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tylerekahn··on What I've Learned in the Past Year Spent Building an AI Video Editor
Check out https://kino.ai (YC S23)
tylerekahn··on Linux When?
I'm curious why Zed chose Blade over wgpu/wgpu-hal.

There's a bit of detail here: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7015

But I'd be curious to read a longer writeup on the tradeoffs and how they came to their decision.

tylerekahn··on How to write a QML effect for KWin
The organization behind QT (QT Group) has pretty onerous licensing terms.

My understanding is that it's $3,950 per year just to develop using their libraries on your own computer if you ever in the future intend to commercialize your project using QT. Transitioning from the open source license to the commercial license is something you can do but it's not the happy path according to their FAQ.

https://www.qt.io/pricing

My understanding is that some of the QT libraries or older forked versions of them are still completely under open source licenses but it seems like a very complicated situation if you have commercial aspirations with your project.

Something like Slint (Rust based but includes CPP and JS bindings) is not as comprehensive (yet) but it's more modern and the licensing terms are significantly more in line with software industry norms.

GPUI from Zed is also something to monitor: https://www.gpui.rs/

Also, in general you can find an extensive list of Rust-based native UI libraries here: https://areweguiyet.com/

tylerekahn··on Grok
This is the weights and the model under Apache 2.0 license. What do you mean by open-source?

https://github.com/xai-org/grok/blob/main/model.py

https://github.com/xai-org/grok/blob/main/run.py#L25

tylerekahn··on Vulkan Foliage rendering using GPU Instancing
This is another video on grass rendering but in the style of Ghost of Tsushima: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp7REZBV4P4
tylerekahn··on Ask HN: How can I make local dev with containers hurt less?
Would recommend checking out mise. It's a newer clone of asdf. I switched due to bugs I was running into with using asdf to manage versions of python.

https://github.com/jdx/mise

tylerekahn··on Launch HN: Corgea (YC S23) – Auto fix vulnerable code
This looks awesome. Congrats on the launch
tylerekahn··on Copycat nutrient leaves pancreatic tumors starving, may inform cancer treatment
Complementary medicine (also called integrative medicine) means diet, exercise, and supplement regimens.

What you’re saying is nonsense.

All major cancer centers have a department of Integrative or Complementary medicine.

Here is Stanford’s: https://stanfordhealthcare.org/medical-clinics/integrative-m...

tylerekahn··on Copycat nutrient leaves pancreatic tumors starving, may inform cancer treatment
Complementary medicine means diet, exercise, and supplement regimens.

Denying that diet has an impact on health is very strange.

tylerekahn··on Copycat nutrient leaves pancreatic tumors starving, may inform cancer treatment
You shouldn’t be downvoted for this. These are all examples of supplements that a complimentary medicine specialist at a cancer center could or would recommend for a patient in addition to chemo.

Different studies show different efficacies but these things are recommended to patients.

tylerekahn··on Copycat nutrient leaves pancreatic tumors starving, may inform cancer treatment
I highly recommend the book Life Over Cancer by Keith Block and reaching out to his cancer treatment center. They combine traditional chemo with complimentary medicine techniques that are in line with what you’re talking about here (low glycogenic diet, exercise, supplements). They are amazing.

https://blockmd.com/

tylerekahn··on Antioxidants found to spur cancer growth and metastasis in mice
The Block Center does high dose intravenous Vitamin C as part of their chemo+complementary regimen.
tylerekahn··on ‘America does so much more to subsidise affluence than alleviate poverty’
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tylerekahn··on [dead]
From the paper:

>It is important to note that the concept of GPTrillion and its capabilities are entirely fictional and were created as an April Fools joke for the AI community. GPTrillion does not actually exist, and the claims made in this paper are not based on any real experiments or data

tylerekahn··on LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models
It’s actually as low as 0.01% of the original weights.

From the LoRa paper:

>When the pre-trained model is GPT-3 175B, the number of train- able parameters |Θ| can be as small as 0.01% of |Φ0|.

tylerekahn··on LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models
Low Rank Adaption is a mathematical technique, it's not a technology standard
tylerekahn··on Everything ChatGPT – under the hood of the ChatGPT web app
This prompt works best with GPT 4. GPT 3.5 gives inconsistent results. There might be a way of improving the prompt for 3.5
tylerekahn··on Everything ChatGPT – under the hood of the ChatGPT web app
The web app also has built in support for LaTeX rendering (it uses KaTeX). See this forum post: https://community.openai.com/t/new-feature-properly-shown-ma...

You can get ChatGPT to output conforming LaTeX expressions using the following prompt:

Could you please use the specific LaTeX math mode delimiters for your response?

LaTex math mode specific delimiters as following

1. inline math mode : `\(` and `\)`

2. display math mode: insert linebreak after opening `$$`, `\[` and before closing `$$`, `\]`

tylerekahn··on Amazon shuts newspaper and magazine subscriptions for Kindle and print
I built a service for reading RSS feeds on your Kindle in their newspaper format. As far as I know, I went the farthest compared to any competing service in terms of reproducing the format exactly with the highest fidelity and full feature set (it required a lot of time and stubborn effort to reverse engineer it).

https://omreader.co

Unfortunately it seems like they are discontinuing support for using the Send-to-Kindle functionality for .mobi files and I hadn't really been able to devote attention to it given some other things I had to attend to so it's now defunct.

If anyone has anymore information on the status of loading .mobi files onto a Kindle, I'd be interested to hear about it.