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simsla··on Complete silence is always hallucinated as "ترجمة نانسي قنقر" in Arabic
At least for English, those "fansubs" aren't typically burnt into the movie*, but ride along in the video container (MP4/MKV) as subtitle streams. They can typically be extracted as SRT files (plain text with sentence level timestamps).

*Although it used to be more common for AVI files in the olden days.

simsla··on Let me pay for Firefox
I've been in organisations with great developers but no leadership. It's a shit show.
simsla··on Woman takes 10x dose of turmeric, gets hospitalized for liver damage
Damage is usually done in aggregate. Leaded gasoline didn't have people dropping like flies, but still caused significant damage.

Although it seems this needs more research, I'd be wary dismissing it out of hand just because people haven't been having an acute reaction.

simsla··on Slack's 57MB 404 page
Mostly worked at bigger companies. Once joined a company with pretty shit colleagues/management. Left after three months.

If you have mobility, it's worth shopping around for a decent place to work.

simsla··on Stop Killing Games
It's these extreme implications why I, as a gamer and software dev, haven't signed the initiative. A lot of these things are just not feasible. And it'll be so much harder on the indie devs than on the Bungie/Blizzards.

I'm afraid if this is pushed through, the studios will just switch all online experiences to be fully subscription based. No more purchasing the game, you just pay for a month of the experience.

simsla··on Cheap yet ultrapure titanium might enable widespread use in industry (2024)
It'll always be 20 years away until it's here. Will that be in 20 or 200 years, who knows.
simsla··on Gemini Diffusion
Avoids vanishing gradients in deeper networks.

Also, most blocks with a residual approximate the identity function when initialised, so tend to be well behaved.

simsla··on Claude Integrations
I always tell people to trust the LLM to the same extent as an intern. Avoid giving it tasks you cannot verify the correctness of.
simsla··on Atuin Desktop: Runbooks That Run
When I was at Amazon (pre covid), Eider could've been used for that.

(Hosted notebooks with IAM integration.)

simsla··on Accessible open textbooks in math-heavy disciplines
I do agree with you in that I say "shampain" instead of "champann" (champagne) when I'm speaking English instead of French. Language is a tool for communication first and foremost.
simsla··on Show HN: Gemini LLM corrects ASR YouTube transcripts
Same thing, but ASR is the 'official' term for it.
simsla··on No GPS required: our app can now locate underground trains
I was thinking in a different direction. Maybe we can fingerprint the turns or other jerks/shakes along a route. Accelerometer Shazam.
simsla··on Do AI detectors work? Students face false cheating accusations
At my uni, you could prepare a written answer. The professor would read your written answer and ask follow-up questions.
simsla··on Do AI detectors work? Students face false cheating accusations
As a student of the previous generation, I much preferred exams with an oral defence component. Gave an opportunity to clear up any miscommunications, and I always walked away with a much better estimate for how well I did.
simsla··on Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated
I used to search in English to get more results. Short-term, I might start searching in my native tongue to get less results.
simsla··on Serving 70B-Scale LLMs Efficiently on Low-Resource Edge Devices [pdf]
Depends, shipping part of it (just an encoder or decoder) could still work.
simsla··on 84–24
I get not wanting to redesign everything for portrait mode, but a simple "This page was mainly designed with desktops in mind, please turn your phone to landscape" would've done the trick just as well.
simsla··on 84–24
Firefox mobile does (with add-ons).
simsla··on Tegelwippen
> That being said, I am now finally at the stage where I can go on a day trip to Amsterdam and the locals don't speak English back to me when I speak Dutch. :)

That's seriously impressive. Dutch is my mother tongue and they still respond to me in English! (Although I speak a slightly different dialect, Flemish, from Belgium.)

simsla··on Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union
I don't. And I don't actually know many people with iPhones apart from my parents who've been buying everything Apple releases since the nineties.

There seems to be a big difference between the US and the EU here.

(FWIW, I love MacBooks, but in my opinion iOS is just subpar.)

simsla··on 2.7M Brits still use a 3G only handset
In Belgium, I've noticed a general "de-servicing" across industries.

- Bank offices (and ATMs) disappearing. - Post offices disappearing. - Customer service disappearing (phone especially) in lieu of the always useless "check our frequently asked questions / forums" - Cashiers disappearing in lieu of self checkout.

I'm sure it's not just Belgium. The problem appears to be that there's no big enough incentive to service the long-tail (P90) once most day-to-day stuff can be done by yourself, usually digital. Service as collateral damage of efficiency.

Should we ask the government to ensure that any company providing critical services (banking, telecommunications, distributing food) offers a minimum level of service? Because without outside incentive I only see us going further down this road.

simsla··on Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone
Looks decent to me, apart from the 18MB.
simsla··on Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update
You can also use the touch pad for aiming. Or turn on gyro only when touch pad is being touched, which is useful for micro adjustments. Pretty customizable, although I mostly just use the sticks.

I played Prey and Tiny Tina's on the Deck, both of which worked pretty well

simsla··on Following pushback, Zoom says it won't use customer data to train AI models
For me, the main issue is the potential of POI/confidential information being leaked.

I think it's fine using "usage data", but the contents of a private conversation should be considered to be... private.

LLMs and generative image models have shown the ability to leak/reproduce training data. That's a big deal.

simsla··on Apple Shuts Down “My Photo Stream”
Why don't they just migrate everything to iCloud for you? This is a very clunky deprecation path, and people *will* lose precious photos because of this.

Badly managed.

simsla··on Chat Notebooks
It's not about him being right or not, but about it being irrelevant.
simsla··on Inkscape is hiring: Accelerating the GTK4 migration
If the job requires a visa, there's sometimes requirements to demonstrate you can't fill the position with local labour.
simsla··on Why is GPT-3 15.77x more expensive for certain languages?
That's still open sourced.
simsla··on Altstore: Home for apps that push the boundaries of iOS
My banking app and my work's email/calendar disallow jailbreaks so that makes it a pretty tough sell these days.
simsla··on ChatGPT's API is so good and cheap, it makes most text generating AI obsolete
Yes, look up "chain of thought prompting". It's also been shown previously that asking a model to write down its chain of thought improves the accuracy of its answers.

See https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/05/language-models-perform-re...

That being said, I don't think ChatGPT is ready for high-risk applications like insurance/loan approvals yet. Maybe in a year or two. For now, treat ChatGPT like you would a mediocre intern.

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