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jaggirs··on Threads, a Slack alternative unrelated to Instagram, has seen downloads surge
They also took the "Meta" trademark from an existing augmented reality company. I believe that company decided to sue facebook. I think facebook probably just doesn't care and will just settle any possible lawsuits or something.
jaggirs··on Twitter now requires an account to view tweets
Yeah no you cant just 'use selenium'. To keep the same scraping volume you might need thousands of accounts and 10x the compute.
jaggirs··on MouthPad – In-Mouth Bluetooth Mouse Uses Tongue Sensitive Trackpad
I have had periods of time where I couldn't use my hands to use the computer due to bad rsi. I used an eye tracker for controlling the mouse and a voice recognition tool (talon) for typing. However, I couldn't use these for very long because I got a sore throat from speaking in a way the computer understands, and focusing places with my eyes all the time gave me headaches.

While a mouthpad seems slighly superior to an eye tracker, the real benefit lies in having more alternatives in my opinion. So you can use your tongue when your eyes are tired and your eyes when your tongue is tired.

jaggirs··on Launch HN: Flower (YC W23) – Train AI models on distributed or sensitive data
It has been shown that the input data can be reverse-engineered from the model weights. How do you deal with this issue?
jaggirs··on Brazilian researchers find plastic rocks on remote island
Unlike rocks, plastic is high in energy (as evidenced by the fact that you can put it on fire).
jaggirs··on Poor sleep drove me insane, and my long path to recovery
If you are chronically tired you should go see a doctor regardless of what the fitbit says.
jaggirs··on Cosmic DE update: System76's new Linux desktop environment
Been using linux for 10 years, had no idea you could paste with the middle mouse button.
jaggirs··on Google to reduce workforce by 12k
If everyone's doing it then you might as well do it too.
jaggirs··on A Linux Evening
Repetitive Strain Injury, which is an umbrella term for a ton of different conditions but they generally involve pain from doing a certain activity too much or unergonomically
jaggirs··on Ten Years of Image Synthesis
I think that by now the term has been hijacked
jaggirs··on We're moving away from swap partitions on our Linux servers
I don't understand why this issue still persists on linux. As far as I can tell all earlyoom needs to do is kill the process that has eaten the most memory in the last minute or so. On windows this issue is non-existent.
jaggirs··on Superplurality
I was programming today and I realized that there is a very common naming issue I encounter, which is that of naming variables that are 'lists of lists of something'.

For example I might have an 'embedding' object, which I put into a an 'embeddings' list, which in turn I put into a another list, as illustrated by the pseudocode:

    embeddings_ = []
    for X in Y:
        embeddings = []
        for embedding in X:
            embeddings.append(embedding)
        embeddings_.append(embeddings)

I wonder, what are your thoughts on naming such 'superplural' entities? In the past I have sometimes used an underscore like in the example above, or another suffix like '_list'. The paper I link to has another suggestion: 'embeddingses'. Other times we get lucky and there is actually a proper term for the 'list of lists' objects, for example, a list of lists of pixels is an image [1].

[1] This analogy makes me realize that 'superplurality' might also be seen as n-dimensionality, in the sense that a pixel is 0-d, a list of pixels is 1-d, an image is 2-d and, going further, a list of images (like a video) can be interpreted as 3-d.

jaggirs··on Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming (1992)
SAT for initializing nn parameters? Can you elaborate on this a bit, it seems interesting.
jaggirs··on The AI Battle
I am not sure how you can be so derogatory yet apparently so ignorant. Have you even seen what DALLE-2 (or imagen) can generate? DALLE-2 does not have to 'prove itself' it is clearly on-par with human designers in terms of quality and price. There even is a product on the market right now called Midjourney that is worse in quality than DALLE-2 yet is growing incredibly fast and already breaks even economically.

If NLP tasks make a similar jump in quality as DALLE-2 did when compared to DALLE then they too might disrupt the writer industry.

jaggirs··on Fermented Chili “Open Sauce” – My most starred repo has no code in it
Someone also made the "open source cookbook"

https://github.com/logicguy1/The-Cookbook

Seems like the ideal way to share and learn new recipes to me

jaggirs··on Expanding global payouts with crypto
You still need to do KYC
jaggirs··on The Edited Latecomer’s Guide to Crypto
For every btc bought there is one sold, the equation you gave thus adds up to zero.
jaggirs··on Is there a functional reason for wizards to live in towers so often?
what
jaggirs··on Tauri – Electron alternative written in Rust
Because you can use the same code for both interfaces.
jaggirs··on Trade-Offs in Automatic Differentiation: TensorFlow, PyTorch, Jax, and Julia
One disatvantage of the language itself is the need for compilation, which isn't that fast in my limited experience. But I would love to hear how much this affects iteration speed.
jaggirs··on Ask HN: Best alternatives to Google Analytics in 2021?
Goatcounter is exactly what I need, nothing more, nothing less.
jaggirs··on Proof of stake is incapable of producing a consensus
But why would a new entrant get the chain from a node that already exited, and why would this affect anyone other than the entrant itself? I assume the new entrant is itself liable if it copies the wrong chain, because other nodes will vote against it once it starts operating, so it will make an effort to get the correct chain (maybe by buying it from current nodes and ensuring they all provide the best chain). So maybe you would have some kind of cartel of running nodes that may or may not allow new nodes to enter, but I don't see a critical network-destroyig issue here.
jaggirs··on M1 Pro 14“ MacBook Pro Running KDE Plasma 5 on Arch Linux ARM
No
jaggirs··on Chernobyl’s Blown Up Reactor 4 Just Woke Up
Nuclear power plants are an economical no-brainer. The ecomic consequences of a disaster are nothing compared to the power produced over the average life time of a nuclear plant. Fukushimas economical damage may not even be attributable to the nuclear plant, considering that the tsunami may be directly responsible for most of the damage (which would have been done with or without a power plant).

The risk of a disaster is a different matter I don't want to get in to, I think people just fear what they don't understand. By this point, the people making and running the things know what they are doing in my opinion.

jaggirs··on Chernobyl’s Blown Up Reactor 4 Just Woke Up
Yes, I mean the exclusion zone, it doesn't matter, the numbers are still in nuclear's favor.
jaggirs··on Chernobyl’s Blown Up Reactor 4 Just Woke Up
Land is valuable, but it's value is overshadowed by the massive amounts of energy production of a nuclear plant.
jaggirs··on Chernobyl’s Blown Up Reactor 4 Just Woke Up
Nuclear is one of the least deadly energy sources (taking all deaths, including by nuclear disaster, into account).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzfpyo-q-RM

jaggirs··on What's bad about Julia?
Python
jaggirs··on The agony and the ecstasy of deep brain stimulation surgery
Your surgeon is not your hairdresser. He cut away what he needed to cut away, if you want to cut away more later you can do it yourself.
jaggirs··on The NFT market bubble has popped?
It makes no less sense than a painting. If you accept that an original painting has more value than a perfectly good copy, whilst being undistinguishable for anyone except a few experts, you should realize NFT's have the exact same arrangement, except 'originality' is determined by the blockchain instead of an expert.
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