me, I'm working with very poor audio quality so transcription quality matters.

youssefabdelm··on Photorealistic Video Generation with Diffusion Models
Agree... they'll definitely evolve and get better, we're in the floppy disk era, but so far they suck. Nothing but weird motion, a shitty echo of mainstream / stock footage.

I also get the sense that in the early days where data curation matters, research teams need to hire curators that can siphon good from bad examples. E.g. don't train on shit stock footage, pick up a book on fine art photographers, train on that shit + good films and you'll get a pretty good model.

In the future I suspect curation will matter less and less because in the limit you should train on literally the entire internet.

I'm definitely excited for where it might go though. If it ever develops to a sophisticated point, which it most certainly will, we'll be able to do stuff with it that is just impossible by typical production means.

youssefabdelm··on Photorealistic Video Generation with Diffusion Models
better but... still sucks... cant wait til it works
youssefabdelm··on Audiobox: Meta's new foundation research model for audio generation
Have weights been released?

Edit: nvm, seems not from this line "In the coming weeks, we will be opening up the application here, along with an interactive demo that will showcase Audiobox’s capabilities."

youssefabdelm··on Stable Video Diffusion
Can't wait for these things to not suck
youssefabdelm··on Google confirms they will disable uBlock Origin in Chrome in 2024
Will this affect Arc?
youssefabdelm··on Show HN: Numbat – A programming language with physical dimensions as types
> On the other hand, 3 months + 2 lightyears is ill-typed, because the right-hand side is of type Length. You can change ‘years’ to ‘lightyears’ in the example above to see the resulting compiler error.

Why not both? Make lightyears both Length and Time

youssefabdelm··on I've resigned from my role leading the Audio team at Stability AI
Exactly. For those who want a good film to watch regarding why this is the case: https://www.everythingisaremix.info/everything-is-a-remix-re...
youssefabdelm··on Svelte 5: Runes
I've seen the demo and you're right, in cases where the code gets more complex, it does look way cleaner. I also really appreciate that you guys made it so that you can still use Svelte in the same old way.

But at the same time I just wish there was some other solution to this while keeping it implicit somehow. I would do anything to keep things implicit while solving the backend complexity some other way. The thing I most love about Svelte is the principle / vector of "as little learning as possible", as well as in many cases transfer of learning, makes it much more user friendly, and I wish evolutions of Svelte continued to evolve along that direction, by reducing more and more.

But things like `$something` are a bit strange. Even `$:` is strange. It adds cognitive load. It's not very English-like and in turn not easily parseable. `on:click` is closer to the attractor of user friendliness. I think all programming languages and frameworks should try to approach English or Python, to allow for maximum "transfer of learning" so things just feel like they flow "without thought". Taking inspiration from UI/UX... things should be as close as possible to 'understanding at a glance'

The gold standard would be to approach something like this level of intuitiveness in the future as crazy as it may seem: https://twitter.com/brianjoseff/status/1617556877218570241 https://twitter.com/mathemagic1an/status/1700232760756207956...

I have many ideas on how, but it would no longer be a programming language.

youssefabdelm··on The usefulness of a memory guides where the brain saves it?
Edited title could be: "Hypothesis: The usefulness of a..."
youssefabdelm··on I am dying of squamous cell carcinoma, and potential treatments are out of reach
There was a drug called Rapamycin discussed in this Radiolab episode https://radiolab.org/podcast/dirty-drug-and-ice-cream-tub

The drug supposedly helped delay the doctor's cancer and extend his lifespan until he stopped taking it, then it came back "with a vengeance" and he passed away. He wanted to stop taking it to verify whether it was actually working or not.

I wonder if it might help this person? He might have to be on it for life though.

Don't take my word for it though, this is FAR from my field of expertise.

youssefabdelm··on The past is not true
"What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions — they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force, coins which have lost their embossing and are now considered as metal and no longer as coins." - Nietzsche
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