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bbstats··on Solving the 100GB Game Download
this is incredible.
bbstats··on Improving image generation with better captions [pdf]
Quick test on Dall-E 3 (bing.com/create) vs ideogram, and ideogram is not even close in terms of quality.
bbstats··on Please Pay for a Year of Nothing
someone doesn't have kids...
bbstats··on The Enshittification of Amazon Continues
None of this is that bad.
bbstats··on Ask HN: Is GenAI heading for a crypto-esque bubble pop?
mean crypto utility is basically zero. mean AI utility is decent.
bbstats··on GANeRF: Leveraging Discriminators to Optimize Neural Radiance Fields
Very first nerf I ever saw ran fine on consumer hw at 60fps in VR. And gaussian splatting for polycam is on their website now (was frontpage of HN yesterday too)
bbstats··on Raspberry Pi 5
So dramatic lol
bbstats··on USPS is offering Covid tests again
Pretty useful if you get a positive though
bbstats··on Ask HN: Why did Python win?
because it's incredibly easy to use, and numpy and pandas are written in python.
bbstats··on Blue-light glasses may not reduce eyestrain from screens, study says
past != present
bbstats··on Ts_zip: Text Compression Using Large Language Models
OTOH true intelligence can still poorly compress things.
bbstats··on Ts_zip: Text Compression Using Large Language Models
I would say compression has some congruency with intelligence.
bbstats··on PayPal Launches U.S. Dollar Stablecoin
I read it that way! :)
bbstats··on Linux surpasses the Mac among Steam gamers
The point is that it's not pre-existing Linux users.
bbstats··on DotDict: A simple Python library to make chained attributes possible
I...do not prefer this syntax.
bbstats··on Show HN: DankGPT – Chat with Your Documents
GPT5?
bbstats··on Former intel officer says 'non-human biologics’ found at alleged UFO crash sites
Probably dog / chimp, no?
bbstats··on Cash Amnesia
If you don't have a lot of money this is true. I think the opposite happens if you are rich.
bbstats··on Ask HN: Whatever happened to the “coming wave” of delivery drones?
We have some where I live (Flytrex in Durham). It's a pretty fun and occasionally useful novelty but - FAA regulations mean a driver has to come watch it deliver the food so - not quite ready for prime time.
bbstats··on The Free Movie
These are not problems.
bbstats··on New study reveals most classic video games are unavailable
This remains to be true of the Star Wars trilogy...
bbstats··on Show HN: Workout.lol – a web app to easily create a workout routine
I can't work out my core with my body weight?
bbstats··on Pixar was never a masterpiece factory
Yes it absolutely was.
bbstats··on NASA’s Mars helicopter is somehow still flying
From the article

"It’s absolutely ridiculous,” Tzanetos said. “This is a once-in-a-lifetime kind of thing.”

bbstats··on The AI hype bubble is the new crypto hype bubble
No
bbstats··on Ask HN: Is it just me or GPT-4's quality has significantly deteriorated lately?
Seems fine still. I use Poe.
bbstats··on Bayes is guaranteed to overfit
When you find the minima of your validation curve, rarely if ever is your test loss lower than your training loss. I don't think this necessarily means you're overfitting.
bbstats··on Are Blue Checks Uncool Now?
Yes
bbstats··on MouthPad – In-Mouth Bluetooth Mouse Uses Tongue Sensitive Trackpad
"it's a mouthpad" "you mean mousepad??" "no, MOUTHpad"
bbstats··on Synthetic Data from Diffusion Models Improves ImageNet Classification
seems logical in that you can train on more poses/colors/shapes/angles/lighting conditions. but also we could assume that there's a more direct/elegant improvement than using a generative model?
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