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Typst 0.14 9 months ago

One thing I'm missing when making slides with typst is the ability to show short videos or animated gifs. Although to be fair this isn't easy in beamer either.

Typst can actually include gifs, but they don't move for me. I have some hopes that perhaps one could make slides straight in html which could alleviate the issue.

Per-user search history can directly be sold to advertisers, no? I was under the impression Google and Microsoft do that, or at least use it internally to build a profile of each user, again used for advertising.

ChatGPT Search 2 years ago

Kagi answers that there is "CBMC", which is single-threaded, but that there are extensions "Deagle" and "Yogar-CBMC" that provide multi-threading for CBMC. It gives links to the papers for all three, however some of them are closed access (or in other words, fact checked, unlike arxiv).

Our Git Hash Bug 2 years ago

I suppose it's "RNG" if the commit has exactly one 'e' and otherwise only numbers, so that YAML interprets it as scientific notation. I assume otherwise it's always interpreted as a String, as a fallback.

Very interesting. The abstract claims that although GPT-4 was claimed to score in the 92nd percentile on the bar exam, when correcting for a bunch of things they find that these results are overinflated, and that it only scores in the 15th percentile specifically on essays when compared to only people that passed the bar.

That still does put it into bar-passing territory, though, since it still scores better than about one sixth of the people that passed the exam.

Another nice thing is that boilerplate code can be written in a block which is not exported to html or pdf, and therefore doesn't pollute the reading experience, but is still available in the org file.

SearchHut 4 years ago

The site has just been taken offline by Drew due to the unfortunate start. I hope we can come back to this once the project has been properly launched, although Drew notes that he is "really unhappy with how the roll-out went" and that "my motivation for this project has evaporated" [1].

Thanks for all the work Drew, I hope you guys manage to come to a conclusion that you are satisfied with!

[1] https://paste.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/048293268d4ed4254659c3cd6abe67...

How normal am I? 4 years ago

Unfortunately the theory for linear models does not translate easily to deep learning based models, which this demo is based on. The "strength of model fit" becomes much more complicated and is an active field of deep learning research.

How normal am I? 4 years ago

I think many people commenting on the model making bad predictions are missing the point. The speaker argues that even though models are known to be inaccurate, companies like tinder or insurance companies might still use the model outputs since they have nothing better. Therefore, in some future (or already today?) you can suffer from bad model predictions because you are "not normal enough" for the model to make good predictions, and might therefore receive a wrong predicted life expectancy and higher insurance bills.

so 2/3 for them I suppose

In Zürich, a monthly city ticket is around $50, and a monthly country wide public transport ticket is $340 (and really gets you almost everywhere). Annual tickets are slightly cheaper.

I would argue while not "very cheap", the prices are still reasonably cheap, especially when compared to reoccurring car costs.