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Thomashuet··on Florilegium: Procedural Flowers in LaTeX
Another implementation of the same idea which I think looks even better: https://flora.alpacasoft.dev/
Thomashuet··on Florilegium: Procedural Flowers in LaTeX
Not just the README, all of it. The author gives more details about it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/LaTeX/comments/1xixznw/comment/19rv...
Thomashuet··on Anthropic S-1
You should try
Thomashuet··on Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded
Yes it is. I've bought a MacBook air despite despising MacOS (with the hope that Asahi support will come eventually) because the processor currently has no competition.
Thomashuet··on GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast
That's promising but did they publish any code? I can't find anything in the abstract.
Thomashuet··on 1k Data Breaches Later, the Disclosure Lag Is Worse
Let's not persecute anyone.
Thomashuet··on I'm Getting into Mesh Networks (Meshtastic, MeshCore, and Reticulum)
> the author also misses an important piece of functionality of meshcore: If I lose power, the mesh still works.

Isn't it the case with Meshtastic and Reticulum too? It feels like it should be part of the definition of mesh network.

Thomashuet··on Arena AI Model ELO History
It seems to be a USA only thing, Chinese models and Mistral don't show any downward trend.
Thomashuet··on Texico: Learn the principles of programming without even touching a computer
There are some nice ideas but no continuity, it's just random bits put together. ♫ tekisco, tekisco, tekisco ♫
Thomashuet··on FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font
Unfortunately it doesn't seem to support cursive, which is how I and most people I know write.
Thomashuet··on Intellect-2 Release: The First 32B Model Trained Through Globally Distributed RL
Summary: We've use the most complexest, buzzwordiest training infrastructure to increase the performance of our base model by a whopping 0.5% (±1%).
Thomashuet··on Learn Arabic
But is there such a thing as "modern standard Arabic"?
Thomashuet··on Seeing Through the Spartan Mirage
If it just means "don't take my guns", that's what they would write on their merch instead of some greek letters most people can't read. By using this Spartan phrase they're trying to evoke the mythical greatness of Sparta, and that is what this article is about.
Thomashuet··on Who would have won the Simon-Ehrlich bet over different decades?
The main problem with this is that we're looking at the evolution of inflation-adjusted prices for common ressources. By definition, inflation-adjusted prices for common ressources must be constant, that's how we measure inflation. So it shouldn't come as a surprise that the prices do not change much in the long term.
Thomashuet··on New Mac Mini with M4
You don't have to, you can run your favorite flavor of Linux. Unlike with the Mac Mini which can only run macOS.
Thomashuet··on ByteDance is abusing the free video downloading service Cobalt for mass scraping
You're just saying that Cobalt is small and non-profit so they must be good and YouTube and ByteDance are big and rich so they must be evil. But if you only look that what they are actually doing here, it's very similar: bypassing protections to use a service in a way that the service provider doesn't like.
Thomashuet··on ByteDance is abusing the free video downloading service Cobalt for mass scraping
Short version: a service known for evading YouTube's bot protection is complaining that ByteDance is bypassing their own protections. I agree that it's not nice from ByteDance but I find it hypocrite from Cobalt to call it evil.
Thomashuet··on GitHub notification emails used to send malware
Their claim that nothing tells you the email corresponds to the new issue is wrong, the "(Issue #1)" in the title means exactly that. I have actually received the same email myself and immediately recognized it as a new issue created on the repo. This user is obviously not used to GitHub issues as is made clear by the fact that this is the first issue on this repo. I guess GitHub needs to do a better job teaching new users.
Thomashuet··on DifuzCam: Replacing Camera Lens with a Mask and a Diffusion Model
I don't understand the use of a textual description. In which scenario do you not have enough space for a lens and yet have a textual description of the scene?
Thomashuet··on Base 3 Computing Beats Binary
> Tonal languages allows individuals to express way more than Latin based languages.

Do you have any evidence of this? I've never heard this claim before.

Thomashuet··on Training AI
I don't see how opt-in solves the problem of people who content they don't own. They could opt-in your content just as they can currently post it on their website.
Thomashuet··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
Could you expand on this? Where is the line? What's work and what's business?
Thomashuet··on Mathematician who made sense of the universe's randomness wins Abel Prize
The Nobel prize is usually awarded to old (around 60) researchers at the end of their career whereas the Fields medal is only awarded to researchers under 40 (and since it's only awarded every 4 years, the cutoff age can even be 36 if you're not lucky). In that sense the Abel prize is more of a Nobel equivalent than the Fields medal.
Thomashuet··on Gemini AI
Technical report: https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/gemini/gemini_...

"We trained Gemini models using TPUv5e and TPUv4"

Thomashuet··on Diamonds Suck
I have an even cheaper solution: just don't buy a ring.

It all depends on what your partner wants obviously. If it's important for your partner to get a diamond ring and you value your partnership more than the cost of a diamond, then buy a diamond. If your partner wants a "I'm married" sign (as my wife did), just buy a simple wedding ring without a stone. If it's not that important for her, don't buy a ring.

Thomashuet··on Why Is .US Being Used to Phish So Many of Us?
As Wikipedia puts it: Most registrants in the U.S. have registered for .com, .net, .org and other gTLDs, instead of .us, which has primarily been used by state and local governments, even though private entities may also register .us domains.

This makes .us a prime target for attackers because victims tend to trust .us more than .com. Nothing GoDaddy can do will change that.

Thomashuet··on Lidl Product Recall [pdf]
Their website was not really hacked, it was just abandoned and someone else registered the domain and put porn there.
Thomashuet··on A chiral aperiodic monotile
Yes. Actually if you just want to cover the whole space aperiodically, you can already do it with a simple rectangle, it's just that rectangles also allow you to do it periodically and this new tile only allows aperiodically.
Thomashuet··on A chiral aperiodic monotile
You can display it in HTML too: https://academ.us/article/2305.17743/
Thomashuet··on MiniGPT-4
The recipe it suggests is completely off. Just search for "ramen recipe" and compare. For instance it tells you to add soy sauce, sesame oil and green onions to the broth (so far so good) but then tells you to throw all of it away ("once the noodles are cooked, drain them"). The problem here is that you should cook the noodles separately in plain water, not a broth with soy sauce.
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