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hexomancer

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a.hr.mostafavi@gmail.com
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hexomancer··on An Introduction to CSS-Doodle
I find it extremely annoying (using a mouse wheel).
hexomancer··on σ-GPTs: A new approach to autoregressive models
Yes, but is there any guarantee that the complete sentence makes sense?
hexomancer··on Show HN: Interactive Graph by LLM (GPT-4o)
The graph in that page is completely different (e.g. the sharp drop in 2015). This seems to be just linearly interpolating between start and end populations.
hexomancer··on Show HN: Interactive Graph by LLM (GPT-4o)
Hmmm this doesn't look right? : https://columns.ai/chatgpt/AXoHKTTYYkeT3x
hexomancer··on Sioyek is a PDF viewer with a focus on textbooks and research papers
Sioyek developer here. You absolutely should be able to open multiple PDFs (e.g. using the new-window command are passing the --new-window command line option). If you are experiencing crashes please open a github issue.
hexomancer··on Sioyek is a PDF viewer with a focus on textbooks and research papers
They are saved separately. We do have an "embed_annotations" command to create a new pdf file with annotations embedded.
hexomancer··on Sioyek is a PDF viewer with a focus on textbooks and research papers
Sioyek developer here, we don't have the exact feature you ask for, but we have an alternative.

Instead of modifying the PDF file (which kind of is against the point of PDF files in the first place, the point is the file looks the same in all devices) we have a ruler which can automatically highlight the line being read. If the line is larger than the window, then we move horizontally so the next part of the line is shown. If the line is such that it is larger than the current window but is smaller than the next horizontal movement, a red notch is displayed in the ruler which marks the location of the line which will be moved to the leftmost side of the window.

I know I explained it poorly, here is a video which should clarify: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYUYMhvwN3U

hexomancer··on Sioyek is a PDF viewer with a focus on textbooks and research papers
Sioyek developer here.

> - There's an extension that lets you view PDFs in two columns (panels) side by side. But that literally changes the actual PDF files!

We have added native two-panel mode in development branch.

> - Plugins are generally challenging to install. I found a workaround and reported it, but IDK if the author took that feedback to improve the app.

In the development branch we have added support for native javascript extensions (with no external dependencies because we use Qt's internal js engine) which should be a lot easier to work with

> - To my knowledge, the app stores its configs in the Applications directory of the app. It'd be nicer to have them in ~/.config.

Also I think in the development branch you can use ~/.config, I am not 100% sure though.

hexomancer··on Sioyek is a PDF viewer with a focus on textbooks and research papers
Sioyek developer here. As others have mentioned the development branch is fairly active. I also have my own private branch which I have not published yet until it is more stable, the last commit in my private branch is yesterday (6 commits actually).
hexomancer··on Sioyek is a PDF viewer with a focus on textbooks and research papers
Sioyek developer here. There is no deep meaning behind the name, I just like the number 31 :)
hexomancer··on Sioyek is a PDF viewer with a focus on textbooks and research papers
Sioyek developer here. We have added 2 page mode in the development branch.
hexomancer··on DBRX: A new open LLM
Mixtral is also a MoE model, hence the name: mixtral.
hexomancer··on Show HN: Domino Fit – Domino Tiling Puzzle
That was very fun! Are the puzzles handmade or procedurally generated?
hexomancer··on Apple Vision Pro review
AVP knows exactly which monitor you are looking at. The mac doesn't need to render all monitors at full resolution, just the one being looked at.
hexomancer··on Apple Vision Pro review
AVP knows exactly which monitor you are looking at. The mac doesn't need to render all monitors at full resolution, just the one being looked at.
hexomancer··on Ternary circuits: R=3 is not the Optimal Radix for Computation (2019)
If you assume the complexity of an elements grows linearly with the number of states it can assume (e.g. if complexity of a bit is 2a then complexity of a trit is 3a). Then the total complexity of for example representing a number N is log{N}_{B} \times B \times a. Minimizing this with respect to B yields B=e.
hexomancer··on Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
Thanks for the kind words :)
hexomancer··on Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
Sioyek: a PDF viewer optimized for reading research papers and textbooks. https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek

It has a lot of niche features, but my favorite is the ability to preview or jump to references even when they are not linked in the PDF file.

hexomancer··on Phi-2: The surprising power of small language models
The website seems to be down. Here is the cached version: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:r-GYHX...
hexomancer··on Latvia to start conscripting men for mandatory military service, starting 2024
That's where the "mandatory" in the mandatory military service comes in (btw, I agree with your sentiment that it is stupid, the point is that you can't just not do it, you will be forced to).
hexomancer··on Surfingkeys – Vim-style controls and text editing in browser
I used to use vimium for years, but today I discovered surfingkeys and it seems to just be better. One killer feature for me is that pressing `I` will open a vim-like text editor for the text area in current page.
hexomancer··on Vicuna v1.5 series, featuring 4K and 16K context, based on Llama 2
Off topic: Jesus Christ that table is bad. How badly have they messed it up that reversing sort order takes multiple seconds on my pc? It was so slow that I thought maybe it is sending a new request to the server every time I change the sort order but no, it is just that slow.
hexomancer··on A room-temperature superconductor? New developments
Where is my hoverboard?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOH15_pqWZ4&ab_channel=SETHS...

hexomancer··on Harvard ethics professor allegedly fabricated multiple studies
"she was the only author involved in collecting and analyzing data for it, the trio reported"
hexomancer··on Mark Zuckerberg on Apple’s Vision Pro headset
What are you talking about? Symbian came out a decade before iPhone and was very widespread. Maybe you mean the Maemo operating system used in N900?
hexomancer··on Mergeable libraries [video]
Yeah this is the right way of doing it. The archlinux (and most other distributions') way is profoundly stupid.
hexomancer··on Mergeable libraries [video]
Frankly, I think dynamic libraries are less secure (at least when talking about a desktop environment, not servers) because sometimes package managers update dynamic library dependencies without actually checking if binary compatibility was preserved in the new version, causing various crashes and bugs (I experienced this first hand with an archlinux package of a software I was developing).
hexomancer··on Deepmind Alphadev: Faster sorting algorithms discovered using deep RL
I don't think that's what they meant (or I have misunderstood). Running the same algorithm on the same input still has variations because of OS/CPU idiosyncrasies. When measuring performance we usually run the algorithm on the same input multiple times and report the fastest performance.
hexomancer··on Deepmind Alphadev: Faster sorting algorithms discovered using deep RL
> The confidence intervals are represented as latency ± (lower, upper), in which latency corresponds to the fifth percentile of latency measurements across 100 different machines. Lower and upper refer to the bounds of the 95% confidence interval for this percentile.

Does anybody know why they chose fifth percentile? I though we should always choose the fastest time when measuring performance.

hexomancer··on Apple’s Vision Pro AR headset is finally here
If the children had headsets too they could render everybody as if they had no headsets.

Whether this is a good or a bad thing I do not know.

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