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Wouldn't an AoT Python-to-x86 compiler lead to a similar situation where the x86 processor would "run Python directly"?

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What makes his library “standard”?

This isn't about AI research, it's about delivering AI at unimaginable scale.

A striking picture! Thanks for sharing!

For your first question: https://platform.openai.com/tokenizer

Understandable but unbearable: these aren’t mutually exclusive.

A dumb thumbnail is a useful signal to know that I won’t want to watch the video anyway :)

Interesting, I’ve never heard about that. Do you have a source?

Reminds me of this saga I went through as an early adopter of AMD Threadripper 3970X:

https://forum.level1techs.com/t/amd-threadripper-3970x-under...

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22382946

Ended up investigating the issue with AMD for several months, was generously compensated by AMD for all the troubles (sending motherboards and CPUs back and forth, a real PITA), but the outcome is that I've been running since then with a custom BIOS image provided by AMD. I think at the end the fault was on Gigabyte's side.

I built an app to make dealing with Jira less painful. It caches Jira tickets in a SQLite database, then uses GPT-3.5 to translate natural language queries into SQL that it then executes. It also uses Ollama/Mixtral to summarize Jira tickets and GitHub PRs. It can generate a summary of a single Jira ticket with its associated GitHub PRs or a whole sprint. It's written in Python and runs in the terminal.

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/3465e0c6-f5b2-4c42-95eb-2936148...

This is absolutely amazing! It brings back great memories of my childhood when I was doing similar mock UIs in QBasic, then QuickBasic, Turbo Pascal and Turbo C. Thanks for sharing!

I imagine it ran server-side (on Windows).

Why is this on GitHub?

Indeed, absolutely unbearable.

From the variety of intonations based on context, I doubt it’s speech synthesis.

One can also learn a great deal from their own (seasoned) engineering manager.

Happens to mine all the time! I figured a while back that he was just staying on the outdoor bench of a neighbor, and he had access to the food of her cats.

That's fair, but so are many headlines to people not intimately involved with the corresponding projects or tech stacks :)

As far as I know: no. It’s people like you and me from the involved companies that are largely responsible for moving things forward (most often in addition to their regular engineering work!) through Working Groups (WG) or Task Sub-Committees (TSC).

Adobe makes many 3D tools that are able to import and export USD files. For instance, you could import a USD scene into Substance Painter, paint some objects and export it again in a lossless manner.

Adobe acquired Allegorithmic in 2019. Allegorithmic were the makers of Substance Designer, Substance Painter and many other 3D tools that are de facto standards for digital texturing. They’re _widely_ used in the video games, film and design industries (among others).

Disclaimer: I worked for Allegorithmic and now work for Adobe.

Yes, absolutely.

Impressive website, everything just works super nicely and smoothly! Ended up playing Doom more than I should have :)

An even more radical version of this idea was popularized by the late Pieter Hintjens —an amazing guy— in his post (and later book) “Confessions of a Necromancer”: http://hintjens.com/blog:125

One of the most inspiring engineering biographies I’ve ever read.

Computer graphics.

Yes. Tantacrul seems to have assembled an amazing team (or a couple teams, actually), and MuseScore + Muse Sounds + Audacity starts to look like the Blender of audio and music composition.

FYI, the link to your blog post doesn't appear to work (404 error).

Blast from the past! Amazing discussion.