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hexomancer

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hexomancer··on Tarteel – AI-powered Quran companion
So you think we should take the part of Quran which says beat your wives if they disobey you at face value?
hexomancer··on Tarteel – AI-powered Quran companion
Yes, I was forced to read Quran as a child in school in Iran.
hexomancer··on Legend of Zelda game sells 10M copies in three days
Yeah, Picasso also often shipped 0fps and people didn't complain.
hexomancer··on Language models can explain neurons in language models
> Would you prefer a PDF?

Yes, I was just reading the paper and some of the javascript glitched and deleted all the contents of the document except the last section, making me lose all context and focus. Doesn't really happen with PDF files.

hexomancer··on Mercury OS
This looks like the exact opposite of what I would do if I were to redesign operating systems. The job of operating system is just to run application and get out of the way, and most importantly be deterministic and reliable. I don't need my OS to "predict what I might need", I know what I need myself.
hexomancer··on GPT 4 coming next week
GPT-3 came out almost 3 years ago. If anything this has been too slow compared to previous ones.
hexomancer··on ChatGPT Hardware: A look at 8x NVIDIA A100 powering the tool
Insanely misleading title. The author is basically showing off their A100 GPUs. The ChatGPT part is just clickbait, the only relevance ia that ChatGPT supposedly is also using A100s (definitely not only eight of them though).
hexomancer··on Microsoft to Replace Edge’s PDF Reader with Adobe Acrobat
Shameless plug: If you are looking for a minimal, customizable PDF viewer with vim-like keybindings and some special features for reading research papers and textbooks, check out sioyek:

https://sioyek.info

hexomancer··on How Organisms Come to Know the World: Fundamental Limits on AGI
We don't have a rigorous understanding of neural networks.
hexomancer··on Game prototype using AI assisted graphics
Computers have been playing chess way better than humans for many years, yet it has not prevented people from playing chess and enjoying it. Also human chess game have way more viewers than computer games despite objectively being lower quality.
hexomancer··on Game prototype using AI assisted graphics
Originally "computer" was used to refer to people who would "compute". They were all replaced by electronic computers.

I don't think many would claim that the world would be a better place if regulations were put in place to limit electronic computers in order to keep human computers employed.

hexomancer··on How Organisms Come to Know the World: Fundamental Limits on AGI
Here is a child-like, practical definition of intelligence: "ability to solve problems".
hexomancer··on How Organisms Come to Know the World: Fundamental Limits on AGI
> That sounds a bit early - whats your source?

The source you linked already cites it as the first arc lamp.

> But either way, is knowing the electron knowing electricity? There are so many properties of it that can be known and manipulated without that insight- and indeed they built up that understanding to reach practical engineering and use of electricity. That’s what I think is being gotten at wrt intelligence.

Yes. That is exactly my point. We don't need to entirely understand what intelligence is in order to be able to create it. The same way we didn't know what fire is, but we created it with no problem.

hexomancer··on How Organisms Come to Know the World: Fundamental Limits on AGI
Electron was discovered 1897 but the first lightbulb was 1802.

There are more examples as well, as another user has commented, we didn't know what fire is until relatively recently but we have been using it for thousands of years.

hexomancer··on How Organisms Come to Know the World: Fundamental Limits on AGI
We didn't know what electricity really was when we created electric lightbulbs.
hexomancer··on Three-eyed forehead in Stable Diffusion
Well you claimed existing tools can do this in "real time" so 20 seconds is way more than that.
hexomancer··on Three-eyed forehead in Stable Diffusion
Thank you, I am aware what feather edges is. Here are the original photos:

https://imgur.com/a/SgQ38bw https://imgur.com/a/Gi0IZtB

Can you apply feather edges for me and compare the results (and let's use the gentlemen's agreement that you will not spend more than 20 seconds)?

hexomancer··on Three-eyed forehead in Stable Diffusion
Can you show me how "basic photoshop tools" can do this in 20 seconds?: https://ahrm.github.io/images/2023-01-02-three-eyes/inpainti...
hexomancer··on Three-eyed forehead in Stable Diffusion
I didn't really spend any time to make the result look good (I am not an artist, I was more interested in the technological aspect rather than the art aspect).
hexomancer··on Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative
This list is extremely non-verbal.
hexomancer··on Sioyek 2.0
Sioyek is a PDF viewer optimized for research papers and textbooks. These are the release notes for the 2.0 version.
hexomancer··on DeepMind Dramatron: a new tool for writers to co-write theatre and film scripts
> nobody wants to communicate with a bot.

The number of ChatGPT submissions in the past week begs to differ.

hexomancer··on Demo of =GPT3() as a spreadsheet feature
What are you talking about? Look at 27 seconds into the video. Many of the zip codes are wrong.
hexomancer··on Show HN: InvokeAI, an open source Stable Diffusion toolkit and WebUI
Shameless plug: I was frustrated with the poor UI of notebook-based frontends so I wrote a desktop version here: https://github.com/ahrm/UnstableFusion .

Here is a video of some of its features: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLOhizAnSfQ&t=1s

hexomancer··on Ask HN: Offline resources during internet outages?
Sorry, maybe I reacted inappropriately. But I think we don't realize what a privilege reliable access to internet is, until it is taken away.
hexomancer··on Ask HN: Offline resources during internet outages?
> It would be truly wonderful

Well here in Iran we are going through that as we speak (there are ongoing protests and government has shut down the internet, it is only available early in the morning). Wanna trade places?

hexomancer··on Show HN: A Stable Diffusion desktop frontend with inpainting, img2img and more
I am not sure :|. I don't see how this is any different from running, say, a gradio application though.
hexomancer··on https://16777217/
the 255s should be 256.
hexomancer··on PhD gets 5x increase in postdoc interview invitations by just changing his name
I didn't comment.
hexomancer··on PhD gets 5x increase in postdoc interview invitations by just changing his name
This is not the post I was referencing. It was a link to this reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/xcrv6k/i_sent_1...
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